The little inexperienced man is again.
The “Star Wars” alien who launched 1,000,000 gifs, Grogu, a.ka. “Child Yoda,” is again within the first teaser for Jon Favreau‘s “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” hitting theaters Could 22, 2026. Watch it beneath.
This’ll be a giant second for Lucasfilm, because it’ll be the primary “Star Wars” theatrical launch in six and a half years… and a giant check for the endurance of its Disney+ streaming collection. Will “The Mandalorian,” which streamed for 2 beloved, and one much less beloved, seasons on the service that it helped launch efficiently translate to the massive display?
A type of “Star Wars” model of “Lone Wolf and Cub,” with the title character warrior (Pedro Pascal) taking in an toddler from the identical species as Yoda and ultimately adopting him as his personal, “The Mandalorian” was launch content material for Disney+ in 2019 and created by this film’s helmer, Jon Favreau. It’s been a pioneering collection in lots of respects, particularly for its breakthrough use of an LED Quantity for creating lifelike backgrounds on-set whereas actors are capturing versus compositing in visible results later. The tech has been adopted by many different collection, together with the entire suite of “Star Trek” reveals on Paramount+.
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” seems very devoted to the collection, with the 2 characters wandering the galaxy and stepping into adventures. If something it could be a reset to the collection’ established order: Mando’s ship, the Razor Crest, was destroyed in Season 2, and but right here it’s within the teaser seemingly restored to life. The Anzellans (like Babu Frik!), little mechanically-inclined aliens no larger than Grogu who resented his hugs (“Dangerous child! No squeezee!”) in Season 3, are again as properly.
New this time round, although, is Sigourney Weaver as a New Republic navy official. Given her jacket, it seems like she is perhaps a starfighter pilot, however time will inform. Evidently our dynamic duo will run afoul of the continuing battle between the New Republic (what the Insurgent alliance has became at this era five-plus years after “Return of the Jedi”) and the Imperial Remnant, which we all know within the “Ahsoka” collection is constructing towards a giant battle with Lars Mikkelsen’s baddie Grand Admiral Thrawn.
And in addition, we get a glimpse for the primary time of a musclebound Hutt right here, apparently main his personal model of galaxy far, distant UFC octagon, that has been broadly reported to be voiced by Jeremy Allen White. From “The Iron Claw” to the Hutt clan.
Watch the teaser for “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” in theaters Could 22, 2026, beneath.