SPECULATION Casting News for 1st Spinoff

You are ignoring the part of the rumor that

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the original Fett is killed by another bounty hunter who takes over the mantle of Boba Fett. Sort of a Dread Pirate Roberts type thing

so any change in ethnicity or gender would be accounted for.

 

Pablo Hidalgo officially deconfirmed that theory, and reiterated that the Boba Fett you hear in The Empire Strikes Back has the voice of Jango Fett, whom Boba was clone from. Of course, that could mean that the Boba Fett in Return Of The Jedi is an impostor, given that he has a completely different voice (and it'd also explain why he went out like a punk).

Also, I really doubt that Boba Fett is in Rogue One. It's a war movie, and the Empire only hires PMC-esque groups when they need special tasks done that can't be accomplished by other Imperial bureaucracies (since the Empire is frickin' huge). They hired Bounty Hunters to assist with a manhunt when their own forces weren't able to catch the Millennium Falcon on their own. A New Hope shows that they were perfectly confident that they could regain the Death Star plans without need of hiring Bounty Hunters.

 

Absolutely. I don't necessarily believe the rumor. Although I do sort of like the idea of Fett being a mantle and not a person.

I just thought it was worth pointing out, before we get up in arms about this rumor white washing Boba Fett (something I'd normally be the first to criticize), that the rumor itself would have the new actor playing a different character under the name Boba Fett.

 

There is a huge double standard I agree, although I don't think its really relevant here. And this idea is contrived but I don't think for the reasons you are implying. Its a contrived attempt to rescue a popular character from a backstory that many didn't like. To replace a mediocre actor with a better one and to be able to reclaim the Boba Fett from what AotC did to him (which was make him boring).

Regardless, getting upset about Aaron Paul playing Boba Fett is silly as it was only speculation in this thread and not even an actual rumor let alone a legitimate one. If Fett were to be rebooted, we don't have any clue who would be playing him. The character being tied to MvS is reddit BS at this point. So getting upset about a hypothetical race-swap seems like a significant waste of energy. If Boba was replaced, there is nothing to say at this point that he couldn't be race or even gender swapped(or gasp: Both!).

 

People are people. Like anything else there would be a variety of reactions for a variety of reasons. Some might react negatively for racial reasons. Some might react negatively because they think stormtroopers are clones (which they are not, which is why there is no continuity issue with Finn being black).

Point i was making is that there is no story based reason to make "new" Fett or Finn for that matter any race or gender. How people react negatively or positively to whatever race or gender they choose is determined by a variety of factors. In many cases it could be due to bias unfortunately. But as I can't get inside people's heads, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt unless they give me reason to otherwise. As I've discovered in my months here, if someone's reasoning is racially motivated they generally show you either subtly or not so subtly in their comments on a great many things over time.