Mandalorian Season 2 Theory: How And WHY Boba Fett Returns

After being teased in the fifth episode of The Mandalorian's first season, it looks as though Boba Fett is finally returning from the dead.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Temuera Morrison (who played Boba's father Jango in Attack of the Clones) will have a "small role" in The Mandalorian Season 2 as Boba Fett, who first captured fans' imaginations in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back before suffering a somewhat anticlimactic demise in Return of the Jedi, where a blind Han Solo knocked him into the Sarlacc Pit. Boba had previously made it out of the Sarlacc in Star Wars' now defunct 'Legends' continuity, while hints that he survived the encounter in the new canon have also appeared once or twice.

Jordan Maison of Cinelinx also chimed into the story, teasing that Morrison could be playing more than just Boba in the show's second season, which raises all sorts of interesting implications.

Morrison returning to play Boba naturally brings with it a bunch of questions. The first and potentially most mundane one is how did Fett escape the Sarlacc? The second (and the more exciting query), is why - why is Boba on Din Djarin's trail, and if Morrison is really set to play multiple characters in the show, could that mean that clones will have a big part to play?

It was with these questions in mind that myself and WhatCulture Gaming Editor Scott Tailford sat down to discuss Boba's resurrection, and what it could mean for Mando and co. in the show's second season...