Just when The Mandalorian brought him back and teased big things for him, Boba Fett got kind of a raw deal once his own show dropped. Disney’s not given it a second season or even so much as mentioned it, to the point just last year, star Temuera Morrison was unsure about his character’s future. But maybe things are at a point to where it could be his time once more?
While promoting his current film Ka Whawhai Tonu (In The Fire of War), Collider asked Morrison what the deal was. Along with going “where’s my season 2?,” he suggested coming in for Ahsoka’s second season to play an older version of Ahsoka’s clone trooper buddy Rex. More interestingly, he mentioned seeing Mandalorian co-creators Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau at Star Wars Celebration, where they had a group hug and he thanked them for letting him come back as Boba Fett.
Morrison then teased the pair “didn’t want to say too much, but they just left it at that.” Whatever that means, the actor likens his and the bounty hunter’s stasis as going to your grandmother’s and seeing “that preservative jar of peaches up on the shelf. I’m one of those peaches, and I’ve been put up on the shelf. I’ve been preserved for a later date, and I’m going to be tastier.”
To support Morrison’s point, there’s a few Favreau and Filoni-adjacent avenues for him to return, including another animated anthology miniseries or next year’s Maul: Shadow Lord series. Even if he doesn’t make it into Ahsoka’s next season or whatever Mandalorian & Grogu ends up, we’re likely to see the actor or Boba back sooner or later.
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