In fact, it’s Plo Koon’s name that appeared in scripts for the finale, and a number of pieces of concept art and visual effect elements were created just for use in creating confusion. Filoni says his public love of prequel-era Jedi Plo Koon became the obvious stand-in for all development materials. With his approval, a select number of ILM artists and Mandalorian crew members were clued into the development process, which involved both assembling assets for the digital doppelgänger and creating fake assets that would throw potential leakers off the trail. To start off, Favreau and Reed personally drove over to Hamill’s home in Los Angeles to deliver him the script - and to show him the Grogu doll, as a bit of a chemistry test.
Seal Team 6 operations sound less complicated than putting Luke Skywalker into an episode of The Mandalorian. “Leaks spring and you just want to get the ship back to the harbor.” “Everyone knew Rosario was going to be Ahsoka, everyone knew that Temuera Morrison was Boba,” Favreau says in an unexpectedly downtrodden tone. To really have the impact that the filmmakers imagined, no fan in the galaxy could catch a whiff of the plan. Bringing Young Luke back to life wasn’t the only goal. While most of the 40-minute special focuses on the ins and outs of how the Mandalorian team pulled off its lofty stunt - literally, Favreau diverges into a mini-lecture on how Deep Fake works - there’s a notable section devoted to keeping the Luke cameo a secret that speaks volumes about Lucasfilm’s philosophy on spoiler prevention. “Even now, when we talk about what we did, we talk about the code names.” Image: Lucasfilm we were never allowed to say it,” visual effects supervisor Richard Bluff admits in the micro-doc.
Through a blend of de-aging effects, Deep Fake technology, and Mark Hamill’s own performance, the ILM crew revived a version of Luke no one ever imagined they’d see again. In the final moments of The Mandalorian season 2’s finale, an original-trilogy-aged Luke Skywalker reveals himself from under a cloak, and takes young Grogu away for proper Force training. In Disney Plus’ new one-off episode of the making-of series Disney Gallery, The Mandalorian producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, along with director Peyton Reed and the top artists at Industrial Light and Magic, sit down to pick apart the most buzzed about moment of December 2020: the return of that jedi.
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