{"id":365,"date":"2007-10-29T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/ask-daniel\/star-wars-tv_boba-fett-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:47:22","slug":"star-wars-tv_boba-fett-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/film-tv\/star-wars-tv_boba-fett-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Boba Fett in Star Wars TV [UPDATED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[UPDATE: While this headline resonated true in 2007, <u>this TV series never ended up panning out<\/u> and it&#8217;s assumed the project was shelved indefinitely.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"175\" height=\"168\" id=\"image366\" alt=\"young-boba-fett.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/young-boba-fett.jpg\" \/>Rick McCallum told fans in France, at this last weekend&#8217;s Star Wars Reunion 2 event, that Fett is in and Daniel Logan (Young Boba Fett, <em>Attack of the Clones<\/em>) is his choice for the part.<\/p>\n<h3>100 to 400 Episodes<\/h3>\n<p>This is for the live action Star Wars TV series. &#8220;He will have a contract for <strong>100 episodes<\/strong> and Rick hopes it will be <strong>extend to 400<\/strong>, maybe with Expanded Universe characters after the first 100,&#8221; notes the translated coverage. (Editor&#8217;s note: emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p>The original coverage, French Star Wars web site KamuiWeb.com, came to TheForce.net earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>On 10\/31, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iesb.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=3620&#038;Itemid=99\">IESB.net<\/a> clarified that Lucas wants 100 episodes in general, and &#8220;no casting news so far for the highly anticipated TV spinoff of the Star Wars franchise and production is expected to begin within the next couple of years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also on 10\/31, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2007\/10\/31\/tv-update-nbc-cancels-heroes-origins-boba-fett-in-the-star-wars-tv-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">SlashFilm.com<\/a> picked up the story with the headline, &#8220;NBC Cancels Heroes: Origins? Boba Fett in the Star Wars TV Series?&#8221; They also used the catchy <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1808406061\/photo\/premiere\/573089\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">photo by Dimitrios Kambouris<\/a> (Wireimage.com) from 5\/12\/2005, where Daniel Logan appeared at the premiere of Episode III, blaster in hand, Fett by his side.<\/p>\n<p>We followed up with Daniel Logan&#8217;s agent and there&#8217;s nothing on his end to comment on yet.<\/p>\n<h3>Fan Reactions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Well I guess we&#8217;ll see how that pans out in 2009.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobafett.com\/boards\/profile.php?id=537\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sev Fett<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;400????? They think it&#8217;ll run for 15 years? Good network shows get like 22 episodes a year. Most cable shows get 12-15. 400 divided by 22 is 18 years. &#8230; 40 would be like a 2-year contract. I hope this is a misquote.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobafett.com\/boards\/profile.php?id=6\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BFFC Eric<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE: While this headline resonated true in 2007, this TV series never ended up panning out and it&#8217;s assumed the...<\/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-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","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=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}