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December 30, 2021 02:55 pm GMT

How Star Wars fans made Mandalorians cool

To celebrate the release of The Book of Boba Fett, journalist Andrew Liptak used his Transfer Orbit newsletter to explore the history of Boba Fett and the Mandalorians both in-universe, and out. Liptak is the author of the upcoming Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life, and uses his intimate understanding of fan culture to examine the ways that the fandom helped inspire the development of the mysterious masked warriors, and deftly interweaves that story with the shifting Star Wars canon as it moves from the head of George Lucas to the Expanded Universe "Legends" to the modern Disney stories:

Following the introduction of Darth Vader in A New Hope, George Lucas wanted to bring in a new villain for the sequel, and repurposed Vader's original origins as an intergalactic bounty hunter for Fett.

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