{"id":377033,"date":"2026-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=377033"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:00:27","slug":"ahsoka-season-2-first-footage-revives-the-mandalorian-grogu-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ahsoka-season-2-first-footage-revives-the-mandalorian-grogu-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahsoka Season 2 first footage revives The Mandalorian & Grogu debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucasfilm has finally shown the first footage from Ahsoka Season 2, its Star Wars series for Disney+<\/a>, ahead of the January 20, 2027<\/strong> premiere. The preview puts three things front and center: major space battles, Grand Admiral Thrawn\u2019s war against the New Republic, and Hayden Christensen\u2019s return.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also pretty clear why this has started the Lucasfilm movie-strategy debate all over again. Ahsoka Season 2 looks bigger in scope<\/strong> and far more cinematic than The Mandalorian & Grogu<\/a>, a film many critics and fans said felt more like an extra-long Disney+ episode than a theatrical event people had to see, even with Din Djarin and Grogu as the draw.<\/p>\n\n

That argument carries more weight after what happened with The Mandalorian & Grogu. It opened on May 22, 2026<\/strong>, made $345.7 million worldwide against a reported $165 million budget, became the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars movie, and then dropped 70% in its second weekend.<\/p>\n\n

If you follow Star Wars closely, the Ahsoka Season 2 footage is worth a look for that reason alone: it adds to the case that Lucasfilm may have sent the wrong story<\/strong> to theaters, even if Jon Favreau said the jump from The Mandalorian season 4 to a feature was shaped by the end of the 2023 labor disputes and by a broader interconnected plan with Dave Filoni.<\/p>\n\n

You\u2019ll be able to watch The Mandalorian & Grogu on Disney+ starting September 2, 2026<\/strong>, while Ahsoka Season 2 premieres there on January 20, 2027.<\/p>\n

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Lucasfilm has finally shown the first footage from Ahsoka Season 2, its Star Wars series for Disney+, ahead of the January 20, 2027 premiere. The preview puts three things front and center: major space battles, Grand Admiral Thrawn\u2019s war against the New Republic, and Hayden Christensen\u2019s return. It\u2019s also pretty clear why this has started … Continue reading “Ahsoka Season 2 first footage revives The Mandalorian & Grogu debate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9329,"featured_media":377032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-377033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377035,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377033\/revisions\/377035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377033"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=377033"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=377033"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=377033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}