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Jon Favreau Reveals Classic Droid on the Set of The Mandalorian

January 29, 2019 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
The Mandalorian

Jon Favreau has posted an image to Instagram revealing that R5-D4 from Star Wars is making an appearance on The Mandalorian. You can see his post below.

R5-D4, if you will recall, was the droid that Uncle Owen and Luke Skywalker nearly bought instead of R2-D2. Fortunately for R2 (and the galaxy), R5-D4’s motivator went bad and R2 got picked up instead.

The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic. Pedro Pascal will star as a lone Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy and will be joined by Gina Carano, Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Carl Weathers, Omid Abtahi, Werner Herzog, and Nick Nolte.

The series will premire on Disney+, which is set to launch later this year.