New THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU Clip Reveals the Movie’s Main Mission and It’s a Classic STAR WARS Bounty Hunt

At its core, The Mandalorian has always been about a lone gunfighter tracking targets across the galaxy, and after three seasons of adventurous Star Wars storytelling that took The Mando and Grogu on an epic journey, The Mandalorian and Groguis circling back to a bounty hunt.

A newly released clip from the upcoming movie gives fans a much clearer idea of what drives the plot, and it’s basically one giant bounty mission with galaxy-sized stakes attached to it.

In the scene, Sigourney Weaver’s Colonel Ward lays out the assignment for Din Djarin in simple terms. Track down the mysterious Imperial leader Commander Coin.

The problem is the Hutts are the only ones who know where he’s hiding. To get that information, Mando has to rescue Rotta the Hutt from captivity. If he succeeds, the Hutts will hand over Coin’s location.

It’s one dangerous job leading into another, shady alliances, underworld politics, and Din getting dragged into situations he’d probably rather avoid.

The clip also shows us that Mando isn’t totally comfortable stepping back into bounty hunter mode. After everything he’s gone through with Grogu, he’s trying to use his skills for more honorable purposes now.

Ward pushes him to take the mission anyway, which clearly puts him in conflict with the kind of life he’s been trying to move beyond.

Of course, there’s almost no chance this operation goes smoothly. You can already see the shape of it forming. Mando tracks down the Hutts, gets pointed toward Rotta, things spiral into chaos, and suddenly surviving the situation becomes more important than the original objective.

Still, the reveal does raise an interesting question. Is the movie essentially an expanded bounty hunt stretched across a feature-length runtime? In some ways, that sounds like a big-screen version of three connected episodes of The Mandalorian. That could absolutely work if the action, character moments, and emotional stakes hit hard enough.

The wildcard here may be Rotta the Hutt himself. Bringing that character into the story is really interesting, and there’s probably more tied to his role in the story than Lucasfilm is letting on right now.

Either way, it’s refreshing seeing the franchise lean back into the scrappy bounty hunter roots that made The Mandalorian such a blast in the first place. Sometimes a cool mission, dangerous criminals, and a heavily armed Mandalorian are all you really need.

The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters on May 22.