Boba Fett May Lose His Voice

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1. I think that Temuera’s voice should be put into the clas­sics, it would help a lot to tie them together. As for changes to tie every thing else with the pre’s to the clas­sics, all for it. As long as you can still get the unchanged clas­sic some­where, go for it!

   — Darth Cait Fett on 07.15.04

2. This is the most hor­ri­ble this ever! They can not change the first voice of the great Boba Fett. THIS IS A STATMENT!!!!!!

   — Armand on 07.15.04

3. So basi­cally what George Lucas is try­ing to say here is “Hey look at me I’m an idiot.”

   Boba Fett wouldn’t even still have an accent by that age. His dad is the only per­son around him with a New Zealand accent and, if I remem­ber cor­rectly, he died. And I don’t think he’s going to be spend­ing the next 30 years grow­ing up in New Zealand, so there’s no way he wouldn’t develop a dif­fer­ent accent. Accents aren’t genetic George.

   Not to men­tion his voice in the clas­sic tril­ogy is a per­fect amal­ga­ma­tion of what you would expect some­one who hangs around space scum from all parts of the galaxy to sound like. It’s quite straight, but very unique.

   — Darth Isol on 07.16.04

4. what in gods name would ever pos­sess lucas to ruin the great star wars films for the sake of tying them in to the crap­pily made pieces of garbage that were episode 1 and 2.

   — ajfett on 07.16.04

5. I think that is just cross­ing the line…

   — Jeff on 07.16.04

6. For the love of God, don’t change the voice!!! I grew up hear­ing that voice and it will stand for all time. Wouldn’t it be bet­ter to just think that his hel­met fil­ters out the accent or that he had his voice­box altered to cover his past. He is mys­te­ri­ous after all.

   — Jason on 07.16.04

7. I don’t see a need to do it,I agree with Darth Isol that Fett spent so many years on his own all over the place that his accent would be almost gone by adult­hood.
   And I think he prob­a­bly talks the way he does on purpose,he doesn’t even want to give the slight­est hint where he orig­i­nally came from.
   Lose some of that galatic mys­tery that all the girls love about him?No way.

   — Infamous on 07.17.04

8. I hate Lucas…

   — Kast on 07.17.04

9. I think those sort of changes are those lit­tle cool things that you’d like to see just out of curios­ity and not because it will make the movie bet­ter. Lucas may think that this will bring the orig­i­nal tril­ogy closer in con­ti­nu­ity but the more he changes the orig­i­nal tril­ogy the more its orig­i­nal­ity is lost. Plus, over the course of his life, Boba Fett may have lost his accent. You never know.

   — Matt on 07.18.04

10. THIS IS ANOTHER STATMENT! THEY CAN NOT CHANGE The Great Boba Fett voice. He WILL LOSE HIS DIGNETY WITH THIS New Zealand voice. I want to remem­ber him with that cold voice when he said,“Put Cap­tain Solo in the cargo hold.” Not as “As you wish, mate

    — Armand on 07.19.04

11. If they gave him the New Zealand accent, the char­ac­ter would not change. He would still be the infa­mous Boba Fett like he always would be. There prob­a­bly won’t be even that big of a change. I do think it is a mis­take on chang­ing his voice, but I’m game for any­thing. I just want them to come out fast!

    — AJ on 07.19.04

12. Wouldn’t the proper thing to have done would be have Temura speak with­out an accent when doing ep 2 if Lucas was so wor­ried about con­ti­nu­ity? Since when is the duty of mak­ing a crappy sequal make sense chang­ing the orig­i­nal? My per­sonal the­ory is that Lucas hates Boba Fett and while using him to make money (Because Boba sells more than any other character–they put him on stuff he isn’t even IN) while simul­ta­ne­ously destroy­ing every­thing about him that is cool. I started sus­pect­ing this in the orig­i­nal re-edition with him stick­ing Boba every­where poorly and then adding that girly scream in his death scene. Every­thing he’s done since then has just been con­fir­ma­tion of this. Grr. Hiss. Boo.

    — Gwen on 07.19.04

13. I’d have to agree with Gwen. It does seem that Boba Fett’s death scene was pretty short. The great­est bounty hunter in the galaxy gets pushed into a hole and that is how he dies. He didnt even kill any­one. So I dont think he cares about the char­ac­ter or the mys­tery behind him. So he doesnt care what hap­pens to Boba Fett. Hon­estly I dont want Temura’s voice in the movie, but Lucas obvi­ously doesn’t care about what hap­pens to him. He is to wor­ried about Luke, Han, and Lando to worry about a char­ac­ter who doesn’t have that many lines in the movie. So since he doesn’t have that many line he prob­a­bly is hop­ing that not that many peo­ple will notice. Well, I would have noticed even if I had not read this sight.

    — AJ on 07.19.04

14. Ah, I like Boba the way he already is. I dont want his voice to be changed.

    — xxwaterboyxx on 07.21.04

15. GL sucks…

    — xxwaterboyxx on 07.21.04

16. Hey with­out Lucas there wold not have been a Boba Fett and this site wouldn’t be here. It does suck that his voice is being changed. Why can’t he just leave it alone.

    — AJ on 07.22.04

17. I know I know, GL is to thank for mak­ing Star Wars. But he needs to leave the orig­i­nal tril­ogy alone, and stop mak­ing changes.

    — xxwaterboyxx on 07.22.04

18. Yeah, Lucas cre­ated SW and that’s great and all, but he could make SW bet­ter so eas­ily, by not chang­ing all the cool stuff … and mak­ing the pre­quels so damn boring.

    — Kast on 07.22.04

19. When I first read rumors about some of the other changes, I was a bit bewil­dered, but soon accepted the rumored changes. This how­ever would cross the line for me. If he does this, and it turns out horrid…it could hon­estly be enough for me to rid myself of my col­lec­tion, 9 years in the making…many tens of thou­sands of dol­lars later.…. and im only 19…already look­ing to get rid of it because he wants to trash it…I hope its not true, and atleast if it is, he does it well and in line with the cold­ness of the originals.

    — iCE5 on 07.23.04

20. Let’s see if I under­stand this cor­rectly. Lucas would actu­ally con­sider chang­ing Boba Fett’s accent, for the sole pur­pose of cre­at­ing con­ti­nu­ity with the shod­dily done pre­quels?
    Lovely.
    I thought it was blind­ingly obvi­ous that the new episodes were just about the most dis­con­tin­u­ous sto­ries to hit the Star Wars scene since the release of episode four. And now, we would fur­ther cor­rupt one of the best orig­i­nal char­ac­ters for the sake of tying it all together. Not that Fett hasn’t been utterly destroyed by episodes one and two already — the whole Jango Fett and Boba-Fett-the-kid bit showed bla­tant dis­re­gard for pre­vi­ously estab­lished Fett his­tory.
    But I digress.
    Suf­fice to say that chang­ing Fett’s accent, of all things, would be adding insult to injury. All these dis­crep­an­cies make me won­der if it wouldn’t be bet­ter to strike episodes one through three from the Star Wars canon.

    — LadyFiona on 07.23.04

21. Well, we already know GL doesn’t care about the EU…but if he would bother to read some of the books he okays, he would know that Boba Fett uses a VOICE SYNTHESIZER to help hide his iden­tity. ‘Course, this is all accord­ing to the Young Jedi Knights series, and books bear absolutely no weight in GL’s mind.

    Hon­estly, George, what are you thinking?

    — Miss Chrys on 07.24.04

22. Instead of Lucas wor­ry­ing so much about tying Boba Fett to the other movies, he shoud worry about chang­ing the voices of the stormtroop­ers. That is what Lucas should do to try to make the sto­ries con­nect, not change Boba Fett’s voice. It also would be that objectable because the stormtroop­ers are just extras not an actual character.

    — AJ on 07.26.04

23. I think the change is great. I loved Boba’s orig­i­nal voice, and will be sad­dened when it’s gone, but Temeura’s voice is just so damn cool! Hav­ing him do Boba’s voice will be awsome if done right.

    — VicVega on 07.26.04

24. Nuu­uuu! It’s bad enough they changed all of Boba Fett’s his­tory with their crappy new movies but now they are try­ing to ruin the orig­i­nal tril­ogy that we all love so much. This bites!

    — Dj Metallium on 07.27.04

25. i thought this would be hor­ri­ble until i got a sneak peak and heard it. it really sounds good and keeps up continuity

    — bass6265 on 07.27.04

26. This is the first time I have ever posted a com­ment… to any­thing. But, when I read that Boba may lose his voice in the attempt of tying the movies together… it was time for me to use my voice and say some­thing. I mean first Mr. Lucas gave us Jar Jar, now this? I don’t know about the rest of you, but for Mr. Lucas to think that chang­ing Boba’s voice is going to make ALL the Star Wars fans say… “Oooohhhh, now all the story lines make sense” is crazy. For most of us (includ­ing me) Boba Fett is arguably the best char­ac­ter in the SW Uni­verse. We thank you George for giv­ing us more of Boba’s back­ground, that doesn’t mean you need to run it into the ground.

    …and one more thing Mr. Lucas, “Look Mate, Droids.!?” –not so much.

    — Dutch Boy on 07.27.04

27. I for one dont ever seem to recall Jango or the god­damn clones ever say “mate”.

    — VicVega on 07.28.04

28. If they do change his voice at least have the actor who played Jango do the voice. And If they don’t change his voice that would be fine to.

    — Revan on 07.29.04

29. NO F’ING WAY! Boba has NO emo­tions! So his voice should reflect that! A cold monot­one voice fits his per­son­al­ity bet­ter than a new zealand accent. Also, an accent would be part of his past and he’s worked pretty hard to keep that a secret so wouldn’t he have his voice altered so nobody would be hinted by it? DON’T change his voice and mess up the char­ac­ter!!! If you do this george i will for­ever hate you!

    — sid on 07.31.04

30. No, I think what George Lucas is say­ing is, “f*ck your childhood.”

    — Janos on 07.31.04

31. First time I said any­thing so go easy on me please. This is ridicu­lous only peo­ple against the voice change are going to say any­thing. So why have this poll?

    — Kris on 08.05.04

32. As some­one said in the mes­sage boards, with Mor­risons voice it’s like “Please don’t kill him. I’ll need him later!” But with th old voice it’s more like “He dies, you join him.” There is way too much emo­tion in the new version.

    — JasterMareel on 08.05.04

33. Over­all I have no big con­cern about visual changes, some of them improve the over­all look of the films. But as for chang­ing char­ac­ters around ie Vader, the Emperor and of course Boba with the char­ac­ters in the new movies is just too far. Even more so to change what he says entirely

    — Jumpy on 08.07.04

34. Hear­ing about this voice change has destroyed my love for all things fett. I have been fond of Boba Fett for over 20 years. GL might have once had the bril­liance to come up with the orig­i­nal tril­ogy but all he has done of late is undo the magic he made by bring­ing out crap. I loved the fight scenes in the pre­quels but the rest is lame, mak­ing good actors look bad..He has now destroyed my favourite charc­ter. GL you suck as much as Jar Jar Binks you rich FOOL!

    — Wayno on 08.11.04

35. As I’m sure has been said, the orig­i­nal voice is chill­ing. I think it’s close enough for con­ti­nu­ity. Oth­er­wise, they might as well dub all the storm trooper lines with Temura as well!

    — Stony NoNumber on 08.18.04

36. It was a great move, the major­ity of the changes in the spe­cial edi­tions made the movies bet­ter, the Pre­quels are amaz­ingly awe­some, and George Lucas is still one of the great­est film­mak­ers of all time. How crazy right? A Star Wars fan who loves George Lucas and Star Wars? But there you have it.

    Maybe you guys should take up Trek or Doc­tor Who or some­thing. Because most of you don’t sound lik Star Wars fans to me at all, just whin­ers hold­ing on to 1977 for dear life.

    — J'mann Seelo on 02.01.10