If you know, you know. The Mandalorian And Grogu continued a fun easter egg from its parent series, The Mandalorian, in which many of the key creativ
If you know, you know. The Mandalorian And Grogu continued a fun easter egg from its parent series, The Mandalorian, in which many of the key creatives behind the show have brief cameos as X-Wing pilots. And the Adelphi Squadron re-appeared briefly in Jon Favreau’s film too, flying into action in the final reel to deliver some much-needed back-up on Nal Hutta. Among them you’ll see Dave Filoni’s Trapper Wolf, Deborah Chow’s Sash Ketter, Lee Isaac Chung’s Dok Suri, Rick Famuyiwa’s Jib Dodger, all of whom have directed on The Mandalorian and other Star Wars projects in recent years.
But it seems Filoni is a little camera-shy – while his Trapper Wolf appeared in a few shots of the movie, he revealed on the Mandalorian And Grogu Official Podcast that he asked Favreau to chop down his screentime. “Let it be known that I asked for you to cut me out of the movie a lot more,” he revealed, owing to his own self-deprecation. “I was in there more, and I was like, ‘Please, I want the movie to be good. Let’s not have a lot of me in there’.”
Who he did heap praise on, though, was Chung as Dok Suri. “I will say this – Lee Isaac, Y-Wing pilot, he was aces,” Filoni says. And there’s more to that story: Chung got to fly a ship with stern Star Wars lore, which has never actually appeared on screen before.
He’s in ‘Red Jammer’, a prototype Y-Wing model created in the ‘70s to help develop the Dykstraflex technology, used by the fledgling ILM to shoot the spaceship models in the original Star Wars. And since the Red Jammer model was recently unearthed from storage for George Lucas’ recent museum, Favreau saw a chance to finally get it on screen. “[ILM’s John Knoll] was mentioning, ‘We got Red Jammer, I’m dusting it off for the museum.’ We were like, ‘Could we film it?’,” recalls the director. After a wait – and granted permission from George Lucas himself – it made the cut.
Keep an eye out for Adelphi Squadron, Red Jammer, and many more easter eggs now that The Mandalorian And Grogu is streaming on Disney+, as is the film’s Official Podcast two-parter.
