Lucasfilm's STAR WARS: THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Will "Over-Deliver" and "Blow Your Mind"
There’s a lot of excitement surrounding the upcoming live-action Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett, which was teased at the end of The Mandalorian Season 2. Well, prepare to get even more excited because executive producer and director Robert Rodriguez recently hyped the series. When asked about the show, the filmmaker told Collider:
“[I] can’t say anything about it at all right now, but it’s coming out in December… Wait until you see what’s coming. It’s going to blow your mind. That’s all I can say. I can talk it up all I want, because I know it over-delivers. It way over-delivers. People are going to be so pumped when they see it.”
I love how confident Rodriguez is with that statement. I’m so ready to have my mind blown by a Star Wars project!
The only story details revealed were that it would be set within the timeline of The Mandalorian. The series was set up with Fett and Fennec Shand going to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine. It’s here that Fett kills Jabba's former majordomo and chief of staff, Bib Fortuna, and takes the throne as Shand takes her place at his side.
Temuera Morrison, who stars in the series, previously talked about it in an interview and revealed that the series would also explore where the Bounty Hunter has been since The Empire Strikes Back. He said:
“Well, we can’t say too much, but we’re going to see his past and where he’s been since The Empire Strikes Back. Somebody pointed out he’s been kind of stuck in this one place, and now’s the time to actually go back in time and check out his journey and find out more about him.
“That was the advantage for me, was that we hadn’t seen him do much. And along with Robert Rodriguez as director, we were able to sort of introduce him in a dynamic way, bring him back in a dynamic way alongside the Mandalorian. It was just an honor to be asked back.”
I personally think that the “book” of Boba Fett contains a list of names that have wronged or crossed Fett over the years and that he is going to go after them, hunt them down, and kill them.
Rodriguez also talked about the stagecraft technology being used to shoot the series, saying: “At first I thought maybe it made the most sense for a series because you could have loads that you could reuse and places you can come back to often that would be impossible to get to on a regular basis in a series. I don't know if I would use it very much in a movie where it's just one-off scenes that are done. They're only a couple minutes long and then you never go back to that location again. Like on a sequel to We Can Be Heroes even I was thinking ‘Would I even use the volume? Or would I shoot a traditional green screen again?’ Because I got some pretty cool stuff.”
The Book of Boba Fett is expected to hit Disney+ Christmas 2021.