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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.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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