Lucasfilm is following the MCU’s pattern in The Mandalorian era, and The Book of Boba Fett star Temeura Morrison hopes he’s onboard for the ride!
Temeura Morrison has rightly noted Lucasfilm’s plans for a movie set in The Mandalorian era sound “a bit like the Avengers.” The Star Wars movies have been on something of a pause since Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but that’s changing at last. At Star Wars Celebration 2023, Lucasfilm president officially announced three upcoming projects: one exploring the dawn of the Jedi, another continuing Rey’s story after the sequel trilogy, and a third featuring the stars of The Mandalorian era. Directed by George Lucas’ protege Dave Filoni himself, this will draw together the plot threads from the various Disney+ TV shows set during that period.
Temeura Morrison, who has returned to Star Wars as Boba Fett in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has noticed the pattern. Speaking to Dexerto, he reflected on the obvious inspiration; “It sounds a bit like Avengers if you ask me,” he observed. “I guess with [Jon Favreau’s] experience making Iron Man, subsequently the Marvel Universe exploded… so it would be the logical thing for them to do.” He’s right to point to Favreau’s experience, which presumably involves having learned lessons from the early MCU’s stumbles.
Star Wars Really Is Following The MCU’s Avengers Pattern
It’s easy to forget how risky the early Marvel Cinematic Universe really was. Had The Avengers failed in 2012, the whole project would have collapsed like a house of cards. But The Avengers grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, prompting other studios to desperately attempt to follow the same formula. Univeral’s Dark Universal was killed off by The Mummy, the DCEU faltered in its desperation to catch up with Marvel, and Will Smith’s ambitions for After Earth went unfulfilled. Many other shared universes never really got off the launchpad; Sony’s plans for a Robin Hood shared universe were absolutely surreal. Even Marvel Television failed to repeat the idea with their Marvel Netflix shows, and the supposed “climax” show The Defenders failed.
Lucasfilm is the latest studio to try to make this work, although they’ve taken a transmedia approach; start things off in Disney+ TV shows and then spill out into a blockbuster movie. There have already been a few stumbles, likely a result of the course correction required to establish this transmedia project, and The Book of Boba Fett was panned. Still, Filoni and Favreau are experienced, and should be able to pull things back together. Morrison, for his part, hopes he’ll still be part of the project. “I better be a part of that whole thing,” he told Dexerto jokingly. “I think they’re just sorting themselves out at the moment.” Hopefully it won’t be long before Morrison is able to indicate whether Boba Fett really is in this upcoming movie set in The Mandalorian era.
