{"id":1372,"date":"2012-01-31T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2014-12-13T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T19:30:57","slug":"underworld-expected-to-headline-boba-fett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/film-tv\/underworld-expected-to-headline-boba-fett\/","title":{"rendered":"Boba Fett Expected to Headline in \"Underworld\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1373\" title=\"underworld\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/underworld.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MTV News reporter Alex Zalben is confirming today in a <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-news.mtv.com\/2012\/01\/31\/star-wars-tv-show-underworld-boba-fett\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> that &#8220;Underworld&#8221; is the new live-action, but yet-to-be-financed Star Wars show. The post questions if Boba Fett may be the star of the show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, sure, you&#8217;ve been burned by the prequels. And Lucasfilm doesn&#8217;t have the best track record in the world for live action TV (see: Christmas special). But the idea of a big budget Star Wars TV show on every week, with the same production values as the movies &#8211; which is what producers have promised is what, budgetarily, is holding up the show in the first place &#8211; makes our midichlorian count go through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Other details that have come out over time? The show will be set between Episode III and IV, as a group of mob bosses consolidate their power, paralleling the rise of the Empire at the same time. There&#8217;s also been plenty of rumors that bounty hunters will be involved, which of course, leads us to one name: Boba Fett.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, is there any question whether this is a Boba Fett series? Sure, he could be part of a sprawling cast, but given the Star Wars Universe&#8217;s unerring focus on one character at a time, there&#8217;s almost no way the Mandalorian won&#8217;t be front and center in the series. He&#8217;s a fan favorite, and even with an important role as, you know, every clone trooper ever, he still holds an enigmatic place in Star Wars lore.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, we like him that way, so there&#8217;s a certain sense that maybe we DON&#8217;T want SW:U to be a Boba Fett spectacular. But it&#8217;s either that, or a soap opera featuring a bunch of Hutts, and that would be gross.<\/p>\n<p>That all said? We may still not get to see this for a good long while, even though producer Rick McCallum swears there are fifty &#8220;excellent&#8221; scripts already written on a shelf somewhere. That&#8217;s because each script will cost about five million to produce, and where in the world would Lucasfilm get two hundred and fifity million dollars? They&#8217;d have to go all out re-releasing all six Star Wars movies in 3-D over the next six years in order to&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0458291\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb<\/a> record, which is now called &#8220;Star Wars: Underworld,&#8221; Daniel Logan is listed as a rumor-only for being attached. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Daniel_Logan\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps you could ask him on Twitter?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more about the comic series &#8220;Underworld,&#8221; which featured Boba Fett and may have the storyline of the live-action series, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/multimedia\/galleries\/thumbnails.php?album=58\">image gallery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/bounty\/books\/comics\/\">collectible database<\/a> records, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/boards\/topic\/230\/star-wars-underworld-thoughts\/\">discussion<\/a> on our message board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV News reporter Alex Zalben is confirming today in a blog post that &#8220;Underworld&#8221; is the new live-action, but yet-to-be-financed...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}