Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures reportedly eye the 28-year-old actor to portray the bounty hunter and F. Gary Gray to helm the project.
- Oct 12, 2015
AceShowbiz - Despite losing director Josh Trank, Lucasfilm still continues making the untitled stand-alone Star Wars film II, which centers on the origin story of Boba Fett. Jeff Sneider from TheWrap revealed some updates about the film during his Meet the Movie Press podcast, saying that Michael B. Jordan might be in contention to play the famed bounty hunter.
Sneider said that he thought "Boba Fett will be African-American." However, there is a thing that makes Jordan not suitable for the role. Boba is an unaltered clone of his father Jango, so the Boba depicter is expected to have similar physical appearances with the actor who portrayed Jango. What makes the casting rumor seem inaccurate is that Temuera Morrison, the actor who played Jango Fett in previous films, is Maori, Scottish and Irish descent and Jordan clearly doesn't look like him.
Additionally, Sneider said that "Straight Outta Compton" director F. Gary Gray, who recently confirmed that he would helm "Fast and Furious 8", would direct the Boba Fett film. Sneider said that Walt Disney Pictures wanted to hire a non-white male director to make the film contain diversity of skin color, which recently became a hot issue in Hollywood. Although the news makes sense, the fact that Sneider reported it on his show and not on TheWrap makes it become less legitimate.
