Did 'Book Of Boba Fett' Star Just Spoil A Surprise Cameo?
In an interview for Buzzfeed Celeb, The Book of Boba Fett star Temeura Morrison remarked, “I like those Ewoks. They were great to work with. They were funny." Co-star Ming-Na Wen agreed, saying "They were funny." As of yet, no Ewoks have appeared in The Book of Boba Fett. Neither has Boba encountered them in any of the other properties in which Temeura Morrison has appeared, namely The Mandalorian and Attack of the Clones.
Given a number of canonical characters have reappeared in The Book of Boba Fett, will the Ewoks be next? It might seem a throwaway possibility, but when you examine it deeper, it speaks to a broader strategy that creator/writer Jon Favreau has employed in overseeing Disney's Star Wars streaming universe.
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Whether you love or hate the sequel trilogy, you can recognize that it polarizes the fanbase. “This is not my Star Wars,” some say. The option was to keep trying to be different or to retreat to familiar territory. Favreau found a way to do both. He and Disney regrouped to streaming with The Mandalorian.
The Mandalorian himself was a nobody. We knew nothing about the landscape. Favreau and company deftly painted it in, the remnants of the Empire were looking for a weapon to use against the New Republic. Favreau gave us Baby Yoda – he was our one tenuous hook into the original trilogy. Theories abounded. Who was he? A clone of Yoda? Yoda reborn? Somebody from Yoda’s race?
As the story developed, we started to get tie-ins to the original trilogy, culminating in the biggest tie-in of them all, come the finale. Some have called it fan service. But each callback to an existing property has contributed meaningfully to the story.
The Book of Boba Fett immediately launched into charted waters – Boba Fett himself, Fennec Shand (who’d been established in The Mandalorian), Tatooine, the sarlacc pit, Jawas, Tuskens, Mos Eisley, and more. Now we were getting broader strokes – familiarity. Favreau and crew were also finding ways to validate potential canon that existed only on the cutting room floor when Camie Marstrap, and Laze Loneozner, aka “Fixer”, appeared at Tosche Station in Chapter 2; The Tribes of Tatooine.
In Chapter 3 during the flashback scene, Boba Fett visited Mos Eisley. He sees the stormtrooper helmets on spikes – just as we saw in the opening of The Mandalorian, signaling a post-Empire world. There’s also a fleeting cameo from mechanic and engineer Peli Motto and her pit droids.
We’ve also had Max Rebo, the little blue Ortolan alien who plays a mean keyboard (surely a musical series should be in the offing, and then a Broadway show), the droid R-3X from Star Tours, Black Krrsantan from the comics, and a new Rancor.
Are the Ewoks coming?
Morrison is known for his unwitting spoilers. In another interview, he effusively began talking about a big action scene, only for Ming-Na Wen to cut him off. As if realizing what he’d been about to giveaway, Morrison beat a hasty retreat. “There was this great scene that I was going to talk about,” he said. “But … it was a great scene.”
If the Ewoks are coming, it will be interesting to see how they’re employed. The Ewoks live on the Endor moon, and aren’t shown to be technologically advanced. They're still using primitive weaponry, and the sight of C3PO surprised them and drove them to religious rapture, so it’s unlikely they’d ever seen a droid before. While they contributed to bringing the shield generator down, so the Rebels could launch an assault on the new Death Star, it would be hard to imagine that the Ewoks have suddenly become spacefaring.
Morrison refers to them in plural – “They”, he says. So there has to be at the very least two, although you’d be forgiven for thinking there might be a troupe.
The Book of Boba Fett has dealt with concepts such as slavery, freedom, and choice, though, so the Ewoks could potentially show up in a different capacity altogether.
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Source(s): CBR.com