{"id":161701,"date":"2025-09-22T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161701\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:44:07","slug":"the-mandalorian-and-grogu-trailer-first-look-at-big-screen-star-wars-spinoff-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161701\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer: first look at big-screen Star Wars spinoff | Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Star Wars<\/a> universe is returning to the big screen with our first look at The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a>, next summer\u2019s big bet from Disney.<\/p>\n

The film follows the hit Disney+<\/a> show The Mandalorian<\/a> and was born out of the delay insisted on the fourth season by the Hollywood strikes of 2023. In that time, the strategy for the franchise was re-evaluated and a film was prioritised over the fourth season.<\/p>\n

It marks the first Star Wars<\/a> film since 2019\u2019s The Rise of Skywalker, which received mixed reviews but made over $1bn at the global box office.<\/p>\n

The film follows Pedro Pascal<\/a> as The Mandalorian, a bounty hunter and his ward Grogu (aka Baby Yoda). It will also star Sigourney Weaver<\/a> and Jeremy Allen White<\/a> as Rotta the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt.<\/p>\n

Jon Favreau<\/a>, who shepherded the series to the small screen, will also direct. It marks his first film as a director since 2019\u2019s The Lion King. His credits also include Iron Man, Elf and Chef.<\/p>\n

He has recently<\/a> spoken about the film\u2019s theme of parenting and how he hopes it will resonate with fans. \u201cAs Star Wars fans who are my age, who grew up with the original films, grow up and have kids of their own, I think it\u2019s nice that there\u2019s a hero that is going through what they\u2019re going through,\u201d he said. \u201cJust like when they were young they [could] relate to Luke Skywalker, now they can relate to Mando.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Mandalorian and Grogu is set to be released in May 2026, a summer which will also see the release of Supergirl, Toy Story 5, Scary Movie 6<\/a>, Minions 3 and Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The release of the trailer follows the unveiling of the first image<\/a> from Star Wars: Starfighter, another new movie currently in production. That film stars Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams, Mia Goth and Aaron Pierre and will be released in summer 2027.<\/p>\n

Longtime Star Wars producer and president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, recently<\/a> spoke about the new strategy for film.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very generational brand, and we want to sustain that, and we work hard to sustain that,\u201d she said. \u201cSo George [Lucas] gave us the gift of storytelling being across lots of different genres, and that gives us a lot of opportunity to try things. What we\u2019ve really enjoyed about the streaming space is we\u2019ve been able to experiment. It\u2019s harder to do that in the movie space. And now I think that that\u2019s why it feels so good to be able to move into a Mandalorian movie as we\u2019re coming off of three seasons of a very successful show. We\u2019ve actually built an audience for that, and we gave the young audience an opportunity to enter Star Wars at a different place and not feel like you have to have seen everything. It can become their Star Wars. And that, I think is, is the fun storytelling challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Star Wars universe is returning to the big screen with our first look at The Mandalorian and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-161701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}