In the wake of polarising critical reviews and landing a record as Star Wars’ lowest performing feature at the box office, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’s director, Jon Favreau, is still focusing on the positives and planning. The film is a spin-off of the Disney+ series titled The Mandalorian, which debuted in 2019 and ran for three seasons, and sees Pedro Pascal return to the role of Din Djarin, a bounty hunter who adopts an infant from Yoda’s species, called Grogu.
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu additionally stars Jeremy Allen White, Jonny Coyne, Martin Scorsese, and Sigourney Weaver. It focuses on Djarin’s latest task of tracking down Rotta the Hut to obtain details on a target’s whereabouts.
With the script being a collaborative project between the director, Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, the film grossed $33 million on its day of release, climbing up to around $96 million for its opening weekend, which amounts to the franchise’s lowest, despite topping the box office list. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu has currently grossed $163 million worldwide from a budget of $165 million.
Favreau has teased what’s next for the cold bounty hunter and his adopted son.
“I think about it creatively, and so for me it’s like a garden or a greenhouse with all the different storylines and characters,” the filmmaker shared. “I see opportunity in all of them, because these storylines have taken on a life of their own, and I love the progression of these characters, and I like to think forward as to what’s the next step for both of them.”
He additionally took time to affirm the company and creatives working on the sci-fi space opera world have spent time “thinking deeply and about the larger story, about how all the characters [like Ahsoka and Thrawn] all fit together, and understanding the timeframe and how it leads into the next era of Star Wars,” to appease die-hard fans committed to the ongoing, integral story of the franchise.
He also stated that Filoni is still working on a great deal of “higher-order strategic decisions,” and he himself has “…..a lot of notes and ideas as to where [he thinks] things might go within this small microcosm within Star Wars.”
Concluding with thoughts on whether a fourth season for the original series would suffice, Favreau added, “A fourth season of a show would have assumed that you saw three seasons previously. And, frankly, everything else on Disney+. That’s the nature of a serialized long-form TV story.”
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is in cinemas now.
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