The long-rumoured Star Wars Story for Boba Fett looks to finally be happening.
After years of talk that Lucasfilm was prepping a standalone movie based on The Empire Strikes Back's cult hero bounty hunter, the project seems to have taken off at last.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney and Lucasfilm are forging ahead with Logan filmmaker James Mangold, who is on board to both write and direct the untitled film.
The exact details are being kept under wraps as per usual with Lucasfilm, and it's not yet known if Mangold is working on the same Boba Fett project that his X-Men collaborator Simon Kinberg was recently developing.
The silent, helmeted assassin first appeared in animated form in The Star Wars Holiday Special, before tracking Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in live-action in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Boba Fett's popularity has taken on a life of its own since then, and he was mentioned back in 2013 among the characters that Disney wanted to focus on for standalone Star Wars movies.
The Boba Fett project will fit into the growing Star Wars Story, along with Rogue One and Solo — the latter of which is now playing in UK cinemas and opens on Friday (25 May) in the US.
There's also talk that Ewan McGregor is in negotiations to reprise his role from George Lucas's Star Wars prequels for an Obi-wan Kenobi solo movie, to be directed by Stephen Daldry.
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