The second season of the Disney+ Star Wars show The Mandalorian will reportedly feature the return of Boba Fett.
Temuera Morrison, who played Jango Fett in 2002’s Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, will play the iconic roll, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Boba Fett’s first appeared on the big screen 1980’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and who seemingly died in 1983’s Return of the Jedi as he fell into a sarlacc pit. Actor Jeremy Bulloch portrayed the character in the original trilogy.
Rumors had been swirling that Boba would make an appearance in the Disney Plus series, after a mysterious off-screen character made similar noises to the bleeps from the character’s suit at the very end of the fifth episode of season 1. All viewers could see was the character’s shadow, as he loomed over the dead body of bounty hunter Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen).
As The Mandalorian takes place after the events in the original trilogy, The Mandalorian will presumably have to explain how he’s still alive. Previously, The Mandalorian director Dave Filoni similarly resurrected Darth Maul, who was seemingly killed in The Phantom Menace, for his animated series The Clone Wars.