US: The Mandalorian

iamtheoneneo · 10 Dec 2019 at 12:47

Nasher said:
They are playing it a bit safe as it's clearly quite low budget and the first live action SW series. But it's still really good and you don't need a lot of money to make a good show.

This is so wrong its almost comical.
The show is at worst one of the top 10 most expensive ever made. In reality its likely up their with Game of Thrones/The Crown budget at $15m an episode.

V_R · 10 Dec 2019 at 13:15

Indeed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bud...wars-series-the-mandalorian-2019-10?r=US&IR=T

"The Mandalorian," the first live-action "Star Wars" TV series launching on Disney Plus on November 12, had a hefty price tag.

The series cost "around $100 million" to produce, Disney CEO Bob Iger said during the Vanity Fair Summit on Tuesday. At eight episodes, that makes each episode's budget around $12.5 million. The Hollywood Reporter reported last week that the series cost $15 million an episode.

But it's still less expensive than the Disney Plus Marvel shows that are in development. "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier," "WandaVision," and "Hawkeye" each cost $25 million an episode, according to THR. Variety had previously reported that the shows would be six to eight episodes long, so each series could cost between $150 million and $200 million.

chroniclard · 10 Dec 2019 at 13:19

Meh, fell asleep after 5 min of EP5, woke up as his ship flew away at the end, have to watch it again.

ZXSpectrum · 10 Dec 2019 at 13:28

b0rn2sk8 said:
Practical is generally more expensive than CG, hence why everything is CG where possible these days unless the director wants otherwise. There is also a lot of CG in this and a musical score that runs throughout.

It's not quite as clear cut to compare them either, many of the assets used in GOT will be able to be re-used from previous seasons, they'll be having to build everything from scratch for SW this year. Likewise the actors used in GoT were relatively unknown at the start, as were the directors, the sets also look full but many of those are extras.

I understand what you are saying but at the end of GOT the actors were very well known and were in such numbers that they would have started commanding bigger pay cheques negating the benefits of them being with the show from the beginning. There is about 5 main characters per episode in The Mandalorian and most are unknown so I would have thought that pay would be significantly lower than GOT. Ah well I am enjoying the show anyway so hope to see more.

Gerard · 11 Dec 2019 at 15:18

V_R · 11 Dec 2019 at 15:21

There's loads of different versions of that on YT.

My personal favourite.

Gerard · 11 Dec 2019 at 15:26

V_R said:
There's loads of different versions of that on YT.

Whoever is doing the puppeteering is hitting it out of the park, all the little subtle movements just makes it so much better and believable.

Mak3R · 11 Dec 2019 at 15:51

Love all these baby yoda videos

Kainz · 11 Dec 2019 at 19:06

V_R said:
There's loads of different versions of that on YT.

My personal favourite.

Lmao. The end with the music still playing is quality. Bloody baby yoda

SupraWez · 12 Dec 2019 at 15:49

The baby yoda scenes

Kelt · 13 Dec 2019 at 15:20

Epsisode 6...that voice...the IT crowd!

This was 43 minutes long, a more reasonable length.

Really enjoyed this episode, had lots of droids.

I like droids.

ivrytwr3 · 13 Dec 2019 at 19:13

Great episode, but why are they giving him such a conscious? He's a bounty hunter!

He started the season bad ass, but as we are progressing he is getting more Disney! The bad guys all tried to kill him, yet he locked them up? Meh, easy cop out.

Nasher · 13 Dec 2019 at 21:19

The Starwars universe really is littered with health and safety problems. Even doors.

Gerard · 13 Dec 2019 at 22:52

Nasher said:
The Starwars universe really is littered with health and safety problems. Even doors.

Funny though

Gerard · 13 Dec 2019 at 22:53

ivrytwr3 said:
Great episode, but why are they giving him such a conscious? He's a bounty hunter!

Might well be explained later on, he only kills if he needs to it seems. Might have had enough of killing as according to that episode he's been doing it a long time.

LiE · 13 Dec 2019 at 23:09

Richard Ayoade as the droid was a little immersion breaking for me.

Kainz · 14 Dec 2019 at 08:23

ivrytwr3 said:
Great episode, but why are they giving him such a conscious? He's a bounty hunter!

He started the season bad ass, but as we are progressing he is getting more Disney! The bad guys all tried to kill him, yet he locked them up? Meh, easy cop out.

He’ll be breaking out into a song and dance routine next. I agree.

Didn’t really enjoy this episode. I prefer the scenic episodes featuring new lands, rather than an empty ‘max security prison ship’. I had to scream “don’t touch baby yoda!” At one point. What has Disney done to me

Ayahuasca · 14 Dec 2019 at 08:30

LiE said:
Richard Ayoade as the droid was a little immersion breaking for me.

I had the same with Bill Burr as soon as I seen him, it eased off after a few minutes, thought the episode was fairly funny, probably why they got a few comedians in!

mrk · 14 Dec 2019 at 11:20

Baby Yoda is likely a clone that the Empire has been working on for some time to raise and train force sensitive kids to side with them using inhibitor chips as noted various times throughout the movies and other shows.

Show came out of nowhere for me and thought it would be a gimmick but after episode 1 was hooked and it's easily one of my quickest binged and most enjoyed shows of the year so far. Still 2 episodes left!

Got the film booked at cinema on the 19th too

Maccy said:
I'm really enjoying this series, would quite like a baby yoda toy that's not for pre-order though dammit!

Lots of stuff on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/search?q=baby yoda

Also here are some desktop wallpapers from the end credits :cool:

https://imgur.com/gallery/EMUCwr9

Greboth · 14 Dec 2019 at 11:36

Really enjoyed the episode and actually laughed out loud at the storm trooper line