Star Wars: What Is the Future of the Mando-Verse After The Mandalorian and Grogu?

Warning: This nonfiction contains afloat spoilers for The Mandalorian and Grogu!

The Mandalorian and Grogu has landed successful theaters, yet ending a seven-year drought of caller Star Wars movies. This movie serves arsenic the latest enlargement of the ever-growing Mando-verse, which includes The Mandalorian and different Disney+ bid similar Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett, and Skeleton Crew.

That said, the aboriginal of the Mando-verse is looking amazingly murky. Where does the communicative spell from here? Will determination beryllium a Season 4 of The Mandalorian? Will Dave Filoni’s Mando-verse crossover movie inactive happen? Are we ever going to spot Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett again? Let’s research what we cognize astir this country of the Star Wars franchise.

Does The Mandalorian and Grogu Have a Post-Credits Scene?

First things first, we mightiness arsenic good code the all-important question - does the latest Star Wars movie person a mid oregon post-credits scene? No, it doesn't.

That's hardly surprising, fixed that nary different Star Wars movie has gone that route. Even erstwhile these films straight tease different projects (like with the Darth Maul cameo successful 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story), that worldly is presented arsenic portion of the existent movie and not a abstracted scene. Once the credits commencement rolling successful The Mandalorian and Grogu, you're escaped to leave.

How The Mandalorian and Grogu Sets Up Future Star Wars Stories

As mentioned, The Mandalorian and Grogu is the archetypal caller Star Wars movie to deed theaters since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It besides happens to beryllium the archetypal Star Wars movie to beryllium released since The Mandalorian co-creator Dave Filoni was elevated to the apical presumption astatine Lucasfilm. That each being said, this task doesn’t needfully springiness america a large denotation of wherever the franchise is headed from here. The Mandalorian and Grogu is not precisely a plot-driven film, and its interaction connected the wider Mando-verse is amazingly minimal.

Basically, aft Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) comes into struggle with the Hutt cartel and Imperial warlord Janu Coin (Jonny Coyne), the movie ends with the New Republic dealing a swift, devastating stroke to the Hutts and Rotta the Hutt (Jeremy Allen White) throwing successful his batch with the bully guys. Din and Grogu are near successful beauteous overmuch the nonstop aforesaid spot they started the film. They aren’t agents of the New Republic, per se, but they’re blessed to enactment with them to bring down the scattered remnants of the Empire, and beryllium paid handsomely for their trouble.

As acold arsenic Din and his precocious lad are concerned, the lone happening that’s changed is that they person a caller mentation of the Razor Crest, outgo from the Republic for services rendered. At this point, each setback Din suffered successful Season 2 of the bid has been undone.

The movie surely leaves the doorway unfastened for much Mando adventures, adjacent if it doesn’t really bash overmuch to acceptable the signifier for said adventures. Din is inactive a bounty huntsman making his mode done the postulation and protecting a kid whom the Empire would desperately similar to get backmost into its clutches. Season 4 of The Mandalorian is surely possible. But volition it really happen?

Will The Mandalorian Season 4 Ever Happen?

For a bid that was erstwhile heralded arsenic the aboriginal of the Star Wars franchise, The Mandalorian’s prospects person surely dimmed implicit the years. Reactions to Season 3 were somewhat mixed, to accidental thing of the effect to The Book of Boba Fett (which was fundamentally The Mandalorian Season 2.5 successful the end). At 1 point, we would person thought for definite that Lucasfilm would determination guardant with a 4th season. Now, we’re not truthful sure.

There were plans successful spot astatine 1 constituent for The Mandalorian Season 4. Director Jon Favreau revealed that a bid of scripts had been commissioned for Season 4. Those scripts were tied intimately into the events of Star Wars: Ahsoka and the instrumentality of Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen). However, astatine immoderate point, Lucasfilm’s priorities for the franchise shifted from streaming to theatrical, and Favreau started from scratch connected a much standalone, accessible storyline.

"You can't conscionable instrumentality those scripts and crook them into a movie," Favreau told SFX Magazine. "There were a batch of characters, it assumed you'd watched the full show, and it was teeing up what was happening moving into [the 2nd play of] Ahsoka. It was astir Grand Admiral Thrawn and pursuing the larger storyline [of this epoch of the Star Wars timeline].

Again, thing is stopping Lucasfilm from pivoting backmost to streaming and moving guardant with The Mandalorian Season 4. But from the outside, there’s been nary evident question connected that front. It doesn’t assistance that those existing Season 4 scripts are astir apt unusable astatine this point. The bid was meant to intertwine with Ahsoka, but present Ahsoka Season 2 is connected the horizon. It’s excessively precocious to beryllium mounting up a amusement we already cognize is coming successful aboriginal 2027 (more connected Ahsoka Season 2 successful a bit).

Once again, Favreau and Filoni would person to spell backmost to the drafting committee for Season 4. Would the bid inactive woody with Thrawn’s return, oregon would it determination successful a antithetic direction?

The existent question, though, is whether there’s adjacent a tendency for different play astatine this point. The Mandalorian and Grogu is tracking reasonably poorly, with the movie projected to perchance unfastened little than adjacent Solo: A Star Wars Story. Disney whitethorn not beryllium anxious to bankroll different costly play of the bid if the instrumentality involvement successful each things Mando has waned that much. That’s particularly existent now, erstwhile Disney seems intent connected cutting costs and scaling backmost its Disney+ output connected some the Marvel and Star Wars fronts.

Frankly, we wouldn’t clasp our enactment for The Mandalorian Season 4 astatine this point. We person adjacent little anticipation for a 2nd play of The Book of Boba Fett. Lucasfilm whitethorn alternatively beryllium looking up astatine caller opportunities offered by projects similar 2027’s Star Wars: Starfighter.

What to Expect From Ahsoka Season 2

The Mandalorian Season 4 surely isn’t happening successful its archetypal form, if astatine all. But fans tin look guardant to different play of Ahsoka, albeit 1 that’s arriving much than 3 years aft the first. Ahsoka Season 2 has been confirmed for an aboriginal 2027 release, making it the adjacent Mando-verse task successful the pipeline.

Season 2 volition woody with the important fallout of the first. If you’ve forgotten what unfolded mode backmost successful the distant epoch of 2023, Season 1 ends with Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and her late-bloomer of an apprentice, Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), being stranded successful different postulation connected the Force-tinged satellite of Peridea. They, on with rogue Jedi Baylan Skoll (Rory McCann taking implicit for the precocious Ray Stevenson) and Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno), volition enactment to unlock the secrets of Peridea, adjacent arsenic Grand Admiral Thrawn returns to his location postulation and rallies the scattered remnants of the Empire.

Thrawn’s instrumentality is the crippled constituent with the astir evident value to the wider Mando-verse. The Mandalorian has shown the lousy authorities the Empire is successful astatine this constituent successful the Star Wars timeline (roughly 5 years aft the events of Return of the Jedi), but Thrawn has the imaginable to alteration the equation and enactment the fledgling New Republic connected the ropes again. It doesn’t assistance that lone Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) is determination to dependable the alarm astir Thrawn’s return.

We don’t needfully expect the Thrawn plotline to beryllium resolved successful Ahsoka Season 2. This is simply a improvement with large implications for the wider Mando-verse lineup. The contented is that determination aren’t galore confirmed Mando-verse projects aft this. As we’ve covered, it’s unclear whether The Mandalorian Season 4 volition ever happen. Follow-ups to The Book of Boba Fett and Skeleton Crew look adjacent little likely. And contempt Gina Carano’s caller comments, we’re not expecting Lucasfilm to abruptly propulsion the Cara Dune-centric Rangers of the New Republic retired of mothballs. That leaves conscionable 1 aboriginal task acceptable successful the Mando-verse era.

Is Dave Filoni’s Movie Still Happening?

Back during Star Wars Celebration 2023, then-Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced respective caller Star Wars movies, 1 of which was to beryllium directed by The Mandalorian co-creator (and present 1 of Kennedy’s successors) Dave Filoni. Filoni’s movie was teased arsenic the culmination of the full Mando-verse saga, 1 that volition bring unneurotic characters and conflicts from The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka.

Our presumption is that Filoni’s movie is heavy inspired by (if not outright based on) the 1991 caller Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. That book, which is present portion of the Star Wars Legends timeline, archetypal introduced Star Wars fans to Grand Admiral Thrawn. Set 5 years aft Return of the Jedi, Heir to the Empire and its 2 sequels research a monolithic struggle wherein Thrawn unifies the Imperial Remnant and astir succeeds successful destroying the New Republic utilizing mislaid Clone Wars-era tech and the powerfulness of a crazed Jedi Master named Joruus C’baoth.

The Mandalorian and Ahsoka surely look to beryllium mounting up a akin struggle with Thrawn. Some details whitethorn alteration (for 1 thing, Han and Leia’s duplicate children Jacen and Jaina don’t beryllium successful the Disney timeline), but this movie whitethorn good travel the wide strokes of the book. We would expect Mikkelsen’s quality to service arsenic the main villain of the Filoni movie, 1 whose actions unit heroes similar Din Djarin, Boba Fett, Ahsoka Tano, the classical Star Wars Rebels gang, and possibly adjacent Luke Skywalker to set together.

Could this beloved Legends publication get a canon remake?

On paper, Filoni’s Star Wars movie sounds great. But there’s the eternal question of whether it’s ever going to permission the insubstantial signifier and go reality. That’s a hurdle a astonishing fig of Star Wars movies person failed to transverse successful caller years. Everything from Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy to Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron movie to Kevin Feige’s movie has been announced and softly canceled a fewer years later. One request lone reappraisal our Upcoming Star Wars Movies database to beryllium reminded of conscionable however immense the Star Wars movie graveyard has go implicit the years.

Is Filoni’s movie doomed to endure a akin fate? It’s surely not the astir encouraging motion that we’ve heard astir thing astir the movie successful the 3 years since it was announced, adjacent arsenic Lucasfilm has moved afloat velocity up connected projects similar The Mandalorian and Grogu and Starfighter. And present that Filoni is successful complaint of Lucasfilm, there’s the question of whether helium adjacent inactive has the clip to perpetrate to directing a full-fledged theatrical movie.

Ultimately, we fishy the Filoni movie volition inactive beryllium released successful immoderate form. Even if Lucasfilm has been blameworthy of leaving fans hanging with immoderate Star Wars crippled threads (the aforementioned Darth Maul cameo successful Solo, the cancellation of The Acolyte), we can’t ideate they’re not going to springiness america a decision to the Mando-verse saga. They spent excessively galore years gathering up this overarching storyline to conscionable extremity things with The Mandalorian and Grogu and Ahsoka Season 2.

But volition that task inactive instrumentality the signifier of a theatrical movie directed by Filoni? Maybe not. We could easy spot Filoni taking connected much of a shaper relation and allowing idiosyncratic other to measurement into the director’s chair. We besides wonderment if the apt lackluster container bureau show of The Mandalorian and Grogu volition origin Disney to rethink the theatrical approach. Perhaps they’ll pivot backmost to streaming and merchandise an Heir to the Empire bid instead. Maybe it’ll beryllium a single, feature-length peculiar connected Disney+. The Mando-verse volition astir apt get the wrap-up storyline fans person been waiting for, 1 that’s straight acceptable up by the ending of Ahsoka Season 2. It whitethorn conscionable instrumentality a antithetic signifier than primitively promised.

What signifier bash you deliberation the Mando-verse decision volition take? Vote successful our canvass and fto america cognize what you deliberation successful the comments below.

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