Bobs Fett movie?

[Iroscato]

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/982977/ ... ility.html

Thoughts? It could be interesting...

[Darth Tedious]

I wonder if they'd set it before Episode V or after the Sarlacc escape...

Or, show things during the intervening time from Fett's perspective?

Could be interesting. But my first thought is that Uncle George will say no.

[Srelex]

Might be something more suited to the live-action series, if that materializes in good time.

Of course, if George is a merch-obsessed maniac as his detractors claim he is, not much reason why not.

[The Romulan Republic]

If it contradicts Travis's Mandalorian junk, that might be good, right?

[Captain Seafort]

If it contradicts Travis's Mandalorian junk, that might be good, right?

So long as there's an offhand comment about Fett being one of trillions, I don't care what the rest of it's like.

[Kingmaker]

I, too, am chiefly concerned with the canon implications of a Boba Fett movie.

I actually wouldn't mind this, so long as it's decent and so long as it's Star Wars. A movie about a bounty hunter could be a nice change from the all Jedi, all the time stuff we've had in the past decade. Just so long as it's Star Wars. On the other hand, I don't know if Boba is an interesting enough character to carry a movie.

[Srelex]

I, too, am chiefly concerned with the canon implications of a Boba Fett movie.

I actually wouldn't mind this, so long as it's decent and so long as it's Star Wars. A movie about a bounty hunter could be a nice change from the all Jedi, all the time stuff we've had in the past decade. Just so long as it's Star Wars. On the other hand, I don't know if Boba is an interesting enough character to carry a movie.

Well, we've had comics focused on him that weren't half bad, for what it's worth.

[Wing Commander MAD]

Eh, the Bounty Hunter Wars books were decent in my opinion, so it could work. Certainly, it would be a welcome reprieve from the all the Jedi/Sith shit. For all the Star Wars material out there, 95% can be described as Sith make evil plans -> Sith enact evil plans -> Jedi defeat Sith and save the day 1. Mind you that half of the remaining 5% is probably spent trying to recapture Solo's lovable rogue shtick. Heck a non magic sword user focused movie might even help breath some new life into the franchise and allow us to see more cool tech. You're doing something profoundly wrong if I am burned out on laser swords, especially ones in video games 2.

1: Except not really, so repeat process ad infinitum.
2: I'm looking at you Lucas Arts.

Edit: Also, who is Bobs Fett?

[Purple]

Edit: Also, who is Bobs Fett?

He's that guy in green armor and a jet pack that acts as a nuisance for some 5 minutes until Luke deflects his blaster shot and sends him flying into that big mouth thing.

Alternatively, you might know him as the bounty hunter who took Han Solo off the hands of a certain Darth Vader and delivered him to Jaba thus setting up a large part of the movie.

[Batman]

Somebody didn't get the joke. I thought not getting the joke was my job.

[Eframepilot]

Edit: Also, who is Bobs Fett?

He's that guy in green armor and a jet pack that acts as a nuisance for some 5 minutes until Luke deflects his blaster shot and sends him flying into that big mouth thing.

Alternatively, you might know him as the bounty hunter who took Han Solo off the hands of a certain Darth Vader and delivered him to Jaba thus setting up a large part of the movie.

No, that's BobA Fett. We want to know who BobS Fett is.

[Kingmaker]

Edit: lame joke immediately retracted and regretted.

[Purple]

Somebody didn't get the joke. I thought not getting the joke was my job.

Well Mr. Batman. It seems that finally you have been rendered OBSOLETE!

This said I am not too keen for this movie. Boba is all fine and dandy but most fans will be drawing on the movies and the movies alone as a source. And when you get down to that, in the movies he is just a glorified extra.

[Havok]

Hey guys, who is Bobs Fett?

Man, they should totally make a Boba Fett movie one day.

[Tiriol]

This may seem like a stupid question, but can Boba Fett carry a movie all on his own shoulders, so to speak? Much of the character's effectiveness in many older EU works was that nobody knew anything certain about his past. And while he is an intriguing character in his own right even after getting to know the full details of his past (or at least of his childhood), he actually needs strong supporting characters to make his stories interesting. Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire had Vader and his goons and pretty interesting set-up and in the end it was actually more about Vader's ambition than about Fett; and same tends to hold true in most other works of fiction I've seen centered on him. Li'l Boba's appearance in the new Clone Wars series did focus on him, but it still had pretty strong background characters to keep the balance.

[Havok]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Even with the backstory Lucas plugged into the Clone wars, and with Fett being around 30 at the time on ANH, he is a fairly desolate landscape of story. Bounty hunter like his dad. Hates Jedi cause they killed Jango. Uses all his same equipment. Boring, if not cliche as hell.

Unless someone decides to make him some sort of heroic character, which is just ridiculous with his actions in TESB and ROTJ.

He is a hired gun, plain and simple like his dad.

[Iroscato]

Sorry about the typo, I was delirious with sleeplessness

[Panzersharkcat]

Meh, the only thing I'd look for in a Boba Fett movie would be just him kicking huge amounts of ass while hunting down someone. Heck, it'd be interesting to see a Star Wars movie from an evil character's perspective.

[Havok]

That I wouldn't mind. This noble bad guy shit has got to fucking stop. It is beyond cliche at this point.

Make him despicable and ruthless. Make him like Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs. He can be loyal and keep his word, but you would never, never ever want to meet the guy.

[Panzersharkcat]

Agreed. I'd like to see a Stormtrooper movie, too, if only to kill the idea that Stormies can't shoot for shit.

[Darksider]

Stormtroopers? Maybe a TV movie or miniseries, but not a full theatrical film

Too many big-screen spin offs will spoil the franchise and take away some of the magic of the Trilogies. It just seems like they'd be cash-ins and nothing more. The small screen is plenty for showing these smaller side stories.

Personally I'm still hoping for a Band of Brothers-style miniseries following a Clone Trooper company or a Rebel SpecForce company during the GCW.

[The Romulan Republic]

Have the movie be Boba hunting down rogue Jedi after Order 66, on a contract from the Empire. This would make him unmistakably the bad guy, but at the same time give him a sympathetic motive, given that a Jedi killed his father (points to Havok for pointing out this important bit of characterization). The film would end with him killing a Jedi fugitive but allowing his comrades to escape because, hey, they weren't in the contract. The final scene could be him getting hired by Jabba to hunt down Han Solo.

Additional editing: no, I'm not talking about Mandalorian wank. He'd kill a minor Jedi, not in a straight fight, but by cunning and treachery. Slip the Jedi poison to dull his senses, then set off a mine or thermal detonator nearby, then go in for the kill. Something like that. I'd make it explicit he'd probably lose a straight fight.

[Havok]

The problem I see with that is Boba is 13 at the end of ROTS. Vader is supposed to be the Jedi hunter. Boba needs to grow up and do all his training which I would say he needs to be 26-28 before he is really a formidable opponent for a Jedi, by which time, "the Jedi are all but extinct". Vader has over a decade head start wiping out the Jedi in my estimation.

If you are suggesting he is always trying to find a Jedi to actually kill, and he finally gets one, by disintegrating him, that say Vader was also on the trail of (hence the line and the seeming familiarity with Fett) then maybe that could work. He still needs to be a despicable character in my mind though.

[Panzersharkcat]

Stormtroopers? Maybe a TV movie or miniseries, but not a full theatrical film

Too many big-screen spin offs will spoil the franchise and take away some of the magic of the Trilogies. It just seems like they'd be cash-ins and nothing more. The small screen is plenty for showing these smaller side stories.

Personally I'm still hoping for a Band of Brothers-style miniseries following a Clone Trooper company or a Rebel SpecForce company during the GCW.

True. I'd still prefer it to be Stormtroopers, though, and after recruits have more or less replaced clones just to drive it in that kicking ass and taking names for the glory of the Empire is not just the domain of Jango clones.

[The Romulan Republic]

Hmm, maybe set it several years later, then.

And he should definitely disintegrate the Jedi when he finds him, good idea there Havok.

I also agree, make it clear Boba's scum. The films and some of the EU established a cold, ruthless contract killer.