(Image credit: Disney/Lucasfilm)Īs a long-standing associate of Fett’s, Dengar is of particular interest. The man underneath the armor is played by Temuera Morrison. And then there’s 4-LOM, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88 and Dengar, the bounty hunters Darth Vader hired to track down the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back.
While his former mentor Aurra Sing is apparently dead – Tobias Beckett said in Solo: A Star Wars Story that he’d killed her – Cad Bane, another former bounty hunter from The Clone Wars era who's also turned up in The Bad Batch, may still be business. It’ll be interesting to see how many of Fett’s former associates are still in his orbit.
Given that it seems as though the show will be focusing on Boba Fett’s efforts to take control of the crime empire Jabba the Hutt left behind – the official trailer suggests business isn’t quite as good as it used to be under the Hutt – its setting opens up all sorts of possibilities for Fett to interact with characters old and new, good and bad. Presumably, Fett and Fennec Shand jetted off to Tatooine after Din Djarin handed Grogu over to Luke Skywalker, which would tie in nicely with Favreau's comments. We know, for example, that the famous Jabba’s Palace coda must have taken place after the events of The Mandalorian season 2, because Boba Fett is wearing the iconic armor Mando recovered from Cobb Vanth in Mos Pelgo in The Marshal. However, we believe it’s more likely that “right after” was just a figure of speech, and Favreau’s loosely referring to the time period where The Mandalorian already operates – some five years after the events of Return of the Jedi.
Some have speculated that Jon Favreau’s December 2020 comments to GMA – confirming that The Mandalorian spin-offs will be set “right after” Return of the Jedi – mean The Book of Boba Fett will kick off in the immediate aftermath of the second Death Star’s destruction. Boba Fett and Fennec Shand take their places on Jabba's old throne.