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Jordan Farley

Star Wars is "about families," so The Mandalorian and Grogu will explore what it's like for Rotta to be Jabba the Hutt's son, says Jon Favreau

Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt, holding two axes, in The Mandalorian and Grogu.

The Mandalorian and Grogu is bringing Star Wars back to the big screen after seven long years. And, according to director and writer Jon Favreau, like much of the saga, fathers and sons are at the heart of the story. But it's not just the (surrogate) father and son you're thinking of.

Speaking in the new issue of SFX Magazine, on sale 22 April, Favreau notes that his love for deep-cut Star Wars characters led him to explore the effect that being the son of Jabba the Hutt might have on Rotta – Jeremy Allen White's disturbingly buff space slug.

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