{"id":1526,"date":"2012-09-02T19:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:15:20","slug":"george-lucas-says-boba-fett-didnt-die-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fettpedia\/george-lucas-says-boba-fett-didnt-die-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Says Boba Fett Didn't Die After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/as-you-wish-helmet.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"as-you-wish-helmet\" width=\"340\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1529\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Filmed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fans\/celebration-vi-as-you-wish-helmet-project-let-the-bidding-begin\/\">Celebration VI&#8217;s &#8220;As You Wish&#8221; exhibit<\/a>, George Lucas says Boba Fett didn&#8217;t die in Sarlacc, calls him a &#8220;survivor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[UPDATE: See how this fits in to the larger picture of what&#8217;s official \/ canon in our guide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fett-fact-check\/is-boba-fett-dead-or-alive\/\">&#8220;Is Boba Fett dead or alive?&#8221;<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lucas was looking at the &#8220;Scavenger&#8221; helmet made by Cari Finken and Michael O&#8217;Brien of Legacy Effects, which sold for the most (over $19,000) at the auction, which ended yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Jump to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hjUr_abRQ9w&#038;t=2m58s\">2:58<\/a> in this video and take a look:<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video-embed-wrap\"><div class=\"video-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Lucas visits the As You Wish Helmet Project at Star Wars Celebration VI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hjUr_abRQ9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>This is a notable, hot-mic comment because it goes against what we last heard, which was in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>When the Special Editions were released, George Lucas told MTV that Boba Fett was dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/multimedia\/video\/1997-george-lucas-boba-fett\/\">We have the video here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a side note, just recently, Dark Horse Comics published a four part comic series called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/bounty\/search\/?q=Boba%20Fett%20is%20Dead&#038;catID=7\">&#8220;Boba Fett is Dead.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmed at Celebration VI&#8217;s &#8220;As You Wish&#8221; exhibit, George Lucas says Boba Fett didn&#8217;t die in Sarlacc, calls him a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fettpedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14910,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/14910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}