'I'm at a Convention, and I Say Stupid Things' — Boba Fett Star Temuera Morrison Reveals Lucasfilm Phone Call After Telling Star Wars Fans to Lobby for His Return

What adjacent for Temuera Morrison and his iconic quality Boba Fett successful the ongoing Star Wars franchise? Not much, it sounds like. In a caller interview, the histrion said Boba is inactive “on the shelf” — contempt his attempts to spark a return.

In August past year, Morrison called connected Star Wars fans to inundate Lucasfilm with requests to spot the histrion reprise his relation arsenic the iconic bounty hunter, with The Book of Boba Fett Season 2 looking progressively unlikely.

Morrison, alongside Daniel Logan, who played young Boba/Jango Fett’s clone son, told fans astatine the FanX's Tampa Bay Comic Convention that there’s thing successful the works successful presumption of a caller appearance. He past utilized the accidental to contented his plea: “I deliberation we truly person to treasure those moments now. All of you request to nonstop a fax, oregon a letter, oregon an email, to those powers that beryllium astatine Lucasfilm. I'm definite they'd emotion to perceive from everyone. Please springiness Daniel Logan and Temuera Morrison different accidental and enactment them somewhere.”

It turns retired that somewhat irked Lucasfilm, who called Morrison up to reiterate Boba’s situation.

“I was lone joking. I’m astatine a convention, and I accidental anserine things,” Morrison told Inverse. “Then I’ve got [Lucasfilm] ringing me: ‘Look, you’ve been enactment connected the shelf, Boba Fett. We mightiness unfastened up the jar later.’”

Morrison primitively played Jango Fett successful Star Wars: Episode 2 – Attack of the Clones, but years aboriginal rejoined Star Wars arsenic Jango's lad and clone Boba Fett.

The past clip we saw the 65-year-old New Zealander play Fett was astatine the extremity of The Book of Boba Fett, successful February 2022. The Disney+ spin-off bid proved divisive, with immoderate Star Wars fans feeling it went excessively acold successful softening the iconic villain's character.

Morrison told Inverse that helium had hoped to get aggregate seasons retired of Boba Fett. “It was a large woody for me,” helium said. “When you bash a bid similar Boba Fett and enactment with Ming-Na [Wen], I started to think, ‘Man, this is it. I’m away. Season 2, 3, 4.’ But astatine the extremity of it, we had a large time. I was honored to beryllium brought backmost aft each that time.”

Even with The Mandalorian and Grogu coming retired successful May, a Boba Fett instrumentality feels debased down connected Lucasfilm's precedence list. Will determination beryllium a The Mandalorian Season 4? Lucasfilm has yet to say, but if it does happen, possibly Boba Fett would popular up there. Otherwise, if Lucasfilm really makes the Dave Filoni New Republic team-up movie it has announced, possibly Boba volition articulation forces with Mando and Ahsoka successful an Avengers-style combat against Grand Admiral Thrawn.

However, outgoing Lucasfilm brag Kathleen Kennedy made nary notation of the Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Boba Fett crossover movie erstwhile revealing her exit successful January, though it's apt her successor, Filoni himself, volition beryllium the 1 to springiness an update connected this arsenic its destiny apt rests connected the show of The Mandalorian and Grogu this year.

In June past year, Morrison revealed helium really pitched Lucasfilm connected Boba Fett appearing successful Ahsoka Season 2 ("can I beryllium Rex and instrumentality his helmet off, please?"), pointing retired that helium plays not conscionable Boba Fett but each the clones based upon the character.

In 2024, speaking astatine the From Clone Troopers to Bounty Hunters sheet astatine Fan Expo Chicago, Morrison cited The Book of Boba Fett's mediocre reception arsenic the crushed for the erstwhile beloved quality not returning successful Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu. The show, which told the communicative of Boba Fett arsenic helium escaped from the Sarlacc Pit and acted arsenic a miniature play of The Mandalorian, was among the worst received Star Wars shows. "This show's reception does look to person impacted the aboriginal of the quality successful the franchise," Morrison said astatine the time.

Amid each this, lone 2 Star Wars films are definitively confirmed to release: The Mandalorian and Grogu launches successful theaters connected May 22, and Ryan Gosling's Star Wars: Starfighter arrives connected May 28, 2027.

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