Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett
If you love Star Wars lore, perhaps the most important aspect of The Book of Boba Fett is how it will further separate Disney canon Boba from Legends Boba. It’s clear from this trailer that Boba’s new goal is to become the next big crime lord, replacing the long-dead Jabba and bringing the Hutt’s captains under his rule. The former bounty hunter (he says he’s no longer one in the trailer) took his first step towards that goal by killing off Bib Fortuna and taking Jabba’s Palace for himself. Next, he’ll need to get the other leaders of Jabba’s crime syndicate on board.
This journey is very different to the one taken by Legends Boba, who wasn’t interested in becoming a crime lord. In fact, after he escaped the sarlacc pit, he went right back to bounty hunting, using reports of his death to his advantage to operate in secret for the most discrete clients. Legends Boba did settle down eventually, but not as a crime lord. He actually ended up becoming the leader of the Mandalorian people! We wrote more about the differences between Book of Boba Fett and Legends Boba here.
Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand
Whether it’s during aggressive negotiations inside Jabba’s Palace or fighting henchmen on the Tatooine streets, almost every Boba scene in the trailer features Fennec Shand at his side. While Boba’s name is in the title of this series, it’s pretty clear that Fennec is also getting top billing. What’s unclear is how exactly Fennec fits into Boba’s new criminal organization? Is she Boba’s top enforcer? His consigliere? Are they co-crime bosses?
Whatever the case, Fennec isn’t taking any lip from any challengers to their rule, as she demonstrates during a tense scene between the duo and Jabba’s former captains. Mentioning feeding dissenters to “Jabba’s menagerie” sure shut those Klatoonians up.
Renaming Boba Fett’s Ship?
If Boba and Fennec ever go offworld in this series, this trailer doesn’t show it. But Tatooine is a big place, with hundreds of miles of hot desert separating cities and smaller settlements from each other, so the duo will need Boba’s infamous ship to get around.
That modified Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft has been the subject of much debate for the past year due to Disney quietly retiring the ship’s original name, which never really made sense for Boba Fett anyway. We don’t know what the ship’s new name will be, but it’s possible The Book of Boba Fett will tell us.
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