Jonny Coyne says Lucasfilm once discussed putting him into a possible The Book of Boba Fett episode, but the plan later disappeared. The actor said the same conversations also pointed toward The Mandalorian season 4, before those ideas went away too.
He made the comments at Fan Expo Philadelphia, giving fans a fresh look at how close the Disney Plus series may have come to continuing in some form. The remarks land now because they add a new detail to a show that has largely been treated as a one-and-done chapter since its 2021 release.
The Book of Boba Fett arrived on Disney Plus in 2021 and drew a mixed response from critics and viewers. Its Rotten Tomatoes score was divisive, and the strongest stretch of episodes was widely seen as the one that shifted away from Boba Fett and into The Mandalorian’s story. That history makes Coyne’s account more than a casual convention anecdote: it suggests the franchise’s planners may have still been testing the idea of extending the show, even after the reception made its future look uncertain.
Coyne said the discussions happened after he appeared in The Mandalorian season 3, which matters because it means he could not have been referring to the first season of The Book of Boba Fett itself. In other words, the talk appears to have been about a later continuation, not a plan that preceded the series already on screen. He said, “They said they were going to put me into [The Mandalorian] season 4, and maybe a possible Boba Fett episode as well, and then it all went away,” adding, “It all went away, and then the movie happened.”
That leaves the key question unanswered: Lucasfilm may have considered a second outing for The Book of Boba Fett, but Coyne’s comments do not show that a season 2 was ever formally built. What they do show is that the idea was discussed far enough to reach a cast member, then dropped before it became anything the audience would ever see.
