The ongoing news and updates about The Mandalorian & Grogu movie have made a lot of Star Wars fans question whether the film will be the end of The Mandalorian Disney+ series as we know it. It's been almost six years since the series first premiered -- which is quite a long time considering most shows on streaming don't make it past the first few seasons. Will the story soon be over?
Not according to series showrunner and writer Jon Favreau. In a recent interview, he clarified that the overarching story he and Dave Filoni are trying to tell wouldn't be complete without another season of the show. So number four is in the works.
"I’ve written it already," he said. "We have to know where we are going to tell a fully formed story."
This is in reference to the so-called "Mandoverse" at large -- a Marvel Cinematic Universe-style connected web of stories where Star Wars characters appear across different shows each telling a piece of a larger tale. This is all allegedly supposed to end with a Filoni-led movie, though the exact details on that project remain vague at this time.
What started with The Mandalorian has since expanded into shows like The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka, the latter of which introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn into live-action and set him up as the big bad of the overarching storyline. If it seems like Din Djarin and Grogu's intertwined stories came to a tight close at the end of Season 3, there's a reason for that. After their movie, they will likely be joining forces with other Mandoverse characters to continue the next chapter of Favreau and Filoni's vision.
So will Season 4 of The Mandalorian be the end, even if the Mandoverse continues beyond it? It's impossible to know for sure. Things are likely already in the works, with plans laid out for years to come that we still won't hear about officially for a while. But as with any show on television, what begins must, eventually, come to an end.