{"id":639703,"date":"2026-03-07T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/639703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:40:10","slug":"i-cant-believe-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-has-jabbas-son-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/639703\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can’t Believe ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Has Jabba’s Son In It"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve all been subjected to different levels of\u00a0what scientists have called \u201cStar Wars\u00a0Bullshit Nonsense\u201d over the decades. But\u00a0The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a> might be reaching a new level with the live-action debut of Rotta the Hutt, son of crime lord Jabba<\/a> (RIP, but not really) and voiced by Jeremy Allen White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a recent Empire<\/a> interview, White and director Jon Favreau briefly talked up the now-grown Hutt. While White talked up the performance side of things\u2014he \u201clistened to Jabba\u201d to get his voice Hutt appropriate\u2014Favreau compared the character to Michael B. Jordan\u2019s Adonis Creed in that they\u2019re both defined by the respective actions of their late fathers. \u201cWhen you\u2019re trying to establish yourself and your name is famous, when you\u2019re Jabba the Hutt\u2019s kid, what does that do? How has that affected his trajectory?\u201d<\/p>\n

That is\u2026 incredibly sad when you think about it. Rotta has been MIA since his debut in 2008\u2019s Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/a> movie, where he\u2019s just a walking plot device, and the idea of him now being in a state of arrested development after his father\u2019s death sounds interesting. If Star Wars\u00a0is going to be about sons and dads<\/a>, turning that attention onto the son of someone who absolutely got what was coming to him isn\u2019t the worst idea in the world.<\/p>\n

But the problem is, this feels like too good of an idea to be a side plot, if that, for a movie like The Mandalorian and Grogu. The way Favreau describes Rotta\u2019s situation, we should be watching him rise through the gladiatorial ranks and struggle with becoming his own man instead of being a guest star in Din Djarin\u2019s story. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that Jabba was supposed to get his own movie<\/a>, and if Lucasfilm is still married to the concept of a Hutt-led feature, Rotta would be one way to do it.<\/p>\n

The Mandalorian and Grogu is bringing in several animated series alums like Zeb (from\u00a0Star Wars Rebels) and Embo (Clone Wars), so Rotta feels at home here as a Glup Shitto among many. Unlike Zeb or Embo, though, he\u2019s got a bit more to prove , since anyone not in the know about him has seen promos and wondered if Jabba came back when they weren\u2019t looking. Love or hate his inclusion here, he\u2019s got something to strive for by stepping out of his father\u2019s shadow both in-universe and to audiences, regardless of whether they\u2019re Clone Wars-pilled.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll find out on May 22 if Favreau and Dave Filoni are using this movie to test the waters for doing more substantial stuff with Rotta down the line or if this is just more of Filoni having fun with his toys. Either way, we\u2019ll probably be talking about this weirdly buff Hutt<\/a> and his daddy issues for a while.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve all been subjected to different levels of\u00a0what scientists have called \u201cStar Wars\u00a0Bullshit Nonsense\u201d over the decades. But\u00a0The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":639704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[160305,171,8758,160301,53,14398,131014,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-639703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dave-filoni","tag-entertainment","tag-jeremy-allen-white","tag-jon-favreau","tag-movies","tag-star-wars","tag-the-mandalorian-and-grogu","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116190539278989423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}