Boba Fett
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Director: James Wan
Writer: Nic Suzuki
Based on the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas
Cast: Jason Momoa, Tom Hopper, Keith David (voice), Lance Henriksen, Kevin Durand, Morena Baccarin, Kiawentiio, Charlee Fraser, Fra Fee, Abbey Lee, Oded Fehr
Plot: Wind howls across the smog-choked skyline of Ord Mantell, a mining world decimated by decades of strip mining operations. In the narrow alleys of a rusted-out city, Boba Fett (Jason Momoa) moves through a half-collapsed power relay station. His armor is scorched from earlier hits. His rangefinder twitches. His blaster is drawn but low on charge. He stalks his target - a debt-ridden slicer - into a subterranean pumping station, stepping over leaking coolant and the bodies of mercenaries he already defeated. The target makes a desperate last stand, jury-rigging a security turret from scavenged parts, but Fett flanks it using his grappling line and disables it with a thermal detonator. When the dust settles, the target is alive, wounded, and shackled. Fett limps slightly as he drags the captive to his ship, Slave I, parked on a ridge above the outpost.
Inside Slave I, Fett throws the bound slicer into the holding cell and contacts the contractor via encrypted comm. A silhouetted figure appears via hologram, confirming payment and telling Fett that another opportunity awaits — more lucrative, but in Hutt territory. The job, Fett is warned, will involve cleaning up a name — his own. Fett listens silently, armor clanking as he reloads. The ship lifts off in a roar of repulsors, banking hard away from Ord Mantell’s toxic haze. As the stars fill the viewport, Fett sets course for Tatooine. He removes his helmet to treat a bleeding cut above his eye. As Slave I jumps to hyperspace, the soft green glow of the starlines reflects off his scarred face.
Slave I descends toward the deserts of Tatooine. Fett navigates past smugglers’ trails and womp rat dens before coming up on the canyon entrance to Jabba the Hutt’s palace. Inside, eyes follow him - everyone knows exactly who he is. At the far end, Jabba the Hutt (voiced by Keith David) reclines on his dais, massive and immobile. At his side, seated below him and slightly apart, is Koyi Mateil (Charlee Fraser), a strikingly beautiful Twi'lek who is Jabba's translator and most prized slave. She leans forward as Jabba bellows in Huttese, translating his commands. Jabba makes no attempt to greet Fett warmly. The job is simple: someone’s been using Fett’s name to collect bounties, sabotage deals, and tarnish his reputation — all without the skill or subtlety Fett is known for. Jabba’s territory has been affected directly. The imposter was last seen on Nar Shaddaa, targeting one of Jabba’s spice shipments. Jabba doesn’t ask Fett to solve the problem — he demands it. The room is tense as Fett silently nods. On his way out, Koyi quietly mentions that the impostor does not seem to be working alone. ack aboard Slave I, Fett inputs new coordinates. As the ship launches from the canyon and punches into hyperspace, he straps in and watches the stars stretch into lines.
Slave I drops out of hyperspace above Nar Shaddaa, its surface a grid of glimmering lights and industrial sprawl. Known as the Smuggler’s Moon, it hangs in orbit over Nal Hutta - homeworld of the Hutt species. Fett descends past congested sky-lanes and neon billboards, steering toward the lower levels — far from prying eyes and Imperial patrols. He sets down in an abandoned dock sector, half-flooded with sewage runoff and teeming with vermin. This part of the moon was once used by Hutt spice smugglers but has long since been claimed by freelancers and gangs. Fett inspects a burnt-out safehouse. The inside is a mess: spice residue, used stim packs, a half-scrubbed holo-terminal, and broken armor scraps. He plays back footage on a scorched datapad. It shows a man in Mandalorian armor ambushing a spice runner, executing him with showy flourishes and tagging the corpse with a symbol meant to resemble Fett’s own. The sloppiness disgusts him. A blaster bolt suddenly scorches the wall just inches from Fett's face. He spins toward the source just as Jodo Kast (Tom Hopper) launches in with his jetpack, gauntlet already primed for a flamethrower strike. The two bounty hunters collide mid-air and crash through a wall. Kast fights like a man trying to prove he’s the better version of Fett—every move familiar, every counter learned. Fett’s vambrace launches a stun dart, but Kast rolls behind a cargo crate, returning fire with a dart launcher of his own, piercing a joint in Fett’s armor. As Fett staggers, Kast surges forward and drives a blade between the plates of his chest armor. Fett collapses, blood pooling beneath his armor. Before Kast can finish the job, mercenaries burst from the shadows—Black Sun, unmistakable in their dark sigils and silent precision. One lifts Fett’s own EE-3 carbine, ready to fire. Kast snarls something inaudible over the sound of jet engines as they blast off. Boba Fett struggles back to Slave I, setting coordinates for Concord Dawn, before passing out.
The ride back to Concord Dawn is agonizing. The planet - arid and rugged - was once home to Mandalorian protectors but now sits half-abandoned. Boba Fett stumbles out of his ship without his armor - one hand pressed to the wound still bleeding. He makes it to a door and slams his fist against it once before collapsing to one knee. Sintas Vel (Morena Baccarin) opens the door and freezes when she sees who it in. Fett then blacks out before hitting the floor. Sintas crouches beside him, rolls him over, checks the wound. She calls for her daughter, Ailyn Vel (Kiawentiio), to help her drag him inside. She uses bacta spray and sealant foam to treat the would. Sintas works in silence, but Ailyn demands to know why they're saving him. Sintas simply tells her they’re not animals. He’s injured, and he’s still her father, whether either of them like it or not. While Fett lies unconscious in the back room, Sintas tells Ailyn the truth about how she and Fett met, how they worked together across the galaxy, how they tried to build something in a place like this. He wasn’t cruel, but he was distant, consumed by his work and his name. After Ailyn was born, they had a brief window of peace. But one day, he left. No warning, no explanation. Just gone. Sintas tells Ailyn that he claimed enemies were closing in and that staying would’ve brought death to their door, but even after the threat passed, he never returned. She makes it clear: Fett chose the armor, the life of violence - he didn’t choose them.
Hours later, Fett regains consciousness. Sintas enters, drops a tray of food and water at his bedside, and turns to leave. Fett tries to express some form of thanks, but Sintas tells him she didn’t do it for him - she did it so Ailyn wouldn’t have to bury her father behind their house. Shortly after, Ailyn walks in. There’s no warmth in her stare, only anger. Fett looks at her for the first time in over a decade. He notes how much she’s grown. he responds coldly, reminding him that he walked away. Fett doesn’t deny it. Before getting up to leave, Fett pulls a compact comm device from one of his pouches and places it on a nearby table. He tells her, flatly, that if she ever needs anything, she can reach him. Ailyn doesn't touch it while he’s there. Fett gathers his gear in silence and limps toward the door. Sintas doesn’t say goodbye, and neither does Ailyn. Outside, his ship waits where it landed. As the Slave I rises into the amber Concord Dawn sky, Ailyn watches from the ridge, the communicator now in her hand.
Boba Fett’s ship, the Slave I, cuts across the dark edge of Hutt Space. Jabba has put pressure on him to finish the job. The price on Kast’s head is now doubled, but Fett doesn’t care about credits - now it's personal. On Nal Hutta, Fett meets with Fenn Shysa (Lance Henriksen), the aging former Mandalorian loyalist turned information broker. They sit inside a rusted barge-turned-cantina drifting on a toxic swamp. Shysa warns Fett that Kast is clearly drawing support from sources deeper than other bounty hunters - probably the Black Sun. Fett and Shysa are interrupted by a sudden scuffle outside. A hulking figure stomps into the cantina, claws flexing and yellow eyes locked on Fett. Bossk (Kevin Durand), the Trandoshan hunter, isn’t here to fight—but to offer a deal. He’s been following Kast too, and the two have crossed paths. Bossk doesn’t like Kast’s style and proposes a temporary truce with Fett to corner Kast. Shysa doesn’t trust the lizard, but Fett accepts. He knows Bossk is useful when properly pointed at the right target.
Meanwhile, on The Wheel - a circular space station orbiting in the Mid Rim, Jodo Kast stands before Prince Xizor (Fra Fee). Next to Xizor, the perfect humanoid drone Guri (Abbey Lee) waits silently, her gaze assessing Kast with cold detachment. Xizor is not pleased. He speaks in a measured tone, expressing disappointment that Kast failed to kill Boba Fett. Guri adds, with pointed clarity, that Fett's survival puts their broader operation at risk. Kast insists that he will kill Boba Fett - it just wasn't the time previously. Xizor steps closer and tells Kast not to bother thinking for himself - Black Sun has invested him and if he doesn't follow orders, he'll be replaced permenantly.
Boba Fett makes contact with Talon Karrde (Oded Fehr), arranging a discreet rendezvous in the orbital lanes above Vaal. In a spaceship hangar, Fett - believing Karrde to be the most neutral scoundrel around - asks Karrde to post a false bounty on a fabricated smuggler with a payout so massive that it would be irresistible to someone like Jodo Kast. The location: a derelict shipping station orbiting Kalarba. Karrde thinks it over, noting the danger in drawing Black Sun's attention, but the challenge seems to amuse him. He agrees—on the condition that if anyone traces the transmission back, Fett takes responsibility. Fett nods once. The deal is made. Karrde begins setting the digital trap, uploading the falsified bounty across half a dozen pirate boards and fringe mercenary channels.
Boba Fett arrives to Kalarba early as Slave I docks on the far side of the abandoned shipping station. Fett begins setting up proximity mines in the corridors, dead-man charges by the doors, and EMP scatter nodes around the area to ensure no backup can be contacted. Elsewhere in the galaxy, Jodo Kast receives the bounty details - a high-value mark last seen fleeing to a Kalarba system station with sensitive contraband. Kast barely hesitates - Glory, credits, and redemption from Black Sun are on the table. He brings a small team of mercs to ensure speed and intimidation - including two heavily-armed droids. Kast’s ship docks on the opposite side of the station. His Black Sun mercs fan out. One mine after another is triggered, eliminating all of Kast's mercs and droids. From the smoke, Boba Fett emerges. As soon as Kast sees him, he draws his blaster. The two fire a heavy exchange of blaster bolts - which ricochet off walls. Kast's shoulder plate shatters. Fett's gauntlet sparks as a round glances off his forearm. They trade cover, grenades, flamethrowers, even wrist-mounted darts. Kast launches into the air, using his jetpack to gain height advantage, spraying fire from above. But Fett follows, rising beside him with brutal precision. Their jetpacks clash mid-air, sending them crashing down. They fight hand-to-hand now. Kast lands a blow that knocks Fett’s helmet sideways. Fett removes his helmet and slams Kast into a wall, followed by a knee to the gut. Fett then pulls a hidden blade from his boot and slices across Kast’s thigh. Bleeding and furious, Kast tries to fly again to escape. As Kast lifts off, Fett fires a magnetic bolt directly into his rival’s jetpack, triggering a charge he secretly placed on Kast's equipment during their scuffle. The jetpack explodes mid-ascent, killing Kast. Fett approaches Kast's body and rips his helmet off, throwing it away.
Boba Fett boards Slave I and sets coordinates for Tatooine. On the trip, he informs Jabba of Kast's death. When Fett arrives to the palace to collect payment, Jabba chuckles, deeply pleased, and tosses a wriggling creature into his mouth. Jabba waves a meaty hand lazily and burbles a command to the room. Koyi translates: Fett will always have work, and always have enemies. Bossk steps from the shadows, muttering that at least now there’s only one Boba Fett he needs to keep in his sights. Boba Fett collects his payment and calmly leaves the palace.
Elsewhere, on Falleen, Prince Xizor stands at a high window in his private fortress. Guri stands behind him, hands folded. A lieutenant enters and informs them of Jodo Kast’s failure. Xizor tells Guri to adjust the gameboard.
Slave I soars alone across the stars. Inside the cockpit, Boba Fett sits in silence. He retrieves a small comm-link from his belt - the other end of the one he gave Ailyn. He checks for messages, but there are none. Fett sighs and stashes it away again.
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