It’s interesting to consider that James Mangold – currently about to disembark the promotional train of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as he digs into his dawn of the Jedi project – is far from a fresh recruit to the Lucasfilm family, but instead has been involved for a while as he speaks about the ‘realigned’ Boba Fett project he was working on half a decade ago with Josh Horowitz and the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
“At the point I was doing it I was probably scaring the s*** out of everyone. I was making much more of a borderline R-rated, single planet spaghetti Western. They probably would never be able to embrace Baby Yoda if I had made that. It didn’t really belong in the world I was kind of envisioning.”
“In a moment of corporate realignment or whatever happened with the Han Solo movie, they just suddenly decided they weren’t making pictures like that, and the opportunities in streaming presented themselves. I was just listening to Ennio Morricone all day, all night, and typing away. I’m not sure it ever would have happened. I’m not sure it was in anyone’s plans, what I was thinking.”
We’ll be sure to discuss this and much more on the next studio episode of Making Tracks, which lands next week.
