Boba Fett movie is happening.
Indeed. I can think of a few options, depending on when it's set:
- At the end of Clone Wars, Fett is hanging around with a gang of bounty hunters who've raised him since Geonosis (he's pulled his weight working with them, though), including Aurra Sing (who we now know ended up taking a short walk off something tall courtesy of Tobias Beckett).
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By A New Hope, he's working for Jabba, by Empire, he's working for Vader. In on the Vader comics, Vader hires Fett to find the pilot who destroyed the death star (he fails, but does come back with his name).
- Theoretically, Vader should know Fett's history, even if Fett doesn't know who Vader is. Assuming Fett still has a lot of anger at Mace Windu, who basically 'just disappears' the night of the Jedi Purge, that's an interesting thought.
- We don't really know much about him 'growing up' - he essentially switches from angsty teenager to grownup, much like Ahsoka.
- There was an unfinished episode of clone wars which looks interesting .
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In the original EU, fett settled down, briefly, on a planet called Concord Dawn, was a junior protector, and had a child.
- Concord Dawn is in the new canon - it's where Fenn Rau was first introduced. Theoretically two of those junior pilots may have been Fett and his other half.
- In the Imperial Super Commandos episode of Rebels, the Protectors get exterminated by the Imperial-aligned governor.
- It's not unreasonable that you could spin a plot not a million miles from Taken or The Punisher out of this....Alternatively you could basically do The Fugitive or US Marshalls , (seeing him work with the Imperials 'before' on screen would be a nice touch) with the problem that I don't see Fett giving a darn if the party is innocent per se. That said, if there's an imperial posted bounty for 'the man responsible for XYZ' rather than a specific named individual, I can see him bait-and-switching and hauling a moff (or whatever) in front of Vader instead of generic totally-not-innocent-but-innocent-of-this-specific-crime Rebel.
I agree Fett is not going to be a hero. But nor is he a cackling, moustache-twirling villain.
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I don’t have much interest in a Fett movie but if they make it this is THE perfect chance for one thing....A RATED R STAR WARS MOVIE! Boba is not a character for kids, make this a real story about a bastard and make him a bastard. Not deadpool foul but a miserable bitter pos that goes absolutely overboard because he can never avenge his father. That should drive him near mad and make him do things like Croaker hinted that made Vader swat him like a naughty dog. He’s got to be a total badass ****** if the second most feared being in the known universe tells him to keep it vanilla, finger wag and everything.
Can't be optimistic until we find out who's replacing kk, I'm hoping John Lasseter rumour is true but he needs to handle the accusations first.
His experience with pixar would be great for the franchise.
On 6/9/2018 at 8:00 AM, LordFajubi said:Not deadpool foul but a miserable bitter pos that goes absolutely overboard because he can never avenge his father. That should drive him near mad
I'd hate to see this tbh. Boba is cold as ice. Implacable and calculating. He disintegrates instead of mucking about. Its just more efficient. Vader may be fearsome and badass but he also has a lot of inner conflict and is always involved in some kind of manipulation.
As mentioned earlier, Clints man with no name is the perfect character reference for him imo.
It'll likely be impossible to please Boba fans (of which I'm one). Any kind of focus on his character will easily miss the mark. To me, he's not a man who ever faces dilemmas. You can threaten his life, but never his emotional balance.
I also don't see him as a true baddie or evil in any way, he's simply focussed only on his price, with no moral compass. Not exactly a machine but absolutely set on his own goal. The rare occasions in which he pauses and acts differently are all the more powerful for their rarity
Difficult to achieve but if the emotional charge in the movie centres not on him but on those around him, it could be done. I don't particularly want to see another great character undone by yet another 'origin' story. Probably, the less screen time he gets, the better it will be.
Should note, I haven't seen any of the animated series but I have read all the comics centred on him, so that colours my view of him.
I'd happily take the Tatooine scene from this as a starting point...
There’s got to be some hook that makes me care about what happens. An amoral a$s kicker is neat and all, but at the end of the day there has to be a protagonist. If it’s just 90 minutes (who am I kidding? ... 120+ minutes) of Boba disintegrating people then it’s a hard pass.
32 minutes ago, BlodVargarna said:There’s got to be some hook that makes me care about what happens. An amoral a$s kicker is neat and all, but at the end of the day there has to be a protagonist. If it’s just 90 minutes (who am I kidding? ... 120+ minutes) of Boba disintegrating people then it’s a hard pass.
But there are many great films where the protag is an amoral *** kicker. Like I said, the emotional charge, the dilemmas, the drama can be provided by co-stars. You see so much less of this these days, with movies devolving into soap operas, because the audience must have an accessible, relatable lead to swoon over. Or at least become human and vulnerable at the end, having 'learned to let people in'... vomit
An easy one. One fan made trailer I saw has a pretty girl seemingly trying to assist Boba, pleading she can help him find whoever.
My guess, Boba spends 90min telling her to do one, before rescuing her for free and falling in love....
Hrrrmmmppphbleuurrgh
edit. The more I think about it, the less I want them to make the movie.
Edited by Cuz05On 6/12/2018 at 2:47 AM, Cuz05 said:Difficult to achieve but if the emotional charge in the movie centres not on him but on those around him, it could be done.
Alien except with a crew full of wanted men and Boba Fett instead of the xenomorph.
But Fett sneaks aboard the ship and bursts out of a guys chest all the same.
Kinda like Pitch Black, maybe
Oh well, that just frees up Mangold for the X-23 movie, which is the movie I want anyway.
Edited by AmbaryernoOn 6/9/2018 at 3:00 AM, LordFajubi said:I don’t have much interest in a Fett movie but if they make it this is THE perfect chance for one thing....A RATED R STAR WARS MOVIE!
Do we really need an R-rated Star Wars movie? If the Star Wars universe doesn't have profanity and gore involved with soldiers during the many, many battle scenes, it doesn't really make sense to add it in just to make the movie less accessible to younger audiences.
On 6/13/2018 at 3:00 PM, Cuz05 said:But there are many great films where the protag is an amoral *** kicker. Like I said, the emotional charge, the dilemmas, the drama can be provided by co-stars. You see so much less of this these days, with movies devolving into soap operas, because the audience must have an accessible, relatable lead to swoon over. Or at least become human and vulnerable at the end, having 'learned to let people in'... vomit
An easy one. One fan made trailer I saw has a pretty girl seemingly trying to assist Boba, pleading she can help him find whoever.
My guess, Boba spends 90min telling her to do one, before rescuing her for free and falling in love....
Hrrrmmmppphbleuurrgh
edit. The more I think about it, the less I want them to make the movie.
Agreed. You can have Fett be Fett, but still have it be something other than 'gunning down goons, the musical'. Just looking at examples:
- True Grit - Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne or Jeff Bridges as you see fit) is a scary-competent hunter. Having Mattie Ross as the person hiring him gives us a viewpoint of a scared, normal person stuck in Fett's world. because (for whatever reason) they insist on accompanying him.
Or, you can have Fett still give a monkeys about something .
- A Fist Full Of Dollars - The Man With No Name is unarguably a pretty grey character, playing two gangs against one another for profit, but it's ultimately taking risks to save a woman and a kid which (nearly) kills him. Still, at no point does he feel the need to be 'relatable'.
- You could make a similar argument about The Punisher (admittedly as a revenge story not a rescue story) or Taken. Granted, the latter has a bit of a 'I'm now a better father' closing scene, but it kind of earned that even if it feels a bit cheesy.
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1 hour ago, Magnus Grendel said:...or Taken. Granted, the latter has a bit of a 'I'm now a better father' closing scene, but it kind of earned that even if it feels a bit cheesy.
"I'm now a better father. Next time, I let them take my wife.".
On 6/24/2018 at 10:47 PM, JJ48 said:Do we really need an R-rated Star Wars movie? If the Star Wars universe doesn't have profanity and gore involved with soldiers during the many, many battle scenes, it doesn't really make sense to add it in just to make the movie less accessible to younger audiences.
Just read the novel Death Troopers (don't recommend it, rather boring) and there is cursing in it. Well, if you consider the word 'karking' a bad word, but definitely used in that context.
Mace Windu is Boba Fett. Explains the mysterious disappearance of Mace and why Boba never takes his helmet off.
7 hours ago, acesandeights said:Just read the novel Death Troopers (don't recommend it, rather boring) and there is cursing in it. Well, if you consider the word 'karking' a bad word, but definitely used in that context.
Mace Windu is Boba Fett. Explains the mysterious disappearance of Mace and why Boba never takes his helmet off.
Not sure what's mysterious about getting your hand chopped off, deep-fried with Force-lightning, then defenestrated....
19 minutes ago, Ambaryerno said:Not sure what's mysterious about getting your hand chopped off, deep-fried with Force-lightning, then defenestrated....
GL is on record saying that Windu survived RotS, but nothing has been done with that lead, yet. It is quite possible that nothing will be, either, but it is an interesting hook for a Boba Fett movie given his unresolved want for revenge.
I wouldn't mind if they went dark with a Fett film. Part detective noir / part Black Company / and generally scummy with some back story tie-ins of other fringe characters.
You could have him brush against the outside of the OT films. How did many bothans die? Was there collateral damage prompting the no disintegration's comment?
He doesn't have to be good or do good for the film to be good.
5 hours ago, Admiral Deathrain said:GL is on record saying that Windu survived RotS, but nothing has been done with that lead, yet. It is quite possible that nothing will be, either, but it is an interesting hook for a Boba Fett movie given his unresolved want for revenge.
GL also said he never intended Han to shoot first.
I haven't taken anything GL has said about the franchise seriously since 1997.
Edited by Ambaryerno4 hours ago, Ambaryerno said:GL also said he never intended Han to shoot first.
I haven't taken anything GL has said about the franchise seriously since 1997.
Sure, however this specific detail isn't too out of place and would make for a good relatable motivation without 'softening' the character.
Honestly if they make this I hope they don't try to tell more of his backstory, I just want to see Boba Fett being a badass, I don't need to know how he became who he is or that he has a motive or whatever. The cool thing about Boba Fett in Empre was that he was for the most part unknown, you didn't know who he was, just that he was badass enough for Vader to call him out not to disintgrate anyone, he followed that up by not falling for Han's tricks and tracking them down, Cold, Silent and Efficient, that's all you needed to know. Of course they screwed that up by making him a chump in Jedi, and then even more with the prequels but I'd like to see the Boba Fett that was shown in Empire.
What I would love to see is something like the Raid or Game of Death, Boba Fett going into some compound/space station/Pirate hideout and just spend an hour and a half kicking ***, killing his way to his intended target, disintegrating as many goons along the way, before the final showdown. Bonus points if he never says a word in the entire movie, honestly after Solo the less plot they put into this the better.
21 hours ago, Mr Tough Guy said:Honestly if they make this I hope they don't try to tell more of his backstory, I just want to see Boba Fett being a badass, I don't need to know how he became who he is or that he has a motive or whatever. The cool thing about Boba Fett in Empre was that he was for the most part unknown, you didn't know who he was, just that he was badass enough for Vader to call him out not to disintgrate anyone, he followed that up by not falling for Han's tricks and tracking them down, Cold, Silent and Efficient, that's all you needed to know. Of course they screwed that up by making him a chump in Jedi, and then even more with the prequels but I'd like to see the Boba Fett that was shown in Empire.
What I would love to see is something like the Raid or Game of Death, Boba Fett going into some compound/space station/Pirate hideout and just spend an hour and a half kicking ***, killing his way to his intended target, disintegrating as many goons along the way, before the final showdown. Bonus points if he never says a word in the entire movie, honestly after Solo the less plot they put into this the better.
Personally, that sounds pretty awful. What's the point in seeing a movie if it's just a shoot-em-up with no story?
7 hours ago, JJ48 said:Personally, that sounds pretty awful. What's the point in seeing a movie if it's just a shoot-em-up with no story?
You do a movie like that by shifting the focus to a group of sympathetic characters that are hunted, the horror movie aproach. I'd be up for either way, there is potential in either aproaches.
2 hours ago, Admiral Deathrain said:You do a movie like that by shifting the focus to a group of sympathetic characters that are hunted, the horror movie aproach. I'd be up for either way, there is potential in either aproaches.
Don't think it'd be a good film at all but I'm attracted to this idea.
Group of sympathetic characters attempt to escape certain doom. Fail. Traditional Hollywood happy ending get ****ed ?