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?

Comments

Spoilers

[alzoron]

He's a clone.

Re:Spoilers

[Anonymous Coward]

He's a clone.

Just like everything else in Star Wars nowadays...

Re: Spoilers

[Topwiz]

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.

High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Kunedog]

"Solo" began opening in previews on Thursday night in North America, with forecasts of an debut weekend of $130 million to $150 million

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).

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[danbert8]

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.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Nidi62]

One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.

I thought it was "meh". Pretty enough, but they keep rehashing scenes from the original trilogy-VII was almost a scene for scene rehash of IV, but VIII had a lot of V in it, with a little IV thrown in.

Plus, I really don't get how, if at the end of RotJ, (in the special edition) they show worlds all over the galaxy celebrating the fall of the Empire, how the Rebels are still, well, rebels. It's like if the US, after winning the Revolutionary War, just sat around doing nothing waiting until the British re-invaded in 1812 instead of trying to form a government. The new trilogy should have been about the Rebels' new government hunting down the remnants of the Empire and cleaning up the galaxy.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[religionofpeas]

The new trilogy should have been about the Rebels' new government hunting down the remnants of the Empire and cleaning up the galaxy.

It should have shown the Rebels slowly becoming a new Empire.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Nidi62]

Well, yes, that would be a perfect plot point. The intrigue and drama of competing factions, one trying to keep the new government democratic, one wanting revenge on the remnants of the Empire and the planets that supported it and therefore becoming more and more draconian, more like the Empire. Basically an exploration of how, when you might so hard to gain power you have to fight even harder to use that power sparingly and justly, as well as how easy it is to justify the misuse of that power.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Wrath0fb0b]

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.

Re:High Cost of Damaging the Brand

[Mashiki]

One day I would understand why people hate The Last Jedi, I really enjoyed it.

Let's say you're a SW fan. And you really liked the original movies, you tolerated the prequel movies. You read the occasional SW book because someone recommended it to you. You found out that there was a huge swath of lore, and you enjoyed it. One day you bumped into the Thrawn Trilogy, and discovered a series of books that not only had the feel of the original movies but tied them in directly and gave a great jumping off point into an even greater universe. You might have played some of the games if you were a bigger fan, you know it was Kyle Katarn that stole the death star plans and so on.

Now, imagine that despite this. Disney decided that this was a shit idea, and all those millions of fans that loved SW, the force, jedi, sith, grey jedi and all the rest weren't the fan base anymore. The fan base was apparently a group of authors and directors screeching that "the force is female" and inserting a die-hard mary-sue that was even greater then Luke into a role, and handing everything to her on a platter was great. The character was such a great-force user that even when Luke was rebuilding the Jedi he never-ever-ever felt her in the force(despite that's according to the cannon what happens with great force users) Then, despite this you gave it another chance. And in their infinite wisdom, they took the savior of the republic fleet and shot him in the head. Replaced them with an absolute nobody with no tie-ins at all, and instead of holding even the most basic working relationship with the troops and soldiers under her believed that 'only her plan was best.' The entire plan was "shoot the spaceship through another space ship." This was then followed up by taking a possibly interesting new villain and...well pissing on him with a flat emo-kid, and oh that's the end of the movie. Also Luke instead of growing up, reverted to a pouty 9 year old that prefers temper-tantrums.

And I'm going pretty easy on it compared to hardcore SW fans. Oh and of course, one can't forget the people who might piss you off even more. If you didn't like it, you were a misogynist, sexist, hater, and two or three dozen things. Despite the reviews from fans saying how much they hated the movie, your response wasn't to be introspective and ask "why didn't they like it" the response was "it was the work of trolls and misogynists" that's why the moving-going public reviews are bad. That of course is all out of the ghostbusters 2016 reboot catastrophe, with the "attack the audience" approach. I will say, that if they wanted to kill the entire franchise they've done a pretty good job.

Boba Fett debuted in the SW Holiday Special!

[Anonymous Coward]

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 :)

He is a fan favourite.....

[Crookdotter]

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.

Re:He is a fan favourite.....

[thegarbz]

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?

You're asking the wrong question. The question you should be asking is: "'Should we milk our $4bn investment by making a shitty movie about every character in the known universe and ignoring lore as we go?"
And then answer yes.

I don't mind a Fett movie. I'll mind if it's done badly.

You'll mind. About the only starwars movie that was even remotely interesting of late was Rogue One.

Boba Fett did not debut in Empire

[skam240]

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

Next up in the Star Wars origins series

[clickety6]

2 and a half hours of watching C3PO being put together on an assembly line...

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 ...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.

Re: popular character

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me help you: it will be garbage.

Re:another spin off?

[jellomizer]

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.