The Mandalorian has a name after all

Pedro Pascal is dropping information!  The name of the Mandalorian in The Mandalorian is Din Jarin, (spelling verification to come?) he says in handout video posted by ScreenSlam.

Hopefully it comes up in the show – and he gets rid of that helmet at least some of the time. (Why do you hire Pedro Pascal and keep a helmet on him all the time?!?)

The Mandalorian, Dave Filoni, Obi-Wan’s Hossein Amini and more on Disney+ Star Wars

Dave Filoni gets a Vanity Fair profile, with plenty of quotes from various Star Wars luminaries: George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Favreau. “There isn’t a thing that we do in the storytelling space that I don’t check with Dave,” Kennedy said. “What I find about Dave is you don’t just sit down and have a discussion about plot or review characters inside the Star Wars world. You end up having meaningful, thoughtful discussions about what it is we’re trying to say inside the storytelling. He has a lot of empathy.”

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The Gozzos have delved too deep on the next Star Wars Resistance

Orka and Flix move to the forefront in ‘From Beneath,’ Sunday’s new episode of Star Wars Resistance.

Flix takes Kaz and crew to his home world to acquire fuel from his family’s refinery, only to discover the family’s drilling has awoken something monstrous.

More stills and a clip under the cut:

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The Mandalorian publicity blitz begins, and what is this big “spoiler”?

It’s “blitz day” and that means we’ve got a bunch of new posters for The Mandalorian, as well as a new trailer dropping sometime tonight.

Buried in a fairly routine New York Times story on Disney+ marketing is a line that says the first episode will contain “a dramatic ‘Star Wars’-universe spoiler.” Speculate as you will, but chances are we won’t know until November 12, as the show isn’t even screening for critics.