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Simon Pegg wants to play Dengar in The Mandalorian

May 31, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Having already appeared on screen in the galaxy far, far away, albeit under heavy prosthetics for his role as Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Simon Pegg is now lobbying for a return to the Star Wars universe – albeit not as the Jakku junk dealer, but rather his Star Wars: The Clone Wars character Dengar.

“I’ve mentioned it a few times, but if Taika Waititi and Favreau decide to bring Dengar into The Mandalorian, then I have some form in the past having played him in Star Wars: Battlefront and The Clone Wars. So just saying,” said Pegg in an interview with Collider. “I heard they just employed Katee Sackhoff to play a character that wasn’t in the movies but she played it before in a different Star Wars thing, so just saying.”

Pegg is referring to the news that Katee Sackhoff is set to reprise her Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels character Bo-Katan Kryze in the upcoming second season of The Mandalorian, which is also set to feature the likes of Ahsoka Tano, Boba Fett and/or Captain Rex.

SEE ALSO: Simon Pegg still uncertain about the future of the Star Trek movie franchise

As it happens, Dengar recently made a brief cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, although the bounty hunter looked drastically different from his appearance in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. Should Lucasfilm decide to explore this transformation between the OT and PT, then perhaps Pegg will get his chance to play the character once again…

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Simon Pegg, Star Wars, The Mandalorian

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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