The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Favreau gave us what -- Iron Man, the widely panned Iron Man 2 (although I admit that I liked it as a fun movie) some good to great episodes of The Mandalorian ... that series was uneven and had some poor choices before getting straight Filoni'd ... and the pile of hot garbage BoBF. The man is overrated at best but hey, he's laughing all the way to the bank so what do I know.

He also did Elf which I feel has become a modern Christmas classic. But I admit I was probably too high on him after season two of The Mandalorian. In my defense he had just seemingly rescued the Star Wars franchise, and that after creating the rise of Iron Man(most popular MCU character) and one of very few Christmas films in most people's rotation every Holiday season.

 

[Mandible]

Basically, Mando is the closet thing to what "our" Fett could have been.

Honestly though, I love TM in Once Were Warriors, but beyond that, he can't act his way out of a paper bag. - and once he was cast as Jango/Fett, that was the beginning of the end for the character.

All you have to do is listen to the original Fett voice actor delivering those lines with amazing presence and subtext (which is why the character was so beloved back in the day), then listen to TM's lacklustre regurgitation of the lines (you could almost add a "bro" on the end of each of his lines and it wouldn't feel out of place with the rest of the delivery), and then and there you know the character was dead forever.

 

[Garlador]

Favreau is… fine. I like most of his stuff - Iron Man, Jungle Book, Chef, Elf, most of Mando, and even Iron Man 2. And he has some misses. Nobody bats 100.

 

[ZE_501]

Favreau is… fine. I like most of his stuff - Iron Man, Jungle Book, Chef, Elf, most of Mando, and even Iron Man 2. And he has some misses. Nobody bats 100.

Personally I'm not interested in Jungle Book or Elf, and 'Chef' makes me lose my appetite. I expect people to have misses, that's totally fair -- my point is more along the lines of what @TurdFurgusonsHat relates ... people being high on the seeming resurrection of Star Wars by Favreau after the ST ... and that turning out to be an anomaly.

I would have called him 'fine' until BoBF which is less of a miss and more of a slow motion train wreck.

 

[Khev]

Homicidal Wanda was still more likable than "good" Boba Fett. If they wanted Fett to decide to "make the world a better place" then he should have gone about it the way Bill Butcher does on The Boys.

And if they were hellbent on having a New Zealander who was big in 2002 play Fett then then they should have just offered that role to Urban as well, especially since he's still in great shape and obviously has no problems playing a character who never removes his mask.

 

[a-dev]

They were bound by his prequel origins unfortunately. But yeah Karl Urban would have been cool. Tem would have made a great Dengar though.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Any decent actor that was willing to wear a helmet and fit Jeremy Bulloch's body type would have been far superior to Morrison. They literally had millions of better options.

 

[Mandible]

Anyone played the old game Star Wars Bounty Hunter?

If you haven't, it's worth watching the cutscenes (all strung together like a movie) on Youtube because Morrison's voice acting and the Jango Fett character were handled really well. He was still ruthless, etc, but it showed his "humanity" in a different way that was still plausible with that sort of character.

The story is about how and why he was chosen to be the "donor" for the clones, how he met Zam, his main adversary, his backstory, and a bunch of other little nuggets. It's not perfect, but overall, it was a pretty cool story.

 

[chrisstbh]

Can't knock Tems enthusiasm for being part of Star Wars. I loved him as Jango and he did great as Boba in Mando S2, just a shame he wasn't given better material to work with for BOBF.

 

[a-dev]

I kept thinking of Korg from the MCU with that accent.

That was a great clip. He knows how to work the room.

 

[Asta]

https://www.facebook.com/TheSWU/

 

[Asta]

 

[ScoutingForToys]

All these pictures of the costumes and props look so interesting. Then you remember how the actual show turned out...

 

[greygoose]

All these pictures of the costumes and props look so interesting. Then you remember how the actual show turned out...

 

[Darth Snoopy]

@Asta I love seeing props from shows/movies like Star Wars, I loved it when the Star Wars Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition came to Exploration Place in Wichita, Kansas a few years back.

Thanks for posting the pics!

 

[Khev]

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That was all at Celebration? Damn that would have been awesome to see.

 

[Asta]

That was all at Celebration? **** that would have been awesome to see.

There's film showing it here:



It starts at 16:46.

 

[Khev]

Why is "d a m n" censored? When it bleeps that out it makes my post seem much more profane than it actually was, lol.

 

[Otomofan]

There's SOOO much now, the Lucasfilm archives must need several more annexes.

I saw "Magic of Myth" at its original run at the Smithsonian and that was before the prequels, and even that was overwhelming with the sheer amount of costumes and props on display.

What an amazing experience. It's so incredibly cool to see stuff like that in person, just inches away from you.

Also makes you realize how TINY the actors must have been in real life, especially in the 70s. Ford's costumes were super slim. Leia's were practically child-sized.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The coke'd up 70's. Fortunately it stuck around into the 80's so I could partake.