James Mangold recently revealed that the Boba Fett movie he was developing for Lucasfilm several years ago was going to be heavily inspired by the spaghetti Westerns of director Sergio Leone.
Mangold has once again opened up about his scrapped Boba Fett project during an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. It’s here that he revealed the project would have been “borderline rated R.” He explained:
“Well, at the point I was doing it, I was probably scaring the shit out of everyone. But I was probably making much more of a borderline rated-R kind of spaghetti Western… single-planet, spaghetti western.”
He then added that had he done that, the world would have never been introduced to Baby Yoda. You see, his concept was basically reworked into The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett shows. Mangold said:
“The world would never be able to embrace Baby Yoda if I had made that… So… Because it didn’t really belong in the world I was kind of envisioning, but it kind of just… in a moment of kind of corporate re-alignment after whatever happened with the Han Solo movie, they just suddenly decided they weren’t making pictures like that and I think the opportunities in streaming presented themselves.”
While I would have loved to see Mangold’s Boba Fett movie, I actually like the new Star Wars film that he’s currently working on. That movie is set in ancient times in the Star Wars universe, it’s about the discovery of The Force, and that’s a much more interesting and unique story to tell!
Mangold previously shared some additional information on the kind of Star Wars film that he’s making, and said: “It just came from me thinking about if I were doing one, it seemed to me that most of what they were thinking about doing with movies were either in the present of Star Wars or the future, and what attracted me most was the distant past and how this galaxy formed and how, more specifically, the Force was discovered.”
Would you have liked to see Mangold make a borderline rated R Spaghetti Western Boba Fett movie?