Star Wars Celebration: Everything Announced at The Mandalorian and Grogu Panel (Live Updates)

Star Wars Celebration is taking spot successful Japan this year, and IGN is attending each the breathtaking panels! Follow on beneath for unrecorded updates from The Mandalorian & Grogu panel:

Ahsoka Season 2 Filming Begins Soon

The Lucasfilm sheet kicked disconnected with the company’s president Kathleen Kennedy and main originative serviceman Dave Filoni taking the signifier alongside the iconic droids C-3P0 and R2-D2. Filoni told the assemblage that they’ll commencement shooting Ahsoka Season 2 arsenic soon arsenic helium gets disconnected the level from Celebration.

Kennedy and Filoni besides confirmed that Star Wars films by James Mangold, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Taika Waititi and a caller trilogy by Simon Kinberg stay successful ongoing development.

Ryan Gosling to Joins Levy's Film, Star Wars: Starfighter

Deadpool & Wolverine manager Shawn Levy past took the signifier to denote that his Star Wars movie begins shooting this fall. The manager said it’s a standalone escapade movie that takes a fewer years aft Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.

Levy besides said astir of the rumors astir the movie swirling astir online are precise inaccurate but that 1 is true: Ryan Gosling stars successful the movie. The Fall Guy prima past took the signifier to astonishment the fans successful the audience.

Gosling recalled however his ma sent him an aged photograph of his puerility Star Wars bedsheets erstwhile helium landed the role.

The Levy-Gosling movie volition beryllium neither a prequel nor a sequel and volition research a play of clip not chronicled successful different Star Wars projects. It volition diagnostic a full caller formed of characters.

The movie volition beryllium titled Star Wars: Starfighter and volition deed theaters May 28, 2027.

The Mandalorian & Grogu Coming to IMAX

Director Jon Favreau joined Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni onstage astatine Star Wars Celebration successful Tokyo to tout their upcoming film, The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Favreau confirmed that the movie volition beryllium successful IMAX, which is notable since its origins are connected the tiny screen. He said that sets had to beryllium adjusted accordingly to scale.

The movie volition diagnostic immoderate acquainted faces from Star Wars lore, including Zeb Orrelios from Rebels and the explorer droid BD-1 from the games Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor.

Sigourney Weaver Says "Grogu Stole My Heart"

Pedro Pascal took the signifier on with Sigourney Weaver. Weaver, the sci-fi icon from the Alien and Avatar franchises, told fans of her Star Wars casting: “I got existent lucky.”

Weaver admitted she hadn’t watched The Mandalorian earlier being formed successful the movie but erstwhile she yet did she fell successful emotion with Pascal’s rubric quality and added, “Of course, Grogu stole my heart.”

The Mandalorian & Grogu Footage Revealed for Attendees

Favreau past brought Grogu retired onstage earlier screening footage from the movie for attendees, but with the caveat that it’s inactive excessively aboriginal for a due trailer.

The footage includes shots of Imperial successful a vessel prepared to engage, Mando battling Flame Troopers, AT-AT walkers collapsing successful the snow, and past our archetypal look astatine Weavers character, who appears to beryllium idiosyncratic contracting Mando for a job.

Weaver’s quality is seen astatine a array with Grogu. She says “very messy” and “You enactment for us, We request you.”

Grogu is seen swimming and aboriginal making items, including a droid, levitate.

Much of the enactment successful the footage appears to instrumentality spot connected a snowy planet. That was the extremity of the footage.

The Mandalorian & Grogu opens successful theaters May 22, 2026.