Boba Fett is back, baby! Woo! The iconic Star Wars character has finally clawed and blasted his way out of the Sarlaac Pit and is confirmed to be making an appearance in the second season of The Mandalorian. Even better, he’ll be played by the supremely talented Jango Fett actor Temuera Morrison (which makes sense as Boba Fett is a clone of Jango).
Over the last week we saw speculation (soon confirmed) that we’d already seen Fett in the first season episode “The Gunslinger” as the mysterious presence who saved Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand. But now we’re hearing that Lucasfilm has plans for Fett beyond The Mandalorian and may be making plans for his own Disney+ show.
The story comes from FandomWire, who claim that a solo Boba Fett TV show or movie is in development for Disney+ and builds on the unused treatments from Josh Trank and James Mangold’s cancelled Fett projects. However, they stress that this is merely in development, meaning there’s no guarantee that it’ll actually make it to air. And while certainly exciting to learn about, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise as We Got This Covered told you last year a Fett project was in the works for D+.
I think the success and popularity of The Mandalorian makes a separate Boba Fett series extremely unlikely. After all, it seems redundant to have two concurrent shows about intergalactic bounty hunters in the Star Wars universe that look (at first glance) identical to one another. Plus it’s known that The Mandalorian was born out of various concepts from the cancelled Boba Fett projects, so we may have already seen much of the Trank/Mangold material.
Temuera Morrison is all but certain to knock this out of the park, meaning this incarnation of Boba Fett will certainly kick ass for quite a while yet. But I think the critically acclaimed and hugely popular adventures of The Mandalorian mean he won’t be getting his own solo show. But hey, Lucasfilm has made weirder decisions over the years, and I wouldn’t put it past them to run two different productions featuring incredibly similar characters.
from We Got This Covered https://ift.tt/3dIotUV
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