The Art of The Mandalorian Season 1
Children of the Watch: A Star Wars After Show
Children of the Watch
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Join Children of the Watch as we dive into the behind-scenes development of The Mandalorian! In preparation for our Mandalorian Rewatch, we're using the wonderful Art of The Mandalorian Season 1 book by Phil Szostak as a jumping off point to discuss the conception of Din, Grogu, Cara Dune, Greef Karga, and the rest of the captivating Mandalorian universe. We discuss the timelines of Jon Favreau pitching the series to Kathleen Kennedy, ideas that could have been, and so much more.
Could an unused ship concept from The Mandalorian go on to become a big part of the upcoming Starfighter film with Ryan Gosling? How different would the show have been if they put Carl Weathers in weequay prosthetics for his role as Greef? What media inspired the series directly? Listen now for the in-depth discussion.
Next week, we'll be doing the same thing for Season 2!
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Music by Mac Lacey
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| 0:00.0 | If you haven't listened to the podcast in a while, we got to interview Tony Gilroy and |
| 0:15.5 | Alan Tudick, and we still got one more interview coming up from Marguite Fifer, who was the |
| 0:20.3 | ADR sound specialist for |
| 0:22.7 | Andor, so be on the lookout for that. |
| 0:24.9 | And if you haven't listened to those episodes, definitely go check them out. |
| 0:28.5 | They are so fascinating. |
| 0:30.1 | Mack, I got to ask Tony a question that I've been wanting to ask him for a very long time |
| 0:35.4 | about what his favorite history books are. |
| 0:38.3 | And he just gave such a great answer on that. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, for sure. It's a great look into the mind behind and or a little bit. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, those interviews are great. I'd also recommend checking them out on YouTube. |
| 0:52.3 | We've got some good, some video coverage. |
| 0:55.8 | Lucasfilm's great to get us some footage and stuff from that. So yeah, definitely check those |
| 1:00.9 | out. You'll, if you're, you know, after the end of Andor, if you're still wanting more of that |
| 1:06.3 | juicy and or goodness, go check those interviews out. And yeah, if you need more and or content, |
| 1:13.4 | that's available. And we still have one more interview coming out that will be and or related. |
| 1:17.9 | But this is actually now time. We're switching gears. I don't know if you've even noticed on your |
| 1:24.3 | podcast app. Our logo is back to the Mandalorian logo. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh, why would that be, Alex? |
| 1:32.1 | Because the Mandalorian rewatch begins right now. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.4 | We are, we're, |
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