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Pop Culture Happy Hour

The Book Of Boba Fett

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the new Disney+ series The Book of Boba Fett, Temuera Morrison brings new layers to the mysterious bounty hunter from the original Star Wars films. The story vacillates between flashbacks to how he escaped his presumed death in Return of the Jedi, and the present day as he and his lieutenant Fennec Shand (played by Ming-Na Wen) take over Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire on Tatooine.

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Say the name Boba Fett and most folks will recall the mysterious badass Bounty Hunter

0:09.4

from the original Star Wars films.

0:11.6

They might also remember that he got thrown into the Sarluck Pit in return of the Jedi

0:15.3

where we assumed he'd get slowly digested over a thousand years.

0:19.4

He got out.

0:20.6

We learned that much at least in the Disney Plus series The Mandalorian.

0:23.8

Exactly how he escaped that grizzly fate and what became of him later is the subject

0:28.4

to the spin-off series The Book of Boba Fett, which stars Tim Weirah Morrison and Ming

0:33.0

Na Wen.

0:34.0

I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about the Book of Boba Fett on Pop Culture

0:37.4

Happy Hour from NPR.

0:44.3

Joining me today is I Heart Radio Producer Joelle Monique.

0:46.8

Joelle?

0:47.8

Hi Glenn.

0:48.8

Also back with us returning to the show is Laura Siricoul.

0:51.3

She's a freelance writer and movie critic.

0:53.0

Welcome back Laura.

0:54.0

Hi thank you for having me.

0:55.3

Of course.

0:56.3

Boba Fett, oh he has had a convoluted history of both on and off the screen.

1:00.4

He was introduced in an animated sequence in the Cheesetastic Star Wars Holiday Special

1:05.6

in 1978.

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