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Post by ck100 on Oct 27, 2018 17:12:36 GMT
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/star-wars-producers-halt-unannounced-215800533.htmlThe Boba Fett movie has been frozen in carbonate. The film that was never officially announced is now unofficially no longer in development, sources close to the project tell EW. A Star Wars standalone film about the galactic bounty hunter was being worked on by Logan director James Mangold, but that has now been backburnered while the company focuses on the TV series The Mandalorian from The Jungle Book and Iron Man filmmaker Jon Favreau. That series, set to debut on Disney’s upcoming streaming service at an undisclosed time next year, focuses on a character who wears a helmet and armor similar to Fett’s, and the title refers to the warrior tribe to which Fett and his clone-producing father Jango belonged. Deadline reported the news after film journalist Erick Weber reported that the project was canceled last night after interviewing Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy at an Oscar-season event for Black Panther. Entertainment Weekly sources confirmed that the film about Fett, which has been something Lucasfilm has been exploring since 2013, is now not in active development. However, the possibility of a resurrection remains. The movie would have focused on Fett and the menagerie of bounty hunters who appeared alongside him on the deck of a Star Destroyer in The Empire Strikes Back, and it was originally being developed for director Josh Trank, who left the project amid the turmoil and aftermath of his Fantastic Four reboot. Back in April 2015, Lucasfilm had even prepared a teaser clip of the Boba Fett film for Trank to unveil at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, but that presentation was canceled just a day before as Trank’s role in creating the film fell into question. The Mandalorian will be an original story set after the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi, and preceding the rise of The First Order in The Force Awakens. The only thing we know for certain is that the title character may look the same, but he (if it is a he) is not Boba Fett.
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 27, 2018 17:42:24 GMT
It's no good to me dead!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2018 17:52:08 GMT
Like Han Solo, Boba Fett's popularity has been greatly exaggerated. He's got a cool look. That's where the interest has always begun and ended. Smart decision. I think this take is WAY off base. Solo is arguably more popular than Skywalker.
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Post by Daggoth on Oct 27, 2018 18:41:17 GMT
Like Han Solo, Boba Fett's popularity has been greatly exaggerated. He's got a cool look. That's where the interest has always begun and ended. Smart decision. Agree. Boba Fett is one of those characters I want to like more than I should.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 27, 2018 19:06:54 GMT
Doesn't surpise me, he was never some deep, developed characterm, he's got a cool costume design, that's about it. That's fine if you wanna sell action figures, not make a two hour movie about him.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 27, 2018 19:10:00 GMT
I wouldn't mind seeing a prequel about Palpatine and his days training with Darth Plageus
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Oct 27, 2018 19:12:59 GMT
The Mandalorian, anyone? This format shift is nothing new, started with Trank firing and was cemented with Solo flopping. It's a wise business decision. Now I still have not lost hope for another arrested spin off...
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Post by twothousandonemark on Oct 28, 2018 3:23:59 GMT
A movie could still come out of that tv show. I think it's probably for the best considering Solo's performance. Rogue One was a larger story arc pulled directly from Star Wars IV. Solo was cramming Han's entire myth into one origin movie instead of crafting a good story with better actors.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 28, 2018 18:55:37 GMT
With Josh Trank at the helm, he’d probably have looked like some Anaheim punk biker.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 21:49:59 GMT
I loved the original Star Wars and never cared about Boba Fett. I had to grow up and find the internet to learn he's a revered, iconic character in the fandom.
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Post by politicidal on Nov 27, 2021 13:59:59 GMT
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Post by shinnickneth on Nov 27, 2021 17:22:06 GMT
Kennedy's words hold very little weight with me. She said they would honor what came before, and then they did what they did with the DT. She said Carrie Fisher wouldn't be in Episode 9, and then she was put in it. She said she was all about women empowerment and "the Force is female", and then she didn't hire one female director to helm a theatrical Star Wars movie. She said they didn't have any source material/established stories to work off of for the DT, and then ignored 30+ years of novels/comics. She said George Lucas is still heavily involved with the projects, and then all they really do is parade him around like some kind of low-level mascot at a ball game. She refers to those that worked on the original movies as "Legacy actors/crew", and then discarded the extraordinary talent of the likes of Ben Burtt - regulating him to a little back office like he's Milton in Office Space to be ignored and forgotten (Burtt has talked publicly about it). She's a two-face.
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Post by Waxer-n-boil on Nov 28, 2021 1:15:12 GMT
Kennedy's words hold very little weight with me. She said they would honor what came before, and then they did what they did with the DT. She said Carrie Fisher wouldn't be in Episode 9, and then she was put in it. She said she was all about women empowerment and "the Force is female", and then she didn't hire one female director to helm a theatrical Star Wars movie. She said they didn't have any source material/established stories to work off of for the DT, and then ignored 30+ years of novels/comics. She said George Lucas is still heavily involved with the projects, and then all they really do is parade him around like some kind of low-level mascot at a ball game. She refers to those that worked on the original movies as "Legacy actors/crew", and then discarded the extraordinary talent of the likes of Ben Burtt - regulating him to a little back office like he's Milton in Office Space to be ignored and forgotten (Burtt has talked publicly about it). She's a two-face.
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