First Look: Robert Rodriguez Opens The Book of Boba Fett in New Trailer
Check out footage from the new Star Wars series
By Richard Whittaker, 11:00AM, Mon. Nov. 1, 2021
Well, we may never get Machete in Space, but Robert Rodriguez is giving us the next best thing with the first trailer for the new Star Wars series for Disney+, The Book of Boba Fett.
The Austin-based director of the Sin City and the Spy Kids movies first went to a galaxy far, far away when he directed a key episode of the massively successful The Mandalorian: season 2, episode 14, "The Tragedy," which saw the return of Boba Fett. Once thought to be be finding a new definition of pain and suffering, as he was slowly digested over a thousand years in the belly of the Sarlacc, it turned out the galaxy's most dangerous bounty hunter had indeed escaped the Great Pit of Carkoon. Reunited with his armor in the series, Fett was last seen in a teaser at the end of the season finale, taking the throne of very much deceased crime boss Jabba the Hutt.
It was quite the image: Fett (Temuera Morrison, who played Boba's clone donor/father Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones), with the equally deadly Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) at his shoulder, and the promise of a new show focusing on what Fett did next.
Now Disney+ has dropped the first trailer and a release date: the first episode will arrive on Dec. 29.
Rodriguez's involvement with Fett didn't end with his episode of The Mandalorian. He's signed on as an executive producer, alongside Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy and Colin Wilson, and has directed several episodes of the show.
From the first shot – a spiderlike B'omarr monk, wandering the Dune Seas – it's clear that Rodriguez et al are on familiar turf, and we're not just talking Tatooine. Klatoonians, Weequays, the piglike Gammorreans, tentacled Twi'leks, Tusken Raiders, even an Ithorian (the Hammerhead from the original Star Wars) all crop up to place a kink in Fett's plan to take over Jabba's criminal syndicate. But with all these classic aliens involved, can it really be too long until the other Hutts get involved? We'll find out when the first episode arrives on Dec. 29 on Disney+.
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Sept. 13, 2024
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