The First Footage From The Mandalorian & Grogu Is As Cold As Ice

In a astonishment determination astatine D23 tonight, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni took the signifier to springiness attendees the precise archetypal look astatine the next Star Wars movie: The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Set aft the events of the Disney+ streaming series’ 3rd season, the movie volition span the spread betwixt the emergence of the Imperial Remnant and the eventual struggle we’ll spot interruption retired successful Dave Filoni’s New Republic film (and earlier that, we’ll presumably get Ahsoka‘s 2nd season).

The footage shown astatine D23 opened with a montage of erstwhile footage from The Mandalorian of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) gathering Grogu, we perceive caller dependable implicit wherever helium described the kid arsenic his caller apprentice, and that though he’s a Bounty Hunter by trade, helium has to beryllium selective connected what jobs helium takes. Not too selective though, arsenic we chopped to him walking into a barroom and conscionable shooting a full clump of radical dead. A caller chopped gives america our archetypal large surprise: the instrumentality of the Razor Crest, destroyed successful the climax of play 2, present flying done the sky. We cookware retired to see, successful different changeable and different place, that Din is successful a cockpit down nary different than Star Wars Rebels‘ Zeb Orrelios.

Next we chopped to the Din entering a basal alone, connected an crystal satellite that looks a batch similar it could beryllium Hoth. Grogu crawls done tunnels, and Imperial rodent droids are rolling each astir the place, arsenic we get immoderate ace accelerated shots from their constituent of presumption arsenic blasters fire. Classic Imperial Snow Troopers locomotion astir the base, further amplifying those Hoth-y vibes. We chopped to Din, present climbing onto the apical of an AT-ST walker arsenic it runs done snowfall covered mountains, popping retired of its apical hatch. Din and the Walker autumn down a hill, astatine the bottommost of which helium lands astatine the feet of 2 AT-AT walkers

The footage wrapped up with thing a small little sinister: Grogu successful a tiny abstraction with 2 Anzellans (a.k.a. Babu Frik’s species, seen successful both The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian play 3).

What enigma could Mando and Grogu person uncovered that warrants a leap from streaming to the large screen? We’ll find retired when The Mandalorian & Grogu hits theaters May 22, 2026.

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