We’ve got 78 days to countdown until the arrival of The Mandalorian and Grogu, and unless Lucasfilm and Temuera Morrison are being very cute indeed, the film won’t feature Boba Fett in any capacity, and speaking with Inverse on the red carpet of his latest film The Bluff, Morrison discussed the current state of affairs regarding the galaxy’s greatest bounty hunter and whether he’ll appear anytime soon.
Tragically, it seems as though the “Mandoverse” is moving on without the original Mandalorian, Boba Fett himself. While Din and Grogu’s story will continue with a big-screen epic set to unite the threads of The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka, Morrison revealed he was “still waiting for a phone call” in 2024. Circumstances haven’t changed much since: in an interview with Inverse to promote his latest film, The Bluff, Morrison confirms that Boba Fett is still “on the shelf.”
The actor reportedly caught a bit of flak from Lucasfilm after telling fans to “send a fax, or a letter or an email” lobbying for more Boba Fett in 2025. “I was only joking. I’m at a convention, and I say stupid things,” Morrison tells Inverse. “Then I’ve got [Lucasfilm] ringing me: ‘Look, you’ve been put on the shelf, Boba Fett. We might open up the jar later.’”
“[I’m] shelved, that’s all,” he adds, “like a jar of peaches. When it does get opened, I’m going to come out sweeter, darling.”
For more from Temuera, you can listen to him onstage with myself at last years Herts Comic Con.
