Lucasfilm has officially confirmed the Season 3 release date for The Mandalorian.
Revealed at Comic Con Experience 2022, The Mandalorian Season 3 will air on Disney+ on March 1, 2023. Created by Iron Man director Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian is the first live-action Star Wars series, beginning five years after the events of 1983’s Return of the Jedi. Pedro Pascal stars as the title character, Din Djarin, a lone bounty hunter who goes on the run to protect Grogu, a force-sensitive child who is colloquially known as “Baby Yoda” by viewers.
The Mandalorian Season 3 first trailer was released in September 2022 as part of the D23 Expo 2022 fan event and focused on Din Djarin’s mission to redeem himself after violating the rules of his kin by removing his helmet in Season 2. Grogu as well as Djarin’s allies Greef Karga (Carl Weathers) and Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) also featured in the footage. The trailer also confirmed that the new season would pick up after the events of the spinoff series The Book of Boba Fett, with Djarin being seen piloting the same N-1 starfighter he obtained in that Disney+ show.
The Mandalorian and Grogu return March 1 only on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/XE8lT7VPma
— Disney (@Disney) December 1, 2022
Another Star Wars character guaranteed to appear in The Mandalorian‘s third season is Giancarlo Esposito’s Moff Gideon, who leads the remains of the fallen Galactic Empire. Esposito earlier teased that the upcoming season will reveal a side of Moff Gideon that hasn’t been seen yet in his six appearances so far on The Mandalorian. “You haven’t seen Moff [Gideon] be vulnerable before… Only you can supply yourself with the patience to find out what comes next,” he said at the D23 Expo 2022.
The Mandalorian‘s first two seasons have been received greatly by both critics and fans, leading Lucasfilm to develop and release several spinoff series such as The Book of Boba Fett and the upcoming Ahsoka and Skeleton Crew that are set at the same timeframe. The company is also in production on The Acolyte, a mystery-thriller series set 100 years before the events of the Star Wars prequel movie trilogy. While not much is not yet known about the series beyond that, star Dafne Keen has teased that the Disney+ series will be the first Star Wars project to be told from the Sith’s point of view.