‘Gremlins’ Director Claims Baby Yoda Was ‘Stolen’ From Gizmo’s Character
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‘Gremlins’ director Joe Dante says Baby Yoda, or Grogu, from Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ TV series ‘The Mandalorian’ was ‘completely stolen’ from the Gizmo character featured in the movie. ‘He realised.
The director doesn’t plan to sue Disney and Lucasfilm, but claims the Star Wars series “copied” the character from the 1984 film.
“I think the longevity of [the films] is really the key to this character [Gizmo], who is basically like a baby,” Dante told the San Francisco Chronicle in a recent interview. “Which brings me, of course, to Baby Yoda, who is completely stolen and just copied. Shameless, I think.”
Gizmo is the main character of Mogwai in the horror comedy “Gremlins” and its sequel “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”, created in 1990.
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A figurine of the main character from the popular TV series ‘Mandalorian’ Grogu (Baby Yoda) seen in a store.
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Baby Yoda is a character introduced in the first season of “The Mandalorian” and was brought into the series as an infant version of Yoda, who made his first appearance in the Star Wars film series “The Empire Strikes Back”. which came out four years before “Gremlins”.
“The Mandalorian” creator Jon Favreau said in an interview last year that Baby Yoda was inspired by ET but a sketch by collaborator Dave Filoni furthered the idea.
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“Dave had done a sketch of a sort of Michelangelo/ET moment, and that was inspirational,” Favreau said at the time. “Then Doug Chiang and the whole art department started generating designs of it, and the Legacy [Effects] people built it.”
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This 1980 publicity image originally published by Lucasfilm Ltd. shows Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and the character of Yoda in a scene from “Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back”.
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The “Gremlins” movies will have a new animated series premiering this fall on HBO Max. “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai”, on which Dante is a consultant, features the voices of Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong and James Hong.
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