Boba Fett Origin Tale is Reportedly the Second Star Wars Anthology Film
Director Josh Trank left the project last week.
Those long-standing rumors may in fact prove true: Boba Fett is reportedly getting his own movie.
TheWrap claims that the Boba Fett standalone movie will be Disney's second planned Star Wars Anthology film, the new designation for all non-Episode, spinoff and standalone films as announced by Lucasfilm at Star Wars Celebration last month.
Chronicle and Fantastic Four director Josh Trank exited the project Friday, saying in a statement, "After a year of having the incredible honor of developing with the wonderful and talented people at Lucasfilm, I’m making a personal decision to move forward on a different path. I’ve put a tremendous amount of thought into this, and I know deep down in my heart that I want to pursue some original creative opportunities."
TheWrap says Lucasfilm and Disney are on the hunt for a new director and could even hire someone before the first Star Wars Anthology movie, Rogue One, begins filming this summer.
If this Boba Fett solo film is indeed an origin tale, it's unknown if it will it pick up after the events of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones -- where we met young Boba as an unaltered clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett who raised him as his son -- or retread ground covered in the prequel. That appears unlikely since The Clone Wars is canon and did several episodes with a young Fett in-between Episode II and III.
However, it was reported in 2013 that the "Boba Fett film would take place either between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, or between Empire and Jedi, where the bounty hunter was last seen plunging unceremoniously into a sarlacc pit."
Then there was a rumor last year that one story idea pitched for a solo Boba Fett movie would see a new character kill the original Boba, take his Mandalorian armor, and assume his identity.
Earlier reports pegged any Boba Fett spinoff as a bounty hunter-centric tale about the theft of the Death Star plans, but it appears Rogue One is utilizing the essence of that idea but with Rebels rather than bounty hunters.
