{"id":3054,"date":"2014-02-13T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2020-02-05T23:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T07:52:04","slug":"george-lucas-wanted-boba-fett-to-lead-star-wars-1313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/games\/george-lucas-wanted-boba-fett-to-lead-star-wars-1313\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas Wanted Boba Fett to Lead \"Star Wars 1313\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Informer has a great write-up today on the downfall of &#8220;Star Wars 1313&#8221; and LucasArts, headlined <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140214070754\/https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/features\/archive\/2014\/02\/12\/fall-of-the-empire-how-inner-turmoil-brought-down-a-legendary-studio.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fall Of The Empire: How Inner Turmoil Brought Down LucasArts&#8221;<\/a> (no longer online at gameinformer.com; archive.org version). Here&#8217;s a relevant excerpt about Boba Fett in particular being a direct request by George Lucas, although it was after the game was already being talked about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of Lucas&#8217; most crushing curveballs came weeks before the game was announced. He didn&#8217;t want the protagonist to be a fresh face; he wanted it to be Boba Fett. Without any working Boba Fett assets ready for the announcement, the team members who unveiled the project to the press during 2012&#8217;s Electronic Entertainment Expo, had to play dumb. They lied when asked directly about it, unable to mention anything about the iconic bounty hunter being the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The new direction for the game brought the title change of Star Wars: 1313, a name which Star Wars fans immediately connected to Boba Fett since he used the alias CT-1313 in the novel Boba Fett: Maze of Deception. The game was well received at E3, drawing many comparisons to the Uncharted series, the same franchise that essentially landed the killing blow on Indiana Jones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140214070754\/https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/features\/archive\/2014\/02\/12\/fall-of-the-empire-how-inner-turmoil-brought-down-a-legendary-studio.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">GameInformer.com<\/a> (no longer online at gameinformer.com; archive.org version)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Star Wars 1313&#8221; was abandoned after Disney bought Lucasfilm and there are no plans for it to be continued through to release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Informer has a great write-up today on the downfall of &#8220;Star Wars 1313&#8221; and LucasArts, headlined &#8220;Fall Of The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","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=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9812,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}