Fett is all over Robot Chicken: Episode II

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Updated 11/16 with new inter­view excerpts.

Check out Adult Swim’s “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” this com­ing Sun­day, Novem­ber 16th, at 11:30pm ET/PT. Seth Green, pro­claimed Boba Fett fan, and Robot Chicken co-creator Matt Sen­re­ich are thrilled to get this sequel. Breckin Meyer returns as Boba Fett, and dou­bles as Admi­ral Ackbar.

LAist.com has an inter­view with Meyer:

What I like about the spe­cial though, is that there’s a sto­ry­line through­out, it’s got a lot of fun stuff, but we tai­lored it so that it tracked instead of being just a bunch of sketches. It just kind of came about, we all started doing a lot of Boba Fett and a lot of bounty hunter sketches and a lot of Emperor sketches. Two of the sketches that were fan favorites from the first spe­cial were the Emperor phone call sketch, and the Boba Fett sketch. It’s always fun to write for Boba Fett because he’s the coolest man on the planet and the Emperor is the grump­i­est man on the planet [uni­verse!]. Hav­ing writ­ten the Emperor sketch, I was very proud that it was such a fan favorite. I was kind of giddy that it was received so well.

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If George knew how big that guy was going to be he never would have killed him off in the Sar­lak [sic] pit, which is some­thing we address on the show. It’s the same thing with Darth Maul in the later movie, he’s the coolest char­ac­ter George cre­ated in 15 years, and he gets split in half by Rob Roy, and you’re like “that’s it?? I’m not going to see him again??!!”

Boba Fett has become the coolest char­ac­ter in movies. He’s a badass! When I got to voice him I was very very excited. We have one sketch, I believe it’s called “The Great­est Sketch Ever Writ­ten”, and I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s basi­cally: what if Boba Fett hadn’t died, and what if Boba Fett ruled? It’s the exact sketch every fan boy ever wanted to see.

Wiz­ard Mag­a­zine spoke with Seth Green:

With the promise of a bounty hunter dri­ven sto­ry­line, you can bet your sweet podracer that you’ll be see­ing more Boba Fett, pre­vi­ously shown in the orig­i­nal as a nar­cis­sis­tic show off. Sen­re­ich promises that the sequel “digs deep under [Fett’s] mask” to reveal more about his psyche.

“Boba Fett’s a com­pli­cated char­ac­ter,” said Green of the fan favorite bounty hunter, voiced by Breckin Meyer. “A lot of peo­ple have pro­jected a lot of char­ac­ter­is­tics on top of him.”

Sen­re­ich admit­ted that the first sketch of the new spe­cial, which focuses on Boba Fett, is his favorite. Green also adds that fans of the first Boba Fett sketch will be incred­i­bly happy with the lat­est effort.

comicbookresources.com spoke with co-creator Matt Senreich:

I love our Emperor char­ac­ter to death but I think Boba Fett stole the show at the very begin­ning. The Boba Fett open­ing might be what I love the most.

Chan­nel Guide Mag­a­zine has a quote from Seth:

“I’ve always been fas­ci­nated by that tableau on the [Star Destroyer] Execu­tor bridge of the six bounty hunters, one of which is Boba Fett, who ulti­mately cap­tures Han Solo,” Green explains. “Who are those guys? How did they get there? Do they have agents? Did they answer an ad? Do they know each other? Why just these six? Do they have com­pe­ti­tions amongst each other? Is Boba Fett always the vic­tor? Those kind of ques­tions, it just seemed like a great plat­form for comedy.”

Finally, here’s a Fett-only teaser for the show:

(via Con­fes­sions of an Ani­mated Mind)