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For fans of Disney+ series The Mandalorian who kept thinking to themselves, ‘If only the show featured so much more Grogu, especially in action scenes or with another puppet but this one has a funny voice and they have adventures together,” good news — the teaser trailer for 2026’s big screen Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu has arrived, offering one of the most tonally surprising movie sneak peeks of the year.

If The Mandalorian established itself as a relatively low-key western in space with a cute sidekick and some familiar aliens to help everything along, the teaser trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu feels very, very different: almost wordless, oddly slow-paced despite being a series of unconnected scenes, and seemingly focusing entirely on the hi-jinks of Grogu, who’s shown trying to steal food from Sigourney Weaver, somersaulting onto the shoulder of Mando, or swimming in a moment of old-school Muppet magic. "THIS IS THE WAY" yells an all-caps caption across three different screens, but it feels so at odds with the show that fans know that it feels more like a Grogu-centric fan-edit than an official teaser trailer from Lucasfilm.

Oddly, the accompanying poster might help set expectations, with its purposefully retro design calling back to movie serials of the 1940s — an early influence on George Lucas’s original Star Wars trilogy. With that in mind, the trailer makes more sense, down to the pacing that feels glacial by comparison with today’s fast-cut trailers. Could Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu be a sign that the franchise is turning even further towards its roots as it reinvents itself on the big screen across the next few years?

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu will be released May 22, 2026.

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