“Fanboys” brings Fett back to theaters

Here’s a recap of recent press around the new Fan­boys film with quotes that men­tion Boba Fett.

Can Mag inter­views Dan Fogler, one of the fanboys:

Fogler actu­ally found the basis for his char­ac­ter, Hutch, at one of these gath­er­ings. “I come up to this guy and he had his back to me. I was like, ‘Hey dude, what are you doing?’ He was get­ting stuff from the smor­gas­bord and he was like, ‘Aw, man, these guys, they’re so nerdy with their storm trooper hel­mets. I can’t believe they all brought their storm trooper hel­mets.’ He turns around and he’s got a Boba Fett hel­met. ‘Dorks.’ I was like this guy is per­fect. Some­how he was cooler because he had Boba Fett.”

Decider (Austin, Texas) has an inter­view with Ernie Cline, screen­writer of Fanboys:

I was such a huge Star Wars fan that I even watched The Ewoks car­toon, just on the off chance that a blaster pis­tol or a space­ship would show up, or there was a cameo by Boba Fett. But yeah, I rec­og­nize that it’s Star Wars stripped of every­thing that’s cool about Star Wars. C’mon, it’s dwarves in fur suits walk­ing around a for­est. Wook­iees would have been cooler.

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I loved the hol­i­day spe­cial. That was before we had a VCR, so it was just that one time I got to see it, and it lived on in my mem­ory. And of course, that was the first time I got to see Boba Fett, which I think is the one redeem­ing ele­ment, but then you’ve also got Jef­fer­son Star­ship, and Chewbacca’s dad hooked up to that groovy, virtual-reality sex machine. I love it. When we shot Fan­boys, I made boot­leg DVDs of it and gave it to all the cast members.

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Yes, the big dance num­ber, with Boba Fett rock­in’ out in the back­ground, hit­ting on chicks.

Sci Fi Wire talked with Kyle New­man, direc­tor of Fanboys:

“There were one or two things they wouldn’t let us use, like the hol­i­day spe­cial; we threw it in there under­neath, like, ‘Boba Fett Burger King cup, hol­i­day spe­cial,’ and they were like ‘No.’ But I just think they wanted to know that we were gen­uine fans who weren’t going to take this stuff and rip apart Star Wars or make fun of Episode I.”