Will The Book Of Boba Fett Realize Lucas’ Sequel Trilogy Vision

Posted by Chris on 08/30/21 at 07:05 AM Category: Disney+, Book of Boba Fett

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As you may be aware, the recently released book, The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005, unveiled George Lucas' plans for the Sequel Trilogy in his own words. There has been a lot of conjecture of what that would have been, but it's hard to argue with quotes directly from The Maker's mouth. Leia was to be the focus of the ST as the "chosen one" who solidifies the New Republic, but it's the adversary that is noteworthy for the purpose of this article. IGN covered the subject in THIS ARTICLE last November. They write:

[Lucas] envisioned Maul as the central villain of the sequels - a crime boss who unites the criminal underworld and fractured remnants of the Empire against the New Republic.

"There’s a power vacuum so gangsters, like the Hutts, are taking advantage of the situation, and there is chaos," said Lucas. "The key person is Darth Maul, who had been resurrected in the Clone Wars cartoons—he brings all the gangs together. [Maul]’s very old, and we have two versions of him. One is with a set of cybernetic legs like a spider, and then later on he has metal legs and he was a little bit bigger, more of a superhero."

That's interesting. In Lucas' post-Jedi vision, criminals, and not Sith, would have been the main adversary. The Book of Boba Fett takes place in Disney's post-Jedi world, and it ostensibly seems like Fett is attempting to consolidate criminal power by assuming the corpulent Fortuna's throne. Could Favreau and Filoni (hereafter referred to as the "Dream Team") be trying to salvage Lucas' theme from the scrap heap? Things get even more interesting. IGN continues:

Not only would Maul have returned for the sequels, he would have had a new apprentice in the form of Darth Talon.

Here's where this gets spicy. We Got This Covered recently reported that Darth Talon will be the next major villain in the Favreau-verse. There's a lot of smoke there. It feels like the Grand Architect is still having an influence over his creation. To quote Boss Nass, meesa likin' diss.