Making Star Wars (via SFFGazette.com) has shared new intel on The Mandalorian season 3, including the fact one source has called it "a very overworked, mismanaged, disastrous marathon to nowhere." We can't imagine the series is about to drop off a cliff following the superb first two seasons, but chaos behind the scenes at Lucasfilm does seem to be the norm!
It sounds like there were a lot of reshoots, but we won't be fretting too much about those, and it seems the bigger issue was with how the crew was treated rather than any creative/story issues.
That's one element of the report, but the other picks up on rumours last year that Star Wars: The Last Jedi's red Praetorian Guards may make an appearance in The Mandalorian, with them potentially joining Moff Gideon in battle when he dons his own red and black armour finished off with a horned Mandalorian helmet.
The site has managed to share a first look at one of the Guards, and you can check out the design around the 6:05 mark in the video below.
This is inevitably going to lead to more Supreme Leader Snoke speculation. The series has previously hinted that Moff Gideon is attempting to bring Emperor Palpatine back through cloning, with the prevailing theory being that Din Djarin will ultimately be responsible for stopping the villain from returning to full power, hence why he was in that weakened state in The Rise of Skywalker.
The site notes that their sources informed them Andy Serkis did some motion-capture work while filming his standout role in Andor, a series that didn't require any.
With that in mind, it's possible the actor shot some scenes as Snoke, hopefully giving us a long-overdue origin story for the horribly scarred villain that addresses how he ended up being a puppet for Palpatine to control from Exegol. We'll obviously have to wait and see whether any of this happens, of course, but season 3 promises to be must-see TV yet again.
The Mandalorian season 3 returns to Disney+ on March 1.
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