Peter Pascal, Sigourney Weaverand Jon Favreau He brought ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ to Berlin for a special fan event at UCI Luxe Cinemas, where over 1,000 fans watched exclusive footage from the upcoming film. The trio also posed with fans by the River Spree after the performance. The Lucasfilm adventure will release exclusively in theaters and IMAX on May 22, 2026, in English and Hindi in India.The Berlin event also included a press conference where Pascal, Weaver and Favreau spoke about their earliest memories of ‘Star Wars’. According to details shared by Lucasfilm for the event, the film stars Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin and introduces Sigourney Weaver to the franchise. Jon Favreau directs and writes the film with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor.
The ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ actor recalls his earliest memories
Favreau said he was 10 or 11 years old when he saw the original film with his father in New York. “I went to New York with my dad,” he recalled. “I still remember when that huge spaceship appeared, the blockade runner going by, then the (Star) Destroyer followed suit. The theater went from secretive to laugh-out-loud, and it didn’t stop.”He added: “George Lucas, being the cinephile that he is, layered in so many references that I didn’t understand at the time. The film opened me up not only to Star Wars, but to cinema in general. At first, I loved it as a show, and as I grew up, I loved the stories and the humanity.”Weaver said he saw the 1977 film at the Ziegfeld in New York. “We hadn’t seen anything like it, it really took you to another galaxy, another universe. It had heart, it had humor,” he said.
Mandalorian and Grogu story and release details
Weaver also praised the world of ‘Star Wars’ for its mix of species. “But what I loved the most was that there were so many different species, and for the most part they all got along. There was the evil empire, but otherwise, no matter what it looked like, you had a Star Wars home. I loved that.”Pascal said that movies shaped his childhood. “I was born in ’75, so my whole childhood was shaped by those first films,” he said. “I saw Star Wars first before Empire Strikes Back and then Return of the Jedi, my favorite.”The film is set after the fall of the Empire, as the New Republic turns to Din Djarin and Grogur for help against the scattered Imperial warlords. The music is composed by Ludwig Göransson, and produced by Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Dave Filoni and Ian Bryce.
