‘Gremlins’ director says Baby Yoda is ‘completely stolen’ from Gizmo the Mogwai
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“Baby Yoda … is completely stolen and just out-and-out copied” from the cutest character in “Gremlins,” Dante told the Chronicle ahead of a screening of both “Gremlins” films. “Shamelessly, I would think.”
The two aliens certainly share more than a few similarities: Physically, they’ve both got protruding ears that are disproportionately large to their diminutive frames; they communicate in coos and gurgles and they fiercely defend the father figures in their lives. (It’s not clear whether Grogu goes bananas if he’s doused with water, though his predecessor Yoda lived on the swampy planet of Dagobah and only went mildly mad, so he may not share this with Gizmo.)
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