At long last, we have the official full trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, a feature film spinoff from Disney’s megahit Star Wars series The Mandalorian.
Grogu (fka “Baby Yoda”) won viewers’ hearts from the moment he first appeared onscreen in the first season of The Mandalorian, and the relationship between the little green creature and his father-figure bounty hunter, the titular Mandalorian, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), has only gotten stronger. With the 2023 Hollywood strikes delaying production on season 4 of the series, director Jon Favreau got the green light to make this spinoff film.
Per the official logline:
The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his young apprentice Grogu.
In addition to Pascal, the cast includes Sigourney Weaver as Ward, a veteran pilot, colonel, and leader of the New Republic’s Adelphi Rangers. Jeremy Allen White plays Rotta the Hutt (son of Jabba, first introduced in 2008’s The Clone Wars), Jonny Coyne reprises his Mandalorian S3 role as an Imperial warlord leading a surviving faction of the Galactic Empire, and Dave Filoni will be back as New Republic X-wing pilot Trapper Wolf. We can also expect to see Garazeb (“Zeb”) Orrelios (Steve Blum) from the Star Wars Rebels animated series, Embo from The Clone Wars, and Anzellan aliens from The Rise of Skywalker. There’s also a shiny new version of Mando’s ship (destroyed in S2).
The first teaser dropped last fall, and while it contained almost no dialogue, we did get a glimpse of lightsaber fights, robot battles, exploding AT-ATs, and Rotta the Hutt in fine fighting form—plus a scene of our adorable duo having a sit-down with Weaver’s Ward (who refused to allow a mischievous Grogu to use the Force to steal her snacks.)
The new trailer incorporates that earlier footage and fleshes out some of the details. Apparently, Mando is looking for “a Hutt” and falls afoul of their current leader, who threatens to make both Mando and Grogu suffer. There’s plenty of action, of course, but we also get more adorable moments of Mando and Grogu’s deepening father/son dynamic: Grogu will keep touching the ship’s buttons and stealing snacks, but his ability to use the Force is growing—and useful in a pinch. Mando still worries, though, since Grogu’s life span is centuries longer than his and “I won’t always be around to protect him.”
Honestly, the movie looks like great fun. The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters on May 22, 2026.
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