The galaxy’s greenest, grooviest rock star — concept art of Grogu created for Season 3 of The Mandalorian, with Din Djarin in the background.
Anything E.T. can do... Grogu and Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) bond.
THE CONCEPTION
As Disney seeks a Star Wars series for its impending streaming service, veteran director Jon Favreau teams up with The Clone Wars alumnus Dave Filoni — pitching the story of a Mandalorian warrior and his unexpected young charge…
Dave Filoni (creator/executive producer):
I was probably one of the first people to hear that pitch. Jon said, “I want to make a character that’s like a baby Yoda.” I thought, “Where are we going with this? If we’re doing that, I want to help, because Yoda is such an important character to George [Lucas]. I want to help make sure it’s going to come across as well as it can.”
Jon
Favreau
(creator/executive
producer): We knew it wasn’t Yoda — anybody who knows the timeframe [five years after Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi] knows that it can’t be him. Is it a clone? There’s a lot of cloning going on. But he’s his own person, with his own history.
Rick
Famuyiwa
(director/writer
on
Season
1
and
2;
executive
producer
on
Season
3): Jon and Dave showed me the first sketch that inspired it — that last image [in ‘Chapter 1: The Mandalorian’] of Mando and the baby as he’s in his pram, and he reaches down into it.