The little green guy is back.
The “Star Wars” alien who launched a million gifs, Grogu, a.ka. “Baby Yoda,” is back in the first teaser for Jon Favreau‘s “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” hitting theaters May 22, 2026. Watch it below.
This’ll be a big moment for Lucasfilm, as it’ll be the first “Star Wars” theatrical release in six and a half years… and a big test for the staying power of its Disney+ streaming series. Will “The Mandalorian,” which streamed for two beloved, and one less beloved, seasons on the service that it helped launch successfully translate to the big screen?
A kind of “Star Wars” version of “Lone Wolf and Cub,” with the title character warrior (Pedro Pascal) taking in an infant from the same species as Yoda and eventually adopting him as his own, “The Mandalorian” was launch content for Disney+ in 2019 and created by this movie’s helmer, Jon Favreau. It’s been a pioneering series in many respects, especially for its breakthrough use of an LED Volume for creating realistic backgrounds on-set while actors are shooting as opposed to compositing in visual effects later. The tech has been adopted by many other series, including the whole suite of “Star Trek” shows on Paramount+.
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” looks very faithful to the series, with the two characters wandering the galaxy and getting into adventures. If anything it may be a reset to the series’ status quo: Mando’s ship, the Razor Crest, was destroyed in Season 2, and yet here it is in the teaser seemingly restored to life. The Anzellans (like Babu Frik!), little mechanically-inclined aliens no bigger than Grogu who resented his hugs (“Bad baby! No squeezee!”) in Season 3, are back as well.
New this time around, though, is Sigourney Weaver as a New Republic military official. Given her jacket, it looks like she might be a starfighter pilot, but time will tell. It seems that our dynamic duo will run afoul of the ongoing conflict between the New Republic (what the Rebel alliance has turned into at this period five-plus years after “Return of the Jedi”) and the Imperial Remnant, which we know in the “Ahsoka” series is building toward a big conflict with Lars Mikkelsen’s baddie Grand Admiral Thrawn.
And also, we get a glimpse for the first time of a musclebound Hutt here, apparently leading his own version of galaxy far, far away UFC octagon, that has been widely reported to be voiced by Jeremy Allen White. From “The Iron Claw” to the Hutt clan.
Watch the teaser for “The Mandalorian and Grogu,” in theaters May 22, 2026, below.
