Jon Favreau Says THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU Movie Will “Up The Game” For The Big Screen
It won’t be long before The Mandalorian hits the big screen. With The Mandalorian and Grogu gearing up for its debut, Jon Favreau knows the jump from Disney+ to IMAX screens isn’t something you take lightly. If this crew is heading to cinemas, they’re going big in every possible way. And, that includes a leveled up Grogu.
Speaking during a panel at the New York Toy Fair, Favreau made it clear that this isn’t just going to feel like an extended episode of the show.
He said, "We gotta up our game now for the movie theater, and that means taller aspect ratios for IMAX, building sets that take full advantage of that… we have to notch everything up and then the storytelling as well."
That’s the right mindset. The series already raised the bar for Star Wars on streaming, but theaters demand spectacle and a bigger cinematic scope. It sounds like Favreau and the team are designing this story specifically for that immersive, lights-down experience.
Favreau continued, "We want to take you on an adventure, and that adventure has to fill up the screen and has to be something where people at this moment in time, when so much is competing for your attention, that you're gonna stop what you're doing and you're gonna go to a movie theater."
That’s the challenge every theatrical release is facing right now. Getting audiences off the couch and into a seat at the multiplex isn’t easy. But if any corner of the franchise can pull it off, it’s the saga of Din Djarin and his tiny green companion.
And about that companion. Grogu has already gone through serious growth since we first met him as the internet-breaking “Baby Yoda.”
After training with Ahsoka Tano and Luke Skywalker, he ultimately turned away from the Jedi path and chose to return to Din as a Mandalorian foundling. Now it sounds like we’re going to see the payoff of that decision in a big way as he has "leveled up".
The first trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu only teased the scale of what’s coming. But a newly announced “Ice Planet Chase” action figure may have given away something much bigger.
The toy hints at a high-stakes sequence with Din and Grogu fleeing from an AT-AT. If that’s accurate, we’re talking about a full-blown, death-defying set piece built for a massive screen.
The film stars Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin, alongside Jeremy Allen White and Sigourney Weaver, and it marks the first time the Mandalorian storyline fully steps into theaters.
For longtime Star Wars fans and casual viewers alike, it’s a pretty exciting evolution of the story that started as a streaming experiment and became a cultural phenomenon.
The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters on May 22, 2026. If Favreau and his team really are leveling everything up, from IMAX visuals to Grogu’s abilities, this could be the kind of Star Wars adventure that reminds audiences why the big screen still matters.
Via: ScreenRant