Is a Bob Fett Movie Going to Happen?
by EG
Disney has said that it's no longer planning to make a stand-alone Star Wars movie focused on Boba Fett, but many fans are still certain that the film is going to happeb. Read on to find out why they think so.
Lucasfilm's attention is no longer on a stand-alone Boba Fett movie that was in development from James Mangold, but can that truly hold the Star Wars bounty hunter back?
The story initially broke on Twitter, thanks to Critics Choice Association journalist Erick Weber, who wrote, “Kathleen Kennedy just confirmed to me Boba Fett movie is 100% dead, 100% focusing on The Mandalorian.” (The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the project is on hold for the time being.) While Jon Favreau’s streaming series — which focuses on an alien from the same race as Fett — likely played a part in the project’s shelving, the failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story also presumably played a role.
Despite the confirmation of Mangold’s departure and the hold on the feature, one part of Weber’s tweet requires some contradiction. Despite what Kennedy might have said — what she may have believed at the time, even — history has demonstrated that, sadly, nothing about Boba Fett is ever 100 percent dead at any point.
Mangold’s movie, for example, was going to be a resurrection of a once-abandoned project that was, at one point, scheduled to be the second of the Star Wars Story series following 2016’s Rogue One. Fantastic Four director Josh Trank had been hired to helm the movie originally in light of his success with Chronicle, only to be fired less than a year later following concern from Lucasfilm executives. In that respect, he was a trailblazer, being simply the first in a series of high-profile creative dismissals from Star Wars projects; for his part, Trank rejects the characterization that he was fired, saying he left as the result of a “personal decision.”
That Lucasfilm returned to a project that had already been nixed is a sign of the strange zombie-like quality that Boba Fett brings with him at all points. After his first big-screen appearance in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, Fett died in 1983’s Return of the Jedi — only to return multiple times in the next couple of decades; he was inserted into shots of the Special Edition for the original Star Wars: A New Hope in 1997, and then appeared as a child in 2002’s Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and multiple episodes of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. All told, he was far more important to the series after his death than before.
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