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The Mandalorian Season 3 returns to Disney+ in 2022, with filming set to begin in April of this year according to Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. Before then, we can expect the Book of Boba Fett and Star Wars: The Bad Batch which will come out on Star Wars Day, May 4th!

In today's Star Wars News Update, we talk about speculation for the Mandalorian Season 3 - specifically if Grogu (Baby Yoda) is linked to Grand Admiral Thrawn - Dave Filoni might be setting up a Thrawn Trilogy style story line involving clones and Luke Skywalker just like in Timothy Zahn's iconic trilogy which many Star Wars fans argue should have been the real Star Wars sequel trilogy. The other day, Benedict Cumberbatch said he is not interested in playing Thrawn in The Mandalorian or the Ahsoka Tano series with Rosario Dawson. Instead, it's most likely going to be Lars Mikkelsen.

We also discuss Hera Syndulla from Star Wars Rebels who will replace the character of Cara Dune - Gina Carano in the Mandalorian universe and Rangers of the New Republic. I argue why she is the perfect lead for the series and how it could connect to Ahsoka, Ezra Bridger, Thrawn and the Mandalorian in general.

Finally, we discuss speculation for the Cassian Andor series and why the show is a prequel and should be considered amongst the prequel trilogy and Rogue One. It's believed that George Lucas could be writing for the series which was announced during Disney Investor Day 2020 by Kathleen Kennedy even though we knew about the show in 2018.

After Gina Carano was fired from Lucasfilm by Disney, a lot of Star Wars fans have been proclaiming that Star Wars is dead with anti- Disney+ sentiments. But it isn't and the Star Wars franchise as well as The Mandalorian will recover as a series. The Mandalorian Season 3 will be amazing and now that Cara Dune will be killed off, new characters as well as smaller ones from the show could become Mando's new allies. Din Djarin - Pedro Pascal - currently wields the Darksaber and Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) wants it. With Grogu (Baby Yoda - The Child) out of the picture for the time being since he is training with Luke Skywalker, it could be time for heroes such as Greef Karga, Cobb Vanth, Boba Fett, Migs Mayfeld and Koska Reeves to have the spotlight and help Mando to take on Moff Gideon and the Imperial Remnant in light of the upcoming rise of the First Order.

The Bad Batch is the next Star Wars project to be released which will feature Fennec Shand - Ming-Na Wen who is also in the Book of Boba Fett!

This is the way!

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