Episode III Novelization Reveals

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1. hope­fully episode 3 will give lots of back­ground info on Boba Fett and how he came about to be the best bounty hunter ever

   — Shane Graybill on 04.07.05

2. either george lucas lied or changed his mind bout boba fett being in ep.3, i think fett should be at least in ep.3 like he was in spe­cial edi­tion ep.4.

   — ben on 04.07.05

3. boba fett was on “robot chicken” on adult swim (car­toon network)…he was at a sci-fi con­ven­tion and joined a fight that pit­ted star wars against star trek…hilarious

   — matt on 04.07.05

4. Let me first say that I am a long time hard core Fett fan. Just check out my photo gallery. But, I dunno. I HOPE that Lucas isn’t going to go back on what McCal­lum (spelling?) said about Fett’s role in Ep3. As dis­s­a­point­ing as the two first pre­quels were (don’t get me wrong, there were many sweet parts that I enjoyed. I’m not one of those folks who just totally hates them because they aren’t what I would have done with the series), going back on your word would be even worse. I mean that’s seri­ously crappy. I’m still a fan, thought it’s been a rocky love/hate rela­tion­ship since Ep1 came out, but promis­ing fans somthing that they’ve been rabid about for decades and then not giv­ing it to them is just super low. Some­times I won­der if Lucas hates his fan who like Fett. I mean clearly the Sky­walk­ers are what his films are really all about, and I bet it ticks him off that so many peo­ple focus so much on a char­ac­ter that he didn’t have much to do with and who did so lit­tle orig­i­nally. He gives the Fett char­ac­ters the lamest worst deaths ever. When I first saw Ep1, I could clearly see the fight between Mca and Jango com­ing a mile away, and I was stoked. I knew that Jago would bite it, but I thought it was going to be a kick ass bat­tle to the fin­ish. It had such poten­tial! It COULD have been a great, epic mem­o­rable scene, but NO, the had to make it lame and anti­cli­mac­tic. Humor­ous, even. Aside from tick­ing me off majorly, it just lame to the nth degree. I’ve heard that Samuel L. Jack­son came up with that idea, but I never heard it offi­cially. I was ready for him to die, I mean he had to! And it makes sence that it would fuel Boba’s anger to become a ruth­less bounty hunter. It had such poten­tial. But that is what I see so often lately from Lucas. Watsed poten­tial. He COULD have added a scene to the new ROTJ, and have Fett escape the sar­lacc. We all wanted it. He’s always chang­ing and adding stuff any­way. But NO, he had to mess around wih Fett’s per­fectly fine voice. NObody cared about that. Just cause he had an accent as a kid doesn’t mean he would have had to keep it, when his dad, the only other per­son in the movies to ever have that accent has been dead for years. GAH! Let’s nit­pick about stuff that is insignif­i­cant and blow off huge cool ideas! It would be so awe­some and sat­is­fy­ing to have Fett dis­in­te­grate Windu in the movie. It would make SO much sence. Blah blah, he’s to young. The movies were released three years apart, and they are also set three years apart. I met Daniel Logan, and he’s as tall as I am now, and I’m 21. He can and has fit in the suit. SO I don’t want to hear this he’s to young busi­ness. I’m wor­ried that it just makes SO much sence and that we want it SO bad that he isn’t going to do it to. But I’m not going to give up hope. Just cause it isn’t in the novel, so what? Alot of things never make it into nov­el­ized ver­sions of movies. If he’s in there, I will be tremen­douly pleased. If not, I’ll be dis­s­a­pointed, and a bit mad that they told us he would be, but I’ll get over it. What I’ve seen so far looks really cool and I’m excited to see what happens.

   — PhotoShogun on 04.08.05

5. I just found this, and I find it most inter­est­ing. It may mean noth­ing, as the toy of Boba from Ep2 came with a hel­met, jet­pack and guns, which he unfor­tu­nately never used on screen. But it is still interesting.

   http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=swminis/article/rotspreview7

   — PhotoShogun on 04.08.05

6. Well, maybe this answers a bit more than I would have liked…

   http://www.theforce.net/books/reviews/r_bobafett-6.asp

   — PhotoShogun on 04.08.05

7. Another pos­si­ble clue, from Star Wars.com on the cast of Revenge of the Sith:

   “Born in 1976, Bodie Tay­lor is a New Zealan­der of Maori descent. He has appeared in the film Te Tan­gata Whai Rawa O Venice, a Maori-language ver­sion of Shakespeare’s The Mer­chant of Venice, and on tele­vi­sion as a war­rior in the tele­vi­sion drama “Mataku,” pro­duced by South Pacific Pic­tures. He appeared in Episode II as the hel­met­less clone troop­ers, repli­cated by Indus­trial Light & Magic’s visual effects to appear as hun­dreds of train­ing sol­diers. He returns as a clone in Episode III.”

   As “a” clone… If I remem­ber, that’s pretty much what they said about Daniel Logan at one point. On imdb.com, Tay­lor is cred­ited as “Clonetroopers/ Stormtroop­ers.” Who knows? We might actu­ally have to wait to see the movie before we know.

   — PhotoShogun on 04.08.05

8. I think Boba will just make a cameo appearence in Ep. 3.

   — Sabe on 04.08.05

9. Yeah.…I sorta got the comic book early (know the guy at the store) and Boba’s not in it at all. :(

   — Matt on 04.08.05

10. Pho­to­Shogun:
    At most, Boba will have a small cameo appearence, maybe in the back­ground on Cor­us­cant. I have the NOVELIZATION, and the ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY, and he is not men­tioned once in either.
    I have been a Boba Fett Fan since ESB first came out, (yes I’m that old), but I wouldn’t have liked it if they wen’t back and put Boba in the SE: DVD, climb­ing out of the Sar­laac. I pre­fer the story told in TALES OF THE BOUNTY HUNTERS, (but not the K.W. Jeter form, because those books sucked).
    At most, Lucas should have real­ized that Boba had a pretty big Fan-Base back in ’84, and he shouldn’t have killed him off so eas­ily. Same with Jango.
    But oh well. Per­son­ally, I wish Lucas hadn’t gone back and changed so many things for the DVD’s — the Emperor had to be changed from the SE: VHS, and maybe some of the explo­sions, (which they didn’t fix), but that’s it.
    Oh well. Wish­ful thinking.

    — DCLXVI on 04.08.05

11. I Agree young Boba Fett should be in Episode III He has to have a hand in takin out Mace, I agree with photo shogun Fett isnt to young to get involved after all if a young Anakin can pilot a star fighter and destroy a com­mand ship and loads of bat­tle droids in Episode I why cant a young boba who has the skills his father has so far shown him get revenge.

    — andy on 04.09.05

12. DCLXVI:
    Yeah, one of my friends got ahold of a screen­play some­how, and he said the same thing. Which sucks, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing what McCal­lum and Lucas told us. Ugh. Los­ing touch with fans is quite dif­fer­ent from out and out fail­ure to do what they say they will. That really both­ers me. But about the sar­laac thing, I don’t really care if it’s put in or not, I’m just say­ing that it would have made more sence to put time and money into that than into chang­ing his voice. Did you mean the story from Tales of Jabba’s Palace where he blows him­self out of the sar­laac and Den­gar finds him? I get those Tales books mixed up all the time. And yeah, that is an awe­some story. I really liked how that alien who fell in the sar­laac feeds on the minds of the sarlaac’s victim’s while the sar­laac digests their bod­ies. That was a cool twist. I dunno, I liked the Jeter books. The Assem­bler was a really neat char­ac­ter, I thought. And that guy with the machine gun where his head used to be. I can’t remem­ber his name. They weren’t great lit­er­a­ture, but they were fun. I liked them bet­ter than what Lucas wrote for the Fetts.

    andy: That’s a great point about Anakin. I’m sorry, even with all the midi­clo­ri­ans in the galaxy, I still think it’s ridicu­lous that that twerp built C-3po and a podracer that he pilots as well as a star fighter. With all of those gifts, you’d think he wouldn’t have turned out to be such a douchebag. I guess he should have had an Uncle Ben. And I don’t mean Ben Kenobi.

    — PhotoShogun on 04.12.05

13. yeah, my friend got a hold of a screen­play too…“my friends” are mag­i­cal creatures

    — matt on 04.12.05

14. matt: Yours too? The mag­i­cal pow­ers of the friend I men­tioned are know­ing folks at Dark Horse.

    — PhotoShogun on 04.12.05

15. dark horse??? as in dark horse comics??? dark horse comic books??? OMG!!!1!!!! ROFL!!!!!!11!

    i am so psy­ched for you, pal

    — matt on 04.12.05

16. well, stover left out Chew­bacca too, so there is a chance he left Boba out as well.

    — bob on 04.13.05

17. I for­got that he left poor Chewie out.…
    Pho­to­Shogun> Yeah, the story from TALES where Den­gar finds him. ;)
    I didn’t like the Jeter sto­ries because they dis­torted the ver­sions estab­lished in TALES OF THE BOUNTY HUNTERS.

    — DCLXVI on 04.13.05

18. I’ve also heard some­thing from one of my friends who is also a ded­i­cated Boba Fett fan. He told me that around ten years, after the realease of episode three, a com­plete series of Boba Fett’s life would be put together in a movie. I swore I almost crapped my pants when I heard this, I just hope that if it is true, Lucas won’t die before then.

    — Devin on 04.14.05

19. No offense, but why would they do that?
    They wouldn’t.

    — DCLXVI/John on 04.14.05

20. Matt, I wasn’t try­ing to sound cool or any­thing, I was just play­ing along with your joke. Take a pill buddy. This is forum is for dis­cussing Boba Fett, not for being a sar­cas­tic jerk to strangers just because you can. Lets all just be geeky and play nice.

    — PhotoShogun on 04.16.05

21. I TOTALLY IS LEARNED MY IS LESSON

    — matt on 04.18.05

22. i bought the book, and boba is not men­tioned at all…BUT!!! they men­tion jango fett’s name once.

    — Robyn on 04.24.05

23. well i got news idk if any­one addressed it, but fett doesn’ help take out Mace. Igot the comics and so far i havent seen boba, although i only have 3 out of 4. Pal­pa­tine throws Mace ut the won­dow, and i haven’t heard any­thin about Fett, although the comics just skim the movie sortof.…

    — cooper on 04.29.05