The Book of Boba Fett’s first chapter has a lot of blank pages
Francois Duhamel / Lucasfilm Ltd The Book of Boba Fett finally is giving its titular character the spotlight.
The fan-favorite bounty hunter has long lurked in the margins of Star Wars' history: his brief introduction in an animated short during the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special; and his rocketing to popularity thanks to his iconic armor (practically designed to sell action figures) despite his brief appearances in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, his shoehorned backstory in Attack of the Clones, and a half-baked arc in The Clone Wars. For all that, Fett himself has been an enigma, a blank slate of badassery that's never been filled in.
Fett has spend decades as a blank slate of badassery
But after years of rumors of a solo film, an aborted history...