A big-budget failure could mean the end of a juggernaut as everyone knows it, as Lucasfilm’s Star Wars saga has spent the last seven years proving. Star Wars’ modern era kicked off with spectacle and scale, but that also precluded ever-expanding budgets. That will finally change with The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars film of the new, TV-focused era. Mando & Grogu could be the cheapest Star Wars movie ever made — and that’s a good thing. Footage unveiled at last year’s Star Wars Celebration teased a major visual upgrade.