The Book of Boba Fett is an American space Western television miniseries created by Jon Favreau for the streaming service Disney+.

A standalone Star Wars film centered on Boba Fett was in early development at Lucasfilm before the company began prioritizing streaming series such as The Mandalorian.

In addition to Favreau, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, and Colin Wilson returned from The Mandalorian as executive producers and were joined by Robert Rodriguez, who directed three episodes.

Mercenaries Boba Fett and Fennec Shand attempt to make a name for themselves in the galaxy's underworld by taking over the territory once controlled by Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine.

[3][4] Additionally, director Robert Rodriguez voices the Trandoshan crime boss Dokk Strassi (physically portrayed by Stephen Oyoung),[19] and the Ithorian Mayor of Mos Espa, Mok Shaiz.

[21] Mandy Kowalski and Skyler Bible appear as Camie Marstrap and Laze "Fixer" Loneozner, respectively, characters originally portrayed by Koo Stark and Anthony Forrest in a deleted scene from Star Wars (1977).

[26][21] Phil LaMarr provided the voice for the Pyke and Klatooinian bosses,[27] and Will Kirby makes a cameo appearance as Karales, a former bounty hunter at the Sanctuary.

[35] A Boba Fett film was still being considered by Lucasfilm as of August 2017,[36] and James Mangold was set to write and direct it in May 2018, with Kinberg co-writing and producing.

[37] Mangold described his take as being "a borderline R-rated, single planet spaghetti Western", and he listened to the music of Ennio Morricone while working on the script.

[31][39] Mangold later acknowledged the impact of Solo's financial failure, but was also unsure the film would have moved forward considering his script's dark tone.

[41] Before Morrison's involvement in The Mandalorian was confirmed, Fett briefly appeared in the first season episode "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger" alongside the character Fennec Shand, portrayed by Ming-Na Wen.

[44] By November 2020, production on either the third season of The Mandalorian or a potential spin-off series focusing on Boba Fett was believed to be scheduled to begin later that month or in early December.

[45] A Boba Fett spin-off series was not announced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy at Disney's Investor Day event on December 10, when The Mandalorian spin-offs Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka were announced; Kennedy said those series exist within The Mandalorian's timeline and were planned to culminate in a "climactic story event".

[45] With the series' official announcement in December 2020, Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen were confirmed to be reprising their respective roles of Boba Fett and Fennec Shand from The Mandalorian and other previous Star Wars media.

[15] The character Krrsantan, a Wookiee bounty hunter introduced in Marvel Comics' Star Wars comic books, also appears in the series,[53] portrayed by Carey Jones,[14] while Corey Burton reprises his role as the voice of Cad Bane from the animated series The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch for the character's live-action debut.

[17] Additional characters from The Mandalorian appear,[50] including Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin / The Mandalorian, Emily Swallow as the Armorer, Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto, Favreau as the voice of Paz Vizsla, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva,[11] Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth, Grogu, Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker,[17] and W. Earl Brown as the Weequay bartender.

[10] Filming for the series began by late November 2020,[5][45] under the working title Buccaneer,[54][55] on the StageCraft video wall volume in Los Angeles that is also used for The Mandalorian.

[65] By late September 2021, scoring sessions for the series had begun with The Mandalorian composer Ludwig Göransson returning for The Book of Boba Fett.

[75] Analytics company Samba TV, which gathers viewership data from certain smart TVs and content providers, reported that 1.7 million U.S. households watched the debut episode of the show within the first five days of its release on December 29, 2021.

[82][83] Whip Media's TV Time app, which tracks viewership for over 19 million users, reported The Book of Boba Fett as the most-watched original series across all U.S. platforms for the weeks of January 16 and February 6, 2022.

[99][104] Lex Pryor from The Ringer, considered that the show failed to deliver its potential and the series "will never actually have to focus on anything other than the lives of a select few characters and their closest relatives.