{"id":444,"date":"2008-12-28T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T03:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/multimedia\/video-introduction-to-boba-fett\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T08:36:11","slug":"video-introduction-to-boba-fett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/multimedia\/video-introduction-to-boba-fett\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Introduction to Boba Fett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage from 1978 of the original Boba Fett costume design has been posted over at the official Star Wars website.<\/p>\n<p>According to the video, once the costume design by Joe Johnson was approved by George Lucas, the prototype was built in George&#8217;s house. For the video introduction, Ben Burtt (Sound Designer for &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back&#8221;) interviews Fett who was portrayed in costume by Duwayne Dunham (Assistant Film Editor on &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video-embed-wrap\"><div class=\"video-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Boba Fett: Initial 1978 Boba Fett Costume Screentest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-yF5HFFcv8E?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>Burtt, along with Norman Reynolds (Production Designer for &#8220;The Empire Strikes Back&#8221;), gives a full run down of the costume&#8217;s parts and all of it&#8217;s armaments and various weapons. They discuss the costume&#8217;s planned color scheme, some the character&#8217;s backstory and role in the galaxy, and even his purpose in the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>According to Burtt, they &#8220;wanted a character that could make public appearances and I think Boba was kind of designed as a character, between &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; and &#8216;Empire&#8217;, that they could, you know, get the public excited about something new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The concept suit itself is impressively functional. All of the electronics on it work and flicker just as they do in the movie. The left gauntlet has a working flame thrower and Fett&#8217;s trademark &#8220;rocket launcher&#8221;. The right gauntlet came equipped with darts, a wrist laser, a working flashlight, and even a special effects toggle that would ignite the smoke &#8216;thrusters&#8217; in the jetpack worn on the actor&#8217;s back. Although the suit is completely white and sans the wookiee scalps we are all so familiar with, it is very nearly identical to the one used on screen (minus the &#8220;Star Wars&#8217; beach towel-cape).<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full video at <strike class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/video\/view\/000743.html\">starwars.com\/video\/view\/000743.html<\/strike> &#8212; now at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-yF5HFFcv8E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage from 1978 of the original Boba Fett costume design has been posted over at the official Star Wars...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}