Why Mandalorian’s Luke Looked Worse Than Rogue One’s Leia

Why Mandalorian’s Luke Looked Worse Than Rogue One’s Leia

The Mandalorian season 2 finale includes a surprise cameo of young Luke Skywalker, here’s why he looks so much worse than Rogue One’s Leia.

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Why Mandalorian’s Luke Looked Worse Than Rogue One’s Leia

Young Luke Skywalker’s cameo on The Mandalorian season 2 finale was a great surprise, but he looks so much worse than young Leia Organa did in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Lucasfilm’s live-action series on Disney+ just finished its second year with the episode titled “The Rescue.” Aside from Din Djarin’s quest to retrieve Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) from Moff Gideon, it also saw him accomplishing his mission to reunite him with his kind with Jedi Master Luke coming in to take Grogu.

Throughout season 2, Din had been focused on his goal of reuniting Baby Yoda with the Jedi. After their encounter with Ahsoka Tano in Corvus didn’t end up the way he expected it to, as the former Jedi refused to take the Child, the duo went to Tython so Grogu could potentially reach out to any surviving Jedi who could train him. Many speculated as to who the Child might have connected with during his Force trance on the planet. Rumors of a live-action Ezra Bridger debuting through The Mandalorian or the surprise reveal that Mace Windu survived his fall in Revenge of the Sith made the rounds online. In the end, it turned out to be the most logical thing in terms of Star Wars’ timeline, with Luke ultimately showing up.

Since The Mandalorian is set around five years following the Empire’s defeat in Return of the Jedi and they opted to bring in Mark Hamill to reprise the role rather than to recast, Lucasfilm had to use the de-aging technology to bring young Luke to life. Marvel Studios first used this in their projects, until eventually, Star Wars did in Rogue One for Princess Leia’s cameo that directly connected the spin-off to the original trilogy. Most recently, it factored in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker during a flashback training sequence between Luke and Leia around the same time as The Mandalorian. Despite having used this method a couple of times in the past, however, Luke’s latest appearance on the Disney+ show looks the worst among all of them — why?

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Since The Rise of Skywalker’s usage of the tech was both brief and in a darker environment, it was able to get away without much backlash from fans. Given this, it’s best to compare young Luke’s The Mandalorian cameo to Leia’s Rogue One appearance since both movies had prominent tight shots of the respective characters. Both also received understandable criticisms — but Luke’s appearance was arguably worse and there were a couple of factors that contributed to this.

For starters, The Mandalorian featured Luke for longer, with more dialog and close-up shots. Leia really only had one line in Rogue One where her full face was seen clearly on the screen. So while it was initially jarring to see her uncanny valley appearance, the film also didn’t linger too much, which made it relatively easy to get over how she looked. Meanwhile, Luke’s The Mandalorian appearance was longer. Delivering more dialog forced him to have more facial movements which are very difficult to recreate digitally; the natural movement of the mouth in itself is tricky to work on, this is the reason why he didn’t seem to be able to properly open his mouth while speaking. he also had more close-up shots from different angles allowing for better observations.

Assumptions would be that this de-aging technology should’ve been improved since Rogue One used it in 2016. After all, Martin Scorsese was able to create almost a full film using it in The Irishman. But it’s worth noting that while The Mandalorian has a high production value, its budget is still limited. Reports claim that it’s around $120 million per season, which is around the same funding a feature film gets; however, Star Wars movies tend to get higher than that. For comparison, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story spent $200 million, which included reshoots, but still significantly more than what The Mandalorian supposedly gets. Given this, the Disney+ show would understandably have to cut corners in some aspects considering how good the rest of the season looked.

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