Effectively, that is surprising: Jeremy Allen White, who stars in The Bear as a tortured chef with anger points named Carmy, is ready to voice Jabba the Hutt’s son, Rotta the Hutt, in The Mandalorian & Grogu. This was first reported by trade scooper Jeff Sneider on The Kristian Harloff Present earlier than being corroborated by a number of trades, together with Selection. We extremely doubt anybody had this newest casting on their 2024 Star Wars bingo board.
Whereas Rotta the Hutt, canonically nicknamed “Pungent,” isn’t precisely a family title lately, he’s technically a blast from the franchise’s big-screen previous, particularly from the 2008 The Clone Wars animated film that launched the favored sequence of the identical title. In reality, he’s the MacGuffin of the movie—when the Separatists kidnap Rotta to be able to persuade the Hutts to hitch their facet of the struggle, it’s as much as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano to retrieve the little Hutt and return him to Jabba on Tatooine. After confrontations with basic dark-side baddies Depend Dooku and Asajj Ventress, in addition to a number of CG animated battles, the heroes achieve getting Pungent to security.
However what does this all imply for The Mandalorian & Grogu? Effectively, it’s a must to have a look at when the film takes place on the Star Wars timeline and what’s occurred within the a long time since that Clone Wars journey.
The Mandalorian & Grogu presumably takes place after the occasions of the Disney+ sequence that first launched Din Djarin and Child Yoda into stardom. So, round 5 years after Return of the Jedi. Wookieepedia says that Rotta was born round 24-22 BBY (Earlier than the Battle of Yavin), whereas The Mandalorian & Grogu will probably happen round 9 ABY (After the Battle of Yavin), which implies we’ll meet an older Rotta within the upcoming movie.
