The Book of Boba Fett producers explain why the Mandalorian showed up
By Daniel Roman
It’s been a few months now since the end of the last Star Wars show on Disney+, The Book of Boba Fett. That series saw Temeura Morrison, who played Boba’s clone daddy Jango Fett in the prequel films, put on the helmet and take over the crime scene in Mos Espa on Tatooine. However, despite being named The Book of Boba Fett, Morrison’s titular bounty hunter sat out nearly a third of the season once Mandalorian Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and Baby Yoda arrived on the scene.
It was an interesting choice that left more than a few fans scratching their heads. Did the series really have so little to say about Boba Fett that it needed to spend that much time sidelining its lead character? According to producers Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, it was a necessary move.
Why did the Mandalorian appear in The Book of Boba Fett?
To celebrate May the Fourth, Disney+ released a new documentary in the Disney Gallery series that took us behind-the-scenes of The Book of Boba Fett, where Filoni and Favreau addressed the Mandalorian in the room.
“At the very beginning, Jon [Favreau] and I look through all the season and, Jon has a bunch of things he wants to accomplish,” Filoni said. “We both like Mando, and we felt that it would be difficult for us to go a whole season without seeing him. And so, he’s a friend of Boba’s, so it makes sense to bring him back into the story.”
“Having The Book of Boba Fett come in the timeline and let everything settle, it allowed us to let some time pass, to take a breather, and meet The Mandalorian after he’d taken his helmet off and that The Child was no longer in his life,” Favreau added. “That father-child relationship that had developed was no longer there. And so his life, I think, would lose some of its meaning. That felt like fertile territory.”
While this all makes sense, I still find it interesting that Filoni and Favreau’s reasoning for including Din Djarin had everything to do with missing Mando and almost nothing to do with Boba Fett. Sure he’s a friend of Boba Fett’s, and it does make sense that he’d at least cameo in the show, but we’re talking about two whole episodes out of seven that focused on him. Not saying I didn’t love it (let’s be real, it was probably the best part of the season), but it’s still kind of weird how little the focus is on Boba Fett. It is his series, isn’t it?
The Book of Boba Fett is available to stream on Disney+. Season 3 of The Mandalorian is expected sometime late this summer.
The next Star Wars series coming to Disney+, Obi-Wan Kenobi, premieres on May 27.
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