Baby Yoda Speaks in the First “The Mandalorian and Grogu” Trailer
The first trailer for director Jon Favreau’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu opens on Din Djarin’s (Pedro Pascal) spaceship the Razor Crest curising over a coastline. The next thing we see is one of those images that has made the Disney+ series The Mandalorian such a hit—we’ve got Mando and Baby Yoda doing some recon in a desert landscape, with the little guy sporting a little single-lens pair of binoculars to aid him. It’s an undeniably cute image, and it’s the relationship between the taciturn, almost-always helmeted bounty hunter and the very special child he’s taken under his wing that has made the series so dependably enjoyable. Now, Favreau and his co-writer Dave Filoni are bringing the duo to the big screen in one of the many upcoming Star Wars feature films slated for release.
The trailer introduces Sigourney Weaver’s rebel alliance leader, reveals an alien cage match for the ages, and features those most reliable of Star Wars terrestrial bad guy war machines, the AT-ATs, traversing a snowy landscape (and getting destroyed). We also get the first words ever spoken by Baby Yoda, when he compliments himself on repelling a rat-like creature with, “Good shot, baby.”
The Mandalorian and Grogu are set in a time after the evil Empire, and the galaxy is in a moment of transformation. The fledgling New Republic is trying to protect all that the Rebellion fought for, and part of their effort includes enlisting Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu on a fresh mission.
The film is set after the events of The Mandalorian season 3, which was set in the New Republic era, five years after the fall of the Galactic Empire in Return of the Jedi. The trailer is chock-a-block with creatures and robots (in fact, Weaver’s Rebel Alliance Colonel is the only unmasked human we see), and the adventure looks decidedly family-friendly. It’s the first new Star Wars film since J.J. Abrams’ 2019 trilogy-capper The Rise of Skywalker. It boasts The Bear and Deliver Me From Nowhere star Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt, son of the iconic warlord Jabba the Hutt, and Jonny Coyne as an Imperial warlord. The music is composed by the Oscar-winning composer Ludwig Göransson.
The Mandalorian and Grogu is set to hit theaters in May of 2026, followed a year later by director Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter, which stars Ryan Gosling and is set five years after the events of Rise of Skywalker.
Check out the trailer below.
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Featured image: (L-R) Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Grogu in Lucasfilm’s THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU. Photo courtesy of Lucasfilm. © 2025 Lucasfilm Ltd™. All Rights Reserved.
