Good morning from Star Wars Celebration Japan! Enjoy our moment by moment recap below of this morning’s The Mandalorian and Grogu Panel.
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10.05 – Panel kicks off.
10.07 – Leia’s message from A New Hope plays on the screen.
10.08 – A video with footage from all shows and movies plays.
10.11 – R2-D2 and C-3PO walk out speaking Japanese.
10.12 – Dave Filoni and Kathleen Kennedy walk out on stage. Everyone gets to their feet.
10.13 – Kathleen Kennedy thanks “the best fans in the galaxy” and the teams in Tokyo, San Francisco, and Los Angeles that collaborated to bring the event to life.
10.14 – Kathleen Kennedy: “We’re currently in development of numerous feature films from James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi, a new trilogy from Simon Kinberg, and of course one from you Dave [Filoni], but before we get to The Mandalorian and Grogu, we have another film we’d like to talk about.”
10.15 – Shawn Levy walks out.
10.16 – Shawn Levy: “With the help of Kathy, Dave, and Carrie Beck we developed a story. This is a Star Wars movie we’re making this fall.”
10.17 – It’s a standalone adventure that takes place a few years after Episode IX.
10.18 – There are many rumors, some true, some not.
10.18 – RYAN GOSLING IN THE HOUSE.
10.20 – Ryan Gosling shows his Star Wars bedsheets from when he was five.
10.21 – Gosling on what drew him to Star Wars: He was dreaming about Star Wars before he even saw the film. “The reality is the script is so good and it has such a great story with great and original characters and filled with so much heart and adventure. There is not a more perfect filmmaker for this particular story than Shawn.”
10.21 – Levy: “This is not a prequel, this is not a sequel. It’s a new adventure with new characters.”
10.22 – The movie comes out May 28, 2027.
10.22 – Official title – Star Wars: Starfighter.
10.24 – Kathleen Kennedy: “Don’t you have a starfighter to catch?” Shawn Levy and Ryan Gosling bow out.
10.25 – The Mandalorian and Grogu title plays on the screen.
10.26 – Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni walk out.
10.27 – Favreau speaks of the importance of Japan to Star Wars storytelling.
10.28 – Multiple pictures from the production play on the screen.
10.30 – A picture of Zeb with Mando and Grogu plays.
10.31 – BDX droids walk out onstage, operated by Anzellans.
10.32 – Favreau: “We have more people we’d like to have here.” Sigourney Weaver and Pedro Pascal walk out.
10.35 – Picture of Sigourney Weaver in a fighter pilot costume plays on screen. Another one with Jon Favreau.
10.36 – Sigourney Weaver says she hadn’t seen The Mandalorian, but after doing so, she fell in love with the show, Pedro Pascal, and Grogu.
10.37 – Favreau carries Grogu out.
10.37 – “There’s only way to top this. We gotta show them some footage.”
10.38 – A picture of Pedro Pascal in costume plays.
10.39 – It’s the last Star Wars Celebration before the movie.
10.40 – We saw two minutes of footage. A one-minute scene shot as one take with Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin blasting his way through the cockpit of a walker. Then, a one-minute teaser featuring Zeb and Grogu swimming, and with one final shot of (presumably) Rotta the Hutt, from the back, inside a colosseum.
10.42 – Panel ends.
