Spoilers observe for The Ebook of Boba Fett.
The Mandalorian star Giancarlo Esposito has urged that the present’s third season could possibly be launched within the subsequent few months.
Talking on the Rick Eisen present (opens in new tab) (due to Reddit (opens in new tab) for the catch), Esposito – who portrays Galactic Empire commander Moff Gideon within the Star Wars present – seemingly confirmed its return could be “someday this summer time”.
Actor Carl Weathers (opens in new tab), who performs Greef Karga within the Disney Plus collection, just lately revealed that manufacturing on The Mandalorian season 3 solely wrapped in late March. Even so, Esposito claims that the present’s subsequent instalment is “coming quickly”, and that we might even see it throughout the subsequent few months.
“You may get it quickly,” Esposito mentioned when requested when season 3 would launch. “I’ve bought a number of little issues to do, in regard to that, to place the ending touches on what I do. However I imagine it will be someday this summer time. No date set, however coming quickly.”
The Mandalorian season 2 aired in December 2020, so it has been practically 18 months for the reason that present’s final instalment. Nonetheless, Star Wars followers had been reunited with ‘Mando’ (and Grogu!) in The Ebook of Boba Fett, with the pair showing in most of the spin-off present’s later episodes.
After the duo helped Boba, Fennec Shand, and firm defeat the Pike Syndicate, ‘Mando’ and Grogu had been seen flying off into the galaxy within the former’s refurnished Naboo starfighter. Understandably, we’re uncertain the place they’ve headed off to. However, relaxation assured, the likes of Moff Gideon (regardless of his imprisonment in The Mandalorian season 2 finale) and different potential foes will not be far behind them.
Evaluation: will The Mandalorian season 3 launch this summer time?
As nice as it will be to see The Mandalorian season 3 launch this summer time (or this winter, for these within the southern hemisphere), we’re unsure it’ll.
Why? As a result of, regardless of filming wrapping on the present’s different two seasons in early 2019 and 2020 respectively, seasons 1 and a pair of did not arrive on Disney Plus till November 2019 and December 2020.
Principal pictures ended on the collection’ first season in February 2019, that means that there was a nine-month look ahead to the Star Wars present to debut on Disney’s streaming service. In the meantime, season 2 wrapped in March 2020 however, once more, it wasn’t launched for 9 months.
Taking these two seasons into consideration, we would be shocked if The Mandalorian’s third season landed this summer time. Certain, summer time runs from June to August, so technically season 3 could possibly be launched in late August, proving Esposito proper.
Given the present’s lengthy post-production part, although, we suspect that the present will not grace our screens till this fall – i.e. September on the very earliest. In spite of everything, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s standalone collection is because of air on Disney Plus between Might 27 and June 24, whereas Ms Marvel – the subsequent MCU TV present – will run from June 8 to July 13. It is unlikely, then, that Lucasfilm and Disney would launch The Mandalorian season 3 alongside both of these initiatives.
The discharge date for The Unhealthy Batch season 2 is prone to have an effect on Mando’s subsequent outing, too. A Star Wars Celebration panel, which can be held on Might 29 (opens in new tab), will reveal extra about this present’s subsequent instalment, and we would anticipate a launch date to be introduced then. Earlier this 12 months, a leaker urged that The Unhealthy Batch season 2 had a spring 2022 launch window, however that is positive to have been pushed again as a result of Obi-Wan and Ms Marvel.
Hopefully, it will not be too lengthy earlier than we obtain official affirmation on The Mandalorian season 3’s launch date. Author-executive producer Jon Favreau, and fellow producer Dave Filoni, can be discussing The Mandalorian at a Star Wars Celebration panel on Might 28 (opens in new tab), with the duo anticipated to tease the present’s subsequent entry. Fingers crossed, then, {that a} launch date announcement is coming quickly.
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