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Martin Scorsese has joined the cast of a Star Wars movie.
The Mandalorian and Grogu is a new Star Wars movie that is set to be released in United States theaters this May. Coming from Lucasfilm and director Jon Favreau, the movie serves as a continuation of Disney+’s popular The Mandalorian TV show.
Pedro Pascal is reprising his role as Din Djarin in The Mandalorian and Grogu, while it’s also known that Sigourney Weaver is playing a character named Ward and that Jeremy Allen White is voicing Rotta the Hutt, who is the son of Jabba the Hutt.
Who is Martin Scorsese playing in Star Wars’ The Mandalorian and Grogu?
Per Polygon, a new trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu has confirmed that Scorsese is voicing an “Ardennian shopkeep” who has “info on the Hutts.”
The office Star Wars Twitter account confirmed Scorsese’s casting in a short video with the caption, “absolute cinema.”
absolute cinemaMartin Scorsese joins The Mandalorian and Grogu only in theaters and IMAX May 22. pic.twitter.com/6pytrpKzYH— Star Wars (@starwars) February 17, 2026
It’s worth noting that Scorsese and Favreau previously worked together on 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street, the Oscar-nominated movie directed by Scorsese that stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort and Favreau as Manny Riskin. Scorsese’s casting in the new Star Wars movie comes as a bit of a surprise, as he has notoriously discussed and written about Marvel and other blockbuster movies’ influence — or, perhaps, lack of influence — on cinema.
Scorsese, of course, has also directed movies such as 1973’s Mean Streets, 1976’s Taxi Driver, 1980’s Raging Bull, 1982’s The King of Comedy, 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, 1990’s Goodfellas, 1995’s Casino, 2004’s The Aviator, 2019’s The Irishman, 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and more.
The Mandalorian and Grogu will be released in United States theaters on May 22, 2026, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. All three seasons of The Mandalorian, meanwhile, are available to stream on Disney+.
