Road to Ahsoka S2
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S1E1: Indara's fight in the tavern, right at the opening, echoes Trinity's entrance in The Matrix. Leslye Headland said Carrie-Anne Moss's Jedi was built from that character.
source ↗S1E2: the Wookiee master Kelnacca is played by Joonas Suotamo, the same actor who wears the Chewbacca suit in the more recent films.
source ↗S1E5: the Stranger's helmet is made of cortosis, a metal that shorts out lightsabers for a moment. The material first appeared in 1998 in Michael Stackpole's novel I, Jedi, from the old Expanded Universe.
source ↗S1E8: in Qimir's final scene, watch the figure hidden in the cave observing him. Headland confirmed it's Darth Plagueis, in his first live-action appearance.
source ↗S1E8: in the last seconds, Vernestra enters the quarters of a master we only see from behind, green with pointed ears. It's Yoda, more than a hundred years before the era of the films. Headland said that if the series introduced Plagueis, it needed someone of equal weight on the light side.
source ↗During the Senate session where Padmé calls for a vote of no confidence in the Chancellor, look at one of the boxes: three aliens of E.T.'s species are sitting there. Official material calls their leader Senator Grebleips, which is Spielberg backwards. It was Lucas's answer to the kid dressed as Yoda in E.T.
source ↗One of the queen's handmaidens, Saché, is Sofia Coppola. She just wanted to watch the shoot while preparing her first film as a director, and Lucas put her in the royal entourage so she could watch up close without getting in the way.
source ↗Sabé, the decoy who poses as Queen Amidala, is an early-career Keira Knightley. She was cast because she looked so much like Natalie Portman: reportedly not even their mothers could tell them apart on set.
source ↗Maul's body belongs to Ray Park, a martial arts champion and gymnast. The voice doesn't: his was deemed too thin, and the Sith's few lines were rerecorded by Peter Serafinowicz in post-production.
source ↗The podrace on Tatooine draws straight from the chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959). Even Anakin's rivalry with Sebulba, who cheats the whole time, mirrors Judah Ben-Hur's duel with Messala.
source ↗At the end, on Geonosis, Dooku takes the hologram of a spherical superweapon the Geonosians were designing and hands it to Sidious. Remember that image: those plans come back later in the saga.
source ↗At the Outlander club on Coruscant, look for Hayde Gofai among the patrons. She's played by Fiona Johnson, the famous Woman in Red from The Matrix (1999).
source ↗While Anakin attacks the Tuskens on Tatooine, Yoda meditates in the Temple and hears a scream calling Anakin's name. It's Liam Neeson's voice, lifted from The Phantom Menace and reused in the scene.
source ↗Christopher Lee was 78 during the shoot. In the most acrobatic parts of the duel with Yoda, a stunt double does the fighting, and Lee's face was added digitally later.
source ↗Mace Windu's purple blade exists because Samuel L. Jackson asked for it. He wanted to stand out from the heroes' blue and green and the villains' red.
source ↗S2E17, "Bounty Hunters": Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka team up with bounty hunters to defend a farming village from pirates. The episode is an open tribute to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
source ↗S3E15 to S3E17, the Mortis arc: the Son, who embodies the dark side, is voiced by Sam Witwer. A year later, at the end of S4, Witwer becomes the voice of Darth Maul on the series.
source ↗S6E13, "Sacrifice": the specter of Darth Bane that confronts Yoda at the Sith temple is voiced by Mark Hamill. Hamill didn't know the character, and Filoni recorded the lines in several deliveries to blend them all later.
source ↗S7E10, "The Phantom Apprentice": the duel between Ahsoka and Maul was animated from motion capture of Ray Park, the Maul of The Phantom Menace. He created a new style for the mechanical legs and was so fast he sometimes broke the tracking.
source ↗S7E9 to S7E12, Siege of Mandalore: the arc happens at the same time as Revenge of the Sith. When a scene from the film is playing out in parallel, Filoni uses pieces of John Williams's score to tip off the viewer.
source ↗Around the 24-minute mark, in the shot of the Senate landing platforms, the Millennium Falcon is parked there. Lucas confirmed to StarWars.com that it's the actual ship, before it had the owners you know.
source ↗At the Coruscant opera, where Palpatine talks with Anakin, the blue-faced alien in the audience is George Lucas as Baron Papanoida. His kids also appear in the film as senators and Jedi.
source ↗In the scene where Vader's suit is assembled, look down at the operating table from above: the floor lights form the symbol of the newborn Empire.
source ↗Master Cin Drallig, one of the Temple Jedi, is the film's stunt coordinator, Nick Gillard. The character's name is his last name spelled backwards.
source ↗On the Star Destroyer bridge at the end, the officer standing with Vader and the Emperor is a young Tarkin, played by Wayne Pygram. The character carries much more weight later in the franchise.
source ↗S1E1, "Aftermath": during Order 66, the padawan who flees after the death of Master Depa Billaba is named Caleb Dume, voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. That kid comes back later in the franchise.
source ↗Since S1E1, every member of the Bad Batch and almost every clone in the series is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. He created a distinct voice for each brother and also did Batcher's sounds.
source ↗S1E9, "Bounty Lost": the mercenary who snatches Omega from Cad Bane is a young Fennec Shand, voiced by Ming-Na Wen. The character comes back later in the franchise.
source ↗S3E2, "Paths Unknown": the clone cadet Mox is voiced by Daniel Logan, who played young Boba Fett in Attack of the Clones. A clone voicing a clone.
source ↗In the escape from the Kessel mines, the human prisoner who calls the Wookiee Sagwa over with a 'this way!' is Anthony Daniels, C-3PO himself. Screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan confirmed it.
source ↗In the droid fighting arena where Han goes looking for Lando, the guy who mistreats the droids and gets attacked by L3-37 is Ralakili, played by Clint Howard. He's the brother of Ron Howard, who took over as director midway through production.
source ↗In Dryden Vos's office on the yacht, look at the table of objects behind Han when the two meet: the golden idol from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark is there.
source ↗Among Enfys Nest's Cloud-Riders is Weazel, played by Warwick Davis. It's the same character he played as a podrace spectator in The Phantom Menace.
source ↗Some of the explosions in the train heist were done the old-fashioned way: a model mountain blown up with fireworks inside a fish tank at Pinewood Studios.
source ↗Part II: in the streets of Daiyu, Obi-Wan walks past a clone veteran begging. It's Temuera Morrison, who shot the scene while filming The Book of Boba Fett on the stage next door.
source ↗Part IV: in the room of the Fortress Inquisitorius full of Jedi bodies, one of them recalls Tera Sinube, a Jedi master from the animated The Clone Wars. The fortress and the moon Nur came from the game Jedi: Fallen Order.
source ↗Part IV: the music when Leia holds Obi-Wan's hand was Natalie Holt's original theme for the character. When John Williams wrote the official theme, her piece was reused there, as "Holding Hands."
source ↗Part V: in the flashback of Obi-Wan and Anakin training, McGregor and Christensen fought without stunt doubles. McGregor drew on what he learned on The Phantom Menace, and Christensen compared the shoot to time travel.
source ↗Part VI: in the last scene, Liam Neeson shows up as Qui-Gon's ghost. According to the production, he cried during the rehearsal with McGregor, and director Deborah Chow named it her favorite scene of the episode.
source ↗S1E4 onward: in Luthen's antiques shop on Coruscant, look for the Sankara stones from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Near them are Jedi Temple Guard masks and Sith holocrons.
source ↗S1E8 to S1E10: Kino Loy, the floor manager at the Narkina 5 prison, is Andy Serkis. He had already played another role in the franchise, but entirely in motion capture.
source ↗Andor was the first live-action Star Wars series to skip StageCraft, The Mandalorian's LED wall. Ferrix, Aldhani and the prison are real sets and locations, like English quarries and forests.
source ↗S1E12: don't skip the credits. The final scene shows what the part Cassian and the others were making on Narkina 5 was for. Tony Gilroy said the idea came from the writers' room, and it matters later in the franchise.
source ↗S1E1, "Spark of Rebellion": Kanan's cocky attitude came from Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club. Filoni used his character in the detention scene as a model.
source ↗S2E10, "The Future of the Force": the Fifth Brother's helmet was originally designed for Kylo Ren in The Force Awakens. It didn't make the film and ended up on the Inquisitor.
source ↗S3E20, "Twin Suns": in the duel with Maul, Obi-Wan changes his guard three times: the one from his youth, the one from A New Hope and finally Qui-Gon's. It's bait for Maul to repeat the strike that killed Qui-Gon. Filoni drew on the samurai Kyuzo from Seven Samurai.
source ↗S3E20, "Twin Suns": the silhouette of young Luke at the Lars farm, at the end of the episode, reuses Ezra's animation model.
source ↗S4E13, "A World Between Worlds": inside the portal, Ezra hears real lines from Yoda, Obi-Wan, Leia and Anakin taken from films and series. Some come from films set well after Rebels.
source ↗S2E1: the fighter Cassian steals and can barely fly is a TIE Avenger, a ship created for the 1994 game Star Wars: TIE Fighter. The production built a real cockpit and exterior, using Kylo Ren's TIE Whisper as inspiration.
source ↗S2E5, "I Have Friends Everywhere": Luthen's gallery has a Sith chalice similar to Palpatine's in Revenge of the Sith. In the same scene there's a Mandalorian helmet based on Ralph McQuarrie's concept art for Boba Fett.
source ↗S2E8: among the KX droids cracking down on the protest on Ghorman is the future K-2SO. Cassian collects the parts, and in S2E9 the droid is reprogrammed on Yavin to fight at his side.
source ↗S2E12, "Jedha, Kyber, Erso": Cassian's vision with his sister wasn't written. Editor John Gilroy, Tony's brother, created the scene in post-production.
source ↗In the streets of Jedha, Jyn bumps into two nasty-looking guys: Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan. The pair picks another fight later in the saga.
source ↗The leaders of Red and Gold squadrons over Scarif come from unused 1977 footage. Angus MacInnes recorded new lines; those of Drewe Henley, who had died, came from archive audio.
source ↗Two Death Star technicians are Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman, director and producer of Episode VIII, who were preparing their own film.
source ↗At the rebel base on Yavin 4, watch the droids: the grumpy orange one is Chopper, from the animated series Rebels.
source ↗The corridors of the Imperial base on Scarif, during the chase, are Canary Wharf station on the London Underground. The crew filmed overnight, with the station closed.
source ↗When the stormtroopers enter the control room where C-3PO and R2-D2 are, the last one bangs his head on the door frame. The mistake stayed in the film, and the bonk sound was only added in the 2004 DVD.
source ↗During Leia's rescue, Luke says he's transferring a prisoner from cell block 1138. The number is a nod to Lucas's first feature, THX 1138.
source ↗When Luke shoots a stormtrooper who falls off the ledge into the chasm, the scream is the Wilhelm Scream, an old Hollywood sound effect that sound designer Ben Burtt adopted as a signature.
source ↗Leia is held in cell 2187. Remember that number: it shows up again later in the franchise.
source ↗In the Special Edition, the ship taking off from Mos Eisley is the Outrider, from the Shadows of the Empire game and novel, dropped into the film as a nod to fans.
source ↗Before the carbonite freezing, Leia tells Han she loves him. The script had a different reply; Ford suggested the curt 'I know' and the line stayed.
source ↗David Prowse, Vader's body, shot the duel with a different line: 'Obi-Wan killed your father.' The real line was dubbed in later, and on set almost nobody besides the director, the producers and Mark Hamill knew.
source ↗In the hologram where Vader talks with the Emperor, the 1980 version used a Rick Baker mask worn by his wife, with chimpanzee eyes superimposed, and Clive Revill's voice.
source ↗Vader's theme didn't exist in the 1977 film. John Williams wrote the Imperial March for this episode, and it was first played in public three weeks before the premiere.
source ↗Jabba's guards on the sail barge are named Klaatu and Barada, and their species is Nikto. Together they form the phrase from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
source ↗In the Battle of Endor, one of the ships in the middle of the fleet is the gym sneaker of Ken Ralston, from the ILM effects team. Model maker Charlie Bailey told the story and admits he never managed to find the sneaker on screen.
source ↗To throw off fans and vendors, the production shot under the fake name Blue Harvest, pitched as a horror movie. The real title changed too: it was Revenge of the Jedi, until Lucas decided a Jedi doesn't seek revenge.
source ↗The Ewok Wicket was supposed to be played by Kenny Baker, R2-D2, who fell ill on the day of the shoot. Young Warwick Davis stepped in, with no film experience at all.
source ↗At the final celebration on Endor, Anakin's spirit was Sebastian Shaw in 1983. Since the 2004 DVD, Hayden Christensen is the one who appears there.
source ↗S1E6, "The Prisoner": the three New Republic pilots who hunt Mando at the end of the episode are directors of the series. Dave Filoni is Trapper Wolf, Rick Famuyiwa is Jib Dodger and Deborah Chow is Sash Ketter.
source ↗S1E8, "Redemption": the two Imperial scout troopers who chat and then punch Grogu are Jason Sudeikis and Adam Pally.
source ↗S2E1, "The Marshal": in the battle against the krayt dragon, the image loses its black bars and goes from 2.39:1 to 1.78:1, like the IMAX sequences in theaters.
source ↗S2E1, "The Marshal": in the last scene, a heavily scarred man watches Mando leave. It's Temuera Morrison, and his identity is confirmed a few episodes later.
source ↗S2E5, "The Jedi": Filoni wrote and directed the episode with Kurosawa's films in mind, with Ahsoka as a masterless samurai. Fans had been asking for Rosario Dawson in the role for years before she was cast.
source ↗Chapter 1: Boba getting out of the Sarlacc. In the 2004 DVD commentary, George Lucas said he thought about putting this scene in Return of the Jedi, but gave up on it.
source ↗Chapter 2: the bounty hunter Black Krrsantan, who works for the Hutt twins, debuted in Darth Vader #1, a 2015 Marvel comic. Here he appears in live action for the first time.
source ↗Chapter 3: the keeper who delivers the rancor to Boba is Danny Trejo. He explains that the beast bonds with its first owner, which explains why Jabba's keeper cries in Return of the Jedi.
source ↗Chapter 6: the flesh-and-blood Cad Bane speaks with the voice of Corey Burton, the same as in the animation, and has the body of stuntman Dorian Kingi. The gunslinger look comes from Lee Van Cleef in the spaghetti westerns.
source ↗S3E4, "The Foundling": in the Order 66 flashback, the Jedi who rescues Grogu from the Temple is Kelleran Beq, played by Ahmed Best, the actor behind Jar Jar Binks.
source ↗S3E4, "The Foundling": in a scene in the water, a bigger creature swallows a smaller one. It's Qui-Gon's line from The Phantom Menace put on screen.
source ↗S3E6, "Guns for Hire": the Duchess of Plazir-15 is Lizzo, her husband, a former Imperial, is Jack Black, and Commissioner Helgait is Christopher Lloyd, Doc Brown from Back to the Future.
source ↗S3E6, "Guns for Hire": the bar that only serves droids flips the rule of the Mos Eisley cantina, where the bartender kicked out R2-D2 and C-3PO.
source ↗S3E7, "The Spies": at the Shadow Council meeting, Captain Pellaeon (Xander Berkeley) comes from Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel. Also note the mention of Project Necromancer, left as a hook for later.
source ↗S1E1: the episode ends with the dedication "For our friend, Ray". It's a tribute to Ray Stevenson, Baylan Skoll, who died months before the premiere.
source ↗S1E2: in the scene where Sabine meditates, look for Ezra's customized scout trooper helmet at the foot of the bed and the stormtrooper helmets painted on the wall, like a scoreboard.
source ↗S1E5, "Shadow Warrior": the first flashback appears to be the Ryloth campaign, from S1 of The Clone Wars. The second is the Siege of Mandalore. In the first, Captain Rex appears in live action for the first time.
source ↗S1E8: in the last scene, Baylan stands on a statue of the Father, with the Son on one side and the destroyed Daughter on the other. They're the Mortis gods, from the S3 arc of The Clone Wars.
source ↗S1E1: the circus hologram Neel's siblings watch is the same one from Chewbacca's house in the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
source ↗S1E1: the droid driving the school tram looks like RX-24, Rex, the pilot from the Star Tours ride at the Disney parks.
source ↗S1E2: the pirate droid's name riffs on Mr. Smee, Captain Hook's first mate. The episode's director, David Lowery, had already made Peter Pan & Wendy with Jude Law as Hook.
source ↗S1E2: when Captain Brutus locks the kids in a cell at Port Borgo, the whistle comes from Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride. The framing makes Fern, Wim and KB look just like the ride's three jailed pirates.
source ↗S1E3: the old pirate Benjar Pranic, who ends up tipping off Brutus about Jod, is voiced by Alfred Molina. Co-creator Jon Watts had already worked with Molina, Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
source ↗The Ardennian who owns a food truck is voiced by Martin Scorsese. According to Jon Favreau, the director improvised a lot in the sessions, and the result became one of the film's highlights.
source ↗At Adelphi base and among the X-wing pilots are Dave Filoni (Trapper Wolf), Rick Famuyiwa (Jib Dodger), Lee Isaac Chung (Lieutenant Garrett Sal) and Deborah Chow (Sash Ketter). All of them directed episodes of the series.
source ↗Daniels voices an air traffic control droid. That keeps him in every Star Wars film released in theaters since 1977.
source ↗When the Hutt twins drop Mando through a trapdoor to face a serpent dragon, it's the same trap Jabba used on Luke and the rancor in Return of the Jedi.
source ↗Mando greets Rotta with 'de wanna wanga', the same Huttese phrase Bib Fortuna uses in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi.
source ↗The stormtrooper Rey controls with the mind trick to get out of her cell on Starkiller is Daniel Craig, under the helmet and with a British accent.
source ↗Finn's stormtrooper number, FN-2187, is the same as the cell where Leia was held in Episode IV.
source ↗When Finn accidentally turns on the board in the Falcon, the pieces are new animation by Phil Tippett and his team, the same animator behind the original 1977 stop-motion.
source ↗When Rey touches Luke's saber at Maz Kanata's, listen to the vision: Ewan McGregor recorded new lines as Obi-Wan, and Alec Guinness's voice comes from archive audio. The corridor you see is the one from Cloud City.
source ↗On Han's freighter, one of the containers has the number 9906753, the same as the crate where the Ark of the Covenant is stored at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
source ↗In the Canto Bight casino, the weird alien who feeds coins into BB-8 thinking it's a slot machine is Dobbu Scay, also played by Mark Hamill.
source ↗The voice of Slowen Lo, the Canto Bight regular who complains about the ship Finn and Rose leave on the beach, is Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
source ↗Among the Resistance soldiers in the salt trenches of Crait are directors Gareth Edwards, of Rogue One, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
source ↗Skellig Michael, in Ireland, is full of puffins that couldn't be kept out of frame. Erasing them digitally would be expensive, so the crew created the porgs to cover the birds.
source ↗The ring Rose shows to prove she's with the Resistance, with the hidden rebel symbol, echoes Casablanca: there, a member of the French Resistance identifies himself to Victor Laszlo with a cross hidden in a ring.
source ↗On Kijimi, the bartender Oma Tres is John Williams himself, composer of every score in the saga. The character's name is an anagram of maestro.
source ↗At the final celebration on Endor, Warwick Davis returns as Wicket. The Ewok next to him, Pommet, is played by his real-life son, Harrison Davis.
source ↗In the final battle, look at the Millennium Falcon's gunner: it's Denis Lawson as Wedge Antilles, the pilot from the original trilogy.
source ↗D-O, the timid droid Poe and company find on an abandoned ship, is voiced by director J.J. Abrams.
source ↗Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher's daughter, returns as Lieutenant Connix wearing an outfit identical to the one Leia wore at the Battle of Endor.
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