The New Book of Boba Fett Trailer Might Have a Hell of an Easter Egg

Hey, would you want to observe one other 60-second trailer for the upcoming Star Wars TV sequence The Book of Boba Fett, regardless that it comprises nearly no new footage? Let me reply that for you: yes, you do, as a result of the operative phrase there’s “almost.”

While that is very a lot an official, Lucasfilm-sanctioned video, it’s additionally a really obscure, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it type of revelation that you could be not need to know forward of time. Therefore…

Here’s the trailer—pay particular consideration to 0:45-0:47.

Ring any bells? Maybe this can assist:

Yep, it certain seems to be like Boba Fett will probably be visiting the notorious Tosche Station, the place a whiny Luke desperately wished to choose up some energy converters in A New Hope. As you’ll be able to see, the situation was truly featured in a deleted scene from the film; after Luke sees the spaceship battle between the Rebels’ Tantive IV Blockade Runner and the Imperial Star Destroyer within the skies above Tatooine, he rushes into Tosche Station to inform his associates Camie Loneozner, Laze “Fixer” Loneozner, and Janek “Tank” Sunber concerning the skirmish, solely to seek out his outdated pal Biggs Darklighter. It’s a really pointless scene, as is the one set exterior the Station, the place Biggs tells Luke he’s leaving the Imperial Academy to hitch the Rebel Alliance.

Not seeing it? I current to you this screencap from the Book of Boba Fett trailer:

And this screencap from the deleted scene:

Note the spherical indentation to the best of the door with the vertical line of lights inside, the 2 inset cabinets additional proper, and the sample of the doorframe. The heights and lengths don’t precisely match up with one another, however 1) I don’t suppose it’s totally different sufficient to matter, 2) we’ve by no means seen Tosche Station in canon so actually the place might seem like a mini-golf course and nonetheless be introduced as Tosche Station, and three) the Star Wars franchise has gotten so self-referential within the Disney period that I can’t think about producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni resisting the urge to lastly put the situation on-screen because the present goes to be set on Tatooine. Anyone care to wager in opposition to me?

The Book of Boba Fett stars Temeura Morrison because the titular bounty hunter and Ming-Na Wen as Fennic Shand. It premieres December 29 on Disney+.

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