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Second Star Wars spinoff confirmed to be Boba Fett origin story

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Real Hero

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Him being digested would be a great framing device. Film starts with being slowly digested, Fett is disgusted by his failure on Jabbas barge and has given up on survival. Cue LOST style flashback to Fett as a wimpy kid whose dad was killed by Nick Fury but through the rest of the flashback becomes a bad ass and the best bounty in the galaxy. Films ends with Fett realizing the flashback is induced by the gas within the Sarlacc Pit as way to distract its prey while being digested. But by being made to think about his past the Sarlacc has inadvertently reinvigorated Fetts determination and he claws his way out with one thing on his mind: REVENGE.

It writes itself!
 
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Skyball Paint

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I wish Boba Fett wasn't in ROTJ, his presence didn't serve the story at all, and it wouldn't have that death scene that fucking ruins the character we see in Empire Strikes Back.

In Empire Strikes Back, Fett actually plays a crucial role despite his short screen time. Out of all the bounty hunters and Imperial fleets Vader sends after the heroes, he's the one who manages to outwit Han Solo, and track him down to Cloud City, setting the finale of the film into motion.
On top of that, he had presence, he was mysterious, intimidating, and didn't back down from anyone, not even Vader. Also he had the coolest armor ever.

I think if Empire Strikes Back was the only time we saw Boba Fett in the original trilogy, we wouldn't have so many posts asking why he is so popular.
 
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Magnus

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Real Hero said:
Him being digested would be a great framing device. Film starts with being slowly digested, Fett is disgusted by his failure on Jabbas barge and has given up on survival. Cue LOST style flashback to Fett as a wimpy kid whose dad was killed by Nick Fury but through the rest of the flashback becomes a bad ass and the best bounty in the galaxy. Films ends with Fett realizing the flashback is induced by the gas within the Sarlacc Pit as way to distract its prey while being digested. But by being made to think about his past the Sarlacc has inadvertently reinvigorated Fetts determination and he claws his way out with one thing on his mind: REVENGE.

It writes itself!
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Kind of a macro version of the Texas Funeral in Kill Bill 2. I dig it.
 
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Sesha

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Didn't Jango die like a complete scrub too? The Fetts are destined to be Yamcha-level losers who pose hard and die even harder.
 
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Kinyou

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CassidyIzABeast said:
Why is this guy getting a origin film like he isn't a scrub?

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guy sucks.
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Maybe the movie will be about his thousand year digestion.
 
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Cheebo

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Pickman said:
Nah dude I'm pretty sure they're doing Jaster Mereel.
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They have said point blank said they ARENT doing that story. That the Boba we see in ESB and ROTJ is the clone of Jango Fett and that will not change.

This is what Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm story group had to say just last year:

"Spoiler: Boba is a clone of Jango Fett. It turns up in one of the movies."

"There was this whole thing where he was a legitimate character with a developed back story and complex motivation that showed up on this show called Clone Wars. It was pretty neat. The guy who invented the character came up with it, which was a nice touch. I think it's on Netflix."

"Also - get this - there's a version of The Empire Strikes Back ("Episode V" some call it) where they went to the trouble to make Boba Fett's voice the same voice as the character who played his father. That was one of several clues woven into the movies that strongly suggest the movies released from 1999-2005 take place in the same universe, and if you think about it, are sort of the same story as the ones that came out earlier. It's pretty crazy. They're connected. Anyway, this version of it can be found on DVD and Blu-ray where such things are sold."

"Anyway, these sorts of clues are hidden all throughout the movies. The opening crawls are actually numbers if you look at it (I = 1, II= 2/... V = 5, VI = 6). if you look at it the right way, it hints that this whole thing is meant to tie together."
"You know, there was a post not a month ago that said what were the immovable objects in the Star Wars canon. The internet records such things."

"Obviously I got nothing against **** (cheers!) It's just the rebooted Fett rumor is so transparently coming from someone (not ****, in case there's any confusion) who still has an axe to grind against the prequels. That's where all these retcon prequel rumors come from. Don't give 'em any weight."
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Grover Cleveland

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Blader said:
It sure warms my heart to know such a condescending asshole is in charge of these things.
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He's not singularly in charge of the canon. He's just a part of the Lucasfilm Story Group.

If I heard the same dumb questions over and over and over about the prequels, I'd be feisty too.
 
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Anton Sugar

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Skyball Paint said:
I wish Boba Fett wasn't in ROTJ, his presence didn't serve the story at all, and it wouldn't have that death scene that fucking ruins the character we see in Empire Strikes Back.

In Empire Strikes Back, Fett actually plays a crucial role despite his short screen time. Out of all the bounty hunters and Imperial fleets Vader sends after the heroes, he's the one who manages to outwit Han Solo, and track him down to Cloud City, setting the finale of the film into motion.
On top of that, he had presence, he was mysterious, intimidating, and didn't back down from anyone, not even Vader. Also he had the coolest armor ever.

I think if Empire Strikes Back was the only time we saw Boba Fett in the original trilogy, we wouldn't have so many posts asking why he is so popular.
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This. Boba was bad as fuck in ESB. He had boot spurs. BOOT SPURS!
 
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Pickman

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Cheebo said:
They have said point blank said they ARENT doing that story. That the Boba we see in ESB and ROTJ is the clone of Jango Fett and that will not change.

This is what Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm story group had to say just last year:
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I dunno man, I think they're just smoke screening. I think they're doing Jaster Mereel.
 
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Blader

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Grover Cleveland said:
He's not singularly in charge of the canon. He's just a part of the Lucasfilm Story Group.

If I heard the same dumb questions over and over and over about the prequels, I'd be feisty too.
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I know he's not the only one, but he seems to be one of the more vocal and I haven't read a single thing where he hasn't come off like a complete prick.

Dumb questions are dumb questions, but also it's Star Wars and also it's your job. At some point I'd think perspective and professionalism should enter the equation a little bit.
 
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NimbusD

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To be honest. I hate the idea of just pushing out spinoff after spinoff. I really wish they'd at least wait til the trilogy is done before doing that. Seriously Star Wars fatigue is going to happen real quick when we're getting 1 movie a year.

On the other hand, If we're getting a movie set during prequel times that doesn't actually suck, then that'd be awesome (assuming the boba fett story goes back that far).
 
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Freedom = $1.05

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people need to be honest with themselves and just admit that they liked boba because he made for a cool looking toy. The character has nothing to him and is a total chump, made worse by the fact that now he's a clone of some sucker who got his head lopped off.
 
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Anton Sugar

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AbsolutBro said:
How was he "bad as fuck"? He didn't do anything. All he did was tell Vader where Han was going. No fighting, no bad ass piloting, nothing. He is the ultimate overhyped scrub.
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It's the little things, bro.

Boba is the only bounty hunter who outthinks Solo and tracks him down, leading to the entire series of events at Cloud City.
Vader takes the time to specifically address his methods, showing that Boba is notorious enough for even Vader to know about him.
Boba has the nerve to talk to Vader like an equal and not grovel, making sure Vader's men don't screw up Solo's torture.
Boba actually sees/hears Luke as Luke follows them in Cloud City (watch the scene--Luke makes a noise and Boba's head snaps over to where he is hiding), but keeps moving, preferring instead to set a trap and guard the transport to the Slave I.
BOOT SPURS
A HALF CAPE
THAT FUCKING HELMET
 
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Crosseyes

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AbsolutBro said:
How was he "bad as fuck"? He didn't do anything. All he did was tell Vader where Han was going. No fighting, no bad ass piloting, nothing. He is the ultimate overhyped scrub.
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He looked cool, outsmarted Han and the group, and was the first person aside from the emperor we'd seen that Vader interacted with that wasn't either completely subordinate, running away, or promptly killed.

Enough to be a cool ass dude. He became the butt of a joke in ROTJ. Really one of the pioneers in getting Lucas'd.
 
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Sectorseven

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AbsolutBro said:
How was he "bad as fuck"? He didn't do anything. All he did was tell Vader where Han was going. No fighting, no bad ass piloting, nothing. He is the ultimate overhyped scrub.
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Because he was the only person in the galaxy with the balls to stand up to Vader. Not even Tarkin spoke to Vader quite so passive aggressively.

Look at this shot. You can't even see his face, but still know he doesn't give a fuck.

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Anton Sugar said:
It's the little things, bro.

Boba is the only bounty hunter who outthinks Solo and tracks him down, leading to the entire series of events at Cloud City.
Vader takes the time to specifically address his methods, showing that Boba is notorious enough for even Vader to know about him.
Boba has the nerve to talk to Vader like an equal and not grovel, making sure Vader's men don't screw up Solo's torture.
Boba actually sees/hears Luke as Luke follows them in Cloud City (watch the scene--Luke makes a noise and Boba's head snaps over to where he is hiding), but keeps moving, preferring instead to set a trap and guard the transport to the Slave I.
BOOT SPURS
A HALF CAPE
THAT FUCKING HELMET
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1. Re: only bounty hunter that outthinks Solo. So what? At the very start of ESB, long before Vader hires Fett, Han mentions "the bounty hunter on Ord Mantell changed my mind". Prior to the EU getting Legacied, that was Dengar; aka bandage man on the Death Star standing near Fett. Bounty Hunters finding Han is hardly a benchmark of cool.

2. Disintegrators are Dengar's thing :p Seriously though, Fett's main weapon is an EE-3 carbine rifle, not a disintegrator.

3. Tarkin and half the Imperial Moffs don't grovel to Vader, unless Vader has immediately just strangled someone. Most of those guys, like Fett, are chumps.

There are lots of (minor) characters in Star Wars the "ooze cool", and yet none get the fanboy following that this chump gets.
 
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moltonasty

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Whack. Really not impressed by this decision at all. There are so many more interesting ideas for a SW spinoff than a boba fett origin story. Lol ffs
 
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Anton Sugar

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AbsolutBro said:
1. Re: only bounty hunter that outthinks Solo. So what? At the very start of ESB, long before Vader hires Fett, Han mentions "the bounty hunter on Ord Mantell changed my mind". Prior to the EU getting Legacied, that was Dengar; aka bandage man on the Death Star standing near Fett. Bounty Hunters finding Han is hardly a benchmark of cool.

2. Disintegrators are Dengar's thing :p Seriously though, Fett's main weapon is an EE-3 carbine rifle, not a disintegrator.

3. Tarkin and half the Imperial Moffs don't grovel to Vader, unless Vader has immediately just strangled someone. Most of those guys, like Fett, are chumps.

There are lots of (minor) characters in Star Wars the "ooze cool", and yet none get the fanboy following that this chump gets.
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And you have no counter-point to boot spurs.
 
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FStop7

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Into said:
Was Lucas not aware that people liked Fett far more than anyone could have anticipated? Empire was released in 1980, and Jedi in 83. Was Boba Fett just not popular during that period and his popularity soared later on? Or was Lucas just being dense and ignorant.

I mean his scenes in Jedi are embarrassing
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Boba Fett was supposed to be a big deal... he was introduced in parades ahead of the Empire Strikes Back announcement and was a major figure in the animated portions of the terrible Star Wars Christmas Special. And he became a big deal... but then, for some weird reason, he was given a super lame death in Jedi.
 
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D1renegade

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The Boba Fett infatuation has always been weird to see.. I don't really get it. His dad seemed several times more interesting.
 
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Anton Sugar

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D1renegade said:
The Boba Fett infatuation has always been weird to see.. I don't really get it. His dad seemed several times more interesting.
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For real though, it's not that hard to understand, right?

You have a nameless, morally ambiguous bounty hunter who is almost single-handedly responsible for the downfall of our heroes, plus he's got an amazing costume and character design. Being a blank slate basically means he can be ANYBODY, to any fan (this was prior to Lucas turning him into a little brat, of course).

Same reason why I loved the single image of the Death Dealer in my dad's Frazetta book when I was little.

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He looks fucking awesome.
 
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Anton Sugar said:
He looks fucking awesome.
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And if the argument was just "he looks awesome!" I wouldn't argue. But it's usually more along the lines of "he's such a badass who does badass things!" when we have a lack of evidence of badassery, and plenty of evidence of chump status.

Unlike Death Dealer there, who does look badass, with no evidence of chump status. (btw I agree Frazetta's stuff is awesome.)
 
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PaleFolklore

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When are we going to get a Star Wars mob film based in Mos Eisley. That sounds stupid enough to be interesting. Can't say I care about a Boba Fett movie. Always found the guy incredibly uninteresting.
 
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Warm Machine

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Lynd7 said:
Boba Fett is a useless character that should not be given a fan service movie. As a kid I never cared about him at all, didn't even really register his name. Why do people even care?
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Before Empire Strikes Back was released Boba was the first announced new character for the film. You could get the action figure through the mail with enough Kenner points or whatever. He was also introduced via the Star Wars Christmas Special in the animated sequences. You have to understand how cutting edge that was at the time.

In so far as his appearances in the film every line of dialogue that references him or his actions is pretty much building him up as a bad ass.
 
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Anton Sugar

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AbsolutBro said:
And if the argument was just "he looks awesome!" I wouldn't argue. But it's usually more along the lines of "he's such a badass who does badass things!" when we have a lack of evidence of badassery, and plenty of evidence of chump status.

Unlike Death Dealer there, who does look badass, with no evidence of chump status. (btw I agree Frazetta's stuff is awesome.)
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I mean, I'm clearly exaggerating in my descriptions of his badass endeavors. I do think he was a badass in ESB, just by his interactions with Vader (who, at that point, was less of the right hand lieutenant of ANH and more of the big bad) and the fact that he captured Solo, someone even the Empire couldn't bag.

Actually, for a short period of time, I thought Fett was Vader's son. When I was little, his line, "he's no good to me dead" sounded like "he's no good to me, dad". Which made Fett EVEN COOLER, until my older bro corrected me months later.

ROTJ ruined him :mad:

PaleFolklore said:
When are we going to get a Star Wars mob film based in Mos Eisley. That sounds stupid enough to be interesting. Can't say I care about a Boba Fett movie. Always found the guy incredibly uninteresting.
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I really hope the spinoffs explore more self-contained stories and genre elements. I'd love to see movies about spice traders/smugglers, the sand people, etc.

Warm Machine said:
In so far as his appearances in the film every line of dialogue that references him or his actions is pretty much building him up as a bad ass.
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Yeah, I mean--Lucas added in boot spurs JUST to make him sound like more of a gunslinging badass. It's pretty clear that they wanted him to have that kind of mystique.
 
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Cheebo

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Pickman said:
I dunno man, I think they're just smoke screening. I think they're doing Jaster Mereel.
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That is not how this works. They don't put out a press release that the prequels are considered the immovable objects of canon for all future stories to adhere to. They don't put out Rebels and the new comics and novels are directly market them as the official canon all with multiple direct prequel story tie-ins to just then go

lololol just a smokescreen the prequel connections aren't really canon, we were lying this past two years!
 
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Splatterpunk

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Zulithe said:
Eh... they're not nearly as interesting as their armor leads you to believe. Watch The Clone Wars to find out.

They could make a good movie around just about anything, but it's not really the strongest basis.
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I tried watching a couple of episodes of the Clone Wars, couldn't get into it, and making Mandalorians boring isn't really encouraging. My only real experience with Mandalorians is from Kotor, and they were pretty cool in that. Though I guess that was like a thousand years earlier or something.
 
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Pickman

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Cheebo said:
That is not how this works. They don't put out a press release that the prequels are considered the immovable objects of canon for all future stories to adhere to. They don't put out Rebels and the new comics and novels are directly market them as the official canon all with multiple direct prequel story tie-ins to just then go

lololol just a smokescreen the prequel connections aren't really canon, we were lying this past two years!
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I think that sounds like a pretty legit strategy. Got a really good feeling it'll be a Jaster Mereel origin story.
 
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Anton Sugar

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Splatterpunk said:
I tried watching a couple of episodes of the Clone Wars, couldn't get into it, and making Mandalorians boring isn't really encouraging. My only real experience with Mandalorians is from Kotor, and they were pretty cool in that. Though I guess that was like a thousand years earlier or something.
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Yeah, I really enjoyed the Mandalore chapter/areas in KOTOR.

FOR MANDALORE!
 
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