10 Movies That Could Be The Mysterious Third Star Wars Spin-Off
Always three there are...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has, to date, made over two billion dollars worldwide in theatres, and that’s not even counting DVD and Blu-Ray sales and merchandising tie-ins.
Not only that, but it’s received good to excellent reviews from critics and fans alike, which for a latter-day Star Wars movie is unprecedented. The future of the Star Wars franchise seems to be in capable hands for a change.
For the next few years we’re due a brand-new Star Wars movie every Christmas - Episodes VIII and IX of the ongoing saga on odd years, and spinoff, standalone movies on even years. Rogue One, the first spinoff, arrives in cinemas this December and details the Rebel Alliance’s struggle to obtain the plans to the Death Star - plans that formed the spine of the plot to Star Wars (no, I’m never going to call it A New Hope, it’s been thirty-four years, stop asking).
Spinoff number two, due in cinemas the year after Rian Johnson's Episode in the saga, will follow the adventures of Han Solo as a young man, pre-Star Wars. However, the subject of the third spinoff has not yet been revealed.
The rumour is that it’ll focus on the younger years of Boba Fett - but at this stage it could be anything... and frankly, ‘Young Boba’ is a little too near the dreaded prequel territory for me. Let's see what other options there might be...
10. Night Of The Hunter
If you're going to have a Boba Fett spinoff, this seems like a far better option. It shows us what we've been dying to see for over three decades: how everyone's favourite laconic battle-armoured bounty hunter survived being shot into a giant desert vagina dentata, and What He Did Next.
A Night Of The Hunter spinoff would set the action alongside that of Return Of The Jedi and the immediate aftermath of the Rebel victory. That’s something that audiences haven’t seen anything of - since The Force Awakens is set so many years later - so it can help to fill in a few gaps in the continuity that until that point, will have only been served by exposition.
Arguably, this is the Boba Fett story the fans would prefer to see - and it would certainly be fairly revolutionary to give us a Boba Fett story in which he lived up to all that cool he’s accrued in fans minds over the last four decades. The films he’s been in to date haven’t cast him in the most flattering light.