THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU May Be Part Of A Much Bigger Plan According To Moff Gideon Actor Giancarlo Esposito

THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU May Be Part Of A Much Bigger Plan According To Moff Gideon Actor Giancarlo Esposito

The Mandalorian star Giancarlo Esposito has suggested that Jon Favreau's upcoming The Mandalorian and Grogu movie is part of a much bigger plan the filmmaker has for the Star Wars franchise in theaters...

By JoshWilding - Oct 01, 2024 10:10 AM EST
Filed Under: The Mandalorian
Source: SFFGazette.com

Disney has finally realised that the best place for Star Wars is on the big screen after several years where the only place fans could head into a Galaxy Far, Far Away was on streaming.

During last year's strikes, The Mandalorian season 4 became The Mandalorian and Grogu movie. We'd imagine Jon Favreau has upped the stakes and reshaped the story but Moff Gideon actor Giancarlo Esposito believes the filmmaker's plans extend well beyond just one feature. 

Talking at Dragon Con (via SFFGazette.com), the actor shared his belief that Favreau has plans on par with what we've seen from Marvel Studios (a franchise Esposito is also familiar with after joining the cast of Captain America: Brave New World during reshoots). 

"As in the MCU, Disney will figure out how to join all of these characters into one really great movie or TV show," the actor shared. "That’s my sense of where it will go."

"Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau have a new vision, continuing on with a 'Mandalorian' movie," Esposito continued. "My sense is that it’s all going to converge at one point or another and we’re going to have another set of [a] trilogy, or more, of films."

Of course, we already know the plan is for us to eventually get a Star Wars movie from Dave Filoni which brings together the Disney+ character for a story we're assuming will serve as the finale to this post-Return of the Jedi era of storytelling. If Esposito is to be believed, there could be another movie somewhere in there.

That will be no easy task for Favreau or Filoni as it appears the heroes eventually fail because not only does Emperor Palpatine puppet Supreme Leader Snoke from the shadows but the First Order rises up to replace the Empire. Perhaps the likes of Din Djarin and Ahsoka Tano assemble to stop an even greater threat?

Elsewhere in this panel, Esposito reflected on an exchange with the creatives during the shooting of a pivotal season 3 scene. 

"[By the end of] 45 minutes, we start talking about a sequel for Moff Gideon...Dave says, 'Wouldn’t it be a great idea if we had Moff Gideon leave and come back and be somebody else?' and [Jon] says, 'No, he’s Moff Gideon!' 'It’s going to be great and we’ll think about a sequel.'" Asked whether he thinks Gideon's story will continue, he added, "I want to live! There was a f*cking clone. Make it true!"

Starring Pedro Pascal, directed by Favreau and produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Favreau, Filoni and Ian Bryce, this exciting new adventure in the Mandalorian and Grogu's journey is currently in production and arrives in theaters on May 22, 2026.

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 10/1/2024, 10:12 AM
The Mando a baby Yoda movie should be a movie, the movie, not another commercial for the next product.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 10/1/2024, 10:13 AM
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UncleHarm1
UncleHarm1 - 10/1/2024, 11:34 AM
@harryba11zack - How does it get the reflection of the sword in vader's armor?????? AI is ready to take over the world

Until you look at that guy's hand nubs
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 10/1/2024, 10:13 AM
"produced by" Kathleen Kennedy...
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/1/2024, 10:53 AM
@DevilsDreams - I guess you'll have to wait and see if you like it or not before deciding whether or not it was produced by Kennedy? Is that how this works?
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 10/2/2024, 4:08 AM
@Clintthahamster - nope, I assumed that as current CEO, she generally just has her name thrown in as a producer credit, regardless of her involvement...
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/2/2024, 7:59 AM
@DevilsDreams - Ah, sorry, I mistook you for one of those dudes that blames Kennedy for everything they don't like in Star Wars, but conveniently forget that she has the same role on all the things they do like. My bad.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 10/2/2024, 10:11 AM
@Clintthahamster - no dramas!
In honesty, I don't think she is the right person to be leading the brand, I feel like she doesn't fully understand the product/audience at times.

Whether it was made in jest or not, the comment she made comparing Star Wars to Marvel, saying that Marvel had lots of source history when Star Wars didn't... if she made it as a joke, then it was a bad joke, if she was serious, it lends credence to the idea that she doesn't fully understand the product.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/2/2024, 10:27 AM
@DevilsDreams - Marvel Comics has published more than 30,000 individual issues, featuring more than 70,000 individual character and variants, over 80 years. Star Wars has some deep lore, no doubt, but it's nothing compared the well that the MCU can draw on.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 10/2/2024, 10:56 AM
@Clintthahamster - I don't disagree with you that Marvel has had many iterations of many characters, but Star Wars did have what is now called Legends, the Expanded Universe that was canonised by Lucasfilm's acceptance of it. Legends covered from after Return of the Jedi, which was noted as 5 ABY through to somewhere around 40 ABY, even further when I think it was Dark Horse published Star Wars: Legacy, which was set a hundred years or so after the original trilogy. Add in some of the games which ended up interwoven with the EU, whilst it isn't quite as vast as the Marvel universes, it still provides quite a bit.

Whilst I can understand the decision not to stick faithfully to the EU, due to the years that passed between ROTJ and The Force Awakens, to say there is nothing and not draw from it seemingly at all, seems like a bad choice, one which I think opened Star Wars up to so much criticism to a degree. To say there is no source material is either as I said, a bit of a joke to brush off the EU, or just sheer ignorance from KK's part...


This is the quote from Kathleen Kennedy:

"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be. We go through a really normal development process that everybody else does. You start by talking to filmmakers who you think exhibit the sensibilities that you’re looking for."
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/2/2024, 11:14 AM
@DevilsDreams - Oh man, y'all are still talking about that one quote from five years ago. I think most of the consternation around here comes from people hearing offhand remarks in an informal interview and treating it like some sort of official press release.

Star Wars movies have never, ever been adapted from EU/Legends continuity. It's just never happened, and it would be unprecedented if it did. I'm pretty sure that that's the spirit with which she was approaching it. If you legitimately think that a producer has been working with Spielberg since '81–when she was an associate producer on Raiders of the Lost Ark–and had been producing Star Wars movies and television for seven years, but was somehow completely unaware of the fact that there were Star Wars books, comics, and video games, then I think it's possible that you're making assumptions based on something other than her words.
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 10/1/2024, 10:14 AM
We already knew this though, right? With Dark Empire and all that.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 10:28 AM
Uh , didn’t we already know this?.

I’m pretty sure Filoni’s movie is suppose to be the culmination of thie Mandoverse (atleast up until them) with various characters from shows set during that time period teaming up to take down Thrawn.

Also , I find it strange that just because a new threat in the First Order rises that it somehow lowers the stakes so to speak of them defeating anyone else…

I mean there’s always going to be another evil out there that rises up like we see in Superhero films and many others , it doesn’t nullify the impact of the heroes having defeated previous others.

Darkness will always rise to meet the light & vice versa , it’s an ongoing struggle.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 10/1/2024, 10:48 AM
@TheVisionary25 - i agree and prequels and fill in the blank stories were the overall ending is a forgone conclusion can still be dramatic and awesome with high stakes if written to be that way. we all know how WW2 ended but they still do movies about it and they are still high stakes and drama because we dont know how the specific characters make it out despite knowing the overall end of the conflict.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 10:52 AM
@supermanrex - exactly

Plus I have liked how they have fleshed out the post ROTJ period and how the Empire wasn’t fully defeated just because Luke & others blew up the second Death Star

They were people who truly believe in that regime and a certain number would have gone underground and escaped.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 10/1/2024, 6:04 PM
@TheVisionary25 - yeah i love that part because its the irony. the big empire trying to squash this rebellion is now the rebellion themselves as they refuse to give up. the added intrigue with the imperial rebellion is that they are also eating themselves from within as they try to step over one another to fill the power vacuum left by the emperor's demise. where as the rebel alliance was truly a team united for one goal.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 6:08 PM
@supermanrex - agreed

That was a very good take.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 10:35 AM
Anyway , honestly I can take or leave Moff Gideon possibly coming back…

I enjoyed the character due to Mr Esposito’s performance (otherwise he was just standard “bringing order to the galaxy” via tyranny villain) but I thought his ending was satisfying.

However as he said , there were many clones there so one could have escaped aswell.

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WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 10/1/2024, 10:50 AM
Let's see how Star Wars fares with film sequels to TV shows... don't think this will do very well, but hope it's good.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 10:54 AM
@WakandanQueen - same

it might do well I think since the show or Grogu atleast is still popular to an extent…

If this would have been released at its popularity peak then it would have been a more surefire hit
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 10/1/2024, 10:57 AM
I'd rather just have Season 4, but what do I know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 11:24 AM
@Clintthahamster - I agree
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 10/1/2024, 11:02 AM
That's just a feeling he has, nothing really set in stone it seems. That said, I do expect a big finale.

Mandalorian S4 probably leads into Mandalorian & Grogu, Ahsoka S2 into Heir to the Empire, and those in a third movie capping off the trilogy (and Mandalorian Saga altogether).
Timerider
Timerider - 10/1/2024, 11:52 AM
@bkmeijer1 - there is no season 4, there is no season 4.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 10/1/2024, 5:33 PM
@Timerider - is that confirmed already? Thought it was just a rumour for now.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a season 4, but a shorter one. Maybe six episodes and the movies serves as the last two.
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 10/1/2024, 11:56 AM
IDK, I kind of like the way the series is going for this show. Transferring it to the big screen may not fair well.
ProfessorWhy
ProfessorWhy - 10/1/2024, 12:21 PM
@Matchesz - don't worry, you sound just like a white woman
Matchesz
Matchesz - 10/1/2024, 1:11 PM
@ProfessorWhy - Gracias
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LeoAtrox1
LeoAtrox1 - 10/1/2024, 12:41 PM
I trust that they'll make something good. I just think they ought to drop the idea of calling this "The Mandalorian and Grogu." I think it's a terrible title for a film. Call it "The Way: A Star Wars Story" and be done with it.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/1/2024, 12:45 PM
@LeoAtrox1 - I think you atleast want Mandaloriaj in the title for marketing purposes
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 10/1/2024, 1:29 PM
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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 10/1/2024, 2:58 PM
Imagine if all the current Mando threads come together in one epic Star Wars movie.

Mando, Grogu, Bo-katan, Ashoka and the Rebel crew, Boba Fett, Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, Artoo and Threepio.

Thrawn, Dark Empire, Strandcast frankensteins, Clones! A Vader Clone! Bring back Hayden even!

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