Spin-Off Film About Boba Fett

I always thought it was a little weird Boba didn't show up in Rebels. Maybe they just had other plans for him all along.

edited 24th May '18 11:07:48 PM by KnownUnknown

I hope Cad Bane & Hondo show up.

I really, really want them to adapt that duel between Cad Bane and Boba that was supposed to be in The Clone Wars.

Honestly, my perfect Boba movie would be Coming of Age Story during the early years of the Empire, showing how Boba changed with the times and went from a kid merc attempting to be noble to a cruel, brutal assasin. Juxtaposing Bane as the villain who "teaches" Boba to be ruthless, and in doing so is killed by him in the end, and Hondo as the shoulder angel who tries to keep Boba's innocence intact but is fails and is betrayed by Boba in the end as well.

The movie being a three part anthology would be cool. One taking part between the Prequel and Original trilogies showing how he got the armor, the second segment taking place during the OT between ANH and Empire, and the final segment taking place post ROTJ where Boba has to fix his reputation after the Sarlaac incident. It'd be a nice way to represent all 3 major era's.

Regardless of when it takes place, I'm really crossing my fingers the film will have a "gritty Space Western" vibe.

I can't remember whether I said this here or elsewhere;

I can't really be bothered about Boba Fett - he made one lucky guess in ESB, and otherwise was a bit of a chump IMO - but a film about him trying to reclaim his Mandalorian heritage and culture, all while Mandalore itself is moving away from that same warrior-glorification, might work as a character arc.

I'm not normally a fan of such retcons, and the way it was done in the Legends novels was cheesy, but I hope a film pulls him out of the Sarlacc somehow; that's a crap end for a film about him.

I just kind of feel like the appeal to the character was just how little we knew about him in the first place. His prequel backstory was not well liked, most fans I know prefered the stuff in the Expanded Universe, and I feel any movie will horribly run into the 'Prequel Problems' of trying to shove an installment between Point A and Point B of continuity or any of the other various prequel problems.

Not EVERYONE has to have a story these days and its ok to be the B Plot in a film. I think one problem we're having these days is we're having less emphasis on the secondary cast and plot lines and just giving everyone their own movies or spin offs.

A Boba Fett film could be amazing.

I enjoyed the Jango Fett Star Wars Bounty Hunter game, but I definitely agree that there's no need to go into Boba's backstory at all. I think that's probably at least in the top 10 disservices done in the prequel trilogy.

However, a Boba Fett movie doesn't need to be that. Honestly, just seeing Boba on an extended hunt would be great. For a galaxy that seems to be roughly populated by 30% bounty hunters, we really see very little bounty hunting in the films. I would happily pay to watch Dredd set in the Star Wars universe (especially if they similarly have the balls to not have Boba remove his helmet).

Seriously. I would watch the shit out of that.

edited 25th May '18 8:51:45 AM by Larkmarn

A big part of the appeal of the character, as far as I know, is the way the old EU inflated him into the biggest badass in the universe, and Han Solo's archenemy, and all that jazz.

I don't real go for all that, and I personally kind of like the fact that in the films and the tv shows he's kind of a chump, but he's an interesting avenue through which to tell a story regardless.

edited 25th May '18 8:39:16 AM by KnownUnknown

I do like the idea of the movie being one long hunt. Simple enough to draw in audiences who don't care about Boba, interesting enough to keep them, and plenty of places to slot in as many characters or cameos as you choose. I could imagine something like the short story No Disintegrations, Please, where Boba has tracked down an old bounty who escaped and is now telling the story of how that happened.

I'd probably make it more like a Clint Eastwood Man with No Name-type of film. Namely he just shows up, we don't learn that much about his past, does his thing in a conflict, and moves on.

Also if they're going for a "space western with a morally shady protagonist" then James Mangold is actually a great choice for that kind of film I think.

That's the best way to do it, yeah. Most of Boba's best stories in the EU were like that too, especially the ones penned by John Wagner. It helps that Fett himself was allegedly modeled after Eastwood's character in the Dollars trilogy.

Disney is going to milk Star Wars until they get Cliff from Cheers to do a nine-hour trilogy about Major Bren Derlin.

Tell us something we don't know.

We knew the franchise is gonna be milked hard when they announced there would be a movie every year.

There was a time when Star Wars movies were events.

Yep. Events that didn't happen. Like spotting a unicorn.

edited 25th May '18 8:08:17 PM by Discar

Yep, Episode II must have been one hell of an event. I definitely know Episode I was an event, one where you're drunk out of your mind an think you're having a good time before you wake up with one hell of a hangover wondering what the hell you were thinking.

There's actually a book about how much hype Episode I got. https://www.amazon.com/Anticipation-Episode-I-Phantom-Menace/dp/0595671489

This forum thread gives a good idea. http://boards.theforce.net/threads/what-was-the-hype-anticipation-for-the-phantom-menace-like.50023202/

Ad so does this! http://www.popcornmonster.com/2009/05/15/top-10-greatest-memories-of-anticipating-the-phantom-menace/

While searching for that book i also found this article about how the episode I novelization explained a lot. https://www.tor.com/2015/11/05/the-star-wars-episode-i-novelization-explains-all-the-things-the-movie-does-not/

The Phantom Menace was a huge event. Massive. Incidentally I'm pretty sure that awful title is when people started referring to Star Wars movies as episodes. People kept calling it "Episode I" because "The Phantom Menace" sounded so goofy.

No, they'd been called episodes since Episode IV was rereleased in the 90's or something. Maybe before that.

Also this:

Bullshit. It's because of them being hyped as "events" that the fandom is as toxic as it is.

edited 26th May '18 12:12:15 AM by AdricDePsycho

Are you suggesting that Star Wars movies weren't events in the past? Really?

The Force Awakens was absolutely built up as an event. Meta-textually it was also about the characters feeling nostalgic for the past legends of old. Then meta-textually, The Last Jedi was about dismantling and moving past those legends. The series is definitely aware of its own myth and has been advertising itself as such.

I'm saying the hype for them as events is stupid nonsense that contributed to the toxic nature of the fandom. Frankly? Star Wars isn't all it's hyped up to be. It's good, yes, but it's not the Second Coming that people have acted like it is. Acting like each Star Wars movie has to be an "event" leads to a fandom with a loud group of toxic jerks who get disappointed when it's not exactly how they want it to be.

I never said they weren't events, I said constantly acting like it is what contributed to the fandom being so bad. Now, is there anything to talk about that's actually about the Boba Fett movie?

edited 26th May '18 12:57:13 AM by AdricDePsycho

Sure! Making a movie about Boba Fett is a dumb idea.

There's literally a rule against contributing to threads just to complain.

There is a lot of potential in this movie.

We can get a major look into one of the epic parts of the Star Wars verse, the bounty hunters. We can get an epic space western theme, the plot can be about an epic hunt as Boba hunts down the biggest & baddest badass in the entire galaxy (Jedi) while working with or against other hunters, the canceled The Clone Wars plot where Boba goes against Cad Bane, or they could even adapt the canceled 1313 games script that featured a young Boba having to deal with a seedy conspiracy of the underbelly of Coruscant literally 1313 levels underground that would have also dealt with how he got his armor.

Plus now that the movies are willing to bring stuff from the EU, we may even get the appearance of beloved characters like Cad Bane, my boi Embo, or Hondo Oshaka up on the big screen .