Updated — Spoiler alert here. According to The Sixth Axis, Boba Fett is not a playable character.
Boba Fett will be in The Force Unleashed II, which is available on all game systems this October. The news was special for the San Diego Comic Con.
USA Today covered the news and spoke with LucasArts’ Haden Blackman about the plot:
“Darth Vader is hiring Boba Fett for this top-secret misson. Boba Fett realized that Starkiller has quite a head start on him having escaped from (cloning plant planet) Kamino so he goes after what Starkiller is probably after which is (love interest) Juno (Eclipse),” Blackman says. “It’s easier for him to track down Juno than it is to track down Starkiller and use that to lure Starkiller back into Vader’s clutches.”
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“Boba Fett is one of those characters that really resonates with fans,” he says. “There is obviously a lot of fan favorites and it’s a really, really rich universe with tons and tons of characters but Boba Fett is one of those characters that fans just keep asking for more of.”
Here is a excerpt of the game’s cutscene with Boba Fett and Darth Vader, presented at this year’s Comic Con:
The game follows Starkiller, a secret apprentice to Darth Vader. The storyline takes place between Episode III and Episode IV.
Sideshow Collectibles is now accepting pre-orders for Medicom’s 12″ Boba Fett statue and 12″ Jango Fett statue online, part of the upcoming San Diego Comic Con buzz. Both figures are expected in Winter 2010 and will retail for $150. Boba features his “Jedi” garb and Jango, who was released earlier, features a newly modeled jetpack. These figures are slightly smaller than the Sideshow Collectibles 12″ statues.
Entertainment Earth is now pre-ordering a new Boba Fett piggy bank. It sells for $19 and is expected December 2010. The statue is based on digital files from the Lucasfilm Archives.
Entertainment Earth is also selling new Boba Fett Fold Up Headphones. Made by Funko, they’re $28. “This Boba Fett Fold Up Headphone is compatible with most MP3 players, iPods and portable and console games with its standard 3.5mm audio jack. The headphone is lightweight, compactable, fully adjustable and feature 40MM stereo sound speakers. Comes with 1 year limited warranty.”
There’s also the Boba Fett “Back Buddy” Jet Pack. It’s also available for pre-order at Entertainment Earth. It’s selling for $35 and will be in stock this August.
StarWars.com has a round-up of artists who have exclusive prints available at Celebration V:
Star Wars artists of extraordinary vision will be exhibiting and selling their original prints at Celebration V. Each of the artists listed here will have a limited number of prints available, created exclusively for the show, for sale August 12–15 as part of the Celebration Art Show.
Most of these artists will be within the Celebration V Art Show area, hosted by ACME Archives, in the Celebration Experience Exhibit Hall. A few others will appear in their own booths on the exhibit floor. Here are some of the artists participating. Check back soon for additional artists.
Chris Trevas has Boba Fett overlooking the Falcon on Cloud City.
Kevin Graham has five bounty hunters, including Boba Fett, as an homage to the scene in The Empire Strikes Back.
Doug Cowan has Boba Fett outside Slave I, sporting some handcuffs.
Kyle Babbitt re-created the moment between Darth Vader and Boba Fett, composed on top of the Slave I.
Just announced, George Lucas will be attending Celebration V is Orlando, Florida this August. With him will be Jeremy Bulloch, Daniel Logan, and Temuera Morrison.
Here begins a multigenerational tale of honor and redemption, starring two of the heaviest hitters in the Star Wars galaxy — the father-and-clone team of Jango and Boba Fett!
Shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, Count Dooku sends Jango Fett on a mission that will affect the course of Boba Fett’s life some twenty years later. But for now, neither of them knows what the future holds in store, and besides, they have their schedule filled dodging monsters and fighting bad guys! It’s Jango Fett and Boba Fett together in a series featuring fully painted art by Purge artist Chris Scalf!
At tonight’s Dodgers/Tigers game, while munching on Boba Burgers, Darth Tater Chips, and Ice Sabers, fans in Lower Reserve Sections 56 & 60 were given Dodgers-branded Boba Fett t-shirts featuring the slogan, “This Is My Town.”
Individual seats went for $45. Apparently fans were given an all-you-can-eat supply of Boba Burgers, too.
Message board user gorkoracing over on Sandtroopers.com unearthed a new Jodo Kast action figure that will be a K-Mart exclusive.
The character was released earlier in the Legacy collection, but suffered from less-than-stellar articulation. This new one features a removable helmet.
Following up to Season 2 #20, where Young Boba Fett made his first appearance in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, tonight was the final two episodes of the season.
Boba Fett, son of the notorious
bounty hunter Jango Fett, infiltrated a
Jedi cruiser in an attempt to assassinate
General Mace Windu, the man who killed
his father.
[Mace] recognizes the helmet: it is that of Jango Fett, the man he killed on Geonosis. He realizes that Boba Fett was one of the clone cadets aboard the Endurance. He Force-pulls Anakin away from the booby-trapped helmet, just as it explodes, shattering the bridge.
Some distance away, this explosion is watched intently through a pair of electrobinoculars. Boba Fett sees his trap sprung.
Mace reflects upon the scorched remains of Jango Fett’s helmet.
Episode #22 features:
A restless Boba Fett leaves the cockpit of the Slave I and checks on the bound and gagged Republic hostages. He loosens the gag on Admiral Kilian and offers the older officer a drink of water. Kilian tries to appeal to Fett’s sense of decency, which agitates the boy.
[Anakin] Skywalker suggests that Mace be proactive in tracking down Boba Fett, but Windu has no inclination to make a priority out of a personal vendetta.
Slave I touches down on Florrum, and Aurra Sing gets reacquainted with Hondo Ohnaka, someone she has dated in the past. Hondo is pleased to see her, and greets Boba, telling the boy that he knew his father as an honorable man.
Hondo leads Boba, Aurra and Castas to a bar, where Castas parts company to make a long-distance call on a public holo-transceiver. The Klatooinian calls Fong Do, a Nautolan, and reports that his working arrangement with Aurra Sing has gone sour. Aurra overhears this conversation and shoots Castas dead before her former partner is able to sell her out. Fett witness this with great misgivings.
Boba is eager to face Mace Windu, whom he assumes is aboard the shuttle.
Boba emerges from the shadows and holds a gun to Plo Koon’s head. Plo hardly seems worried.
Boba fires at Ahsoka, forcing her to deflect the blast. That frees Aurra to fire off a pair of rocket darts from her boot, but Plo Koon slams the table up, blocking the projectiles. Aurra stands and draws both her blasters, unleashing a barrage on Ahsoka. Plo knocks aside Boba, and Force-pushes the table between Ahsoka and Aurra. Master Plo cuts apart Aurra Sing’s weapons, and orders her to surrender. Boba Fett throws a bomb into the fray, letting Sing escape.
Sing runs away, and Boba tries to follow, but Plo Koon Force-pulls him back. To Fett’s shock, Aurra keeps running, leaving him behind.
Plo tries to get Boba Fett to reveal the location of the hostages, but Fett refuses. Hondo Ohnaka advises Fett to do so, as it is what Jango would have wanted.
Boba Fett and Bossk are marched into a Republic prison on Coruscant. Fett is unrepentant. The shackled boy sees Mace Windu, and says he will never forgive the Jedi.
Adam Rosenberg’s commentary on MTV.com has some nice observations:
Boba Fett may one day become the most feared hunter in the galaxy, but for the time being he’s still just a young boy who has a bone to pick with a very powerful Jedi Master. The Mandalorian armor-wearing badass we meet in the Original Trilogy is very clearly a “works alone” kind of guy; the “Clone Wars”-era Boba is not.
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Those who were expecting (hoping?) that Boba Fett the hunter would rise from the ashes of Boba Fett the child, armor and all, before the end of season two, prepare to put those fanperson hopes aside. It’s not a bad thing; I wouldn’t buy it if the bounty hunter-in-training all of a sudden became a cold-hearted killer. He’s going to have to be put through a lot more hell before he embraces his inner badass. I’ll say though… he’s off to a mighty good start with the dual blasters he wears on his belt. Sure, they’re almost the size of his thighs, but hey… he’s still just a kid.
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Best of all, Anakin learns the truth about Jango, Boba and Mace’s connection with them; this adds a lot of subtext to Boba’s future associations with Darth Vader in the Original Trilogy.
Update:TheForce.net posted a review the day after the episodes premiered:
One of the best images of the episode was the Jango Fett helmet that the bounty hunters left as a calling card. It was great to see Mace putting it all together, because you could feel the tension in his voice and you could see his brain’s servos working as he figured out the threat. When we first actually knew that the bounty hunters were present, it was through a binocular shot as Boba watched Mace “die.” I thought it was cool how they kept the menace unseen and then finally revealed it through a “watching shot” like that. The music that followed as the bounty hunters discussed their hostages further added to their malevolence and increased the tension as viewers pondered their fates.
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Castas definitely fit the mould of a belligerent money-grubbing coward. You could also really tell that Castas despised Boba. This was evident when we saw Boba’s over eagerness to enter the downed ship. He’s still learning about balancing enthusiasm with a healthy degree of caution, and to that effect, he’s almost crushed by debris. Aurra gives him a look that says, “Sometimes I don’t know why we’re in this together.” Castas’s line about splitting the money in Boba’s absence was great — you can tell that this kid is playing with the big boys (and girls) now.
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Even though this was an R2 episode, one of my favorite scenes did deal with Boba Fett. It was when Mace and Anakin discussed Jango and Boba. I love hearing TCW characters reference events from the movies, and I particularly enjoyed hearing Mace talk about the Battle of Geonosis, because he almost sounded regretful when he mentioned Boba seeing Jango die. Then, as soon as Boba was mentioned, we heard the angelic music from Death Trap — I can’t get enough of that music.
Lucasfilm also released a press release and another video preview:
The beleaguered Jedi Knights have struggled against space pirates, zombie bugs, mind-controlling brain worms, giant monsters and more, all while dealing with the ever-present threat of attack by the evil Separatist forces – but despite all they’ve been through, their greatest threat is still before them. For future generations of Skywalker, the name of Boba Fett will live in infamy – but now, he is still but a boy bent on revenge, driven by a desire to make the Jedi pay for the death of his father. Things get personal in the heated ONE-HOUR season finale of STARWARS: THECLONEWARS, airing at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT Friday, April 30 on Cartoon Network.
But though his motivations are cold and his plan calculated to perfection, Boba isn’t alone in his malicious machinations against the Jedi Order. Having surrounded himself with a rogue’s gallery of the galaxy’s most merciless mercenaries, he is but a pawn in a deadlier game – and his own cohorts have no compunctions with taking advantage of the young man’s naiveté. Led down the dark path by Aurra Sing, Boba will learn a thing of two about deception and deceit from his bounty hunter henchmen.
“Aurra takes Boba under her wing and presents herself as a mother figure,” says Jaime King (Sin City, The Spirit), who voices Sing in the series. “I believe that she would like to groom him to be ruthless bounty hunter. She is intense, and she will do anything to get money – any job, any task – and she has no consciousness, really, about the difference between right and wrong; Aurra just wants money and power, no matter what. She won’t let anything stand in her way. I think she sees herself in young Boba – but while Jango had his son’s best interest in mind, Aurra doesn’t.”
Given his iconic image as a ruthless and inscrutable bounty hunter, it’s hard to imagine Boba Fett being manipulated by anyone. But in The Clone Wars, he is still an impressionable young man – passionate but untested, and in search of a family.
“If Star Wars has taught us anything, it’s that everyone has a back story.” says Supervising Director Dave Filoni – who wrote and directed the thrilling season finale. “In Empire, we see Boba as a bad guy – but maybe he’s just doing a job. He’s definitely got an edge, though, and we are exploring where that comes from. In Episode II, he saw his father murdered by Mace Windu, however he’s still got a long way to go before he becomes the battered bounty hunter we know so well. Aurra’s an influence, and not much of a nurturing parental figure – so that plays a part, as well. She preys on his weakness, on his desire for a family. It’s pretty dysfunctional, and it sheds an interesting light on both Aurra and Boba. Ultimately, though, Boba’s always been a mystery. As much as we reveal, we’re not going to take the mystery away from his fans. Not knowing all the answers about Boba is part of what makes him so cool.”
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