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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?
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 :)
Sorry but Fett did not debut in Empire.
https://www.starwars.com/news/...
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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Correct. The clones were of Jango and were given a growth drug so they would become adult age much faster. Jango asked his bosses to allow him to keep a clone as his son who would not be given the growth drug.
This is explained in a few of the works in the interim. I won't do it full justice, but it goes something like: the New Republic is set up again, they fight for 5 long years and eventually defeat the Empire at Jaku. The Empire surrenders and and signs the Galactic Concordance.
At this point, the New Republic feared making the same mistake as the Old Republic (e.g. having a large military force that could be co-opted by a nefarious leader and turning into a New Empire) and demilitarize and decentralize. This allows the remnants of the Empire to violate the treaty and reorganize into the First Order, which in turn spawned the Resistance as a guerrilla group that was covertly supported by the faction in the New Republic that favored a more muscular military approach to the FO.
Of course, at the end of TFA, the FO wipes out the Senate and the NR, vindicating the folks that opposed demilitarization but also plunging them into a war where they are vastly outgunned. Of course that's the entire shtick of the series so it had to somehow be arranged that Leia leads a band of hopelessly outmatched soldiers.
In the end, it's actually a kind of rich counterpoint to the prequel trilogy's telling of the rise of the Empire. Moreso than you would expect from what is essentially a children's story. At least I liked the nuance of navigating between the danger of being so weak you succumb to tyranny versus being so strong you become a tyrant yourself.
It was a decent movie, but as Star Wars, it broke something for me. It was no longer a sci-fi universe, it was just a movie. So many small things brought you back out of Star Wars and into the theater as a human, on earth, today, watching a movie with jokes for you. Yes, the prequels sucked as movies, but at least they didn't have obvious audience nods that didn't fit in with the universe.
It broke something for you because it ruined almost all of the characters, both old and new. It turned your childhood hero into a pathetic, sniveling coward instead of giving him the treatment he deserved, or barring that, they could have at least concocted a halfway believable story for him to go from who he was in ROTJ to where he was in TLJ. A single scene where he's about to murder his innocent nephew (that he's known since birth) in his sleep isn't believable when you're talking about a guy that risked his life and the lives of his friends to redeem his super evil father that he'd met on only one previous occasion. Finn as a character went back to where he started in TFA (a coward that's running away instead of turning around to fight for what's right), Poe was made a fool out of (though his actions were always reasonable given his information, minus the yo mamma joke), Hux turned into a cartoon villain, and the backstory that was hinted at for Rey turned out to be a nothing burger.
There was also a lot of social commentary added to movie (evil arm dealers, animal rights, etc.) that might have worked well if it hadn't been treated ham-fistedly.
The entire franchise WAS those things. Now it's just SJW bullshit.