The latest Star Wars movie, The Bad Batch, is set to hit theatres this weekend, with Disney hoping to re-energise the film franchise with the help of Baby Yoda, a popular character from the series. The movie stars Pedro Pascal as a Mandalorian bounty hunter who works with Grogu, the small green creature with oversized eyes, to free a prisoner in the galaxy far, far away.
movie in seven years, heads to theatres this weekend as Walt Disney bets on the charm of Baby Yoda to re-energise the film franchise. The series introduced a small green creature with oversized eyes, initially dubbed Baby Yoda and later revealed to be named Grogu , that became a pop culture sensation.
The movie stars Pedro Pascal as a helmeted Mandalorian bounty hunter who works with Grogu to free a prisoner in the galaxy far, far away. Critics so far are split on the movie, which as of Wednesday had a 60% positive rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website. The franchise debuted in 1977 and has taken in more than US$10bil at theatres worldwide. The movie cost about US$165mil to make compared with US$300mil-plus production budgets for other Star Wars movies.
The movie brings in roughly US$85mil domestically through Monday. At a fan event in London, Pascal pitched the movie as 'a big-screen experience' like the ones he watched as a child
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