{"id":44844,"date":"2018-10-29T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44844"},"modified":"2020-10-13T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T02:03:26","slug":"boba-fett-film-officially-dead-at-lucasfilms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/29\/boba-fett-film-officially-dead-at-lucasfilms\/","title":{"rendered":"BOBA FETT Film Officially Dead AT Lucasfilm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44845\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Star-Wars-boba-fett-cancelled-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Star-Wars-boba-fett-cancelled.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Star-Wars-boba-fett-cancelled-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have inexplicably fallen in love with Boba Fett and were eagerly awaiting his film, well, we have bad news for you.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, Erick Weber has bad news for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kathleen Kennedy just confirmed to me Boba Fett movie is 100% dead, 100% focusing on THE MANDALORIAN <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarWars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarWars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erick \ud835\udd44\ud835\udd44\ud835\udd4b Weber \ud83c\udfa5 (@ErickWeber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErickWeber\/status\/1055650705707433984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mandalorian\u00a0<\/em>is the\u00a0<strong>Star Wars\u00a0<\/strong>themed show for Disney&#8217;s forthcoming streaming service, Disney Play, that focuses on another member of Fett&#8217;s race, in case you didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>One could say you say you could see this coming. If <strong>Solo: A Star Wars Story <\/strong>flopped so badly that it threw Disney entire slate of <strong>Star Wars <\/strong>films into disarray, how likely would it be that a film focusing on the more enigmatic, less popular Boba Fett do? However, Boba Fett was more of a blank slate than Han Solo, allowing the creative team more leeway in constructing a story around him. And his film was to be brought to the big screen by James Mangold. Odds are Disney wouldn&#8217;t have to fire him halfway through filming and replace him with Ron Howard.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly were we missing out on? Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2018\/10\/26\/star-wars-producers-halt-boba-fett-film\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> has a hint of what the plot would entail. However, it comes with a caveat. This plot was in place when Josh Trank was developing a <strong>Boba Fett <\/strong>film, and the plot might have changed after <strong>Fantastic Four<\/strong>&#8216;s failure at the box office caused Disney to drop him. Who knows if Mangold would have kept these elements in his script for the film.<\/p>\n<p>The Trank plot would have been a prequel, with Fett associating with the rest of the bounty hunters seen with him on the bridge during <strong>Empire Strikes Back<\/strong>. Dagnabbit! Does this now mean that I will never find out if Zuckuss was a groupie for the Max Rebo band like I wrote in my Zuckuss fan fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the fact that Kathleen Kennedy mentioned <em>The Mandalorian <\/em>might be a hint that Boba Fett&#8217;s movie was cancelled so he could appear there. Disney has said that the main character definitely isn&#8217;t Boba Fett, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he couldn&#8217;t play a role in the narrative. And, of course, Disney could restart development on the film after the series ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">BOBA FETT&#8217;s film has fallen down the Sarlacc Pit of development Hell, perhaps never to be seen again. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/29\/boba-fett-film-officially-dead-at-lucasfilms\/\" title=\"BOBA FETT Film Officially Dead AT Lucasfilm\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9855,751,4893,627,3833,4669,4750,9371,260,10209],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boba-fett","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-empire-strikes-back","11":"tag-fantastic-four","12":"tag-james-mangold","13":"tag-josh-trank","14":"tag-kathleen-kennedy","15":"tag-solo-a-star-wars-story","16":"tag-star-wars","17":"tag-the-mandalorian"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44844"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}