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Confirmed today at New York Comic Con’s “Star Wars Rebels” panel, there will be bounty hunters in the new cartoon series slated for Summer 2014 on the Disney XD channel.<\/p>\n
Many fans live tweeted the event, despite sub-par ability to do so from the convention venue. One of our fan informants, Anthony H., tipped us off right away. Way to go!<\/p>\n
The storyline is set five years prior to Star Wars: A New Hope, where we saw Boba Fett added in the Special Edition (1997) release. The Underworld will also be a storyline. “Some” of the Clone Wars characters will re-appear, the public announcement noted.<\/p>\n
Many of the creatives behind “The Clone Wars” animated series are involved, but they noted the animation style is distinctive enough that no assets (e.g. computer models) will be re-used.<\/p>\n
While Boba Fett was not mentioned during the official announcement, and while there’s a history of inventing new characters (e.g. Cad Bane), the fans will demand Boba, and likely get the cosmic cash cow character. You can see our effort at #BringBackBoba.<\/a><\/p>\n Joe Johnston, the designer of Boba Fett turned director (of The Rocketeer, Captain America, and many more feature films), was also noted as the designer of a new Star Wars vehicle called the AT-DP.<\/p>\n The announcement also mentioned that the remaining season of “The Clone Wars” will be released. Previously, the series was shelved.<\/p>\n What are your thoughts? Add a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Confirmed today at New York Comic Con’s “Star Wars Rebels” panel, there will be bounty hunters in the new cartoon...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","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=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/bringbackboba-square-07.jpg\")
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