James Mangold’s Boba Fett Film Would Have Been A ” Borderline R-Rated Spaghetti Western”
At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced that Logan director James Mangold would be creating a Star Wars film that explored the Dawn of the Jedi.
The film will take the Star Wars franchise in a direction that it has never gone before, while also informing the upcoming Rey Skywalker movie.
Interestingly, however, this will not be Mangold’s first attempt at entering a galaxy far, far, away. Back in 2018, Mangold was hired to direct a movie starring bounty hunter Boba Fett. Not only would the Dial of Destiny director be shooting the film, but he was also co-writing the project with Simon Kinberg.
A Very Different Boba Fett
While Mangold’s Boba Fett film never came to fruition, the director says that was probably for the best.
“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.”
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Eventually, Boba Fett would be brought back in The Mandalorian and its spin-off The Book of Boba Fett. While Mangold knew that his darker approach to the character would likely scare off Lucasfilm executives, it was actually the eventual box office struggles of Solo that sank his movie.
“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,” Mangold said. “I was just listening to [spaghetti Western composer] 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.”
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A Star Wars Biblical Epic
While Mangold’s Boba Fett plans may have never become a reality, the director is getting a second chance at Star Wars. His new film was inspired by Biblical epics such as the “The Ten Commandments”
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“When I mentioned to [Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy] the idea that I had about going backward – really far backward – I was surprised that it excited her and the other wonderful people she works with at Lucasfilm,” the director told io9. “For me, it’s about, I want to be part of the saga. I also don’t want to be holding so much lore in the air that you can hardly tell a story. And what I really wanted to do, what I told her, was just can we make a kind of the ‘Ten Commandments’ of the Force, you know? A kind of origin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded, and harnessed.”
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