Last May, we wrote about the Star Wars Boba Fett movie production proceeding, getting the hopes up of those who finally want to have a story of the famous space bounty hunter. But now, we get the news that the movie won’t be happening soon as the movies not in development anymore. Lucasfilm’s big boss Kathleen Kennedy has confirmed this according to Entertainment Weekly.

As the EW’s first line in the story says, “The Boba Fett movie has been frozen in carbonate.” So don’t expect it to be put in production anytime soon. But it is just there and it can be revived by the Disney and Lucasfilm if they think it’s time for it to be thawed back into the world.

One reason is said to be that the Star Wars universe is getting to be overwhelming with one or two releases each year. During the time of George Lucas, the release took over a decade that there was pent up demand for Star Wars movie that it is one of the surefire billion-dollar movie franchises. A point in case is the release of the spin-off Han Solo: A Star Wars Story which underperformed in the box office, the lowest earning Star Wars movie at US$392 million on a budget of US$300 million. Rouge One: A Star Wars Story remains to be spin-off movie that has grossed over a billion dollars.

The Boba Fett spin-off has been toyed around since 2013, the plan being Boba Fett and a bunch of other galactic bounty hunters seen in Empire Strikes Back. But plans to present it to the public were cancelled given that directors for the movie left.

But don’t despair as there is another Disney project for their planned streaming service. Called the Mandalorian live actionn series and according to Jon Favreau’s post on Instagram, the story is set after Boba and Jango Fett and as another Mandalorian warrior arises after the downfall of the Empire and before the rise of the First Order. It is about a gunfighter in the outer fringes of the Galaxy far from the reach of the New Republic.

Photo: Initial photo of the Mandalorian (Credit: Lucasfilm)

As for the Star Wars: Episode IX, no official title has been announced yet. It will be directed by J.J. Abrams who directed Episode VII, The Force Awakens.

Top photo: Person in Boba Fett costume at Yokota Air Base, Japan in 2016 (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman David Owsianka)