Disney has finally unveiled the new trailer for The Mandalorian & Grogu, and Star Wars fans sniffed out a cameo from Oscar winning-director Martin Scorsese in the new footage.
The Mandalorian & Grogu is the first Star Wars movie to arrive on the big screen since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, so fans were a little disappointed that the Super Bowl trailer was an homage to beer adverts of years gone by instead of actual footage. Thankfully just days later, Disney finally revealed a healthy look at the next adventure for Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu.
The film will see the duo hunt down Imperial warlords in the time between Return of the Jedi and the sequel trilogy, as they work with Ward (Sigourney Weaver) and the Rebel Alliance to make the galaxy safer. The footage showed off Din fighting a muscly Rotta the Hutt (Jeremy Allen White) and even saw the return of Zeb (Steve Blum) from the Star Wars Rebels animated series.
But some Star Wars fans with a keen ear discovered a cameo from Martin Scorsese in The Mandalorian & Grogu trailer.
Martin Scorsese is the Ardennian chef in The Mandalorian & Grogu
At the start of The Mandalorian & Grogu trailer, Din heads to a little stall selling food to get some information on where he can find the Hutts. He uses a Rebel coin to bribe the chef, who replies “Woah, for this price I’ll tell you whatever you want.”
But when the iconic bounty hunter mentions the Hutts by name, the four-armed Ardennian chef inside instantly closes shop, saying “Closed for the night, thank you!” It’s a fun little exchange that is meant to briefly point out how dangerous the Hutts are, and fans instantly recognized Scorsese’s voice.
The Star Wars account on Instagram confirmed Scorsese’s involvement a few hours after the trailer dropped by posting the clip.
The beloved director has helmed some of the best movies of all time, including Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, The Departed, and The Wolf of Wall Street… So needless, to say, fans were a little surprised by the cameo.
One person wrote: “Mando looks cool, grogu is cute, excited for Zeb, AND IS THAT MARTIN SCORSESE????”
Someone else added: “When you hear ‘Martin Scorsese voices an alien’ and suddenly The Mandalorian just got 10x cooler. Seems Hollywood is evolving.” And another wrote: “I did not think that the first words uttered not by Pedro in a Mandalorian trailer would be Martin Scorsese wtf.”
Another person joked that a Scorsese voice cameo shouldn’t be so surprising since also appeared in 2004’s Shark Tale.
Other fans were a little more critical of the potential Scorsese cameo, pointing out “Martin Scorsese is now doing the theme park movies,” referencing the director’s now infamous interview with Empire Magazine where he appeared to criticize blockbuster movies by comparing them to roller coasters.
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