Din Djarin Actor Brendan Wayne On Whether ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 4 Will Happen: “I Don’t Know”

Actor Brendan Wayne, who plays Din Djarin in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, provided an update on whether or not The Mandalorian Season 4 will happen given Jon Favreau is directing the spin-off film The Mandalorian & Grogu.

During an appearance on The Chatooine Show on YouTube Wayne was asked about the possibility of a Season 4.

One of the show’s hosts asked, “Is there any paperwork being signed for a Season 4 of Mandalorian or are we just looking at going straight into the movie?”

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Wayne responded, “I just don’t know. I know that we’re doing a movie for sure. That’s what I know.”

He then shared, “Unless they are going to abandon streaming, why do you throw away the foundation that you built your streaming on, which is The Mandalorian. I mean that as humbly as I can say it. There’s a reason The Mandalorian premiered when Disney+ opened up. And it wasn’t because we have this incredible library that everybody wants to subscribe to. It’s because you had a show that was going to bring a character alive that we all dreamed of since we watched Star Wars, which was a Boba Fett-like character.”

Wayne’s comments seem to lend credence to rumors that already written The Mandalorian Season 4 is indeed getting scrapped.

Jon Favreau confirmed he had written The Mandalorian Season 4 back in February 2023 saying, “Season 4, yeah, I’ve written it already. We have to know where we are going to tell a fully formed story. So, we had mapped it out, Dave and I. And then slowly you write just each episode. So I was writing it during post-production because all of it has to feel like a continuation and one full story.”

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In December 2023 it was reported by scooper Jeff Sneider that the Season 4 script might be turned into a feature film.

Sneider said, “A couple of months ago, I also shot this one down, there were rumors that season 4 of The Mandalorian could be turned into a movie. At the time I don’t think that was necessarily the case. However, that is what I am starting to hear. That the odds are in that project’s favor. Whatever the season 4 of The Mandalorian turns out to be, whoever is in it, whatever shape it takes, it is looking like that could be the next Star Wars movie and that may be the thing that’s announced before the end of the year.”

He continued, “I think that Star Wars is anxious to make an announcement. I don’t know that it will necessarily be before the end of the year especially because the town starts to shut down basically next week, but I think that those Mandalorian Season 4 movie rumors, I think there was something to those.”

“That’s not confirmed,” he hedged. “That is just a rumor at this point. It remains a rumor, but when I start hearing it from my person then it’s like, ‘Oh! Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.’”

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Sneider was not the only one to claim that The Mandalorian Season 4 would be turned into a film. Scooper Jason Ward of Making Star Wars also made such a claim and would also share that The Mandalorian & Grogu would be part of a trilogy of films.

Ward relayed, “My source, the original source who first told me [that season four would be a movie], told me that this is going to be a trilogy.”

He continued, “And I’m going to add a caveat that’s just my additional sense on it, is that it’s a trilogy if the first one connects. If the first one is a big film, they’ll go forward and make two. If the first one is $350 million, if it’s Indiana Jones [and the Dial of Destiny] money, then they’re probably going to just do the two and then wash their hands with it.”

Ward then reiterated, “Those two films are going to happen.”

In another video, Ward claimed that The Mandalorian Season 4 would still happen, but would be shortened with the final episodes being adapted into the film.

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He said, “I’m still not 100% convinced they are going to do a season of Mando before that film. I’m not saying they’re not doing it, I just don’t actually know 100%. There’s a lot of signs that they are though.”

He elaborated, “And one of the concepts that has come out of this. And count this as a rumor for now is that the plan was to do six episodes of Mando and then to take the finale of what would have been the big two-parter from the end of that and that’s being developed into the film.”

“So, if that plan is what they are doing, if this rumor pans, we would get Mando Season 4 as six episodes and then we would get the film that is essentially that last two-parter that is such a good idea that it warrants going on screen and being a big screen endeavor. So that’s what the organization sounds like potentially,” he concluded.

A scoop from WDW Pro also indicated that Lucasfilm would turn the final episodes of The Mandalorian Season 4 into The Mandalorian & Grogu.

Pro explained, “According to our sources, all production on The Mandalorian Season Four is being moved from Manhattan Beach to the United Kingdom. This is to create a shared cinematic appearance for episodes 1-6. Then episodes 7-8 will also look the same, but they’re going to be a movie now.”

He also shared that Dave Filoni was being brought in to “‘plus’ the ‘treatments’ so that they are no longer just a season finale, but rather they are the beginning of the great theatrical drama that is Clone Wars and Rebels characters taking on Thrawn.”

READ: Rumor: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 4 Getting Scrapped, Will Be The End Of The Series On Disney+

However, it’s possible Lucasfilm might have chosen a different path. A source alleging to be contracted with Lucasfilm informed That Park Place that Lucasfilm was scrapping The Mandalorian Season 4. This source also claimed that the series would no longer be moving forward on Disney+.

Furthermore, the source claimed that Dave Filoni would be doing more than just plussing the treatments of The Mandalorian & Grogu, he might even receive a co-directing credit.

What is clear is that Lucasfilm chose not to move the film’s production to the United Kingdom, but will stay in California in order to save money given that where they have filmed the television show. Not only are they keeping costs down by likely using the television show’s sets, but they are also receiving a substantial tax credit from the State of California.

Deadline’s Dominic Patten reported at the end of February that the film landed “one of California’s largest tax credit awards ever.” Specifically, the film received tax credits worth $21.755 million.

What do you make of Wayne’s comments about The Mandalorian Season 4?

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