Morrison boasted that Fett was “hard and raw.” His co-star Ming-Na Wen has argued that the show “has a rawness to it.” It’s interesting to imagine a version of Star Wars about the kind of person it would take to survive in the “wretched hive of scum and villainy” that is the galaxy’s underworld, like a Star Wars riff on Breaking Bad or The Godfather. Much of the publicity around the show suggested that The Book of Boba Fett might have a sharper edge to it than some recent Star Wars media. At best, Fett seemed a pragmatic and detached sort. Fett didn’t seem particularly conflicted about this, eagerly tracking down Han Solo (Harrison Ford) for Jabba. The promotional material for his original action figure promised children a “new evil villain in Star Wars Galaxy.” Fett worked in the employ of notorious and monstrous gangster Jabba the Hutt, attending court where slave dancers were routinely fed to Jabba’s pet rancor. Writer Jon Favreau is canny enough to take advantage of this blankness and so reconfigures Boba Fett as the kind of protagonist who can lead a family-friendly Disney+ streaming show.Īs introduced, Boba Fett was a villain. As such, nothing that “Stranger in a Strange Land” does with the character feels like a rewrite there’s so little established about who Boba Fett is under the armor that he is pretty much a blank slate. To be fair, Fett’s characterization in films like Return of the Jedi and Attack of the Clones was fairly thin. Fett is no longer the man that he once was. He is set upon by scavenging Jawas that strip his iconic armor and jetpack. Exhausted by the ordeal of forcing his way out of the belly of the Sarlacc and into the world, Fett collapses. The ruins of Jabba’s pleasure barge lie burnt out in the sand. While “Stranger in a Strange Land” does incorporate shots from earlier films like Attack of the Clones, this emergence from the sand into the desert feels like a fresh start for the bounty hunter. He is taken back to another rebirth, as he claws his way out of the Sarlacc at the end of Return of the Jedi, bursting from the sand. The present-day story begins and ends with Fett floating in a bacta tank, a medical device designed to facilitate recovery it has been used by both Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in earlier films.
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Fett is the first of these characters to see a live-action spin-off reach the air.Īppropriately, The Book of Boba Fett begins with a series of nested rebirths for the bounty hunter. It also resurrected the character of Boba Fett, with a cameo from Morrison closing the season premiere. It brought characters like Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff), Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant), and Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) into live action. This is particularly true given that so much of his iconography was already tied up in The Mandalorian, to the point that earlier observers speculated it might secretly be a Boba Fett show.Īlthough the first season of The Mandalorian was relatively light on the franchise cross-promotion, the second season leaned heavily into the Star Wars canon. Still, adapting the character to be the star of his own Disney+ series was always going to be a challenge. There have been comics and books written about the bounty hunter, many rewriting the character’s demise in Return of the Jedi. Boba Fett looked cool but was entirely useless, a joke one insider remarked was “typical of (George Lucas’) dark sense of humor.”įett has enjoyed a rich and varied life in various Star Wars spin-offs. However, the character’s subsequent appearances in Return of the Jedi and Attack of the Clones made it clear that the bounty hunter’s popularity among fans was inversely proportional to his ability on screen. Pre-sold as an action figure and premiering at a county fair, Boba Fett was a breakout character even before he appeared in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s to the credit of The Book of Boba Fett that the show understands it needs to do more than just reintroduce the character of Boba Fett (Temura Morrison) – it needs to reinvent him. This discussion and review contains some spoilers for episode 1 of The Book of Boba Fett, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” on Disney+.
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