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The trailers released for The Mandalorian and Grogu so far have teased a low-key adventure for Din Djarin and his charge Baby Yoda – there looks to be plenty of excitement in store, but no galaxy-shaking revelations or battles.
Director Jon Favreau has expanded on the stakes in a new interview with SFX magazine, confirming that, while the Mando movie isn't carrying the Star Wars mythos forward, another upcoming project is.
"Anybody who saw the sequels knows that there's a First Order coming in, like, 20 years from where we are now in the storyline," he commented. "And then Ahsoka season 2 is coming out – which I've seen all of – and that's definitely more dealing with the larger [picture], a higher level. That's about the officers and we're the enlisted men – this is more of a ground-level experience of what's going on. You're seeing the backdrop – which, by the way, is what the first Star Wars started off as."
The Mandalorian season 3 teased the rise of the First Order through the Shadow Council, an ominous gathering of Imperial remnants – and then Grand Admiral Thrawn returned at the end of Ahsoka season 1. "If you look at the fall of empires, historically, a lot of the power brokers become warlords," Favreau shared, "and anybody with a standing army had power in the ancient world. We see that repeat itself in history. I guess what the Shadow Council alluded to is that they're starting to actually connect. It's not just insulated warlords anymore, and there's a larger scheme afoot. There's something going on and Thrawn is sort of the missing link that we began to allude to at the end of season 3."
