Credit: LucasfilmStar Wars has decided to remake its Mandalorian universe.
The Rise and Wobble of Disney+ Star Wars
The Mandalorian premiered in 2019 and, for a moment, looked like it had solved Star Wars television. Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin, Grogu, and beskar armor became cultural shorthand almost overnight, and Lucasfilm leaned in hard, building out a slate of spinoffs on the strength of that goodwill.
What followed was messier. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka, and The Acolyte each drew mixed reactions from critics and fans, and even The Mandalorian Season 3 landed to a more divided response than its first two seasons. The Book of Boba Fett sits near the front of that timeline — and, as this article lays out, it may be where the cracks actually started.
The Mandalorian and Grogu Underlines the Problem
That television turbulence has followed the franchise to theaters. The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) opened to roughly $82 million domestically over the traditional three-day Memorial Day weekend, the lowest opening for a live-action Star Wars film since Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). At the end of its theatrical run, the movie earned $345.3 million worldwide (per Box Office Mojo) against a reported $165 million budget.
Those are not disastrous numbers, but they are not the numbers Lucasfilm was likely projecting off the back of The Mandalorian‘s early streaming momentum. The gap between the show’s cultural reach in 2019 and the film’s 2026 opening weekend has become part of the ongoing conversation about where the Mando-Verse goes from here.
Where It Started: The Book of Boba Fett
The Book of Boba Fett premiered in December 2021 and is frequently cited as the show that set the tone for the divisive stretch of Disney+ Star Wars that followed. Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett — introduced in the original trilogy, presumed dead after falling into the sarlacc pit on Tatooine, and revived in live action during The Mandalorian Season 2 — finally got a series built around him.
The premise put Boba Fett in Jabba the Hutt’s former palace, attempting to consolidate Tatooine’s criminal underworld as a crime lord rather than a bounty hunter. It was a real swing at giving one of Star Wars‘ most enduring background characters an actual interior life.
Why Fans Pushed Back
The response was mixed, and the criticism tended to cluster around three points: pacing and storytelling choices across the season, a characterization of Boba Fett that some longtime fans felt underserved the character’s mythology, and a back half of the season that leaned heavily on Din Djarin and Grogu rather than its own title character.
That last point became the defining criticism. A series sold on Boba Fett’s name ended up functioning, for several episodes, as a de facto lead-in to The Mandalorian Season 3 — which made the show’s identity harder to pin down and gave Lucasfilm’s decision-making around it real staying power in fan discourse.
No Season 2, and Boba Fett’s Quiet Absence
Lucasfilm has never announced a second season of The Book of Boba Fett, and nothing currently on the release slate suggests one is coming. Morrison said earlier in 2026 that he had not been contacted about reprising the role, and Boba Fett did not appear in The Mandalorian and Grogu, despite the film revisiting Tatooine-adjacent territory in the broader Mando-Verse.
Taken together, that reads less like an oversight and more like a decision. Boba Fett, at least for now, appears to be on hold in live action.
The Remake Starts This Month
Star Wars fans hoping for a second season of The Book of Boba Fett are getting something different: a seven-issue Marvel Comics adaptation of the original Disney+ series, with issue #1 being released September 9, 2026. Each issue corresponds to one episode of the show’s first and only season, retelling — not continuing — Morrison’s run as Tatooine’s newest crime lord.
The clearest sign of how faithfully Marvel is tracking the original season came with new cover art for issue #6, arriving November 25: a de-aged Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), reprising his New Republic-era appearance from the Disney+ show. For a franchise still figuring out what its Disney+ era means for the bigger screen, the comic adaptation — and its Luke Skywalker cover reveal — lands as a quiet, telling substitute for a renewal that was never coming.
Issue #6 Brings Back a De-Aged Luke Skywalker
Issue #6, arriving November 25, adapts the sixth episode of the Disney+ series, “From the Desert Comes a Stranger,” which marked Mark Hamill’s (Luke Skywalker) first and only appearance in the show–an episode at the time fans applauded, calling Dave Filoni “a god.” New cover art for the issue features a de-aged Luke during his New Republic era, the same period in which he first reappeared during The Mandalorian Season 2, Episode 8, “The Rescue,” cutting down Moff Gideon’s Dark Troopers with his green lightsaber before later returning in The Book of Boba Fett as Grogu’s teacher.
Written by Rodney Barnes with art by Will Sliney, the issue includes two Luke-centric covers. Phil Noto’s main cover places Din Djarin in his Mandalorian armor on the left and Luke on the right, with Grogu between them — the beskar chainmail Din forged for Grogu in front of him, and Yoda’s lightsaber beside Luke, visually summarizing Grogu’s choice between the Mandalorian and Jedi paths. Mike McKone’s variant cover instead captures Luke training Grogu in the swamp.
The Luke-focused cover treatment suggests Marvel is deliberately spotlighting the character beats that generated the most fan discussion during the show’s original run, rather than treating the adaptation as a straightforward panel-for-panel retelling.
The Bigger Picture for Disney+ Star Wars
Andor has been held up as a genuine critical win for Disney+ Star Wars, and yet the show has not quieted the broader conversation about where the platform’s franchise output goes from here. The Book of Boba Fett‘s lack of a second season, paired with Boba Fett’s absence from the newest film, fits into a pattern of Lucasfilm quietly stepping back from some of its earlier Disney+ swings.
For now, the comic adaptation — de-aged Luke Skywalker and all — is Boba Fett’s next chapter on the page, not the screen.
So, What’s Next?
No second season of The Book of Boba Fett is on the way — Lucasfilm hasn’t commissioned one, and Temuera Morrison himself has said he hasn’t been contacted about returning. What fans are getting instead is Marvel’s seven-issue comic series, which retells the existing 2021 season episode-by-episode rather than continuing the story forward, so don’t expect any forward momentum for Boba Fett’s arc. Mark your calendar for issue #6, arriving November 25: it adapts the episode featuring Luke Skywalker’s original appearance and comes with new de-aged cover art from Phil Noto and Mike McKone.
In live action, Boba Fett remains absent for now — he’s not part of The Mandalorian and Grogu, which fits into Lucasfilm’s broader pullback from some of its earlier Disney+ Star Wars projects. That pullback is worth keeping in mind alongside The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s $165 million global opening, the franchise’s softest since Solo (which took $171 million globally on its first weekend), as a signal of where Lucasfilm may be directing its investment going forward.
Taken together, these threads suggest Boba Fett’s story is being kept alive on the page for now rather than the screen, and that any future live-action return is tied to how Lucasfilm recalibrates its Star Wars slate after this string of underwhelming box office and streaming results.
The Book of Boba Fett comic series is not the only remake for the Mando-Verse in 2026. Lucasfilm recently released its LEGO adaptation of The Mandalorian, which retells Din Djarin and Grogu’s adventures across the three-season TV show–removing some characters entirely in the process.
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