back forward The Mandalorian became a smash hit for Disney+ (until its troubled Season 3), writer/director James Mangold is said to be developing a standalone Boba Fett movie. At the time, Lucasfilm was looking to deliver a slate of standalone films star wars films, which had hitherto proven themselves with A thug. However, when Solo bombed, those plans were scrapped with Mangold’s Boba Fett movie, which he never really talked about. So far.
In a new interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Mangold finally opened up about his Boba Fett movie that never saw the light of day, and why it wouldn’t have been the best place for Baby Yoda (or, well, Grogu) who became the immediate star of The Mandalorian.
Via Weekly entertainment:
“At the time I was doing it, I was probably scaring everyone, but I was probably doing a lot more of a borderline R-rated single-planet spaghetti western,” he said. “The world could never have kissed Baby Yoda if I did that, because he didn’t really belong in the world I imagined.”
While the reins of Boba Fett and the rest of the Mandalorians went to Jon Favreau, Mangold still got to play in the Lucasfilm sandbox. Not only has he become the only non-Steven Spielberg director to tackle an Indiana Jones movie, but Mangold is currently set to dive back into star wars with the new movie Dawn of the Jediwhich would explore the origins of the Force in a time period defined 25,000 years before The Phantom Menace.
(via Entertainment Weekly)