Lucasfilm's new co-CEO, Dave Filoni, confirmed that he is just as surprised as Star Wars fans that this underrated Clone Wars character is set to have a major role in The Mandalorian and Grogu. 2008's Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV movie introduced Rotta the Hutt as Jabba the Hutt's baby son, who was kidnapped as part of a Separatist scheme orchestrated by Count Dooku to frame the Jedi for the crime. Ultimately, Anakin Skywalker and his padawan, Ahsoka Tano, managed to rescue Rotta and deliver him safely back to the Hutt place. While Rotta was initially used as a MacGuffin to drive the plot forward, the character is set to take center stage in The Mandalorian and Grogu. Dave Filoni and George Lucas created Rotta the Hutt for Clone Wars in the animated space, and it seemed that the character's unexpected jump to live-action even surprised Filoni himself. During an interview with Empire Magazine to promote The Mandalorian and Grogu, Filoni admitted that he "never imagined" that he would be working on a live-action film that includes Rotta:"I never imagined, working at Lucasfilm, that 20 years later I would be working on a [live-action] film that has Rotta in it." Read full article on The Direct.