Lucasfilm has cast the Emmy-winning star of The Bear, Jeremy Allen White, in The Mandalorian & Grogu. Reports state the actor will voice Rotta the Hutt, the son of Jabba the Hutt, a character who originated in animation with 2008’s The Clone Wars movie/

Jon Favreau is directing this next film in the Star Wars universe from a screenplay he wrote with Dave Filoni (Ahsoka), which is presently set to bow on May 22nd, 2026. The film spins off from his Disney+ series The Mandalorian, which stars Pedro Pascal as the titular Mandalorian and caretaker for Grogu, aka Baby Yoda; Pascal will return to star. Jeremy Allen White also joins Sigourney Weaver in an undisclosed role.

Mandalorian & Grogu will be the first Star Wars feature since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

With plot details still under wraps for the feature, Jeremy Allen White’s casting as Rotta the Hutt provides a first glimpse at what we might expect from Favreau’s film. Since the recent spin-off series The Book of Boba Fett (set around the same time as The Mandalorian) revealed that Jabba’s death at Princess Leia’s hands left a power vacuum among the organised crime bosses on Tatooine, it seems likely that with Jabba’s son involved in the new film, Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett and Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand could show up as well.