{"id":8562,"date":"2018-09-24T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2018-09-25T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:23:41","slug":"remembering-gary-kurtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fettpedia\/remembering-gary-kurtz\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Gary Kurtz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Producer Gary Kurtz, shown here talking to Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch) on the set of &#8220;Empire,&#8221; just passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy shared with us the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although it was a long time ago I do have fond memories of Gary Kurtz &#8211; he was a pleasure to work with and there was always a lovely atmosphere when he was on the set.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Along with Irvin Kershner, Kurtz met Jason Wingreen when he did the original voice-over for Boba Fett.<\/p>\n<p>Born July 27, 1940, Gary was a producer on Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/remembering-gary-kurtz-jeremy-bulloch.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[8562]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/remembering-gary-kurtz-jeremy-bulloch-520x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/remembering-gary-kurtz-jeremy-bulloch-520x520.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/remembering-gary-kurtz-jeremy-bulloch-340x340.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/remembering-gary-kurtz-jeremy-bulloch-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/remembering-gary-kurtz-jeremy-bulloch.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Set photo via Darryl W Moran on the Star Wars Rare Vintage Photos group on Facebook.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer Gary Kurtz, shown here talking to Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch) on the set of &#8220;Empire,&#8221; just passed away. Jeremy...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fettpedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","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=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}