{"id":22767,"date":"2020-05-08T15:01:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22767"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:07:22","slug":"temuera-morrison-will-play-boba-fett-in-the-mandalorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22767","title":{"rendered":"Temuera Morrison will play Boba Fett in &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/905f723f3db3e3767cfc0bb5e13bf8f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/905f723f3db3e3767cfc0bb5e13bf8f8.jpg 639w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/905f723f3db3e3767cfc0bb5e13bf8f8-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Temuera Morrison will be returning to <em>Star Wars<\/em> to play Boba Fett in season 2 of <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>. Previously, he portrayed the character of Jango Fett, of whom Boba Fett is his clone\/son in <em>Star Wars: Attack of the Clones<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boba Fett was previously played by Jeremy Bulloch in <em>Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back&nbsp;<\/em>and who seemingly died in <em>Star Wars:<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>&nbsp;after falling into a sarlacc pit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boba Fett was teased to appear in the Disney+ series at the end of &#8216;The Gunslinger&#8217; following the death of Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Mandalorian<\/em>&#8216;s second season is expected land on Disney+ in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/mandalorian-finds-boba-fett-temuera-morrison-1293675\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMorrison returns to Star Wars!\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Temuera Morrison will play Boba Fett in &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221;&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":22772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[813,6,9,19],"tags":[1289,1055,1290,642,2459,1267],"class_list":["post-22767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film-tv","category-movies","category-tv","tag-boba-fett","tag-disney-2","tag-jango-fett","tag-star-wars","tag-temuera-morrison","tag-the-mandalorian","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Temuera Morrison will play Boba Fett in &quot;The Mandalorian&quot; - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=22767\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Temuera Morrison will play Boba Fett in &quot;The Mandalorian&quot; - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Morrison returns to Star Wars! 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