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Star Wars: The Mandalorian Has Ewok Movies Easter Eggs


There is little doubt that Jon Favreau loves sharing some of the awesome Easter Eggs we can look forward to in The Mandalorian. Now the Lion King director has confirmed that the Star Wars series will feature some references to the Ewoks movies.

Favreau was recently in attendance at D23 Expo 2019 to promote the new Disney+ show. When he spoke to MTV, he revealed that the series will feature an Easter Egg taken from the two Ewoks films.

"For The Battle for Endor, we got you too," Favreau said. "We were inspired by that one. We got blurrgs, you know what blurrgs are? The blurrgs are these big, bi-pedal, huge piranha-like pack-animals that were stop-motion in Caravan of Courage and I think Battle for Endor. And they only appeared there and they were the most awkward-looking creatures and we decided, 'That's gotta be in our show.' So we have an Ugnaught riding a blurrg, you will see that. You will see that on The Mandalorian, that's an exclusive."

Well, we've already seen that in the trailer for The Mandalorian, but it also made us wonder what the Ugnaught on a blurrg is doing associating with a bounty hunter.

The Mandalorian will feature Pedro Pascal as the titular bounty hunter. The series also stars Gina Carano, Nick Nolte, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, Emily Swallow, Omid Abtahi, and Werner Herzog. Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi will provide the voice of the droid IG-11.

Catch The Mandalorian when it begins streaming on Disney+ on November 12.

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