{"id":359856,"date":"2025-12-20T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359856\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:41:12","slug":"new-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-trailer-attached-to-avatar-fire-and-ash-teases-more-action-and-extended-monster-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359856\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018The Mandalorian and Grogu&#8217; Trailer Attached to &#8216;Avatar: Fire and Ash&#8217; Teases More Action and Extended Monster Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of\u00a0Avatar: Fire and Ash, a new version of the trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu has been released in theatres. While it hasn\u2019t been officially released online (a similar strategy was employed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarsnewsnet.com\/2025\/11\/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-new-international-poster-drops-glimpses-of-new-footage-shown-before-zootopia-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zootopia 2 screenings<\/a>), some of us on the team have seen the extended trailer in theaters for ourselves. The new trailer has a few seconds of previously unseen footage, including an extended version of the monster fight in Rotta the Hutt\u2019s \u2018impressive\u2019 arena with new creatures that may look familiar to eagle-eyed fans. Let\u2019s break down what we saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trailer opens with the titular Mandalorian and Grogu in a hallway. We couldn\u2019t match the location to one shown in previous footage, but wherever it is, it\u2019s clear that Din expects trouble and tries to prepare his adopted son to face it as his Mandalorian apprentice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore going into harm\u2019s way, check your armor first. It\u2019s gotta fit snug so it doesn\u2019t slide but not so tight that it restricts your movement. Got it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a touching moment, with Grogu nodding his head in answer, and hopefully amid all the explosions and action, we get to see more bonding between the pair who are, after three seasons, truly father and son. I can\u2019t be sure, but I\u2019m presuming that the armour Din is tightening around Grogu is the chainmail that the Armorer forged from Morgan Elspeth\u2019s beskar spear and later presented by Luke Skywalker in The Book of Boba Fett,\u00a0when Grogu chose to return to the Mandalorian rather than follow the Jedi path.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/THND-FF-000190-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-jawACmuJ\" data-imagelightbox=\"0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/THND-FF-000190-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The Mandalorian And Grogu\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1070\"  \/><\/a>(L-R) Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu in Lucasfilm\u2019s THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU. Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm. \u00a9 2025 Lucasfilm Ltd\u2122. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the trailer plays exactly the same, apart from one additional scene of Din using his flamethrower to knock two Snowtroopers off guard. Presumably this is on the same snowy planet that the AT-AT scenes take place in.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trailer ends with an extended version of a previous scene showing that Din will battle an array of monsters in Rotta the Hutt\u2019s arena, not just the one seen in the original teaser. If these creatures look a bit familiar to you, it\u2019s because they all first appeared as pieces on the Dejarik board in A New Hope. These creatures, first animated in stop-motion by Phil Tippett, are now on-screen in all their full terror.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dejarik_Falcon.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-jawACmuJ\" data-imagelightbox=\"1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dejarik_Falcon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"490\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows a Kintan Strider arriving in the arena, wielding a club as it does in its holochess version. This creature is the namesake of the Kintan Strider biker gang in The Book of Boba Fett. The Strider attacks a Mantellian Savrip being ridden by Din, as seen in previous footage, knocking both of them to the ground. While down, Din is approached by a Ng\u2019ok, which snaps its claws at him. Then, the footage cuts to him taking on a Monnok with a sword.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These creatures seem very specifically chosen. Sure, it may just be Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni playing with their Star Wars action figures on screen, but in-universe, it may be that Rotta the Hutt is also a fan and has decided to create his own live combat Dejarik game and has thrown Din into the centre of it. Our own Sydney is also a fan of the game \u2013 check out her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarsnewsnet.com\/2023\/12\/editorial-houjix-to-monnoks-a-love-letter-to-dejarik.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">love letter to Dejarik<\/a> on our site.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mandalorian and Grogu releases in theatres on May 22, 2026. If you\u2019re going to see Avatar: Fire and Ash this weekend in IMAX, there is also a Mandalorian and Grogu-themed countdown in addition to the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starwarsnewsnet.com\/author\/aled-morgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aled-Morgan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/>                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A teacher from Wales in the UK, Aled has loved Star Wars ever since that Star Destroyer flew over his head and blew his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the release of\u00a0Avatar: Fire and Ash, a new version of the trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,5295,103914],"class_list":{"0":"post-359856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-star-wars","11":"tag-the-mandalorian-and-grogu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}