Now, it has been reported just how far the episode’s director, Peyton Reed — who shared a touching social media exchange with Hamill after the finale aired — and his Mandalorian crew went to keep fans from finding out about Skywalker’s reappearance in the Star Wars franchise.
A recent Tweet about the subterfuge reads:
Director @MrPeytonReed went so far as to commission this fake concept art, of the character Plo Koon, to hide @HamillHimself’s involvement in #TheMandalorian Season 2 finale.
Koon, after all, was the Jedi who first found three-year-old Ahsoka on her homeworld of Shili, and the two maintained a special bond:
Being the one who found her, Plo took her to the Jedi Temple, where she was to be raised to learn the ways of the Jedi. … Through their bond, Plo Koon affectionately calls her “Little ‘Soka” and Ahsoka calls him “Master Plo”.
Although this concept art was just an elaborate ruse to prevent fans from knowing who was really about to save the day in the Star Wars story, it is certainly possible we could see Plo Koon again, perhaps even in a flashback sequence in the upcoming Mandalorian spinoff series, Ahsoka.
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As for Luke Skywalker, his reappearance in The Mandalorian is almost inevitable now that he is Grogu’s Jedi Master.
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