The following contains spoilers for The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 6, "Chapter 22: Guns for Hire," streaming now on Disney+.
The runtime for The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 7 just dropped online, less than a day before its April 12 premiere.
The as-yet-untitled episode's length comes courtesy of a tweet by Cryptic HD Quality, an account with a proven track record of accurately reporting Mandalorian episode runtimes. According to the tweet, the penultimate entry in The Mandalorian's third season will clock in at 50 minutes and 40 seconds. This would make it Season 3's second-longest episode to date, behind Episode 3, "Chapter 19: The Convert." However, it's worth noting that neither Lucasfilm nor Disney+ have officially confirmed Episode 7's runtime, which means this information should be taken with a grain of salt for now (despite the reliability of its source).
Regardless of how long The Mandalorian Season 3's remaining episodes are, executive producer Dave Filoni is adamant that they'll deliver a satisfying conclusion. Filoni touched on the ending of The Mandalorian's third season in a recent interview, noting that it's designed to engage Star Wars fans cerebrally as well as emotionally. "They'll have a lot to take in," he said. "And I think with any good ending there's the moment you're in it when you're cheering and you feel satisfied, but then there's a little bit after that where you think back at all the things that happened. Maybe you start to put them together in a different way and you realize it's an ending, but there are other things happening out there in the galaxy that now you know more about."
Star Wars Veteran On The Mandalorian's Cameos
Filoni didn't elaborate further on what fans can expect from The Mandalorian's finale, including whether it will include celebrity cameos similar to those in Episode 6, "Chapter 22: Guns for Hire." That episode featured guest appearances by Christopher Lloyd, Jack Black and Lizzo, with the latter two performers' involvement proving controversial among the Star Wars fanbase. Despite the online backlash, franchise veteran Billy Dee Williams recently defended the decision to cast Black and Lizzo in The Mandalorian, who argued that creative choices such as this allowed Lucasfilm to "bring [Star Wars] to the younger people today."
Filoni remained equally tight-lipped about another of Episode 6's polarizing aspects: ownership of the Darksaber. The Mandalorian's protagonist Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) bestows the Darksaber on Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) during the closing moments of "Chapter 22: Guns for Hire," seemingly paving the way for her to unite the various Mandalorian clans in Episodes 7 and 8. However, some fans complained about Din's decision on Twitter, opining that it effectively sidelined him in his own show.
Source: Twitter