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A Star Wars Boba Fett Movie Is In the Works (variety.com)
"Logan" director James Mangold is reportedly directing a "Star Wars" standalone movie centered on the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Variety reports: The untitled movie will be a part of the studio's Star Wars Anthology films, which are being spun off as origin stories. The first anthology film was 2016's "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," followed by "Solo: A Star Wars Story," starring Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo. "Solo" began opening in previews on Thursday night in North America, with forecasts of an debut weekend of $130 million to $150 million. Boba Fett debuted in 1980's "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" and re-appeared in 1983's "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" as a mercenary for the Galactic Empire. Jeremy Bulloch played the character in the two movies and Jason Wingreen provided Fett's voice. Here's a video highlighting all the scenes starring Boba Fett in the Star Wars trilogy. Do you think it's wise to produce a movie around a character who's had such few scenes, relative to the others?
He's a clone.
Jar jar needs to be a star! From afar, here comes Jar Jar!
Thanks for telling me about your father. But let's stay on topic here.
Didn't we get his backstory in the prequel films? He's an "unaltered clone" of that guy who was cloned for the Republic's clone army, right?
Do you think it's wise to produce a movie around a character who's had such few scenes, relative to the others?
He's barely in the movies but the fans love the heck out of him. There's tons and tons of stuff featuring Boba. Pretty sure he's fine despite not being a main star in the movie.
Dream on. Foreign box office totals have been grisly so far.
A lot of people don't realize how severely The Last Jedi harmed the franchise as a whole by souring audience expectations (and it won't get fixed before this Boba Fett flick, if ever).
He is a popular character. The fact that he has so few scenes means he is a blank canvas for the writers.
Could be amazing, could be garbage. Time will tell.
No, Boba Fett debuted in the Star Wars Holiday Special, not in Empire Strikes back!
That was on 17 November 1978.
It was during a "cartoon" part of Holiday Special.
It was the only part of the Holiday Special that didn't make you want gouge out your own eyes :)
But the question is:
Is he a favourite because he had so few scenes, and fans 'filled in the blanks' to make him feel cooler than he is? Is he a character where 'less is more' should be the core idea?
He did seem to be well in with Darth Vader. (why the hell was a galaxy spanning empire hiring bounty hunters?) Maybe we can see more of Vader connected to Fett. Everyone loved the Vader part at the end of rogue one. Maybe we can see Vader at his height for a more extended view? Or maybe a Vader story should be left for that - SW has a long way to go.
Other bounty hunters would be a good place to start, rolling in the ones we saw. I want to see how a droid got to be one.
I wonder if we can see Empire from Fett's perspective. Get digital Lando and Han and Luke and Leia involved to see cloud city from Fett's eyes? I think that would work well, especially if we get to see the more about Jabba and Fett.
I wonder if we can get Fett as a more rounded character - maybe he owes Jabba, and 'A guys gotta do what a guys gotta do. Nothing personal, Han.'
I don't mind a Fett movie. I'll mind if it's done badly.
Disney is thoroughly destroying the franchise. Capitalism for the win!
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Sorry but Fett did not debut in Empire.
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Here's the actual premier if you want to watch it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
It's part of a larger Christmas special and is pretty terrible for those not familiar
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When I see a character who is cool precisely we don't know much about him, or his motivations, the first thing I think is "let's give him a backstory!"
Exactly. Hollywood has devolved into a monotony factory churning out the same time-worn simplistic no-brain required cinematic flash-trash year after year. Iâ(TM)m no longer wowed by computer created over-the-top special effects, super heroes, the billionth Star Wars sequel, prequel, animated this or animated that. Boooring....
Young Luke - his adventures at (driving) school (comedy) .. beware the ticket comes
R2D2 - plip didi plip
C3PO - ruining the royal banquette (comedy)
Leia - the dark side of the banquette (drama)
Leia and Luke - forbidden love (heavy erotic)
Wookie - lost in hair (hairy comedy)
Hair - Wookies against nam (comedy drama)
Wookie vs. Predator (hairy action)
Traffic Space Police Academy 8 - Luke needs a job after victory R2D2 is equiped with a mobile printing unit
Hey come on guys, there is plenty of room for some very entertaining flicks, and a sequel and a prequel and a side story.
Milk the cow till she dies, because she would die anyway!
Disney lol, what did you expect.
What's the origin story of Greedo? The first time we see him he's a sweet innocent kid playing with young Anakin in Ep. 1 and then by Ep. 4 he's holding a blaster to Han Solo looking to get Jaba the Hut's money. What happened in between? We need to know!!!!!!
Quite honestly the story is predictable from beginning to end. It's Star Wars but Disneyfied. It's far from a "good" movie, it's got some forced humor predictably out of the droids like the previous backstory movie, a princess story like the previous backstory movie, some explosions like the previous one, distressed youth like the previous one, some minor predictable plot twist like the previous one. The only difference/problem is that it doesn't wrap up the characters neatly like the previous story - it creates a potential new story line into the existing movies which should have people wonder "where is she in the old movies" and unless she turns out to be jar jar, it's going to cause some continuity issues. It's no Harrison Ford and George Lucas movie and it shows. The story is very shoddy.
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I can't wait for the standalone movies that explore the backgrounds of the GNK-series power droid ("... GONK!"), and maybe that one female droid you see climbing the steps of the senate building, for about five seconds, in "The Phantom Menace". Stories we need to see in order to understand the depth of the setting.
i really rather would like to see a movie about General Ackbar.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Still waiting for the first Star Wars movie that truly stands alone with a new separate narrative and no gratuitous appearances of existing well known characters.
We're going to find out he's really a Latino transexual, who identifies as a taun-taun, was secretly in love with Han, and had been molested by his Kaminoan hosts as a youngling?
Disney has concluded that an ugly puppet that chewed on See Threepio's eye in episode 6 needs a film of his own. The script for the movie has undergone 50 revisions so far, but it is rumored that Johnny Depp, Steve Buscemi, and Paul Giammati are in the running for the lead.
No hollywood studio touches the books I love, and that's good.
They could only fuck up the story compared to what is in my mind.
Star wars 7 will probably be the last star wars movie I watch.
Why do they have to keep working around the same characters from this short 50 year period?
They have 1000s of years to choose from.
How can they go any lower with Boba?
2 and a half hours of watching C3PO being put together on an assembly line...
...biddly boo-boop... one lump or two... and Jabba the Hut as the unflushable thing left behind in the third toilet cubicle from the right.
Fans may also spot some cameo roles by other Star Wars characters - Darth Vader as factory owner, Luke Skywalker as the Union foreman who leads the strike , Princess Leia as the tea lady bringing relief to the workers, R2D2 as her tea-filled samovar
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Covering his early life. Not fitting in. And how he came to grips always feeling like a fish out of water wherever he was.
Just waiting for the Mickey Mouse inspired "Mickey Mouse - X-Fighter Pilot"
Force Awakens was bad. A poorly concealed lazily written copy of the original Star Wars film shoehorned into the space the characters occupied at their current ages. Last Jedi was far worse. It has been a wasted space and while Rogue One had a bit of interest to it (The story of how they got the location of the second Death Star would have been a better choice I think) Solo is a back-story I never asked for and didn't need. The same goes with Boba Fett. The Obi-Wan anthology film might have more promise if it wasn't this bunch making it. They just don't seem to have any idea what makes Star Wars work. Hell Kathleen Kennedy go across the hall and see if you can schedule a meeting with Kevin Feige. Bring a pen and some paper. Take notes on how it's done for crying out loud.
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Plus he rides a space dinosaur in his 1978 debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
His backstories already got fleshed out in the extended universe 20 years ago. Him, Solo, Calrissian, Dengar, Bossk, many major and minor character from the movies have at least one original story book on them. Some of them have trilogies. And that is not including one shots done for West End Games, or the various short story anthologies (including Boba Fett's origin story as being an exile from a planet where rule of law meant everything and his violent and messy tendencies lead him down the path of the bounty hunter. And the fact that other than the suit of 'scout armor' he was in no way related to the Mandalorians.)
Honestly, everything produced since the new millenium has been shit as far as Star Wars was concerned because people whose entire living was writing pulp 'science fiction/fantasy' had already fleshed it all out better than the Lucas properties ever did or could. Despite having dozens of people writing stories, there was far less retconning needed with the extended universe than just the prequels made necessary against ACTUAL STATEMENTS IN THE ORIGINAL MOVIES. Everything since has basically been a fuck you to the fans that allowed star wars to remain in the public consciousness while popularizing it in the same way as the comics have been: endless reboots and no real continuity to the characters other than rough archetypes or backstories and new actors every few years as they iterate.
Also: Ralph McQuarrie and the wizards who did props and effects had far more of an impact than Lucas, who just cribbed 'The Hidden Fortress' made it less japanesy then marketed it to an American audience, just like Disney did with Kimba the White Lion.
I think they should do a film adaptation of the plot from the Force Awakens video games. Show how the remaining stragglers from the Jedi order were hunted down. Maybe throw in a plot to assassinate the emperor into the mix.
So what are your ideas for a good anthology movie?
The problem is that they're literally trying to destroy their fan base to create a 'new' fanbase.
There isn't any point in going to a any more starwars films
So we just ignore the Prequels and Clone Wars? Those weren't tossed as cannon.
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Almost everything prequel seems to disregard the purpose of backstory.
In Empire, Darth Vader says to the group of bounty hunters, but specifically Boba Fett, "No disintegrations." That's a great part of the scene, because it makes the audience wonder about a thing that happened off screen. Real people make references to events that have happened in the past.
The purpose of backstory is to make the universe feel real and exciting. It's not to create hooks for prequel material. So if they're going to fill in all the missing pieces in this backstory, they need to create (or at least imply) more backstory or else the magic collapses: it beomces just a movie, not a fictional universe.
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There will be a movie about power droid before they're done.
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rediculous.
what made the old star wars so fun was that so much was unknown. as a child is really captured the imagination. now wit hall the mystery getting filled, it's not as fun.
But his backpacks got jets, he's Boba the Fett
He bounty hunts for Jabba Hutt to finance his vette.
Now you know how Star Trek fans feel about the new Star Trek movies that rewrite the time lines. Throw on to the fact that Star Wars got sucked in to the IP black hole that is Disney and you really got nailed.
That was all they needed to make a movie, a cultural tagline. I's like somebody making a movie of the Energizer Bunny of the Where's the Beef lady, if either of those were an intergalactic bounty hunter. No different than all of those movies based on SNL skits. Gotta be better than McGruber.
But that is what we want to see.
Real life is complex they are no pure good guys and bad guys. There are just people doing things that I think they should be doing and doing things I think they shouldn't be doing and they are other people who thinks what they are doing in different ways.
A simple plot, written with likable characters paced at a good speed is often what we want after having to deal with the complexities of real life.
When life is good and little conflict going on then the more complex films are what people want to see because their lives are so easy and boring, being exposed to more mind expanding ideas and complex relationships is more appealing.
Normally you see a inverse relationship with movie complexities and the state of the culture.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It will be a stupid boring rehash like the last three or four. Disney doesn't just milk the franchise - it uses the whole cow. Until you're sick of seeing it.
Marvel Universe, Star Wars? Come on. Just too much of the same. In the end you burn out everyone and your "blockbuster" becomes "Oh is that the latest Disney piece of crap?"
That is all.
I watched the entire hour and a half long special without the aid of drugs or alcohol. I'm not sure if that is a badge of honor or a sign of mental illness...
Considering the almost cult status Boba Fett has reached with fans, I'd say it is probably going to draw a crowd.
There's more to the Star Wars universe than the movies.
Take a look at the number of Comic Books and Novels dedicated to the character, the list is quite extensive.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Star+Wars+Boba+Fett+books
Could have been worse... it could be about breakthroughs in midiclorian research that allowed an evil genius to form an army Jedi powers...
It's not for you and me to decide if it's wise or not. It's for the producers. We can decide if we will watch it or not. And that's all there is to it. End of debate.
In AOC Temuera Morrison played Jenga Fett, Boba's 'Father' (and clones)
Will he be in this new movie?
What I want to see is the gap between Empire and Jedi where Luke becomes a full Jedi. He's a whining, one handed Jedi wanna be at the end of Empire. At the start of Jedi, he's a bad ass in black pants. What exactly happened? How long did it take? Did he have to complete "the trials"? What the hell are those anyway?
Yes, I'm sure this is explored in the countless books and comics, but I think it deserves a movie.
No contest there. Ryan Johnson is the one and only choice for that role.
Boba is one of the most fleshed out characters in the Star Wars universe. His backstory is covered heavily in the Clone Wars series and there are countless books dedicated to him.
The guys who made that most certainly did NOT do so without the aid of drugs or alcohol. Watch the scene with princess Leia taking a video call: Fisher is clearly stoned out of her gourd, which kind of is the only rational way to cope with this... whatever it is. Also I didn't need to see Chewie's dad get off on virtual porn... The Rifftrax version is hilarious though.
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However will you survive this corporate attack on your identity politics?? SAD.
yet another star wars movie i will not watch. every star wars movie made after 83 sucks, plain and simple.
The entire franchise is childish good vs. evil, sort of. What of it? And while The Force Awakens was derivative and something of a disappointment, I thought the Last Jedi was ok and was pleasantly surprised by Rogue One.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
The first Star Wars movie was released over 40 (yes, forty!) years ago, targeted for 10-year-olds, mainly. It was popular beyond anyone's dreams or expectations, so of course the businessmen in Hollywood copied it. They copied it over and over again, in a seemingly endless series of sequels that are increasingly unrelated to the original movie. The latest Star Wars sequel, Solo, is now showing signs that the public is bored with the series, with very low initial revenue numbers.
Doesn't anyone in Hollywood have any new ideas? I, for one, am sick of the endless sequels like these. Even worse are the remakes of popular movies from the past. Sorry, Hollywood, Steve Martin does not compare well to Spencer Tracy in all those remakes he cranked out. Also quite a letdown are the movies that dramatize comic books of 50 years ago like the Ironman and Spiderman movies. I'm ready for something new.
Boba is cool, but where are the Obiwan and Luke movies? Obiwan is a no brainer, you have the actor, he's alive, and a good age. Stop putzing around with smaller characters.
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for removing the shooting missile function from my Boba Fett action figure.
so obviously a lot of people liked it
Or maybe had they known better, they would not have parted with their dough? I still might check it out, though for a buck at the local redbox kiosk; but then the kiosk also has the John Wick and Sicario disks. I just might be able to avoid the Disney-fied Star Wars sick-quels altogether.
Kathlene Kennedy will make Boba Fett a angst ridden teenage girl.... with force powers
Watched the video. I never noticed before that the shots of Boba Fett in Jabba's lair are mirror-imaged - he's suddenly left-handed and the rangefinder is on the left side of his helmet.
The entire franchise WAS those things. Now it's just SJW bullshit.
Looking at Disney's last two movies, let me take a guess... he's going to be awesome at everything but untrained as a bounty hunter... then in the big climax he's just going to magically beat someone with years of intense training. I guess it's OK though... if it looks pretty enough no one gives a damn about the story or characters.
Disney keeps milking it by producing shitty movies.
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Real life is complex they are no pure good guys and bad guys.
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Everything you need to know about the Empire and Rebels is given to you in the opening scroll, then via outstanding shot composition, musical cues and action scenes. You then spend the next three movies learning more about the characters and getting a bit of history of what happened before the movies. At the end the rebels are triumphant.
Beginning of episode 7 - it's as if the previous three films never happened. There are empire and rebels again. I understand there are comic books and novels and other crap that explain stuff but I don't care. If you can't somehow explain what happens in between movies then you aren't doing your job as a director or screenwriter.
Imagine if the Godfather part II opens with Michael being shot at in his bedroom. No context. Everything is wrapped up at the end of part I, then wham - he's at war again. With someone named Hyman Roth for some reason. It doesn't take much - a few words with Frank Pentangeli and you understand what's happening. With Episode 7/8 - NOTHING. A few words from Han about Snoke coming from somewhere, or a paragraph from Luke explaining something. NOTHING.
If the movie doesn't care about why these super powerful evil force-using emperors keep cropping up, then why should I give a crap about anyone in the movie? It's all futile - another bad guy will show up for no reason after they beat Snoke, or Kylo, or whomever.
Where will it end? Seems like a dilution of the brand.
Can't wait
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This is a very secondary character in the saga. Do so many really care so much about him that he's deserving of a movie of his own? As a Star Wars fan, I know I do not, and I am not going to pay to watch a movie about him.
As far as I can remember, nothing in any of the films from The Force Awakens really acknowledges the events of the prequels. Is this going to change if this gets made? Will we see a flashback to Attack of the Clones? God I hope not...
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His best line in the whole franchise is applicable as an answer to Disney's plans to expand the series, thought to end with the victory over the Empire by rebel forces:
He is no good to me, dead
here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCdje_TOg_M
why not both?
Does he suck and die?
Larry Ellison is not a 'guy'. Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison.
I met Jeremy at a comic convention in Massachusetts in 2011 called Super Megafest. It was at a hotel and my wife and I stayed there for the weekend. I wound up getting a room on the VIP floor where the celebrities roomed (the ones that stayed there anyway). I met Jeremy at his table and he was extremely polite, cool and fun to talk to. We shot the breeze for about 15 minutes or so and he signed a cool Boba Fett poster that I bought from him at his table. His wife was there too and she was very nice also.
Saturday night, there was a refreshment room set up on our floor for the VIP's to get some free food and beer. I was allowed because I stayed on that floor. I bumped into Jeremy again and we chatted for a bit while we each had a Sam Adam's (I think it was boston lager).
Tia Carrerra was there too. She was mean. I was ladling out some mushrooms from a sauce pot and she wanted some next. So I politely passed her the ladle in a manner that made it easy for her to grab without getting sauce on her. She gave me a look like "who is this fucking prole cocksucker trying to interact with me?" My opinion of her has declined since.
Sean Astin was also there. Super cool, friendly and enjoyable to talk to.
...Boba Fett shares the limelight with more beloved Star Wars characters, like Ewoks and Jaja Binks. The Ewoks already had their spin-offs with "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure" (1984) and "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor" (1985). Jaja Binks needs his time too!
What about the origin story behind the band-leader of the Cantina band? How did he get the gig for the band? Did he work his way up to that Cantina? Were they the "house band"? Did they move on to bigger and better things? We need to know!!!!
Yawn...milk it disney
I am less concerned with the story, but I do hope that they make Boba Fett a transgendered pansexual and that Droid civil rights features prominently in the film.
I really only liked the first movie (episode four). Five and six were OK.
One, two, and three were bad, but watchable. The last few have just been plain awful.
Maybe it's time to let the franchise rest in the hopes of resurrecting it in a couple decades after the stench of the last few turds has had time to dissipate.
What matters is how interesting the character is. Boba is morally ambiguous and has obviously had a lot of adventures. Plenty of scope there for a whole movie. You could even slip in some cameos from Darth Vadar. Bounty Hunter Scum: A Star Wars movie.