Despite only having a handful of scenes in The Empire Strikes Back, and a rather feeble death at the hands of the Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi, the bounty hunter Boba Fett has gone on to become one of the most iconic characters in the Star Wars universe. And had George Lucas stuck to his original plan of making twelve movies, we’d have seen a lot more of Boba in Episode VI, where the idea was to have him as the main villain.
“Originally Boba Fett was set up in Empire as a character, and the third movie’s plot was going to be more about Boba Fett, rescuing Han Solo and all of that,” states Craig Miller, former fan relations officer for Lucasfilm during the 1970s. “Boba was gonna be the main villain… That was set up, why he was taking Han Solo away, why there was a thing with him in the Christmas Special. When George decided not to make a third trilogy, he completely jettisoned that story line, which is why in the first ten minutes, Boba Fett gets bumped into and falls into the mouth of a giant monster. So he took what was planned for the third trilogy, which was the confrontation between Luke and Darth Vader, and the battle with the Emperor, and that got squished down from three movies to one movie. And that became the plot of Jedi.”
Boba Fett did return as a youngster in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and there have been persistent rumours that he’ll receive his own Anthology movie (an appearance in the young Han Solo spinoff is also surely not out of the realms of possibility).
Source: Inverse
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Originally published May 7, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
