Boba Fett Movie Spinoff Confirmed

Yeah, in my opinion a Fett movie is a tricky proposition. While it has every potential to be awesome if done right, it could also quite easily be the complete opposite. Anyway, if they do make a Boba Fett movie, the helmet needs to stay on at all times. I may ruffle some feathers here but I want them to go back to the original concept of a mysterious, Eastwoodian man of few words and hope they just sort of forget about the prequels. To me Boba Fett will always be Jeremy Bulloch and Jason Wingreen so I'd like to see an effort to at least try to approximate the body type of the former and voice of the latter. I absolutely hated George inserting Morrison's voice in TESB and frankly didn't at all like Boba's backstory that he concocted for AOTC. Frankly, I would be totally fine if the "Boba Fett" we saw in the OT was actually a guy that had killed Jango's personal clone at some point and simply assumed the name. That would instantly wash away the AOTC backstory and bring back the mystery of the character, leaving us wondering "Who the heck is THIS guy?"

If Disney/LFL can put out a movie that makes little or no reference to the prequels and delivers a western-in-space, "Man With No Name"-type tale, with a Fett that confidently lives firmly in the "grey area" of morality and happily plays both sides when it suits him, I will be (surprised and) quite happy.

You should wright the screen-play (y)
 
I am hopefully that they will come up with a good story. I do like Wolfs idea of someone other than the clone, but that probably won't happen, they will want to maintain continuity with the (******) prequels. The few episodes of the clone wars that boba appeared in could help set the foundation of how he became the bad a$$ he is.
On a side note, for those that like to read I recommend darth Plagueis. It changes the entire storyline for the phantom menace by outlaying the reason naboo was invaded and how exactly sidious began the clone wars. Reading the book makes it a much better movie.
 
I hope they dont do the period between ROTS and ROTJ i dont wanna see Boba as some angry hi pitched kid and later a whiny angsty young adult (Lloyd and Hayden as Anakin Skywalker springs to mind.. uhg... -_- ).
I just wanna see him as a ****** mysterious bounty hunter .
 
I don't really know what you guys are talking about, a cheesy "death" and AOTC already ruined anything mysterious and cool about him. I'm up for a movie where he can redeem himself on-screen and show why Vader respects him highly in ESB. And I've read a few EU stuff too but I'm strictly talking about on-screen here. I'd love to see a Dredd-like film with Boba tearing s**t up to get to his bounty.

And lack of merchandise? Boba? lol

They did this. The Star Wars Holiday Special. Laugh if you want, but that's all the background I need visually.

Yeah, in my opinion a Fett movie is a tricky proposition. While it has every potential to be awesome if done right, it could also quite easily be the complete opposite. Anyway, if they do make a Boba Fett movie, the helmet needs to stay on at all times. I may ruffle some feathers here but I want them to go back to the original concept of a mysterious, Eastwoodian man of few words and hope they just sort of forget about the prequels. To me Boba Fett will always be Jeremy Bulloch and Jason Wingreen so I'd like to see an effort to at least try to approximate the body type of the former and voice of the latter. I absolutely hated George inserting Morrison's voice in TESB and frankly didn't at all like Boba's backstory that he concocted for AOTC. Frankly, I would be totally fine if the "Boba Fett" we saw in the OT was actually a guy that had killed Jango's personal clone at some point and simply assumed the name. That would instantly wash away the AOTC backstory and bring back the mystery of the character, leaving us wondering "Who the heck is THIS guy?"

If Disney/LFL can put out a movie that makes little or no reference to the prequels and delivers a western-in-space, "Man With No Name"-type tale, with a Fett that confidently lives firmly in the "grey area" of morality and happily plays both sides when it suits him, I will be (surprised and) quite happy.

Absolutely no way on Earth that this happens (the helmet part).

If they follow through with this, Hollywood formula DEMANDS that the mask comes off for most of the movie. The audience must see the protagonist's face. One of the few exceptions that I can think of is 'V for Vendetta,' but that character 1.) has a mask that looked like a human face and 2.) is extremely talkative. Boba Fett has/is neither. The movie would also DEMAND a love interest.

All of this goes absolutely against the character that has been presented on-screen and fleshed out (at length) in the Expanded Universe. True, the EU is not considered 'canon', but in order to write a feasible major motion picture, a movie studio CANNOT stray from that formula, Disney or not.

As much as we'd all like more Boba Fett, I think this is a horrible idea. I really don't want to sound like a party pooper, but seriously, there's just no feasible way to do the character justice on the silver screen. A character like Boba Fett is MUCH more suited to being the protaganist of a series of video games.....

If the film happens and I'm wrong, I'll be THRILLED to eat crow, but I just don't think they can pull it off.
 
Rubio95=party pooper

A boy can dream..... It could damage the character.... I get that. It could NOT be worse than episodes 1-3.....
 
Just trying to be positive....oh well. At least we've always got ESB and ROTJ....up to the sarlacc pit anyway.

Any word on a possible story line for Star Wars ep 7 yet? Surely there has to be some major villain coming up right? Is there something wrong that I turn the bad guys into my good guys?
 
I think most of us like the bad guys more. The good guys like luke are usually whinny and annoying. The only cool good guy was Han and he wasn't always good.
 
As for story for Episode 7...I have no idea. They are bringing back Hamill, Fisher and Ford, which is nice, but I hope they don't focus on them. They are 30 years older, and I think most people's expectations of them would be way too high. When I saw Harrison Ford in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, part of me died. So if they took the route of Han/Leia's kids, that would be cool, and the rebirth of the Jedi Order.
 
I've read somewhere today that the Fett movie is to take place before ESB, which is a great area for stories to come from (Dash Rendar & a great video game). The exciting part of this though is the screen play is being written by the same guy who penned ESB as well as ROTJ, Kardan. I'm looking forward to Fett getting screen time. It will certainly put the demand for us "troopers" out there. So get your helmets ready!
 
Yeah, I'm VERY curious what variation of Fett's costume they'll use in this spin-off the most. Would be cool to see him start off with a "clean" set of armor. I know he supposedly pieced them together, but his armors have always coordinated in some way so it'd be cool to see how he gets the wear and tear on them. Knowing Disney, they'll probably even include how he got the dent.
 
Absolutely no way on Earth that this happens (the helmet part).

If they follow through with this, Hollywood formula DEMANDS that the mask comes off for most of the movie. The audience must see the protagonist's face. One of the few exceptions that I can think of is 'V for Vendetta,' but that character 1.) has a mask that looked like a human face and 2.) is extremely talkative. Boba Fett has/is neither. The movie would also DEMAND a love interest.

While I agree this is a common formula seen in Hollywood movies, I disagree that this is such a hard and fast "rule". Not that it was a cinematic masterpiece (though I liked it), the most recent aforementioned Dredd movie did a decent job handling a "mysterious, helmeted bada$$" protagonist that managed to avoid getting tangled up in a love story. It may not be common but I think a movies with this formula are certainly possible.
 
While I agree this is a common formula seen in Hollywood movies, I disagree that this is such a hard and fast "rule". Not that it was a cinematic masterpiece (though I liked it), the most recent aforementioned Dredd movie did a decent job handling a "mysterious, helmeted bada$$" protagonist that managed to avoid getting tangled up in a love story. It may not be common but I think a movies with this formula are certainly possible.

According to Wikipedia, the budget for Dredd was 45 million.

The box office take? 41 million.

That's a strong indicator of what happens when you stray from the formula, these days.

Again, I'm not trying to rain on the parade, I'm just looking at the logistics of a project like this.
 
That is a **** shame, sorry to go off topic but Dredd was a great flick, I knew it wasn't a box office hit but I never realised it did so poorly, was really looking forward to a sequel, possible not now though...

Anyway, fett film, as many have said before and possibly will after, that will be a tough one to do right, could easily go wrong, simply by removing his helmet, which has also already been said, basically I can't think of anything original to add to the conversation so repeating other people's comments :)

According to Wikipedia, the budget for Dredd was 45 million.

The box office take? 41 million.

That's a strong indicator of what happens when you stray from the formula, these days.

Again, I'm not trying to rain on the parade, I'm just looking at the logistics of a project like this.
 
It seems to have done extremely well on home media, probably due to word of mouth. Dredd was poorly marketed and also came out at the tail end of a pretty big summer, so it pretty much slipped under the radar. Add in the fact that I know a lot of people were immediately turned off because of the Stallone version, and I'm not sure if it was true all over the world but they only had it in 3D where I lived so I know that was a turn off to alot of people.

Honestly, the only reason I'm so optimistic is because, IM3 aside, I think Disney's done a great job on their big movies with Marvel and I really don't expect them to drop the ball with the SW franchise. I have hope they can do a great job. Until I see otherwise, I'll keep my cup half-full.
 
Yeah personally I think Dredd's lackluster performance had more to do with the lingering negative stigma of the Stallone Dredd and Dredd perhaps appealing to a more niche market rather than the fact it didn't follow the typical Hollywood formula. I think the simple fact that Fett is a product of Star Wars and is one of its most popular and recognizable characters would go a long way toward overcoming what I think were Dredd's shortcomings.
 
Yeah personally I think Dredd's lackluster performance had more to do with the lingering negative stigma of the Stallone Dredd and Dredd perhaps appealing to a more niche market rather than the fact it didn't follow the typical Hollywood formula.

Main reason I didn't see it in theatre. Although the only thing that really made me howl was the fact that they reused this line...

http://youtu.be/wvJiYrRcfQo

Holy **** I forgot Rob Schneider was in that...HAH!
 
Yeah, I was the same way. I didn't care at all to see it but wound up going with a buddy because no one else would go with him. To my surprise, not only was the movie better than I expected but I actually enjoyed it!
 
Anyway, if they do make a Boba Fett movie, the helmet needs to stay on at all times.

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