New Details Emerge About James Mangold's Scrapped BOBA FETT Movie And His Upcoming STAR WARS Project

New Details Emerge About James Mangold's Scrapped BOBA FETT Movie And His Upcoming STAR WARS Project

We finally have some details about what James Mangold was planning for his Boba Fett movie, while the filmmaker has also elaborated on what he has planned for his upcoming "Dawn of the Jedi" project...

By JoshWilding - Jun 22, 2023 06:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Variety

A number of filmmakers have considered helming a Boba Fett movie over the years, including Josh Trank (Fantastic Four) and James Mangold (Logan). 

Thanks to Variety, we now have some new details on what the filmmaker had planned for the Star Wars franchise's most iconic bounty hunter. According to the trade, the plan was for it to be "a one-off spaghetti Western in the vein of Sergio Leone."

That sounds like exactly what fans want from the character on screen and is quite a contrast to how the character was portrayed in The Book of Boba Fett. Despite being part of the Mando-Verse, the show drew a mixed response from fans and critics alike, with many arguing the spin-off watered Fett down. 

While his Boba Fett movie didn't pan out, Mangold was given another shot at heading into a Galaxy Far, Far Away while working on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

When Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy asked if he was still interested in Star Wars, "I said, 'Yes, but it seems like everything you’re developing is continuing forward,'" Mangold recalls. As a result, the filmmaker pitched "a 'Ten Commandments' about the dawning of the Force."

"It is basically, for fans, a kind of religion. What is it to have found this power and not even understand what it is?"

The untitled movie will be set in a period known as the "Dawn of the Jedi," and based on what we learned at Star Wars Celebration, events will unfold thousands of years in the past and follow the first person to wield the Force and the beginnings of the group who would become the Jedi.

With that in mind, it's bound to be a much different Star Wars movie than any we've seen before, an intriguing prospect seeing as we've spent a huge amount of time within the same 100 years or so on screen thus far. 

While not confirmed, Mangold's Star Wars movie is currently expected to hit theaters on December 17, 2027.

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