‘The Mandalorian’ Is Getting His Own Big-Screen Movie

The Mandalorian is ready to return — however not as a TV collection.

In a shock, Lucasfilm introduced immediately that the hit Disney+ present is being was a big-screen movie. A press launch stated the projected is known as The Mandalorian & Grogu. It will probably be directed by collection creator Jon Favreau and produced by Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni. Production will supposedly start a while in 2024.

Here was Favreau’s touch upon the information:

I’ve cherished telling tales set within the wealthy world that George Lucas created. The prospect of bringing the Mandalorian and his apprentice Grogu to the large display is extraordinarily thrilling.

Lucasfilm additionally revealed the primary piece of idea artwork from the film:

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Although Lucasfilm has a number of motion pictures already in improvement — together with one which is meant to embody Mando and Grogu — this challenge has by no means been introduced publicly earlier than. And it’s clearly not the beforehand introduced movie that Mando (and Baby Yoda) have been supposed to indicate up in; that film is to be directed by Dave Filoni and in addition characteristic different current Star Wars Disney+ heroes in a sort of Lucasfilm All-Stars crossover challenge. (Think The Avengers, however for Star Wars.)

In truth, the press launch for The Mandalorian & Grogu particularly mentions that different challenge as a separate, still-in-development film; it says this new film will “lead Lucasfilm’s ongoing feature-development slate, which includes films helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold and Dave Filoni.” The launch additionally notes {that a} second season of Ahsoka can be in improvement.

(Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Star Wars will supposedly characteristic Daisy Ridley’s Rey constructing a New Jedi Order after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker; Mangold’s challenge is ready within the earliest days of the Jedi.)

A Mandalorian film makes a ton of economic sense; the present is definitely the most well-liked and profitable present that Star Wars has produced below the Disney+ banner. Kids love Mando and particularly Grogu greater than they’ve cherished any Star Wars character in generations. And the transfer of the duo from TV to movie would recommend that Disney below CEO Bob Iger has acknowledged that Star Wars might actually use a theatrical hit and that deemphasizing theatrical releases in favor of streaming content material is a really financially dangerous technique.