The Mandalorian debuts action-packed first trailer for season two of the Star Wars series

The Mandalorian debuted its highly anticipated trailer for season two of the hit Disney+ Star Wars series on Tuesday.

The bounty hunter and The Child face an array of alien enemies as they travel from planet to planet together in the action-packed clip that follows up on the smash hit first season.

But the bounty hunter finds that helping the baby, which looks like a relative of Yoda, is an overwhelming task. ‘You expect me to search the galaxy and deliver this creature to a race of enemy sorcerers?’ he asks a woman in command who is only heard but not seen. He is told ‘this is the way.’ 

This was the very first trailer for the second season which will debut on October 30 on Disney+.

The clip opens with the Razor Crest gunship belonging to Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin, played by Pedro Pascal, gliding over a planet and heading toward another one off in the distance. Eerie music fills the trailer which builds anticipation.

Then a woman’s voice is heard talking to the bounty hunter Din. She asks to see the little one.

‘Show me the one whose safety deemed such destruction. You must reunite it with its own kind,’ she dictates.

‘Where?’ asks the Mandalorian with a raspy voice.

‘This is what you must determine,’ she answers as a Tusken Raider is seen on a desert planet on that resembles Tatooine. Tatooine orbits twin suns in the galaxy’s Outer Rim; it is a lawless place ruled by Hutt gangsters.

The Yoda-like companion The Child is seen in most of the trailer looking as innocent and in need of protection as ever. At one point he adorably closes the lid of his floating carriage when a man scares him.

All the while the bounty hunter is trying to stay away from the cruel Moff Gideon (played by Giancarlo Esposito). 

Next, Mandalorian and The Child are on an ice planet that could be Hoth. The little creature is in his beige jacket as he sits on the snow.

‘The songs of eons past tell of battles between Mandalore the Great and an order of sorcerers called Jedi,’ the Armorer tells the Mandalorian.

‘You expect me to search the galaxy and return this creature to a race of enemy sorcerers?’ he replies.

‘This is the way,’ she says.

A beautiful woman in a hood is seen in a crowded market place then she disappears suddenly, adding to the mystery. She is likely a member of the Jedi.

This season two trailer for The Mandalorian is the first time the Jedi have been introduced and there promises to be much more of the guardians of peace.

Now a battle in the air is seen as the bounty hunter is chased.

‘You know this is no place for a child,’ says a man in voiceover. ‘You know where I go, he goes,’ says the Mandalorian matter of factly.

‘So I heard,’ adds the man as several scenes are flashed one after the other.

Fights ensue and the bounty hunter states, ‘This is the way.’ Stormtroopers are seen with their blasters at the ready on a ship and they are also seen on Speeders.

Gina Carano as Cara Dune and Carl Weathers as Greef Karga, who made an impact on season one, are also spotted briefly in the trailer. 

Showrunner Jon Favreau is overseeing along with executive producer and director Dave Filoni. 

Season one was one of Disney+’s tent pole productions, part of the first group of projects available on the streaming platform. 

As of May, baby Yoda and Mando helped entice 54.5million subscribers to Disney+.

The Mandalorian snagged a surprising 15 Emmy nominations last month after getting no love at January’s Golden Globes. 

Season two wrapped shooting before the coronavirus pandemic put nearly all of the industry on hold.

In June series creator and head writer Jon Favreau revealed: ‘We were lucky enough to have finished photography before the lock down.’

‘Thanks to how technology-forward Lucasfilm and ILM are, we have been able to do all of our visual effects and editing and post production remotely through systems that had been set up by those companies for us,’ Favreau, who also serves as executive producer and showrunner, added.

Some of the famous names being lined-up to join the much-anticipated second season include Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Michael Biehn, Temuera Morrison and Katee Sackhoff.

The Mandalorian is set five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and 25 years prior to The Force Awakens. 

Season three of the series has already been written and greenlit.