The Mandalorian season 3 cast
The cast of The Mandalorian season 3 is led by Pedro Pascal as the titular character, Din Djarin. Pascal voices Mando and portrays him sans helmet, while a body double actor takes on the full suit.
As for other recurring cast members, Carl Weathers will reappear as Greef Karga. Giancarlo Eposito’s Moff Gideon was not killed in the season 2 finale and continues to be a threat.
Since Mando is now in possession of the Dark Saber, he is likely to get caught up in the war for Mandalore, which means the return of Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze and Mercedes Varnado as Kosta Reeves.
Other cast members who may pop up again include Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto, Bill Burr as Migs Mayfeld, Horatio Sanz as Mythrol and Emily Swallow as The Armorer.
There may be crossovers with The Mandalorian’s spinoffs. For The Book of Boba Fett, that’s Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett and Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand. For Star Wars: Ahsoka, that’s Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano.
Recently, Wen told that she’s unsure of if she will be in The Mandalorian season 3, stating «We’re so secretive about everything, right? We don’t call the shows, the shows. The contracts are always under different names. The show is under different names.»
Grogu has reunited with Mando, but that doesn’t preclude another cameo by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. And let’s not forget that a young Ben Solo (later Kylo Ren) is about four years old at this point.
«Last year I heard rumors that a Wookiee or Wookiees may appear in The Mandalorian. I’ve heard of a Wookiee showing up again as of late from a secondary source and even saw proof that a Wookiee might be appearing in The Mandalorian Season 3 from a new source,» Bespin Bulletin said. «I don’t know if the Wookiee is of any significance, if it’s a character we’re familiar with, or if even just a background character. Just thought it was worth mentioning as we all love a fuzzball.»
What’s Next In Star Wars?
As far as what comes next, it definitely isn’t The Mandalorian Season 4 which likely won’t be back until 2025 at the earliest. Instead, we have the new Ahsoka show coming up in August (it looks terrific) and the release of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor later this month. I’ll be reviewing both of these, as well as Skeleton Crew, which is coming out later this year and is set in the same timeline.
Then, in 2024 we have Andor Season 2, which I’m dreadfully excited about given how wonderful the first season was. After that, there are several movies in the pipeline including one from Filoni that ties together events in The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, Skeleton Crew and so forth. Lots to look forward to. Hopefully they don’t screw it up!
The Mandalorian season 3 story and plot
In an interview with our sister site Total Film, series creator Jon Favreau hinted that the big crux of the season may revolve around the culture of Din Djarin’s fellow Mandalorians, saying «There’s a lot of questions that have to be answered and hopefully all of it comes together in this season as they return to Mandalore and we figure out how this Mandalorian culture evolves past this critical point in their history.»
The Mandalorian season 2 finale opened up a huge can of sandworms. The Mandalorian’s first two seasons revolved around the bounty hunter protecting Baby Yoda and looking for its people.
After sending Grogu off with Luke Skywalker, Mando seemed at a bit of a loss for what to do. He ended up helping Boba Fett and Fennec Shand in their war against the Pykes on Tatooine.
Then, surprise! Grogu showed up. It seems the little guy has given up Jedi training to hang out with his adoptive dad again. But now what? Will Mando return to bounty hunting, with Grogu as his sidekick? Or will they both settle down on Navarro alongside Greef. Or will Din Djarin take full ownership of the Dark Saber and get involved in the fight to liberate Mandalore?
If it’s the latter, Bo-Katan may not be entirely happy about that. She asked for his help, but more as her underling/foot soldier. Bo-Katan covets that Dark Saber — but does she want it so much that she’ll duel Din Djarin for it?
Din has exhibited zero interest in intergalactic politics, so we’re curious to see if (and how) he gets pulled into the greater Mandalorian saga. As for Grogu, his Force powers could come in very handy in a fight, as we’ve seen already.
The Mandalorian season 3 episodes and directors
The Mandalorian season 3 will feature new directors and familiar names for its eight episodes: Rick Famuyiwa, Rachel Morrison, Lee Isaac Chung, Carl Weathers, Peter Ramsey and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The newcomers are Morrison (cinematographer on Black Panther), Chung (Minari) and Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).
As for the scripts, creator Jon Favreau is the writer or co-writer on all eight episodes. Noah Kloor is also credited on the third episode, while Dave Filoni (Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch) helped pen the scripts for episodes four and seven.
The Mandalorian Season 4
As of this writing, Disney has not confirmed the existence of a new season of The Mandalorian. The show has not been renewed and Lucasfilm is not currently working on it. That, however, does not mean a new season isn’t possible.
In fact, all signs point to a future for Mando and Grogu’s fourth team-up coming sometime in the hopefully not-too-distant future.
We need look no further than the show’s creators, Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, to get some evidence that other seasons are at least theoretically in the pipeline.
“Season 4, yeah I’ve written it already,” Favreau told BFM TV prior to the release of Season 3. “We have to know where we’re going to tell a fully formed story. We had mapped it out, Dave and I, and slowly you start to write each episode. I was writing it during post-production. All of it has to feel like a continuation and one full story.”
“ doing ‘Ahsoka,’ which I’m producing with him. He’s the writer and showrunner on that. To understand what’s happening on other shows….‘Skeleton Crew’ all take place within the same ‘Star Wars’ time period. There’s a lot more things that we’ve got to keep in mind and also stuff that we’ve built up to from previous seasons of ‘The Mandalorian’ as well.”
More recently, Favreau said, «I don’t know what would make me not enjoy doing it, especially as long as the audience is connecting with these characters. This feels like a really enjoyable moment. And I love this format of telling one chapter at a time and keeping the audience guessing, but also fulfilling certain expectations.»
With Season 4 already written and enthusiastic buy-in from its creators and producers, the only potential hang-ups would be if ratings were not up to par for Disney or if stars like Pedro Pascal were eager to move on.
As for the next season’s plot, I would predict two things: First, given the nature of the ‘reset’ the Season 3 finale provided, expect more serialized ‘bounty of the week’ style episodes once again. But don’t think that means there won’t be a larger plot that ties into the themes already established in the show: A resurgent Empire making life hard for the fledgling New Republic.
“On a base level, I would just say the coming conflict, the growing idea that the empire wasn’t as defeated as a lot of people want to believe and that the remnant is out there,” Dave Filoni told Variety. “We saw that from the very beginning with The Mandalorian and how Gideon was plotting, there are always people that are willing to undermine something that the Republic is trying to build and put back on its feet.
