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The code name for season 1 of The Mandalorian gave few hints that it was for a Star Wars Disney+ show. In fact, anyone who heard it during filming might have thought they were shooting a sequel or spinoff of Tombstone, in which Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday uttered the immoral line: “I’m your huckleberry."

The code name for season 1 of The Mandalorian during shooting was “huckleberry,” actress Emily Swallow, who portrays The Armorer on the hit show, reveals during The Mandalorian Q&A panel at GalaxyCon New Orleans 2025.

Having no apparent relation to the breakout hit that introduced the world to Baby Yoda and cemented Pedro Pascal in future protective father figure roles like The Last of Us and this summer's Fantastic Four: First Steps, the code name was meant to shroud the project in secrecy. Swallow agrees that it sounded strange and was unrelated so no one could guess what was really being shot.

The Mandalorian could be considered a space western, so there could potentially be a connection to one of the most acclaimed modern westerns that dramatizes the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Earp Vendetta Ride. Or not. 

“It’s always something personal to one of the people involved,” Swallow says. 

The Book of Boba Fett show about the galaxy’s most infamous bounty hunter was more piratical in nature.

“And then The Book of Boba Fett was Buccaneer,” she says.

Neither Swallow nor her co-star, Giancarlo Esposito, who wields the darksaber as Moff Gideon, initially remember what the code name was for season 3 of The Mandalorian, when Swallow’s Armorer character returned to the show.

“I thought it was Huckleberry 2,” Esposito jokes.

“No, it was Foundry,” Swallow says.

“Foundry. Oh yes,” Esposito says.

The Mandalorian & Grogu film is slated to be released in theaters by Disney in 2026.

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