Jon Favreau Has Big Plans for Grogu After The Mandalorian and Grogu

Grogu is not just getting a movie. He may be getting a future.

Jon Favreau has revealed that he has “a lot of plans” for Grogu creatively after The Mandalorian and Grogu, and the reason is very simple: this little green chaos child is not built for a one-movie arc. His species lives for centuries. His training is weird. His identity is split between two of Star Wars’ most myth-heavy traditions.

In a new GamesRadar / Total Film interview, Favreau said Grogu is “on a path to be both a Jedi and a Mandalorian,” while also making choices and growing under a strong teacher. That is a very small sentence carrying a very large amount of future merchandise. And story. Mostly story.

Grogu Is Built for the Long Game

The most interesting part of Favreau’s comments is not just that he wants more Grogu stories. Of course he does. Lucasfilm does not create a tiny Force-sensitive icon with ears like satellite dishes and then quietly retire him to a monastery.

The interesting part is the timescale.

Grogu’s species can live for centuries, which makes him different from almost every other major Star Wars lead. Din Djarin’s story is human-sized. Luke’s story was generational. Anakin’s was tragic and compressed. Grogu’s could stretch across eras.

That gives Lucasfilm a rare kind of character: someone who can grow slowly, change visibly, and still remain part of Star Wars for a very long time.

Jedi, Mandalorian, or Something Else?

Favreau’s “both a Jedi and a Mandalorian” line is the real hook.

Grogu has already rejected the cleanest version of the Jedi path. He trained with Luke Skywalker, but chose Din Djarin. He has Force discipline, but he is being raised inside Mandalorian culture. He has trauma from the Jedi Temple, but his future is not simply about rebuilding the old Order.

That makes him more interesting than “Baby Yoda becomes Jedi.”

He is becoming a hybrid figure: part foundling, part Force user, part tiny walking argument against every rigid institution in the galaxy.

We recently wrote about how Grogu’s Jedi path is getting weirder, and Favreau’s new comments only sharpen that idea. Grogu’s future may not be about choosing one identity. It may be about proving Star Wars has room for something new.

The Teacher Matters Too

Favreau also points to Grogu having “a great teacher now,” which is very clearly Din Djarin.

That matters because Din is not a Jedi scholar, a philosopher, or someone likely to explain Force theology with calm temple energy. He is a practical, loyal, emotionally repressed helmet dad whose parenting style is mostly “protect the child, improvise the rest.”

Perfect? No.

Very Star Wars? Absolutely.

Grogu learning through Din means his growth will not look like normal Jedi training. It will be messier, more instinctive, and probably involve several situations where a lesson about discipline begins with someone shooting first.

Grogu Is the Future Problem Lucasfilm Wants

Nothing beyond The Mandalorian and Grogu has been officially confirmed for Din and Grogu yet, so this is not an announcement of a sequel, series, or spin-off.

But Favreau is clearly thinking beyond the next movie. And honestly, that makes sense. Grogu is one of the few modern Star Wars characters with a truly long runway. He can connect the Mandalorian era, the Jedi question, the post-Empire galaxy, and whatever comes next.

The trick will be not overusing him.

Grogu works because he is small, strange, powerful, vulnerable, funny, and still mysterious. Turn him into a franchise machine too aggressively, and the magic gets flattened. Let him grow carefully, and Star Wars may have one of its most flexible future leads.

A Jedi.
A Mandalorian.
A foundling.
A survivor.
A tiny green problem with centuries ahead of him.

Yes, Favreau probably should have plans.