
2019's The Rise of Skywalker might feel like a lifetime ago, but the seven year Star Wars theatrical drought is finally coming to an end with this summer's The Mandalorian and Grogu.
When we sat down with director Jon Favreau in London, we asked him why Mando and his tiny green charge Grogu were the right characters to bring the saga back to the big screen – quite the full circle move, considering they helped launch Disney Plus back in 2019.