Discotheque
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It was probably the idea of him more than anything else. He doesn't do shit in the movies but he's a space bounty hunter
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Second Star Wars spinoff confirmed to be Boba Fett origin story
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It was probably the idea of him more than anything else. He doesn't do shit in the movies but he's a space bounty hunter
Brown_Corolla
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It doesn't matter what great story they come up with, whether they change his back story or who Boba ultimately is.
Because any movie set pre ROTJ will have no sense of danger to it.
You will know all along that he will make it out ok and later end up in the Sarlacc
Because any movie set pre ROTJ will have no sense of danger to it.
You will know all along that he will make it out ok and later end up in the Sarlacc
Bobby Roberts
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But what if Sneider got the "origin" part wrong (which is possible) and this movie is set between Jedi and the Battle of Jakku?
Brown_Corolla
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New Origin?
The Hermit
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Damn he looks cool. I always though it was the dude with moustache.
Gambit 1138
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Uh most of that stuff you mentioned has Brennan round long before the prequels. Sith Lords, Jedi temples, etc have been part of sw lore for decades
I don't even know why I'm arguing the prequel era is over and they will not revisiting it anytime soon.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
As long as nothing in Clone Wars (CG) contradicts what happens in Clone Wars (cartoon) it might as well be canon.
There will be some contradictions, but new CW doesn't completely override old CW. I don't think anyone has come out and said it's not canon, and if you want to twist words, then "Clone Wars" is one of the few things to survive the great canonization purge.
Old Clone Wars is Legends material. Just because there isn't much that it contradicts or vice versa doesn't make it more canon than other EU material.
Grover Cleveland
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You know what, I change my mind.
A grimy underworld crime movie centering around Boba from where we left him in TCW to him showing up in ESB sounds pretty good.
I'll just pretend that the main character going eventually full blown stupid and ending up in the Sarlacc Pit never happens.
A grimy underworld crime movie centering around Boba from where we left him in TCW to him showing up in ESB sounds pretty good.
I'll just pretend that the main character going eventually full blown stupid and ending up in the Sarlacc Pit never happens.
I've always thought that they could get around this by having him crawl out of the Sarlaac at the beginning of the movie during the sunset. In his exhaustion, he'd start reminiscing about how he could have gotten to this point despite his training and reputation. I guess his recollections would be what most of the movie would be about.
Rastafarian42
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People acting like there can't be a dope Boba Fett movie just because he got scrubbed out in ROTJ ? Typical Gaf I guess.
Bobby Roberts
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Whether it's a sequel to Return of the Jedi, or another prequel, I think they're passing up a prime opportunity to show him climbing out of that thing.
Resident4t.
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He was good as a background character.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
If do that then I'm out, for real.
Unless it's in a book and they never mention it in the movies, then whatever.
uh, yeah it's horrible.
I'll copy my post from another thread.
The movie could be like that story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Boba Fett manages to escape the Sarlacc then has to find a way off Tatooine while avoiding the Tusken Raiders who are hunting him. He finally reaches his hidden ship and prepares to take off, then it explodes and everything goes black.
"Boba Fett was dead; his body, with a broken neck, floated gently from side to side within the bowels of the almighty sarlacc."
Bobby Roberts
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I can't see 'em not doing it. It's a ready made visual moment with a ton of potential.
For a character whose defining trait is that he looks cool - that scene would amplify/play into that like crazy.
I like it!
Future PhaZe
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the premise of these side flicks are kind of ass
Grover Cleveland
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Right now they are pandering to what people know and getting the guaranteed sales.
I'm sure they'll get deeper into the lore as they go further on this Anthology ride.
Bobby Roberts
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To be fair, they're going to make a Star Wars movie without a single Jedi or force-user in it. That's pretty new-ish for Star Wars.
Discotheque
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Trank was always a shit director for this
Here's my pitch: Gore Verbinski. Give boba a space poncho/cape. Set it in a desert like planet like tattooine. Make it a riff of the man with no name...in spaaaace
Tell me another idea is better than that GOAT.
Here's my pitch: Gore Verbinski. Give boba a space poncho/cape. Set it in a desert like planet like tattooine. Make it a riff of the man with no name...in spaaaace
Tell me another idea is better than that GOAT.
I was hoping the pandering was the new trilogy, bringing back the old gang and continuing that story. I hoped the Anthology was the ones where they could cut the budget slightly and go in different directions and take chances.
But I totally get why executives would want that.
Isn't that also Anthology 1
This is Anthology or however they decide to name them.HarryDemeanor
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Fuck Boba Fett.
Let's get a Dengar spinoff going!
Let's get a Dengar spinoff going!
Bobby Roberts
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That's what I was referencing. Not this Fett movie that nobody knows anything about except it's a Fett movie.
I think you're abusing the word "pandering" too. Especially considering nobody knows dick about what's happening in either of these movies.
Me too. If anything, it makes Boba Fett even cooler. A Walter White/Heisenberg kind of awesomeness to it. Only instead of cooking meth, he's hunting bounties.
Darknight34
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Boba is awesome, but... that end... ya.
No hate from me... I dig him both pre and post Prequel trilogy/The Clone Wars (2008)
But when they say 'origin' I wonder if it means they are going forward with a plan that's been tossed around where someone kills Boba at some point before ANH and takes his armor and name. This would give disney a fresh slate where they could mold Boba into whatever they want and possibly make it easier to re-use him in future films/anthologies. Because as it stands right now, Adult Boba has to look like Temuera Morrison and that just adds a layer of complication.
But a post-RotJ 'rebirth' story where he escapes the Sarlacc is what I'm hoping for most. And pepper it with lots of flashback stuff to build up his history some more.
But when they say 'origin' I wonder if it means they are going forward with a plan that's been tossed around where someone kills Boba at some point before ANH and takes his armor and name. This would give disney a fresh slate where they could mold Boba into whatever they want and possibly make it easier to re-use him in future films/anthologies. Because as it stands right now, Adult Boba has to look like Temuera Morrison and that just adds a layer of complication.
But a post-RotJ 'rebirth' story where he escapes the Sarlacc is what I'm hoping for most. And pepper it with lots of flashback stuff to build up his history some more.
Oh god, its going to be an Amnesia plot after he escapes the Sarlacc isn't it?
If it's young Boba Fett, between RotS and ANH, they've got some stuff to play around with. I wonder if they'll get Daniel Logan back or get another actor (who would have to be Maori to be consistent) or just keep him in the helmet all the time and have Morrison dub him. Logan certainly doesn't look like someone who could grow into Morrison's face anymore.
Honestly I would have rather had an older Boba Fett movie with Morrison post-RotJ but before TFA, Boba Fett's last big bounty or something.
Honestly I would have rather had an older Boba Fett movie with Morrison post-RotJ but before TFA, Boba Fett's last big bounty or something.
They could cast a younger lookalike. Some physical/digital makeup might be an option too. Or he underwent extensive cosmetic surgery and voice alteration after the events of Empire Strikes Back. Anything but the stupid random guy takes his place idea.
Only if Gore gets a runtime restriction of 145 minutes. Any longer, and I won't be able to survive with Verbinski's directing style.
Why is this guy getting a origin film like he isn't a scrub?
guy sucks.
So they are gonna make a "cool" origins story for him yet he eventually dies in a really shitty way in a mainline film?
Lucas should of kept him alive so he could have been a bad ass that is always mysterious in all the films.
But only if they ignore the prequels.
Yoda spinning through the air with his light saber was so stupid..
SomeRandomWeirdGuy
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For a fandom so obsessed with their childhood and whether or not it is being "ruined", most Star Wars fans never seem to give half a shit about all the kids who grew up with the prequels and their surrounding lore (such as myself). I can freely acknowledge that the OT are the better movies, but this constant hate for anything and everything about the prequels gets on my nerves. The prequels shouldn't be completely ignored just to pander even harder to OT fanboys.
To me at least, without the prequels, Boba Fett is just a shitty bounty hunter with a cool character design that died like an idiot. With the prequels, he's a character with a past and roots in events of the previous movies, and could very easily have some cool stories spawned from the period between the trilogies (but then ultimately dies like an idiot). The clones are awesome, and I don't want to see everything about them scrubbed away just because a bunch of people can't handle some less than stellar writing.
To me at least, without the prequels, Boba Fett is just a shitty bounty hunter with a cool character design that died like an idiot. With the prequels, he's a character with a past and roots in events of the previous movies, and could very easily have some cool stories spawned from the period between the trilogies (but then ultimately dies like an idiot). The clones are awesome, and I don't want to see everything about them scrubbed away just because a bunch of people can't handle some less than stellar writing.
Well, he would have if he had known he would become popular. Hence shoving him in AOTC.
Before Disney's great lore wipe Boba Fett survived Sarlacc, was saved by Dengar, and continued being a badass.
Honestly, seeing Boba Fett as a kid, ruined to mystery, just a clone.
Splatterpunk
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Honestly I'd be down for a movie 100% about Mandalorians. This probably won't be that though.
Phoenix
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Why is this guy getting a origin film like he isn't a scrub?
guy sucks.
Because he's the only person in the future with the common sense to wear some form of powered armor?
Phoenix
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Don't worry, they'll do 2 movies with the first one being his origin story and then have an end credit scene where he emerges from Sarlacc so that he can rejoin the new trilogy.
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