{"id":7322,"date":"2017-02-18T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2017-03-25T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T06:56:00","slug":"benicio-del-toros-last-jedi-character-still-not-confirmed-despite-vicrum-fett-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/film-tv\/benicio-del-toros-last-jedi-character-still-not-confirmed-despite-vicrum-fett-rumor\/","title":{"rendered":"Benicio del Toro's \"Last Jedi\" Character Still Not Confirmed, Despite \"Vicrum Fett\" Rumor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several entertainment publications are running articles today saying Benicio del Toro, who is already confirmed to be in “The Last Jedi,” is a character named “Vicrum Fett.” One article actually spells it “Vlcrum Fett,” which seems like a typo (or even more far fetched).<\/p>\n

While it’s spelled again slightly differently, the name “Vikram” — without “Fett” — has been rumored for a while now. The “Fett” surname is the new rumor here.<\/p>\n

The source of the news appears to be a popular video blogger, Mike Zeroh<\/a>, who discusses in a video how he came across Benicio’s page on an off-shoot wiki called wikiwand.com. (We can see that Wikiwand clearly aggregates all or most of its data from Wikipedia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In the Google search result description for Benicio’s Wikiwand<\/a> page, it says “Sir Vicrum Fett” in the row for “The Last Jedi” where his character name would be positioned. You can see that in a screenshot we just saw ourselves here:<\/p>\n

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Benicio’s Fett Reference in Search Description<\/p><\/div>\n

Note that the search result for his Wikipedia page do not say the same thing.<\/p>\n

When you load up the Wikiwand page itself, there’s zero corroboration for the meta data, even in the HTML. On the front-end, it says “TBA” aka “to be announced.”<\/p>\n

The video blogger addressed this too. Since wiki-based content management systems can be edited by anyone and moderated by a select few, we also looked in the recent revisions.<\/p>\n

Was “TBA” changed from “Sir Vicrum Fett” recently? We cannot find a single match of a user going in to change it from “TBA” since it first appeared.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We also checked WikiBlame<\/a> which searches revision history by keyword. No matches.<\/p>\n

This means it’s just Mike Zeroh, who claims he saw a change, and the search engine description text, which we can corroborate. But the description text can be messed with by wiki users who know how that all works.<\/p>\n

Because we can’t verify this further, and that’s the only evidence in the news circulating, we think this is very<\/strong> weak.<\/p>\n

Don’t believe it just because of this.<\/p>\n

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For more Fett Fact Checks, see our page for the “story” films<\/a> and our page for Episode VIII<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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