The Mandalorian season finale sets up another Star Wars spinoff series

By our count, Disney has nine new Star Wars TV series on the way, not counting The Mandalorian. Add one more to the pile:

Today was the big season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, which was full of surprises! We’ll leave most of them out of this post to avoid SPOILERS, but we have to talk about one in particular, the last one.

In the post-credits sequence of the new episode, we see Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) return to Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine. Jabba, of course, was killed in Return of the Jedi, but his former chief of staff Bib Fortuna has taken over running his criminal empire.

Not if Boba can help it. He kills everyone in the palace and takes a seat on Jabba’s throne, with fellow bounty hunter Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) by his side. “The Book of Boba Fett,” reads a title card, “coming December 2021.”

Yep, that is another new Star Wars show coming to Disney+. This joins the swelling list of series already on the way, including one about Ahsoka Tano, Rangers of the New Republic, a series about Obi-Wan Kenobi, one about Lando Calrissian, another about Cassian Andor from Rogue One, animated series The Bad Batch, anime-inspired show Visions, the R2-D2 and C-3PO-headlined A Droid Story, distant prequel The Acolyte, plus a couple new movies. Everything is coming up Star Wars, a lot.

And there’s more Mandalorian on the way. According to Disney, The Mandalorian, Ahsoka and Rangers of the New Republic will all be part of the same story, and I can see The Book of Boba Fett being part of that fabric, too. It’s also unclear whether the new show will be a miniseries like the Obi-Wan show, or an ongoing one like The Mandalorian.

But what we do know is that there’s a whole lot of Star Wars coming our way. Too much? Not enough. Questions for another time.

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