Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Now Available on Disney+

Friendly reminder that Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett has begun its weekly run on Disney+.  The 7 episodes of the series will premiere early each Wednesday at 12:01am PST/3:01am EST until February 9th. Below are a few TV spots.

New TV Spot for Stars Wars: The Book of Boba Fett

Here is the latest TV spot for Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett that starts streaming on Disney+ on December 29.

  

New Book of Boba Fett Trailer and TV Spot

Here is the latest latest trailer and TV spot for Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett that will hit Disney+ on December 29th.

   

Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Official Trailer

Disney+ has released the first trailer for Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett. The series will premiere on the streaming service on December 29. Show description:

“The Book of Boba Fett,” a thrilling Star Wars adventure teased in a surprise end-credit sequence following the Season 2 finale of “The Mandalorian,” finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate.

“The Book of Boba Fett” stars Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen. Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Robert Rodriguez, Kathleen Kennedy and Colin Wilson are the executive producers. Karen Gilchrist and Carrie Beck serve as co-executive producers, with John Bartnicki producing and John Hampian as co-producer.

The Book of Boba Fett To Start Streaming on December 29

Disney+ has revealed the launch date of Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett as December 29.  It will probably be a weekly release for each new episode.  Little is known of the story except it will star Temuera Morrison as Boba and Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand  Its assumed it takes up shortly after the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian that show the pair at Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine after taking control of the place from Bib Fortuna who in turn had taken over after Jabba's death in Return of the Jedi.

Star Wars TV Shows Filming Update, Virtual Production Video

It looks like the wait for The Mandalorian Season 3 will be a longer one as the series is not expected to start filming until late into the year. The reason why is due to special "Virtual Production" stage built specifically for filming Star Wars television shows and pioneered by The Mandalorian Season 2. Video below gets into the details of the stage.  

So with one virtual stage to film on and three Star Wars shows in the works, that means coordinating when what can film when.  As of right now, The Book of Boba Fett has wrapped with goal of a December release date.  Next to use the space will be Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series that will likely take 3 or so months to film.  Once that completes work, that will allow The Mandalorian to take over and begin filming.  The order of the television filming slate was likely also impacted by Padro Pascal's schedule as he is spending the summer filming "The Last of Us" for HBO.  

The video below is worth checking out as likely more and more television shows and movies will use the technology once more virtual stages are built using it.

 

The Book of Boba Fett Coming December 2021

The season 2 finale of The Mandalorian was nerd nirvana for a multiple reasons (those last 10 minutes!) that make it must see TV.  After the credits was one last stinger moment set on Tatooine, in the base of Jabba the Hutt (who Leia killed five or so years before).  With it came a simple message "The Book of Boba Fett Coming December 2021".  Based on the ending safe to assume that Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett) will star and Ming-Na Wen (Fennec) will also play a role in the series.

Boba Fett Returns for The Mandalorian Season 2

For long time fans of the Star Wars Extended Universe, Boba Fett surviving the sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi was part of canon for decades. However, when Abrams couldn't be bothered with the EU so Disney shut it down entirely, that survival became an unknown again. Assumed because Disney isn't going to leave that character unused, but that survival was no longer canon. Until now.

The fan favorite character is joining The Mandalorian season 2 and will be played by a familiar face. Temuera Morrison will play the character. He was the same actor that played Jango Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Keep in mind all clones were based on Jango and that Boba Fett himself is actually a clone that was raised by Jango as a son. As a result the return of Morrison to Star Wars make perfect sense. The role is considered small for the series but once he appears on screen, the possibilities for the character (and likely books, comics, etc to follow) will be endless.

Boba Fett Movie Officially In Works

Fett: A Story Wars Story (or whatever the title becomes) will be the next non-"Episode" film in the Star Wars saga according to THR. Logan director James Mangold direct and co-write the film with Simon Kinberg (The Martian). Boba Fett was a minor bounty hunter accidentally killed by a blind Han Solo in Return of the Jedi.

However, thanks mostly to the now jettisoned Extended Universe, he survived the experience and enjoyed a long and storied character history in the franchise via books, comics, and video games that turned him into one of the most popular Star Wars characters. Popular enough that he was written into Attack of the Clones and revealed to be a clone of bounty hunter Jango Fett, just like all the clones used by the Empire to seize power and execute "Order 66" that destroyed the Jedi. The only "difference" between Boba and those clones is he was allowed to age naturally.

As a result of all this, the setting of the film can go anywhere between the end of Attack of the Clones to around The Force Awakens. I suspect that like Solo and Rogue One, they will probably set it before A New Hope to show Fett earning his bounty hunter reputation with and end showing him accepting the contract to capture Han Solo for Jabba the Hutt. No release date or other details revealed but a writer and director means they are likely aiming for December 2020 to stay on their every other year schedule for these standalone films.