Lucasfilm is taking a big risk with The Mandalorian and Grogu. The first Star Wars movie in seven years, it’s a spinoff of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, which was the centerpiece of the streamer’s launch back in 2019. Since then, the creature known as “The Child” or, more commonly, “Baby Yoda,” gained the official name Grogu, and has undergone training both as a Jedi and as a Mandalorian. He even officially joined a clan with Din Djarin, the hero better known as “The Mandalorian.”
But what exactly do you need to know about this new movie? It doesn’t matter if you’ve been counting the days to see Grogu again or if you are just meeting him for the first time: you pretty much just need to know the status quo where the show left off.
