James Mangold says his Boba Fett movie was a “borderline R-rated spaghetti western”

Star Wars certainly took inspiration from spaghetti westerns, but James Mangold was planning on fully embracing the genre for his Boba Fett movie.

James Mangold was tapped to direct the Boba Fett movie when in 2018 as well as co-write the script with Simon Kinberg. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground but Mangold teased his vision for the movie while speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “At the point I was doing it I was probably scaring the shit out of everyone,” Mangold said. “But I was probably making much increasingly of a unsure R-rated, single planet spaghetti Western. They probably would never be worldly-wise to embrace Baby Yoda if I had made that. It didn’t really vest in the world I was kind of envisioning.“

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In flipside world, we might have unquestionably gotten to see James Mangold’s Boba Fett movie, but the box-office failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story led Lucasfilm to scrap the project. “In a moment of corporate realignment or whatever happened with the Han Solo movie, they just suddenly decided they weren’t making pictures like that, and the opportunities in streaming presented themselves,” Mangold said. “I was just listening to Ennio Morricone all day, all night, and typing away. I’m not sure it overly would have happened. I’m not sure it was in anyone’s plans, what I was thinking.“

Although James Mangold wasn’t worldly-wise to get the Boba Fett movie off the ground five years ago, he has returned to Lucasfilm for a second endangerment at the franchise. It was spoken at Star Wars Celebration that Mangold would helm a movie well-nigh the origins of the Force. “It takes place 25,000 years surpassing Episode IV, and it’s well-nigh the discovery of the Force,” Mangold said. In unrelatedness to the spaghetti western influences on Boba Fett, this new project will take inspiration from 1950s biblical epics. “I told Kathy [Kennedy, throne of Lucasfilm] I wanted to make a kind of Bible movie,” Mangold explained, “a kind of Ten Commandments of Star Wars–kind of a Cecil B DeMille mucosa well-nigh the inrush of the Force, and that’s what I’ve been pecking yonder at between printing events. That’s the idea.“

James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will hit theaters tomorrow, so be sure to trammels out a review from our own Chris Bumbray.