Former Star Wars Screenwriter Discusses the Pitch for James Mangold's R-Rated Boba Fett Movie

Simon Kinberg opens up about how he planned to tackle the script for James Mangold's unrealized Star Wars spinoff headlined by Boba Fett.


Former Star Wars screenwriter Simon Kinberg recently discussed the pitch for Logan director James Mangold's unmade R-rated Boba Fett movie.


Kinberg, who co-created Star Wars Rebels and served as a consultant on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, touched on Mangold's unrealized Boba Fett spinoff in an interview with Polygon. Asked about rumors that the project would've taken the Star Wars franchise in a more hard sci-fi direction, Kinberg indicated that this was indeed the case. "I mean, it's all pretty sci-fi, but I think 'hard' is the right word," he said. "Tonally like Logan. On the edge of R-rated, though I don't think you'd have a Star Wars movie that could be R-rated."


Kinberg's comments track with recent remarks by Mangold, who described his abandoned Boba Fett film as "borderline R-rated." The filmmaker added that he envisioned the spinoff as taking its cues from classic spaghetti Westerns, with the action taking place entirely on a single, unidentified planet. Mangold also suggested that his more intense take on the Star Wars franchise may have scared Lucasfilm executives, especially in the wake of the commercial failure of 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story.


Zack Snyder Discusses Rebel Moon's Star Wars Origins


Mangold's Boba Fett movie isn't the only attempt at a hardcore Star Wars outing that ultimately failed to launch. In a recent interview, Rebel Moon co-screenwriter and director Zack Snyder confirmed that the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster was initially set in a galaxy far, far away. According to Snyder, he pitched Rebel Moon to Lucasfilm shortly after the studio was acquired by Disney in October 2012, sensing the potential for greater creative freedom surrounding the Star Wars property during this transitionary period.


This didn't prove to be the case, however, and Snyder soon realized that his pitch for an R-rated Star Wars movie was "almost a non-starter." This led Snyder to retool Rebel Moon as its own standalone story, with the first installment in the franchise, Part One: A Child of Fire, set to premiere on Netflix in December 2023. Rebel Moon producer Deborah Snyder has since declared this the best possible outcome, as she always believed the restrictions of working under the Star Wars banner would hurt the project. "I never wanted it to be [a Star Wars movie], because your hands are tied to the IP," she said. "I was happy it fell apart."

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