Forty years in the past, Han Solo stated it finest. “Boba Fett? Boba Fett? The place?” After the character’s sudden return in The Mandalorian season two, he received a full backstory in The Ebook of Boba Fett. However now it’s been nicely over a 12 months and even after a full season of The Mandalorian, the primary well-known Mandalorian continues to be nowhere to be seen.
Will he seem in Ahsoka? The Mandalorian season 4? One other season of The Ebook of Boba Fett? One one that is aware of is Robert Rodriguez, who directed Boba’s Mandalorian return in “The Tragedy” and government produced The Ebook of Boba Fett, whereas additionally directing nearly half the collection. io9 spoke to him on behalf of his upcoming Ben Affleck sci-fi thriller Hypnotic and tried to search out out, however Rodriguez wouldn’t budge.
“I can’t say,” he informed io9. “I’m sworn to secrecy. I want I might inform you. I do know all of the solutions to what you’re asking, however I can’t say.” Which, to be trustworthy, is the reply we anticipated. Was he going to say? “Oh, Mando recruits him in season 4 after which they struggle aspect by aspect within the Dave Filoni film?” In fact not. Nevertheless it was price a shot.
What Rodriguez was clear about is simply how a lot he cherishes the character and the universe. He even compares his time in a galaxy far, far, away to a fantasy camp.
“Every little thing you noticed each day… it didn’t really feel such as you had been seeing behind the scenes. It felt so actual,” Rodriguez stated. “The units had been so actual. Even the quantity was so actual that you just felt such as you had been in Star Warfares… You realize, there’s these’s issues referred to as ‘Rock Camp’ that if you wish to go play with [Aerosmith guitarist] Joe Perry or one thing, you pay cash to get on stage for 2 seconds with him? That is what a director would pay cash to do. To have Star Wars camp. To get to direct and edit and be a part of the Star Wars universe simply as an expertise is certainly one of my favourite experiences as a result of it was only a dream come true.”
Possibly, someday, we’ll see him again there. Till then, you may see Rodriguez’s try at making his personal model of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, with a sci-fi twist, in Hypnotic starring Ben Affleck. It’s out Friday and we’ll have extra on that later this week.
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