The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026 Film)

[Andy 7,715]

Sometimes as a gag, I get gifted Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments from my brother when he finds them for like 90% off from poor sales, like the Jake Gyllenhall Prince of Persia ornament.  I chuckle and they go to the back side of the Christmas tree where no one would see them. 
 

Zeb is back there. 

[Romão 2,473]

This feels like a Star Wars/Gremlins crossover. Grogu is exactly like Gizmo. As was Baby Groot. They are not really characters, more like mascots. They follow the exact same formula.

 

A bit like the Minions and the mini Stay Puft marshmallow men from the last couple Ghostbusters movies

[Jill Sandwich 11,162]

I've seen the show but I can barely remember any of it. Just some Baby Yoda antics.

[Bespin Copilot 10,807]

 

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

10 minutes ago, Bespin Copilot said:

Grogu just can't shake off the "Baby Yoda" moniker—even in a movie called 'The Mandalorian and GROGU.'

[Jill Sandwich 11,162]

 

 

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

1 hour ago, Andy said:

Zeb is back there.

Who's Zeb?

 

 

(Alright you movie dialogue quoters, you know what to do...)

[Jill Sandwich 11,162]

Isn't he dead?

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

46 minutes ago, Lady Dimitrescu said:

Isn't he dead?

[Andy 7,715]

Grogu is a shit name. 

[Rachael Foley 10,161]

11 minutes ago, Andy said:

Grogu is a shit name. 

Better than Stewjon.

[Andy 7,715]

Not much. 

[Rachael Foley 10,161]

Its Grog, with a U!

[crumbs 16,006]

Pretty unimpressive trailer, visually and aesthetically. Looks like another random, volume-shot episode of the TV show, or one of those low-budget Disney+ movies. Lots of dark claustrophobic sets, no indication that it's a larger-scale adventure that must be seen in cinemas. Where's the scale?

 

The music was good though. Reminds me of the very first TFA teaser with JW music.

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

58 minutes ago, Andy said:

Grogu is a shit name. 

When it was first revealed, a couple of friends and I tried to come up with a better one, and we couldn't...

 

At the end of trying, we were like: "Grogu's good." 

[Andy 7,715]

The Child was perfectly fine. 
Same with the Mandalorian being nameless.  It was bolder and more interesting when they were nameless like the Sergio Leone Westerns that inspired them. 
 

That and showing Pascal’s face took away a lot of the coolness. 

[Jay 46,239]

1 hour ago, crumbs said:

no indication that it's a larger-scale adventure that must be seen in cinemas. Where's the scale?

 

The snowy AT-AT cliff ascent?

[Rachael Foley 10,161]

Just now, Jay said:

 

The snowy AT-AT cliff ascent?

I suppose you could say "there's even this shot, which is supposed to be huge, but it just feels small" sort of like the slow chase in Boba Fett

[Holko 12,057]

Well just from this teaser it looks like a bunch of lightweight filler episodes thrown together. Just happening to listen to the scores this week so the music was a nice surprise.

[Rachael Foley 10,161]

14 minutes ago, Holko said:

Well just from this teaser it looks like a bunch of lightweight filler episodes thrown together. 

2008 all over again!

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

George Lucas would love the retro aesthetic of the poster & title card. Very old school Hollywood.

 

That said, Star Wars films should have an epic scope, and this...doesn't. As @Holko and @crumbs observed, it has the feel of an extended episode of the show. This was a really bizarre choice to bring Star Wars back to the big screen after so many years. 

 

The AT-AT shot looks cool, to be sure, but the small scale of the rest of the trailer makes it feel less, not more, epic, and somewhat tacked on.

 

I see this going the way of Solo.

[Tallguy 7,364]

5 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

That said, Star Wars films should have an epic scope

 

Star Wars films should have a Skywalker. The only one that didn't was Solo and look what happened there!

 

I disagree. A Star Wars film can be anything. Which can work - Andor - or not - The Acolyte.

 

Are people arguing that The Mandalorian should be central to a Galaxy Changing Conflict?

[crumbs 16,006]

1 hour ago, Tallguy said:

Are people arguing that The Mandalorian should be central to a Galaxy Changing Conflict?

 

Definitely not. I just think it needs to justify its existence as a movie.

 

If it ends up being indistinguishable from an elongated episode of the TV series, it'll burn some goodwill towards the attitude that Star Wars = "event" movies. It only takes a couple of mediocre films to entrench the, "I'll just wait for Disney+" mentality.

 

Look at how Marvel's good/great films are under-performing after their stretch of mediocre movies (and oversaturation of TV shows).

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

6 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

I see this going the way of Solo.

This should get the publicity that 'Solo' didn't, and is the first Star Wars movie after a long drought, so I see it doing better business. Maybe much better.

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

 

12 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

This should get the publicity that 'Solo' didn't, and is the first Star Wars movie after a long drought

 

Yeah but when Solo came out, there weren't multiple Star Wars shows saturating TV, many of which were low rated affairs fans found to be disappointing.

 

And don't you think the little cultural moment with Grogu cuteness may have passed? It's possible they missed the window on that one.

 

12 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

I see it doing better business. Maybe much better.

 

I think perhaps you're right. I'm guessing 500m WW.  Maybe 600m? Which would admittedly more than Solo, but hardly the kind of blockbuster we expect from Star Wars.

[Gabriel Bezerra 775]

Here we have a TV segment where they show movies called "Sessão da Tarde" (Afternoon Session). They're usually lighter films without much substance. It's common to say that "that was an Afternoon Session movie." Solo is one of those, and this one seems to be one too.

 

That by itself isn't a bad thing, it's just a weird thing to put out in theaters after so long. Though I could see why, back in 2019 Mandalorian was the best Star War of the holiday season.

[Andy 7,715]

8 hours ago, crumbs said:

Definitely not. I just think it needs to justify its existence as a movie.

 

If it ends up being indistinguishable from an elongated episode of the TV series, it'll burn some goodwill towards the attitude that Star Wars = "event" movies. It only takes a couple of mediocre films to entrench the, "I'll just wait for Disney+" mentality.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. 
 

Remember Star Trek the Motion Picture, for all its flaws, made a big budget effort to be an event that you couldn’t see on the regular TV show.  The poster tagline “There is No Comparison” and even the name “The Motion Picture” to tell you it was gonna be worth paying for.  (It even sounds more grand than “The Movie” as Superman did)

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

3 hours ago, Andy said:

I agree with this wholeheartedly. 
 

Remember Star Trek the Motion Picture, for all its flaws, made a big budget effort to be an event that you couldn’t see on the regular TV show.

 

The problem is what I mentioned earlier, about the production values having been so good on the show that the movie—so far—looks much the same in comparison.

 

It was night and day in the case of 'Star Trek,' and a giant leap from a budget TV show to a 35-million-dollar theatrical release...

 

But even if they throw a ton of money at the Big Screen for Mando, all they can achieve is more, if not necessarily better.

 

Well, there better be much more, and the scope better be much wider—or, as @crumbs said, many people will be content to wait until it lands on Disney+.

[Edmilson 12,370]

I wasn't expecting LG to be back, to be honest. I thought he'd give the Mando movie to Joseph Shirley to he could focus on Nolan's The Odyssey. I guess Disney's money might've been too good to resist 

[Andy 7,715]

1 hour ago, Mr. Hooper said:

 

The problem is what I mentioned earlier, about the production values having been so good on the show that the movie—so far—looks much the same in comparison.

 

It was night and day in the case of 'Star Trek,' and a giant leap from a budget TV show to a 35-million-dollar theatrical release...

 

But even if they throw a ton of money at the Big Screen for Mando, all they can achieve is more, if not necessarily better.

 

Well, there better be much more, and the scope better be much wider—or, as @crumbs said, many people will be content to wait until it lands on Disney+.

And I’m with you on this too. Visual effects, production design and photography have sort of plateaued. Maybe they’ve been streamlined so they can do more for less money.  But the visual language of most everything is looking sort of identical.  Star Wars in any form doesn’t look too distinct from anything else, not the way it used to.  That’s a problem for me. It’s not special anymore visually.  And I’m happy for LG fans, but Star Wars isn’t special musically either now.  

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

3 hours ago, Mr. Hooper said:

many people will be content to wait until it lands on Disney+.

 

Yeah. I mean, if it looks like a TV show, and is actually a TV show, yeah, a lot of people will just be happy to wait until it's...on TV.

 

It's actually a really big problem Hollywood has had post-COVID, and I'm not sure the paradigm change isn't permanent. 

[Edmilson 12,370]

1 hour ago, Andy said:

Star Wars isn’t special musically either now.  

Agreed. And it disturbs me that a new generation of fans will grow up having for their reference as "Star Wars music" not the John Williams scores but rather Gorransson's stuff and whatever the score to Andor is.

 

4 minutes ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

I mean, if it looks like a TV show, and is actually a TV show, I think a lot of people will just be content to wait until it's...on TV.

People are doing that to movies as well. When a movie doesn't seem interesting enough to see on the big screen, they'll just wait until it's streaming. Most people likely watched recent Marvel movies such as Brave New World or Thunderbolts on Disney+ rather than in theaters.

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

A new poster for the latest chapter in the continually unfolding Star Wars Saga.

 

Wherein I hereby repeat my previous offer of friendly wager: The Devil Wears Prada 2, which releases the same month, will have a greater worldwide box office take than fake Boba & his little green friend at the end each film's respective theatrical run.

 

In the spirit of the season, the stakes are a modest donation to any JW affiliated charity or foundation. Any takers?

 

 

VS.

 

 

May the best dressed win!

 

 

 

[Rachael Foley 10,161]

The Mandalorian Wears Prada? The new Barbenheimer?

[Jay 46,239]

I think you are wrong and Mando will absolutely make more money at the box office than Prada

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

[Jay 46,239]

Sure!

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

We're on! Loser makes a modest donation, of their choice, to any JW related charity or foundation, also of their choice. Everybody wins!

 

Happy Thanksgiving Jason!!!!! 

 

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

1 minute ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

We're on! Loser makes a modest donation, of their choice, to any JW related charity or foundation, also of their choice. Everybody wins!

This has to be fair, so you need to define "modest donation" with a concrete number.

[Jay 46,239]

Yes

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

6 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

This has to be fair, so you need to define "modest donation" with a concrete number.

 

Nah. It doesn't matter if it's only one Dollar, Pound or Euro, it's all in good fun and for a good cause!  I leave it to each participant to use their best judgement as to how generous they wish to be. It's a way to give back to something JW cares about, after all he's given to us.

 

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

Now don't be cheap, guys. 

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

1 hour ago, Mr. Hooper said:

Now don't be cheap, guys. 

 

Are you in Hoop? Pedro or Meryl? And will your donation be in cash or check?

 

On 23/9/2025 at 5:34 AM, Mr. Hooper said:

This should get the publicity that 'Solo' didn't, and is the first Star Wars movie after a long drought, so I see it doing better business. Maybe much better.

 

How much better? 🤑

[Edmilson 12,370]

2 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

 

 

No one can convince me this wasn't done by AI. Disney just asked ChatGPT to create a poster for their movie and voilá, no need to spend money with designers.

[Nick1Ø66 8,320]

Indeed. In the proud tradition of Struzan, Kastel, Jung and the Hildebrandts.

[Bilbo 4,294]

Movie posters have been awful for awhile now. Long before Gen AI slop. 
 

 

[Edmilson 12,370]

Sad but true.

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

2 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

Are you in Hoop?

What are the options for "JW-affiliated charities and foundations"?

[Rachael Foley 10,161]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

What are the options for "JW-affiliated charities and foundations"?

The Turtleneck Army

[Mr. Hooper 8,927]

Does Abravanel Hall still need saving?