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'Star Wars': Boba Fett Movie in the Works With James Mangold
Hollywood Reporter ^ | May 24, 2018 | Borys Kit

Posted on 05/25/2018 1:36:04 PM PDT by EdnaMode

The hunt is on.

James Mangold is writing and will direct a Star Wars stand-alone movie centered on Boba Fett, the feared bounty hunter and fan-favorite character, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.

The reveal comes as Disney and Disney-owned Lucasfilm prepare for the release of the latest Star Wars stand-alone film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Solo, which opens Friday, is the second movie to be spun from the main Star Wars line — Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the first — but it is the first to focus on a particular character.

Lucasfilm is developing movies on a slew of characters including Obi-Wan Kenobi, which has Stephen Daldry in negotiations to direct, although no writers are working on a script.

It was rumored that Simon Kinberg, the writer-producer behind the X-Men franchise and films such as The Martian, was working on a Boba Fett movie. While Lucasfilm and Disney won’t make any official confirmation, sources say that Mangold will co-write the script with Kinberg, who will also produce the Boba Fett project. Kinberg and Mangold are close, having worked on Logan, the X-Men spinoff that earned high praise last year.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bobafett; disney; garbage; hollywood; lucasfilm; movies; starwars; trash
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m boycotting until we get a Dexter Jettster solo movie.


21 posted on 05/25/2018 1:54:39 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: I Drive Too Fast
I'm hoping they make a movie about the MSE-6-series repair droid.

And I hope there's a good back story.

22 posted on 05/25/2018 1:54:51 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: KC_Lion

Their Nerd Crew stuff is some of the funniest videos out there.


23 posted on 05/25/2018 1:55:30 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Can’t wait for the Jar Jar movie . . .


24 posted on 05/25/2018 1:55:55 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: EdnaMode

Well, Jar Jar does have a big part in the Anakin musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke1B1iAeY2c


25 posted on 05/25/2018 1:56:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EdnaMode

If they’d keep the sex out, add some adventure, and let boys have a boy-hero . . . it’s just a dream.


26 posted on 05/25/2018 1:57:12 PM PDT by donna (The California Sanctuary State is the latest method for trapping and trading slaves.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How about a movie about Chewy from his dance school days?


27 posted on 05/25/2018 1:57:58 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Sirius Lee
That's going to be a rom com featuring the sexual tension between him and a GNK series power droid:


28 posted on 05/25/2018 1:58:39 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EdnaMode

Me-suh say stop already.


29 posted on 05/25/2018 2:00:00 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Ted Grant; GraceG
Their Nerd Crew stuff is some of the funniest videos out there.


30 posted on 05/25/2018 2:02:05 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Will their fan base really what to see such movies? How far will they go? Will they go so far as to show Uncle Owen and Aunt Veru and how they hooked up?”

They will keep making them as long as the fans will buy them. As the fan base shrinks due to uninteresting story lines, the quality of the next movie will suffer. Look what Disney does with Pixar movies. First one is a hit, second one goes straight to DVD.

“Uncle Owen and Aunt Veru find the force” will be a computer animated straight to DVD movie.


31 posted on 05/25/2018 2:02:27 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Boogieman
That's going to be some powerful dialogue.

"Tonk. Tonk, tonk.

Zip. Zrrrrrr. Zrrrrr.

Tonk, tonk, tonk...

32 posted on 05/25/2018 2:02:35 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Ted Grant

I’m more exited to watch RedLetterMedia’s Solo review than I am about the Solo movie.


33 posted on 05/25/2018 2:02:55 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: EdnaMode

Boba Fett’s name was never mentioned in either of the first two episodes (IV or V) so I’ve never gotten his intrigue. I’ve found that the hyper-nerd types are the ones who endow such a peripheral character with so much importance. He flew under my radar and most of the people I hang with.


34 posted on 05/25/2018 2:07:26 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: brownsfan

Look what Disney does with Pixar movies. First one is a hit, second one goes straight to DVD.

The exception was “Toy Story”


35 posted on 05/25/2018 2:08:02 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Dilbert San Diego

When Star Wars really took off in 1977, the original projection was for 9 movies to eventually be made, which I thought was ridiculous. I never imagined that this stupidity would metastasize like this.


36 posted on 05/25/2018 2:09:21 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: kaktuskid

*** The exception was “Toy Story” ***

Agreed. But it is the exception that proves the rule.


37 posted on 05/25/2018 2:09:31 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So what is really going on here? Are they going to make individual movies of all characters, and show the backstory of every single character in the Star Wars universe? Will their fan base really what to see such movies? How far will they go?

Who knows but when I found out there was a huge following of a bounty hunter that has a bit part in the movie, I just couldn't believe it.

38 posted on 05/25/2018 2:09:33 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: fwdude

His first name is Bob!

https://youtu.be/aKbG2JAyRFk


39 posted on 05/25/2018 2:10:27 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: EdnaMode

They wearing the Star Wars crap out.......long have been imho. I do not bother with watching the garbage anymore.


40 posted on 05/25/2018 2:13:32 PM PDT by cranked
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