Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni Roundtable Interview (The Mandalorian and Grogu)

Skytalkers

Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this special episode of Skytalkers, we are so excited to bring you a roundtable interview with the creators behind “The Mandalorian and Grogu”, Jon Favreau (writer, director) and Dave Filoni (writer, executive producer, co-president of Lucasfilm)! Tune into hear them discuss: How did Rotta the Hutt become a central part of this film? How difficult is it to direct and write a film where the majority of the characters are not real or masked? How integral of Ludwig Goransson’s score to this film? What goes into to deciding the best moments to see the Mandalorian without his helmet? …and much much more! Big thank you to all our fellow roundtable participants for their excellent questions! Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more! Our website! Follow us on Twitter/X @skytalkerspod Follow us on TikTok @skytalkers Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @skytalkerspodcast Follow Charlotte on Twitter/X @crerrity Follow Caitlin on Twitter/X @caitlinplesher Email us! hello@skytalkers.com For ad inquiries please email: skytalkers@58ember.com Please note this Episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this Episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a 58 Ember production.
0:16.6	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin. Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I are your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:22.6	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte.
0:25.4	Hey, everyone. I'm your other host, Caitlin. And welcome to this very special episode where we are
0:30.0	bringing you a roundtable interview with John Fabro and Dave Filoni for the upcoming film,
0:36.0	The Mandalorian and Groku.
0:37.9	This is, this was really, really, really fun.
0:41.0	As you can imagine, very fun.
0:43.5	Very fun. Very exciting. Just extremely cool. Yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to say too much,
0:50.2	but enjoy the conversation. Yeah. I would say there's no spoilers in this. That hasn't been released
0:56.2	publicly. Yeah, I would say kind of similar to our speculation episode that if you are avoiding
1:02.8	like the first 20 minutes, people who have been talking about that, if you're like really on spoiler
1:08.2	lockdown, I wouldn't recommend listening until afterwards. But they really, if you know the basic plot of the movie, you're going to be good for this interview. So I wouldn't really worry too much about spoilers or anything like that. But again, just a pre, just a slight warning, I guess, depending on how spoiler averse you are.
1:29.1	But they're really just talking very general about the movie and like their process and
1:33.6	everything like that.
1:34.4	Super conceptual.
1:35.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:36.4	This is maybe my favorite era I've seen John Favro in and I really liked his answers.
1:42.0	And I just had a blast.
1:44.8	So thank you, Lucasfilm, for the opportunity.
1:46.9	It was amazing.
1:48.3	Yeah.
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