The Mandalorian Season 3 and Now 4

Grogu and Mando make their Star Wars streaming return for the 3rd time

Disney hasn't revealed any schedule information beyond the premiere date, so it's currently unclear if we'll have any double episode weeks or mid-season breaks. Seasons 1 and 2 had uninterrupted one-episode-per-week runs, but the company could tweak its strategy.
(The recent Star Wars series Andor had a three-episode premiere.)

So here's the predicted release schedule for The Mandalorian on Disney Plus, and we'll adjust this if the company announces any changes or breaks. New episodes generally arrive at 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/8 a.m. GMT/7 p.m. AEST), and they land on the service at the same time globally.

• Episode 1: Wednesday, March 1
• Episode 2: Wednesday, March 8
• Episode 3: Wednesday, March 15
• Episode 4: Wednesday, March 22
• Episode 5: Wednesday, March 29
• Episode 6: Wednesday, April 5
• Episode 7: Wednesday, April 12
• Episode 8: Wednesday, April 19

Here's the confirmed cast list for The Mandalorian season 3 so far:

• Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin/the Mandalorian
• Grogu as himself
• Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon
• Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze
• Carl Weathers as Greef Karga
• Emily Swallow as the Armorer
• Omid Abtahi as Doctor Pershing
• Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva
• Christopher Lloyd as TBC
• Tim Meadows as TBC

Pascal, Esposito, Sackhoff, Swallow, Abtahi, and Weathers all reprise their roles from previous seasons of The Mandalorian.

Meanwhile, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is back as New Republic pilot Carson Teva, which was confirmed in season 3's official trailer. However, Sackhoff won't be joined by her Mandalorian colleague Koska Reeves, with Mercedes Varnado (better known as WWE star Sasha Banks) telling The Bleacher Report(opens in new tab): "I'm not on next season."

Having appeared in the Back to the Future and Star Trek franchises, Christopher Lloyd will make his Star Wars debut in a yet-to-be-confirmed role (per The Hollywood Reporter(opens in new tab)), while Saturday Night Live veteran Tim Meadows is also reported playing a part.

The one key player definitely not returning is Gina Carano, who portrayed former Rebel Shock Trooper Cara Dune in seasons 1 and 2. After an offensive social media post, Carano was removed from all future Lucasfilm projects back in early 2021. "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future," the company said in a statement. Carano has since fired back over her dismissal, with the actor claiming she'd been "bullied(opens in new tab)" by Disney and Lucasfilm – accusations that both companies have strenuously denied (via the BBC(opens in new tab)).

As for those behind the camera, Lucasfilm and Disney have confirmed its directorial line-up for The Mandalorian season 3. Rick Famuyiwa, Rachel Morrison, Lee Isaac Chung, Carl Weathers, Peter Ramsey, and Bryce Dallas Howard will all helm different entries in Mando and Grogu's next outing.

 

Saudi Arabia's education minister has apologised for the production of a school textbook
in which the Star Wars character Yoda is seen superimposed on a photograph
of the late King Faisal
Ahmed al-Issa said a committee was looking into the "unintended mistake".
The image, which shows the diminutive Jedi Master sitting beside King Faisal as he signs the UN Charter in 1945, was created by the Saudi artist Shaweesh.
He told the BBC it was not yet clear how it had ended up in the textbook.
However, he stressed that he had meant no offence to the king, who helped transform Saudi Arabia into a modern state and an actor on the world stage.
"Everyone loves King Faisal here, even the younger generations," he said.

Saudi textbook features image of Yoda with King Faisal

 

Mines been Andor, everyone was surprised how that went down,

but I to an looking forward to some quality TV

but does it have to be Disney ...lol

 

I'm no star wars fan, and endured many spin offs, the real issue is the producers take too a big shot at the script trying to appeal to all and sundry, kiddies to grannies(as per star trek and co) for such a script to work is just dumb
the spin offs seem to appeal to the base fan crowd they like to know what they are getting,
are older and expect more

seen Tulsa King lately when Sly turns to the camera and admits that TV(streaming) is the way for stars to go, as before TV was screwed by unwanted adverts and timing, with streaming its when you want whether Sly is being paid as much as if he were in a movie, is unknown at this stage,
but I wouldn't get outta bed for less that $25 million = 400? pages of dialogue each 1 minute long ...lol

cheers

 

Potential spoilers follow for The Mandalorian season 3. Full spoilers for season 2 also follow.

The Mandalorian season 3's official trailer has been released online – and the wildly popular Disney Plus series has never looked better.

watch The Mandalorian season 3 on Disney's streaming platform on March 1. Din Djarin and Grogu's next adventure seems like it'll be as action-packed, suspenseful, and thrilling as its predecessors. Clearly, this is one Star Wars TV show you won't want to miss, so don't delay: wrap your eyes around the sci-fi series' latest teaser:

Expectedly, there's plenty to unpack from The Mandalorian season 3's final trailer. Luckily for you, we're here to help answer – or, at the very least, speculate on – some of the most fascinating things displayed in the teaser. Below, we've picked out nine things you might have missed upon initial viewing and what they could mean for Mando and Grogu in one of the best Disney Plus shows.

1. A Mandalorian reunion

Is Mando about to get some new friends? (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
The trailer opens with an apparent showdown between two groups of Mandalorians. We see Din Djarin/Mando emerge from the shadows to stand alongside some like-minded Mandalorians, and the way the footage is edited seems to imply they're at odds with the other gang we see.

However, we think Din is trying to recruit this other group. The voiceover from Din, which includes lines like "our people are scattered" and "what do we stand for?" suggests he's trying to persuade the others to join his cause. That's if the voiceover isn't a clever bit of editing on Lucasfilm's part, which might be directed at someone else in a completely different scene.

But we digress. It seems Din is successful is recruiting the other Mandalorians – or some of them, at least. There are two group shots, right at the start of the trailer, which show Din walking with six Mandalorians, not just the three he stands alongside in the next piece of footage.

The Mandalorian season 3 is all about Din and his people, what it means to be a Mandalorian, and rebuilding Mandalore, their home world, after the Great Purge. Other scenes in the trailer show Din telling the Armorer he's going to Mandalore to "be forgiven for my transgressions" – i.e. him removing his helmet in previous seasons, which is forbidden in Mandalorian culture.

We also see a breath-taking shot of the Sundari ruins, aka the destroyed, domed capital city of Mandalore which is where we expect Bo-Katan (more on her later) to have taken up residence. We see her 'greeting' Din and Grogu in a throne room in the first season 3 teaser, so expect these locations to be linked.

2. Nevarro, the safe haven for all


A long lost relative of Salacious B. Crumb, perhaps? (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
Moments later, we see Din and Grogu returning to Nevarro to reunite with Greef Karga, who appears to be the new leader of this world's main city.

Interestingly, it seems Nevarro has become a safe haven for all manner of people and creatures. At the 0:30 mark, we see a Kowakian monkey-lizard, a semi-sentient reptilian race that is often sold on the black market as pets to members of the criminal underworld. Seeing as this Kowakian is hanging out in a tree all by itself, it's not owned by anyone, meaning it's free to, well, do what Kowakians do. If you're trying to remember where you've seen a Kowakian before, Jabba the Hutt owned one in the original Star Wars trilogy.

If Nevarro has become a sanctuary for all races, it'll be a far cry from the city's earlier days as a Bounty Hunter guild/outpost. The times they are a'changin'.

3. These are the droids you're looking for

We don't serve humans here. (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
The official trailer is packed with Star Wars Easter eggs – and that includes the droids that appear in it.

First, you can catch a glimpse of an R5-D4 droid in Mando's remodeled Naboo Starfighter (which he acquired in The Book of Boba Fett). Din and Grogu are seen departing Peli Motto's starship workshop, so it seems she's the one who mends this R5-D4 droid and programs it to co-pilot Din's ship. We can't but wonder if it's the very same droid that the Tatooine-based Jawas owned, too, given that Peli's workshop is located on – yep, you guessed it – Tatooine.

At the 1:15 mark, we're treated to a who's who of famous Star Wars droid types – and in their own Mos Eisley Cantina-style bar, no less. There are some B1 battle droids from the prequel trilogy, an R2-D2-like astromech droid, an RA-7 Death Star Droid, and a bunch of others. We know Mando wasn't keen on droids for a long time, so seeing him have a conversation with its bartender and other droids is sure to make for some amusing content.

4. Return of the Clone Wars?


The doctor will see you now. (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
Another Star Wars production and another return to Coruscant, the galactic capital.

There are a couple of Coruscant shots in this teaser, but the most interesting concerns Doctor Pershing, who is being transported in a speedster in the Coruscant skyline. Viewers will remember Doctor Pershing as the Imperial scientist behind the Empire's cloning experiments, who tried to use Grogu's blood to create new Force wielders (i.e. Sith Lords). Seeing Pershing make his return in season 3 – and on Coruscant, no less – means we could learn more about the Empire's cloning technology/program very soon.

5. New Republic, old problems


Good to see you again, Carson! (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
After that brief shot of Doctor Pershing, we're reunited with another Mandalorian character. This time, it's New Republic captain Carson Teva, who warns an off-camera individual that something sinister is brewing in the galaxy.

The trailer makes out that he's talking to Din, but he's not. The reverse shot of Din is from the first season 3 teaser, which sees him speaking to Bo-Katan (don't worry, we're getting to her).

So, who is Carson speaking to about this new, undisclosed threat? We're not sure. It could be a high-ranking New Republic officer or – whisper it quietly – maybe an extremely important member of the New Republic's leadership team. How cool would it be if Genevieve O'Reilly's Mon Mothma – last seen in Andor season 1 – makes a cameo in The Mandalorian season 3, for instance? She helps to form the New Republic and becomes the galaxy's new Chancellor after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, so she's still alive around the events of The Mandalorian. Fingers crossed we're right on this one.

6. Execute Order 66


Give us an Anakin Skywalker cameo, please, Disney! (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
Speaking of callbacks, we might get another flashback to Order 66, aka the Empire's genocidal attack on the Jedi that all-but-wiped them out.

At the 1:08 mark, we see Grogu appearing to have another flashback to his time at the Jedi temple. The very next shot shows four Jedi preparing to defend the temple from an unidentified individual who's trying to cut through one of the temple's doors.

Could we see Order 66 from Grogu's perspective? Based on this snippet of footage, yes. We know Grogu was present in the temple at that time, so it's a big possibility. How crowd-pleasing would it be if the individual cutting through the temple door is none other than a Dark Side-turned Anakin Skywalker, too? A Mon Mothma cameo would be great, but an Anakin one would be even more crowd-pleasing.

7. Who's being chased by the TIE Interceptors?

TIE-ing them up in knots. (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney PLus)
This is another misdirect. Initially, viewers might think it's Din and Grogu, especially as footage of them is interspersed in this chase sequence.

However, we think it's Bo-Katan and her Night Owls contingent. For one, the ship being chased isn't Din's repurposed Naboo starfighter. It's a Mandalorian gunship, which looks very similar to Bo-Katan's Gauntlet space vessel.

Curiously, we don't see Bo-Katan in the flesh in this teaser. We know she's in season 3 as she was present in the first teaser, but she's certainly conspicuous by her absence here. She's not the only one, though – we don't see Moff Gideon, the Imperial commander who a) kidnapped Grogu for Doctor Pershing's experiments and b) Din beat to claim the Darksaber in season 2. We wonder what role they'll play in The Mandalorian season 3.

8. Babu Frik's back!

Wait, is that Babu Frik!? (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
The Mandalorian season 3's official trailer contains plenty of references to the movie trilogies preceding it. It's only fair, then, that it includes an Easter egg to events yet to play out in the film trilogy that follows.

What better individual to reference than Babu Frik, the fan-favorite Anzellan droid smith who's later seen in Episodes VIII and IX? He's seen celebrating alongside another Anzellan after a Klatoonian soldier is hauled to the ground by a Mandalorian's grappling hook. If this is Babu Frik, it would be interesting to find out how he travels from Mandalore to Kijimi, which is where we later find him living and working in Episode VIII.

9. Forcing your way out of a tight spot


You're messing with the wrong little guy... (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)
Even though Grogu is no longer training alongside Luke Skywalker – he left Luke to rejoin Din in The Book of Boba Fett – he'll still be increasing his Force power levels throughout season 3.

It appears that Din has taken it upon himself to train Grogu, too. The trailer's final shot shows Grogu taking down an unidentifiable enemy after Grogu emerges from a cave system. However, if you look behind the monster before it drops down in front of Grogu, you'll see what appears to be Din leaning against a rock formation.

Din isn't a Force wielder, so he can't help Grogu master his powers in the same way as a Jedi. But he can help Grogu boost his abilities by placing him in situations where he needs to use his powers. That way, Grogu won't lose the ability to wield his Force-based abilities when he's in a tight spot.

 

Who saw it ?...I'm glad I did, all the crew know their stuff and are very comfortable in their roles,
much more money spent on this too and it really shows,

 

you called?

 

The Mandalorian Season 4
As of this writing, ( Apr 20, 2023) Disney has not confirmed the existence of a new season of The Mandalorian. The show has not been renewed and Lucasfilm is not currently working on it. That, however, does not mean a new season isn’t possible.

In fact, all signs point to a future for Mando and Grogu’s fourth team-up coming sometime in the hopefully not-too-distant future.

We need look no further than the show’s creators, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, to get some evidence that other seasons are at least theoretically in the pipeline.

“Season 4, yeah I’ve written it already,” Favreau told BFM TV prior to the release of Season 3. “We have to know where we’re going to tell a fully formed story. We had mapped it out, Dave [Filoni] and I, and slowly you start to write each episode. I was writing it during post-production. All of it has to feel like a continuation and one full story.”

“[Dave’s] doing ‘Ahsoka,’ which I’m producing with him. He’s the writer and showrunner on that. To understand what’s happening on other shows….‘Skeleton Crew’ all take place within the same ‘Star Wars’ time period. There’s a lot more things that we’ve got to keep in mind and also stuff that we’ve built up to from previous seasons of ‘The Mandalorian’ as well.”

More recently, Favreau said, "I don't know what would make me not enjoy doing it, especially as long as the audience is connecting with these characters. This feels like a really enjoyable moment. And I love this format of telling one chapter at a time and keeping the audience guessing, but also fulfilling certain expectations."

With Season 4 already written and enthusiastic buy-in from its creators and producers, the only potential hang-ups would be if ratings were not up to par for Disney or if stars like Pedro Pascal were eager to move on.

As for the next season’s plot, I would predict two things: First, given the nature of the ‘reset’ the Season 3 finale provided, expect more serialized ‘bounty of the week’ style episodes once again. But don’t think that means there won’t be a larger plot that ties into the themes already established in the show: A resurgent Empire making life hard for the fledgling New Republic.

“On a base level, I would just say the coming conflict, the growing idea that the empire wasn’t as defeated as a lot of people want to believe and that the remnant is out there,” Dave Filoni told Variety. “We saw that from the very beginning with The Mandalorian and how Gideon was plotting, there are always people that are willing to undermine something that the Republic is trying to build and put back on its feet.

What’s Next In Star Wars?
As far as what comes next, it definitely isn’t The Mandalorian Season 4 which likely won’t be back until 2025 at the earliest. Instead, we have the new Ahsoka show coming up in August (it looks terrific) and the release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor later this month. I’ll be reviewing both of these, as well as Skeleton Crew, which is coming out later this year and is set in the same timeline.

Then, in 2024 we have Andor Season 2, which I’m dreadfully excited about given how wonderful the first season was. After that, there are several movies in the pipeline including one from Filoni that ties together events in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew and so forth. Lots to look forward to. Hopefully they don’t screw it up!