George Lucas' Original Plans For Boba Fett (& Why They Changed)
Boba Fett has been one of the greatest antagonist characters in Star Wars history since his 1978 debut, but George Lucas originally had much more villainous plans for the bounty hunter. The clone son of notorious bounty hunter and mercenary Jango Fett, Star Wars first introduced Boba Fett in the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978, where a cartoon version of the character was seen riding the Paar’s ichthyodont. While the Star Wars Holiday Special has largely been disowned by the stars and fans alike, the Boba Fett sequence was notably well-received, which aligns with George Lucas’ original intentions for him to have a significant role in Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi.
Before becoming the anti-hero figure in Disney+’s Star Wars shows The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, the character’s original trilogy role consisted of working for Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back and being killed off within the first 10 minutes of Return of the Jedi upon falling into the Sarlacc pit. While The Mandalorian revealed that Boba miraculously survived this fall, the character’s long-time Star Wars legacy after 1983 was that he was underutilized as a fan-favorite villain. After being set up as a villain as threatening as Darth Vader in Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett was thought to be humorously killed before the action even started when his rocket pack sent him into the mouth of the Sarlacc—but this wasn’t always George Lucas’ plan.
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Just as he was set up in The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas’s original intentions were to make Boba Fett the “big bad” of the original trilogy while saving Darth Vader’s major storyline and
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