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2016
Star Wars: Fett

This movie is a direct prequel to Episode VII. The film slides out of an opening crawl and plants us on Tattooine. There are thirty silent seconds of eye-level view of the Sarlacc Pit, then a an explosive burp of sorts and the ejection of a body. Scream as it flies up, silence, then directly in front of the camera a body hits the sand, only giving us view of the body's eye, partially obscured by a helmet's cracked visor. Enter Fett.

The entirety of this film is focused on Fett getting back on his feet. His ship has been sold by the Tattooine space-port after Fett failed to pick it up... four years ago. Fett is considered dead to the galaxy, so he'll have to rebuild his reputation. Work is hard to come by when you're dead - there is disbelief that Fett is even who he says he is. After intimidating his way into an open call to elite bounty hunters from Zsinj, Fett discovers the biggest score he can possibly imagine - more than enough credits to build a Slave III from the ground up. His only problem? He has no ship and only his battered suit.

The film essentially works this way: a dozen of the galaxy's most dangerous bounty hunters play a mix of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Ocean's Eleven with the science fiction action flare of Star Wars laid atop as they race across the galaxy in search of three Holocrons (three of the five from Episode VII). Boba, in an effort to get off the space station where Zsinj hosts the conference, ends up sweet-talking the daughter of old ally Aurra Sing, rookie bounty hunter Tatroo Sing. This also involves killing two of the rival bounty hunters in the process to save her life. The rescue comes at the price of a partnership, to which she begrudgingly agrees.

Throughout the movie, the pair develop a slow friendship, Fett providing insight to his desire to get even with the people who killed him. But there's more to it than that - Fett has always been a survivor fueled by revenge. He even discusses the nature of being the last of a dead breed, a clone with no family, essentially a single member of a dying race. The only thing he is able to hang onto is rage.

We bounce across three worlds in this story, and along the way introduce a score of new and old bounty hunters. We hit a Wacky Races-esque ship battle around the mining asteroid of Kessel. A running joke here is that Han Solo couldn't have possibly made the trek in 14 parsecs. Fett reveals at this point that Solo will eventually pay for nearly killing Fett. As we jump between each bounty hunter or group of bounty hunter, those that take risks are either crushed for their gamble or rewarded. In the end, Sing figures out how to route her ship through the field, and they make a landing on Kessel. Holocron 1 down.

Holocron 2 is picked up by Calo Nord on a race to the mountainous world of Demrakk-33, an icy world reminiscent of the Himalayas. More bounty hunters die in the process. The remaining handful make their way to Mon Calamari to find the final Holocron, and Fett/Sing and Nord find themselves in a stand-off that slowly is joined by others deep underwater, turning it into a double Mexican stand-off. Sing betrays Fett - or seems to - allowing chaos to ensue. But in the end, it proves to be a feint, and while Sing can return with two Holocrons, Calo Nord gloats to the dead form of Fett that at least he has a reward for the other, not to mention a set of Mandalorian armor that will fetch a fortune - but it proves to be a ruse, and Fett, after being nearly unmasked, reveals his trap, shooting Nord in the gut.

Sing and Fett reach Zsinj's meeting place, and they divide their reward. This scene is revealed to be the front end of the final scene of Episode VII, and we at this point repeat the entirety of that scene from a slightly different angle, showing that Sing was here as well; we also reveal that Fett passes on the offer to take Han Solo.

The running themes of the film are twofold - putting over Han Solo as an arrogant mercenary who got the life others in the business wish they could have had, filling them with contempt and jealousy for the guy. The other theme is Fett dealing with the burden of being a survivor and the rage that burns inside of him for those who wrong him. As Sing and Fett leave, Sing asks Fett why he didn't take the deal. Fett replies, simply, that he's a bounty hunter. Holding a grudge is bad business. Sing asks where they're off to next, and Fett answers that he imagines there would be a large reward for revealing the whereabouts of a living Han Solo. Fett figures that, by telling the Chancellor of the Republic that her husband is still alive, he can score quite a large finder's fee, and THAT is payment enough from Solo.

Also, expect dozens of double crosses.

As mentioned before, there are a large number of bounty hunters who would be introduced in this story, and here they are, divided into their teams:

Boba Fett
Tatroo Sing (New character, daughter of Aurra Sing)

Calo Nord
Voort saBinring (genetically altered Gamorrean pilot of Calo Nord)
Mara Jade

Xi'an (from Mandalorian)
Burg (from Mandalorian)
Mayfeld (from Mandalorian)

HK-52 (An ancient, malfunctioning assassin droid that believes everyone is a Jedi)
Hondo Ohnaka

Dengar

Bossk

Cad Bane (declines to participate; elderly; warns the others that this will have the upshot of decimating their numbers around the galaxy)

Jaxxon - Rabbit bounty hunter. (EU)
4LOM
Zuckuss

Kir Kanos
PROXY
Armitage Hux

Two Tusken raiders led by a three-eyed humanoid (one eye of which is covered in an eyepatch)

A Calamari with a cybernetic arm that can begin a spear or a gun

'Tauntaun' Pez - An arrogant veteran bounty hunter who ends up falling to his death on Demrakk-33 after guaranteeing that his plan of using Tauntauns to scale the mountains around the Holocron will get him there faster than anyone else.

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