THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Will Be Separate From THE MANDALORIAN and Here's What It Might Be About
When The Book of Boba Fett series was announced after the credits rolled for The Mandalorian Season 2 finale, there was a little confusion among fans. From my understanding, this Boba Fett series is a separate spinoff show. But, some fans thought that this show was the continuation of The Mandalorian and that it would be the third season of that show, turning the show into an anthology series.
That’s not the case. The Mandalorian Season 3 is in development, and Pedro Pascal has signed on to reprise his role in the third season. There’s no way that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni were going to leave us hanging after the ending of The Mandalorian Season 2! There are still a lot of stories to tell with these characters.
Disney has confirmed that The Book of Boba Fett is going to be a new original series on the Disney+ official Twitter account, saying, “The Book of Boba Fett, a new original series, starring Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen and executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and Robert Rodriguez, set within the timeline of The Mandalorian, is coming to Disney Plus Dec. 2021.”
Jon Favreau also talked about all this on Good Morning America and said that The Mandalorian Season 3 will come after The Book of Boba Fett:
“We wanted to hold this back because we didn’t want to spoil the surprise during the big Disney announcement of all the shows when Kathleen Kennedy was up. So this is actually separate from The Mandalorian season 3, but what we didn’t say in that announcement is that the next show coming up, Kathy said the next chapter, is the Book of Boba Fett. And then we go into production right after that on season 3 of The Mandalorian. We’re working on pre-production on that right now, while we’re in production on Boba Fett.”
A report from Variety also indicated that the Star Wars shows are hoping to mimic the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The upcoming three additional Star Wars series spinning out of The Mandalorian, including Boba Fett, will all co-exist in the same timeline, reportedly building to an event where they will all come together.
The upcoming Boba Fett series was set up with Fett and Fennec Shand journeying to Jabba's Palace on Tatooine. It’s here that we see Fett kill Jabba's former majordomo and chief of staff, Bib Fortuna, and then throw his body to the floor. After he’s dead Fett takes the throne as Shand takes her place at his side.
Most fans speculate that Boba intends to become the leader of his own crime syndicate operating out of Tatooine, with Shand serving as his right hand woman. There’s obviously a lot more to it.
I believe 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. I think this series is Boba Fett’s revenge story!
If Mace Windu survived his fall, there’s no doubt that he is at the top of Fett’s hit list. After all, he did watch as Windu cut his dad’s head off. This is just speculation on my part, but that would sure make for a great series! Regardless, I’m excited to see what Lucasfilm has got planned.