Star Wars Celebration has been continuing in Japan, and the next cab off the Star Wars rank was revealed for the first time in a presentation. Jon Favreau and Pedro Pascal appeared on stage and showed off a series of clips from The Mandalorian And Grogu.
For some unknown reason, Pedro Pascal decided to come dressed as if he was already in bed when his wife called him from outside to come and move his car off the driveway so she could park, and he just grabbed whatever was to hand to go outside and do it.
The Mandalorian seasons one and two were fun, entertaining, and perfectly pitched as a 30 to 50 minutes once a week appointment with Star Wars, that didn’t suck, from the comfort of your own home. Will that translate to a 2+ hour movie that you have to go to a theater to watch, about a year after the “Baby Yoda” zeitgeist faded completely? Time will tell.
Season three may also have fouled that particular nest.
Reports say that this was going to be season 4, but the strikes and other Hollywood realities combined, causing Lucasfilm to decide a movie was the way to go. The movie finished principal photography as far back as last October.
Post-production on Star Wars is always lengthy, and some of the footage shown as part of the presentation does go some way to demonstrating this. It includes a shootout with Snowtroopers, an AT-AT sabotage, and a new version of the Razor’s Crest.
You can find the bootlegs online, but move fast as they are being closed down as fast as they appear.
The footage also showed Sigourney Weaver’s role, and a first look at Jabba’s son Rotta the Hutt (Jeremy Allen White).
The Mandalorian And Grogu will land in theaters next year in late spring, and by then, it will be more than six years after the last Star Wars movie was released.