Boba Fett stars in new leaked footage of cancelled Star Wars 1313 game

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If you’re not impressed by Boba Fett’s portrayal in the Disney+ show here’s a new look at the game he was going to star in.

It says a lot when the best episode of The Book Of Boba Fett is the one he isn’t in (and has a fun nod to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order) but for anyone upset at how the show has turned him into a buffoonish pacifist, here’s a reminder of the good old days – or rather what the good old days could’ve been if the game involved hadn’t been cancelled.

Star Wars 1313 was to have been LucasArt’s big budget debut on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and their first mature-rated Star Wars game, but it got caught up in the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney and was, along with everything else from LucasArts, summarily cancelled.

Various footage, both official and otherwise, has appeared over time but the new video below has never been seen before, with the opening sequence in the seedy underbelly of Coruscant still looking impressive today.

The latter half of the video features obviously unfinished backdrops but gives a good idea of how the third person platforming aspect would’ve worked (for whatever reason Boba doesn’t seem to have his jetpack).

We originally saw the game at E3 2012, at which point the protagonist was just a non-descript human. The idea was that the character you initially started playing as would be killed by Boba Fett and then you’d take control of the famous bounty hunter for the rest of the game.

That was all a secret at the time, with the initial previews not mentioning Boba Fett, but once the game was cancelled the details all began to leak out.

For years after there was occasional talk of reviving the project but that now seems extremely unlikely, not least because of the direction The Book of Boba