Poe Dameron And Din Djarin Ring In The New Year With Festive Instagram Post

I guess we can agree that most of us are quite happy that 2020 has left the building, and that its successor has moved in. So far, 2021 hasn’t done a whole lot of wrong, but on the other hand, the pandemic also didn’t miraculously disappear when the clock jumped from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00.

But as if 2020 had somehow tried to redeem itself (at least a little bit) in the last hours of its existence, we were sent the photo above by someone who works closely with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni at Lucasfilm. Our source, who wants to stay anonymous for obvious reasons, could not confirm if the shot is from The Book of Boba Fett or from season 3 of The Mandalorian, which, contrary to what Favreau has publicly said in a recent interview, are being shot concurrently at the moment.

But what our source could confirm is that picture does stem from an episode in which Rey Palpat…, eh Skywalker, sends Poe Dameron back in time via the “World Between Worlds” (first introduced in the final episodes of Star Wars Rebels) to a few years after the events of Return of the Jedi, in order to stop the remnants of the Empire from escaping into the Unknown Regions. During his mission, the X-wing pilot joins forces (no pun intended) with Din Djarin, also known as the Mandalorian. And based on this picture, they seem to succeed and celebrate their victory in something that resembles the innards of a Corellian CR90 corvette (do we dare to say Tantive IV?), before Poe has to return to his own timeframe.

Well...no, of course not!

Sadly, the story behind this picture is much more mundane, as it was taken by Oscar Isaac’s wife Elvira Lind during the celebration of New Year’s Eve with Pedro Pascal and later posted to Instagram. The two actors, from Central and South America respectively, have been close friends for many years and both starred in Netflix’s Triple Frontier (2019), together with Ben Affleck.

Isaac’s next big role after the daring X-wing pilot will be that of Duke Leto Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune (currently slated for a release in October 2021, but who knows), while Pascal can currently be seen on the big screen (and on HBO Max) as the villainous Maxwell Lord, together with Gal Gadot in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 1984. Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first meetup of Pascal with the Amazonian superwoman, as he also starred in the never aired TV pilot of Wonder Woman (2011), alongside Adrianne Palicki (The Orville, Supernatural) as the titular role.

As for Star Wars, Pascal of course was and is heavily involved in the production of The Mandalorian, the second season of which ended on December 18, and he will reprise his role at least for season 3 (although a small involvement in the Boba Fett series and/or Ahsoka and/or Rangers of The New Republic isn’t totally out of question).

Poe Dameron’s last Star Wars adventures (based on the release date) were in the YA novel Poe Dameron: Fee Fall by Alex Segura (released on August 4 2020) and in The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (released on December 17, 2020 on Disney+), despite Oscar Isaac not returning to voice his character, unlike his colleagues Kelly Marie Tran, Bill Dee Williams, and Anthony Daniels.

Although an actual meetup of Dameron and Djarin would technically be possible (even without time travel – Poe is seven years old during the events of The Mandalorian), it’s not likely that this will ever happen. In order for Isaac and Pascal to share screentime in their Star Wars roles, The Mandalorian would either have to cover a really long period of time, or ILM would have to apply some serious de-aging to Oscar Isaac. And after all, the latter doesn’t seem too fond of returning to a galaxy far, far away anytime soon (unless he needs another house).

But who knows what his friendship with Pedro Pascal might bring about…?

Written By Gerald Petschk

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