Home TV News Peyton Reed Discusses The Mandalorian and Volume Technology

Upon learning details of The Mandalorian season 2 finale, Reed said to himself, “I cannot pass up this chance.”

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Peyton Reed directing two episodes of The Mandalorian wasn’t really planned. Reed directed the second episode and the finale of The Mandalorian Season 2. He was only supposed to direct the second episode of The Mandalorian 2 but when he learned about the details of the finale, he happily took the project in. Reed discussed The Mandalorian and volume technology with Collider.

The director detailed how he came onboard to helm two episodes for the series. He said, “I had gone down to visit [Jon] Favreau on the set of Season 1 Mandalorian because everyone was talking about the volume technology. I love Star Wars and I love Favreau, so when Season 2 came about Jon called and said, “Would you like to come down and do an episode?” I was like, “Yeah, absolutely.” It was the second episode of Season 2 that I originally signed on for, and Jon had written a rough script, and then I fleshed the script out, and we worked on it together.”
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Thankfully, he still got some time on his hands to take on the final episode, so he grabbed the opportunity to direct it when Favreau told him about it. He shared, “Then that was the first one we shot for Season 2. It wasn’t the first episode aired, but it was the second episode. It was the first one we shot and they were psyched about it, and they had this finale coming up, which all he said was, “There’s going to be sort of a big swing in the finale.” I was like, “What you got going on?”

He continued: “And he said it’s going to be a very emotional episode and then he talked me through what it was about, and I read the script, and I was like, “Absolutely, I’m doing this.” We already started working on the script and formulating Quantumania, but it was still early on and we had time, and I was like, “I cannot pass up this chance.”

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Volume Technology in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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When Peyton Reed directed The Mandalorian episodes, he got to work with volume technology. Reed admitted that he’s impressed with it but is unsure if they can use it on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He said, “I wanted to see how it worked and how it could be applied. So I didn’t necessarily specifically think, but it was definitely in the back of my mind, “We’re going to do Quantumania and we have to render the Quantum Realm vividly. There were things that I wanted to do, but I wasn’t sure that the volume technology was ready for it.”

Ultimately, the director ended up using volume technology for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania since it came handy. He continued, “So it was definitely one of the tools we used in our toolkit, and the actors love it because they get to see a version of what they’re [going to] see in the movie. The interactive lighting is obviously great, but it’s great, the actors love it. It’s not always the right tool, but I liked it because we wanted to create all these different parts of the Quantum Realm that had to look and feel differently. So it was cool to have some that were and some that weren’t.”