The movie stars Pedro Pascal because the Mandalorian bounty hunter, together with his Drive-sensitive sidekick Grogu trying as lovable as ever. Set after the TV sequence, the movie finds the pair again within the galactic hotseat, navigating post-war tensions between the New Republic (Sigourney Weaver performs a colonel named Ward) and remnants of the Empire (Jonny Coyne performs an imperial warlord). Additionally Jabba the Hutt’s son Rotta is within the combine too.
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The entire 90 seconds flashes by right away, however along with the aforementioned characters it’s also possible to catch a glimpse of some alien man messing folks up with an electrostaff and Grogu dashing round with another cute god-knows-whats (paging Star Wars lore grasp Zack Zwiezen). However like I mentioned on the high, it appears to be like enjoyable and never mired down in a bunch of Star Wars naval-gazing mythbuilding, which is an effective a factor.
The Mandalorian and Grogu is directed by Jon Favreau and co-written by Favreau and Dave Filoni, and marks the primary in a recent slate of upcoming Star Wars motion pictures for Disney. With every part else, together with a brand new Jedi-centric story with Daisy Ridley returning as Rey completely MIA, it’ll both really feel like the beginning of one thing new or the dying knell for the present streaming-wars-burnout incarnation of the franchise. The film hits theaters on Might 22, 2026, and might’t come quickly sufficient for a company currently facing a boycott from followers and celebrities over the Jimmy Kimmel controversy.
