In the run up to the premiere of The Mandalorian, creator Jon Favreau joked that he’d like to develop a new Star Wars Holiday Special – referring to the infamous variety show abomination which aired back on CBS in 1978 – only it seems he wasn’t joking after all!
“Oh I would definitely be interested in doing a holiday special, and I’m not going to say who I would be interested in,” Favreau has told Variety. “But one of the people is the member of the cast in an upcoming episode of [The Mandalorian]. So we’ll leave it at that for now. I’ve been thinking about it. It’s ready, the ideas are ready. I think it could be really fun. Not as part of this, but there’s an excitement around it because it was so fun and weird, and off and not connected to what ‘Star Wars’ was in the theater. The Mandalorian cartoon, the Boba Fett cartoon, from the Holiday Special was definitely a point of inspiration for what we did in the show.”
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Favreau clearly has a soft stop for the Holiday Special, as we saw in the pilot episode of The Mandalorian, which featured a reference to ‘Life Day’ Pedro Pascal’s bounty hunter using an Amban phase-pulse blaster, the same weapon carried by Boba Fett in the animated segment.
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The Mandalorian sees Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones) leading a cast that includes Gina Carano (Deadpool), Carl Weathers (Rocky), Nick Nolte (Afflication), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Omid Abtahi (American Gods), Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok), Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Natalie Tena (Game of Thrones), Bill Burr (F Is for Family), Mark Boone Junior (Batman Begins), Julia Jones (Westworld) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man).
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