courtesy of YouTube/Star WarsFilm & TVNewsWerner Herzog features prominently in the new Star Wars trailerThe director/occasional actor gets to flex his iconic voice in the trailer’s only speaking partShareLink copied ✔️August 24, 2019Film & TVNewsTextThom Waite Werner Herzog’s voice, whether it’s narrating a documentary about volcanoes or riffing about what you’ll find in the eye of a chicken (“bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity”, btw), is iconic. Outside his own films though, his deliberate German tone works equally well as that of a villain, which is why he’s a great (if unexpected) pick for a character on the new Star Wars show, The Mandalorian. Whether he’s actually a villain or not, Herzog’s menacing presence fits right in among the shady world of bounty hunters depicted in a new trailer. “Bounty hunting is a complicated profession,” he says. “Don’t you agree?” Suggesting that The Mandalorian producers – with Marvel and The Lion King director Jon Favreau at the helm – appreciate Herzog’s voice as much as we do, he’s actually given the only speaking role in the whole trailer. The show’s eponymous protagonist (Pedro Pascal), on the other hand, is silent. Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito will also feature in the high-budget Disney+ show. Catch Werner Herzog near the end of the trailer below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREPlainclothes is a tough but tender psychosexual thrillerCillian Murphy and Little Simz on their ‘provoking’ new film, SteveZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney ‘It’s like a drug, the adrenaline’: Julia Fox’s 6 favourite horror filmsHow Benny Safdie rewrote the rules of the sports biopic Harris Dickinson’s Urchin is a magnetic study of life on the marginsPaul Thomas Anderson on writing, The PCC and One Battle After AnotherWayward, a Twin Peaks-y new thriller about the ‘troubled teen’ industryHappyend: A Japanese teen sci-fi set in a dystopian, AI-driven futureClara Law: An introduction to Hong Kong’s unsung indie visionaryHackers at 30: The full story behind the cult cyber fairytaleChristopher Briney: ‘It’s hard to wear your heart on your sleeve’