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After a weekend of fan speculation, the official Star Wars Twitter account announced that The Book of Boba Fett will be a separate spinoff series from their hit Disney+ show The Mandalorian.
The Book of Boba Fett, a new Original Series, starring Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen and executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and Robert Rodriguez, set within the timeline of The Mandalorian, is coming to @DisneyPlus Dec. 2021. pic.twitter.com/YT2zbLufI8
— Star Wars (@starwars) December 21, 2020
According to the tweet, which also revealed the logo for the show, The Book of Boba Fett will star Temuera Morrison, who played Fett in The Mandalorian as a continuation of his role as Fett’s clone father Jango in the Star Wars prequel series, and Ming-Na Wen as her Mandalorian character Fennec Shand.
Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, who created and executive produced The Mandalorian, will executive produce The Book of Boba Fett alongside legendary director Robert Rodriguez, whose work on The Mandalorian Season 2 Chapter 15 was rightfully praised for re-introducing Fett’s beskar-wearing, Stormtrooper-stomping badassery to the live action Star Wars universe.
The post credit scene from the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian revealed that something called The Book of Boba Fett was coming in December 2021, but some fans (including Mashable) speculated that The Book was simply a subtitle for the next season of The Mandalorian. Not so!
December 2021 will bring both The Mandalorian Season 3 and The Book of Boba Fett, giving us double the Mandos, double the guns, as a statement to the unyielding demand for more Star Wars Disney+ fun.