#The Book Of Boba Fett’s Composer Might Have Found Inspiration From A Deep, Deep Cut

“The Book of Boba Fett” theme song has a different tempo and a slicker production sound, but it’s similar enough that it must be either a direct influence or drawing from a third source that influenced both it and “Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter” (which had Björn Isfält as its composer). Göransson’s version veers off into a different melody; the overall effect is akin to dressing the peasants from that tavern in “Ronia” up in the robes of a space choir and sending them out into a galaxy far, far away to sing “Star Wars” chants.

As I noted in a write-up after the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett,” screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan — who co-wrote “The Empire Strikes Back,” where Fett made his first live-action appearance — likened the character to a “bad samurai,” or ronin. Whether or not his new theme song is artistic robbery is up for debate, but if a new background character named Ronia suddenly pops up in the space ronin’s Disney+ series, then we’ll know that this is not just a coincidence and “The Book of Boba Fett” theme is very much an homage to “Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter.”

“The Book of Boba Fett” is currently streaming new episodes every Wednesday on Disney+.