The Book of Boba Fett: release date, cast and what will happen in the Star Wars spin-off on Disney+

Star Wars fans are certainly well catered for in the years to come, with a multitude of series and films coming to Disney+.

The Book of Boba Fett is one of them, revealed at the tail end of Season 2 of The Mandalorian – and it’s got fans’ tongues wagging.

But what exactly is it, and when can you look forward to watching it?

Here is everything you need to know.

What is The Book of Boba Fett?

Mild spoilers here for anyone who hasn’t seen to the very end of the credits of The Mandalorian Season 2’s finale...

Following a fittingly sombre final credits sequence (none of that amazingly colourful concept art this time around), a post-credits tease rolled which showed Boba Fett infiltrating Jabba the Hutt’s palace, and dethroning Bib Fortuna.

As he and Fennec sat back, sipping on Spotchka, viewers were greeted with the words: “The Book of Boba Fett”.

This wasn’t a project that had been revealed with Disney’s Investor Day dump, and fans were originally confused as to what it meant for The Mandalorian going forward.

Was this an entirely new, standalone project featuring the original trilogy’s famed bounty hunter? Or would the focus of The Mandalorian be shifting over to Fett for Season 3?

Favreau confirmed that The Book of Boba Fett will indeed be its own thing, speaking on the US’ Good Morning America and stating that the project is “actually separate from The Mandalorian Season 3.”

The reason that The Book of Boba Fett was not announced when other spin-off series were, is because producers were keen to avoid spoiling the surprise post-credits sequence at the end of The Mandalorian’s Season 2 finale.

The spin-off joins two other announced ‘Mando’ spin-offs; Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka.

Rangers of the New Republic is a live-action series, as is Ahsoka, which follows the story of Jedi Ahsoka Tano featured in The Mandalorian - both series come from executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni and areset within the timeline of The Mandalorian.

What will happen in The Book of Boba Fett?

It's unclear just exactly what events will take place in The Book of Boba Fett, but it has been confirmed that the series takes place within the same, post-Return of the Jedi time frame as The Mandalorian.

The character of Boba Fett was first seen on the big screen in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, as one of six bounty hunters assembled by Darth Vader to track down and capture the crew of the Millennium Falcon.

He was seen again in Return of the Jedi in Jabba the Hutt's palace on Tatooine, and on his sail, from which he falls into a Sarlacc's mouth to find “a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.”