Anna Daniels
According to Slashfilm, Olyphant was seen on the set of The Mandalorian wearing Boba Fett’s iconic armor. This seems odd, since Morrison has been confirmed in the role of Fett. What’s Olyphant doing in his outfit? For answers, we must turn to the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
In Chuck Wendig’s novel Aftermath, released as part of the “Road to The Force Awakens” initiative, Cobb Vanth is the sheriff of the Tatooine settlement of Freetown. In the books, he wears a scavenged set of Mandalorian armor that he bought from Jawas who salvaged the wreckage of Jabba’s sail barge, that hovering pleasure vessel that Luke and Leia heroically demolished in Return of the Jedi.
Fans will surely remember that bounty hunter extraordinaire Boba Fett was unceremoniously dumped into the Sarlacc Pit during the battle that saw the demise of Jabba and his barge’. Since Mandalorian armor is pretty rare in the Star Wars universe, the assumption is that the Jawas salvaged the very same set that Fett was wearing when he began the 1000-year process of being digested by a Sarlacc. With both Fett and Vanth set to appear on the upcoming season of The Mandalorian, expect the ownership of this armor to become a serious point of contention. And let’s not forget that mysterious, spur-jangling figure who appeared in the desert during the first season. Could that be Vanth?
For confirmation that all this drama is headed Mando’s way, we’ll just have to wait until the next set of episodes hits Disney+ later this year.
Written by: Looper
