1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,049 --> 00:00:10,510 Boba's ship, when it starts up, is something like this. 4 00:00:11,261 --> 00:00:12,595 (WEAK HORN BLOWING) 5 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:13,888 (LAUGHS) Wait a second. 6 00:00:13,972 --> 00:00:15,056 (WEAK HORN BLOWING) 7 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:16,558 Let's see if this'll... Here it is. 8 00:00:16,725 --> 00:00:18,268 (HORN BLOWING) 9 00:00:18,351 --> 00:00:21,771 -(SHIP WHOOSHING) -(BLASTER FIRING) 10 00:00:22,981 --> 00:00:25,483 NARRATOR: Boba Fett, only four lines of dialog... 11 00:00:25,567 --> 00:00:26,651 BOBA: As you wish. 12 00:00:26,735 --> 00:00:27,777 He's no good to me dead. 13 00:00:27,861 --> 00:00:28,987 What if he doesn't survive? 14 00:00:29,070 --> 00:00:30,864 Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold. 15 00:00:30,947 --> 00:00:34,200 NARRATOR: ...and six minutes 32 seconds of total screen time... 16 00:00:34,284 --> 00:00:35,368 Boba Fett? Where? 17 00:00:36,369 --> 00:00:39,414 NARRATOR: ...and this somewhat unceremonious introduction. 18 00:00:39,497 --> 00:00:40,623 Bounty hunters. 19 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:42,459 -We don't need that scum. -Yes, sir. 20 00:00:42,542 --> 00:00:45,378 NARRATOR: So how did this become this? 21 00:00:46,421 --> 00:00:48,381 MAN: The universe's most famous bounty hunter, 22 00:00:48,631 --> 00:00:49,674 Boba Fett. 23 00:00:50,592 --> 00:00:51,634 It's Boba Fett. 24 00:00:51,843 --> 00:00:52,886 MAN: Whoa! 25 00:00:54,512 --> 00:00:55,513 (PINBALL PINGING) 26 00:00:55,764 --> 00:00:56,806 (ALL YELL) 27 00:00:59,184 --> 00:01:00,560 (WHIRRING) 28 00:01:00,643 --> 00:01:02,187 Dude, it's Boba Fett's ship. 29 00:01:02,270 --> 00:01:04,814 (LAUGHS) Look, the Giant Chicken is Boba Fett. 30 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:13,782 Boba Fett, you didn't know who he was, where he came from. 31 00:01:13,865 --> 00:01:15,158 He didn't get much screen time. 32 00:01:15,241 --> 00:01:17,619 I never thought they'd be talking about him after 1980. 33 00:01:18,203 --> 00:01:20,455 Despite his lack of screen time, 34 00:01:20,830 --> 00:01:24,084 next to no dialog, he's everywhere. 35 00:01:24,167 --> 00:01:27,170 -You a big fan of the Fett? -He signed it for me. Dude, look at that. 36 00:01:27,962 --> 00:01:29,464 (WHOOSHING) 37 00:01:35,637 --> 00:01:38,723 BURTT: Okay, we'd like to introduce Boba Fett. And here he is. 38 00:01:39,808 --> 00:01:41,643 A new character. 39 00:01:41,810 --> 00:01:44,020 -Uh, can you speak to us, Boba? -(ON MIC) Certainly. 40 00:01:44,312 --> 00:01:45,939 (CROWD CHEERING) 41 00:01:46,064 --> 00:01:48,149 JOHNSTON: Star Wars had become this phenomenon. 42 00:01:48,233 --> 00:01:50,819 Now we had to top that. 43 00:01:50,902 --> 00:01:52,737 Nobody wanted it to be just another sequel. 44 00:01:52,821 --> 00:01:54,322 We had to do something better. 45 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,866 We sort of jumped in on Empire. 46 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:58,660 We had to hit the ground running. 47 00:01:58,743 --> 00:02:02,372 Because there were more shots and there were more complicated designs. 48 00:02:03,873 --> 00:02:07,210 Ralph McQuarrie and I had traded sketches back and forth 49 00:02:07,794 --> 00:02:10,421 and sort of had a direction for this prototype suit. 50 00:02:10,713 --> 00:02:12,674 And it evolved into Boba Fett. 51 00:02:12,882 --> 00:02:16,010 I liked the design. I don't think we even changed that much of him. 52 00:02:16,094 --> 00:02:17,595 There were different versions of it. 53 00:02:17,679 --> 00:02:19,264 Each character, when we do it, 54 00:02:19,347 --> 00:02:22,559 we do other alternative versions of it to see where we go. 55 00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:27,522 VILMUR: The design for the character, 56 00:02:27,605 --> 00:02:30,567 the armature and all the gadgets and weaponry, 57 00:02:30,650 --> 00:02:32,735 is something we've never seen in Star Wars before. 58 00:02:32,902 --> 00:02:35,238 One thing that stood out above the rest is his "T" visor. 59 00:02:36,406 --> 00:02:38,283 Medieval in its styling, 60 00:02:38,366 --> 00:02:42,203 it's something that speaks to, you know, the days of sword and sorcery. 61 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:46,207 It just gives him that added dimension of magic and mystique. 62 00:02:46,499 --> 00:02:50,420 JOHNSTON: I don't remember if Ralph added the "T" shape or if I did it, 63 00:02:50,545 --> 00:02:53,423 or if George came by and said, "Hey, give him a 'T' shape." 64 00:02:53,506 --> 00:02:55,758 I don't know. I don't remember where that came from. 65 00:02:55,842 --> 00:02:59,262 But during the whole process of evolution, a lot of stuff like that would happen 66 00:02:59,345 --> 00:03:01,306 where somebody would suggest something 67 00:03:01,389 --> 00:03:03,892 and the other guy would take it and say, "How about this?" 68 00:03:04,475 --> 00:03:06,603 FILONI: It shows you the power of a design. 69 00:03:06,728 --> 00:03:10,106 Anything out there that resembles that visor 70 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:11,191 is just Boba Fett. 71 00:03:12,358 --> 00:03:16,362 JOHNSTON: The Boba Fett suit itself was originally intended to be an army 72 00:03:16,446 --> 00:03:18,698 of what George called Super Troopers, 73 00:03:18,781 --> 00:03:21,826 and the plan was to build 100 of these suits, 74 00:03:21,910 --> 00:03:26,664 and to have them sort of be the Empire's upgraded stormtroopers. 75 00:03:26,748 --> 00:03:30,168 BURTT: They wanted to show what Boba Fett looked like 76 00:03:30,251 --> 00:03:31,419 to the crew in England. 77 00:03:31,502 --> 00:03:34,005 And I made a, kind of, stand up, 78 00:03:34,214 --> 00:03:37,550 you know, introduction. "Here's the new character, Boba Fett" 79 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:41,804 Boba has sort of a radio voice. There's a speaker built into him here. 80 00:03:41,888 --> 00:03:44,682 And also, there's a certain amount of telemetry going on. 81 00:03:44,766 --> 00:03:47,393 And certain amount of feedback for some reason. 82 00:03:47,477 --> 00:03:49,604 It was just a show-and-tell of the character, 83 00:03:49,687 --> 00:03:51,231 but it was a very functional costume. 84 00:03:51,314 --> 00:03:53,107 This is a range finder. Is this... 85 00:03:53,191 --> 00:03:55,360 This is... This tilts down here. 86 00:03:55,443 --> 00:03:56,819 There's a flamethrower here. 87 00:03:56,903 --> 00:03:58,988 This is a dart-throwing device. 88 00:03:59,697 --> 00:04:00,865 Very deadly. 89 00:04:00,949 --> 00:04:05,036 These also shoot some sort of darts, projectiles from each knee. 90 00:04:05,119 --> 00:04:08,206 Sure, have him turn around and get a shot of the jetpack. 91 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,166 Can you do it, Duwayne? 92 00:04:10,291 --> 00:04:11,417 (JETPACK WHOOSHING) 93 00:04:11,709 --> 00:04:14,379 We put the costume on Duwayne Dunham, 94 00:04:14,462 --> 00:04:16,506 who was part of our editing team. 95 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:19,550 I just happened to be the size to fit that costume. 96 00:04:19,634 --> 00:04:22,011 And George said, "Hey, why don't you put this on him?" 97 00:04:22,095 --> 00:04:23,137 "Okay." 98 00:04:23,221 --> 00:04:27,433 George is standing there and he's looking, and he says, "You know, we need a cape." 99 00:04:27,517 --> 00:04:32,563 I said, "George, there's a Star Wars towel right there in the garage. (LAUGHING) 100 00:04:32,647 --> 00:04:36,150 "We use it when we rinse off after a volleyball game at lunch." 101 00:04:36,234 --> 00:04:40,363 That was the first introduction of Boba in some sort of physical form to us, 102 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:43,074 months before the film went into production. 103 00:04:43,283 --> 00:04:45,076 Apparently, there was a budget issue. 104 00:04:45,159 --> 00:04:47,495 And once the original suit was built, 105 00:04:47,578 --> 00:04:50,707 George decided that we didn't have the money 106 00:04:50,790 --> 00:04:53,710 to turn them into an army. But we had this one suit. 107 00:04:53,793 --> 00:04:57,547 And George said, "Let's make him a different kind of a character. 108 00:04:57,630 --> 00:04:59,299 "Let's make him a bounty hunter." 109 00:04:59,424 --> 00:05:03,136 So the first thing I did was I painted the entire thing silver, 110 00:05:03,803 --> 00:05:07,181 so that when I put the subsequent layers of paint on, 111 00:05:07,265 --> 00:05:11,185 it would look like something hit the suit and broke the covering away, 112 00:05:11,269 --> 00:05:13,688 whether it's paint or some kind of metallic finish, 113 00:05:13,771 --> 00:05:15,398 and you would see the metal underneath. 114 00:05:15,565 --> 00:05:18,693 And from that, I just started mixing rail road colors 115 00:05:18,776 --> 00:05:20,570 and just painting it up and damaging it. 116 00:05:20,653 --> 00:05:22,488 I would take a heat gun, 117 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:25,491 I heat the plastic, and I think I had a rock or something 118 00:05:25,575 --> 00:05:28,494 that I would then press into the hot plastic to make a dent. 119 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:30,079 George never came by and said, 120 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:32,665 "I don't know, I don't like that orange on there." 121 00:05:32,749 --> 00:05:35,043 You know, he said, "Just take it and run with it." 122 00:05:35,126 --> 00:05:37,253 There was no sort of interim stage. 123 00:05:37,337 --> 00:05:40,340 He went from white plastic to Boba Fett. 124 00:05:41,215 --> 00:05:44,218 I said, "This is a good character. People like the bad guys." 125 00:05:45,345 --> 00:05:48,348 And then later, they were doing this holiday special. 126 00:05:48,431 --> 00:05:50,016 (MACHINE BEEPING) 127 00:05:50,099 --> 00:05:53,311 And there wasn't much of our involvement. 128 00:05:53,394 --> 00:05:55,188 But I came up with the idea, 129 00:05:55,271 --> 00:05:57,857 "Why don't we take the Boba Fett character and put him in that? 130 00:05:57,940 --> 00:05:59,609 "Make a little movie out of it?" 131 00:05:59,692 --> 00:06:02,320 I am Boba Fett. Follow me, friend. 132 00:06:02,403 --> 00:06:04,280 Boba's first appearance in film. 133 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:07,909 SANSWEET: So he really predates by a couple of years 134 00:06:07,992 --> 00:06:10,870 the actual release of The Empire Strikes Back. 135 00:06:11,621 --> 00:06:13,664 FILONI: Beautiful work, very stylized. 136 00:06:13,873 --> 00:06:17,543 It's just very simple, kind of fantasy storytelling. 137 00:06:17,627 --> 00:06:20,755 Chewbacca suspected all along there was something bad about Boba. 138 00:06:20,838 --> 00:06:22,423 How did you know, Chewie? 139 00:06:22,507 --> 00:06:26,135 It wasn't until the last ten years that any of us realized 140 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:29,389 that a month before the Star Wars Holiday Special came out, 141 00:06:30,139 --> 00:06:33,768 Boba Fett was actually in this Marin County parade. 142 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:39,774 BURTT: George Lucas, who lives in the town, 143 00:06:39,857 --> 00:06:43,986 wanted to do something very local that was exciting about Star Wars. 144 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:48,199 And so, they put Vader and this strange character, Boba Fett, 145 00:06:48,282 --> 00:06:51,202 that people didn't know, into the local parade. 146 00:06:54,163 --> 00:06:58,709 It's hard to imagine a local parade 147 00:06:58,876 --> 00:07:02,171 where Star Wars characters, not just like people in costumes, 148 00:07:02,338 --> 00:07:05,174 the actual screen-use costumes are walking down the street. 149 00:07:06,008 --> 00:07:07,802 But that's exactly what happened. 150 00:07:13,057 --> 00:07:14,934 Duwayne was inside it at the time. 151 00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:17,687 And it was a strange sight 152 00:07:17,770 --> 00:07:21,107 because Boba hadn't been put on film yet and become well-known. 153 00:07:22,817 --> 00:07:25,903 DUNHAM: At first glance, you didn't say, "Oh, that's a stormtrooper." 154 00:07:25,987 --> 00:07:27,655 You said, "Whoa, who is that?" 155 00:07:32,368 --> 00:07:34,287 VILMUR: Vader was a known quantity at that point. 156 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,915 But the fans definitely responded to Fett. 157 00:07:40,418 --> 00:07:42,170 LUCAS: And that's where it really started. 158 00:07:44,881 --> 00:07:47,341 You know, and then, over time, we put him in the movies. 159 00:07:49,343 --> 00:07:54,098 I think what made Boba Fett really popular was that he was a mystery. 160 00:07:54,682 --> 00:07:57,602 Like Darth Vader, the helmet was his face. 161 00:07:57,727 --> 00:08:00,229 I liked that we didn't give him any backstory. 162 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:02,231 He was just one of the bounty hunters. 163 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:04,108 George never worried about stuff like that. 164 00:08:04,192 --> 00:08:06,861 He never felt like he had to give you a big backstory. 165 00:08:06,944 --> 00:08:08,905 DARTH VADER: ...but I want them alive. 166 00:08:08,988 --> 00:08:11,240 No disintegrations. 167 00:08:11,324 --> 00:08:12,408 BOBA: As you wish. 168 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:13,910 Less is more with Fett. 169 00:08:13,993 --> 00:08:16,496 He's enigmatic. We don't know what to expect from him. 170 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:17,872 (BLASTER FIRING) 171 00:08:18,039 --> 00:08:21,751 He's encased in this battle-worn scorched armor 172 00:08:21,834 --> 00:08:23,753 that we just know nothing about. 173 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:25,838 And all of these mysteries 174 00:08:25,922 --> 00:08:30,551 form kind of this amazingly cool vision of who this guy is. 175 00:08:30,635 --> 00:08:33,638 He wears the poncho. It's just like Clint Eastwood. 176 00:08:33,721 --> 00:08:38,434 He is an icon drawn out of George's appreciation for Westerns, 177 00:08:38,518 --> 00:08:42,146 and, I think, the gun fighters of Sergio Leone's films specifically. 178 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,819 I mean, I jokingly said at one point, "If Boba Fett is a bounty hunter, 179 00:08:48,903 --> 00:08:51,906 "why can't he wear spurs like we hear in the Westerns, you know?" 180 00:08:52,573 --> 00:08:54,283 Although I said it half-jokingly, 181 00:08:54,367 --> 00:08:57,119 Bob Rutledge, who was in charge of the foley, 182 00:08:57,203 --> 00:09:01,582 actually took my suggestion of spurs like these 183 00:09:01,666 --> 00:09:04,418 and did foley footsteps for Boba. 184 00:09:04,794 --> 00:09:06,754 (SPURS CLINKING) 185 00:09:07,964 --> 00:09:09,840 Within the DNA of Star Wars 186 00:09:09,924 --> 00:09:14,178 is a deep appreciation for movies that George liked, 187 00:09:14,262 --> 00:09:17,348 that he was inspired by, of different genre. 188 00:09:17,431 --> 00:09:20,309 And so spurs make absolute sense when you think of it that way. 189 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:23,813 As surely as, you know, Obi-Wan looks like a samurai. 190 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:25,106 That makes perfect sense 191 00:09:25,189 --> 00:09:28,317 if you understand who the creator of Star Wars, 192 00:09:28,401 --> 00:09:30,528 the person that devised it all is, George Lucas. 193 00:09:30,611 --> 00:09:33,447 It's just part of the appreciation of the art form really. 194 00:09:36,492 --> 00:09:39,620 Boba Fett in both, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, 195 00:09:39,704 --> 00:09:41,163 that was Jeremy Bulloch. 196 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:44,083 BULLOCH: His half-brother, Robert Watts, was a producer, 197 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:46,419 and he called Jeremy one day and said, 198 00:09:46,502 --> 00:09:48,754 "There's a little part in The Empire Strikes Back. 199 00:09:48,838 --> 00:09:50,214 "Get your agent to get onto it." 200 00:09:50,298 --> 00:09:52,425 Jeremy said, "I can't. I'm in the theater." 201 00:09:52,508 --> 00:09:54,594 "Yes, well, just go along." And he did. 202 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:59,056 And tried the suit on and everything fitted perfectly. 203 00:09:59,223 --> 00:10:01,100 So he got the part. 204 00:10:01,267 --> 00:10:04,145 He said when he put the costume on and walked onto the set, 205 00:10:05,313 --> 00:10:06,814 there was absolute silence. 206 00:10:06,897 --> 00:10:09,734 Everybody was amazed at what it looked like. 207 00:10:09,817 --> 00:10:11,569 379J take 1. 208 00:10:12,069 --> 00:10:14,697 FILONI: What was interesting about what Jeremy captured was 209 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:17,199 in his posture and in the armor, 210 00:10:17,283 --> 00:10:19,243 he did carry that kind of 211 00:10:19,327 --> 00:10:22,246 Eastwood gun-slinger contrapposto stance. 212 00:10:22,413 --> 00:10:24,040 Like, he had the way about him. 213 00:10:24,206 --> 00:10:26,417 371A take 1. 214 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:31,422 Every little subtle move that Boba has in these films, you remember. 215 00:10:33,257 --> 00:10:36,552 VILMUR: Jeremy actually had a face role in The Empire Strikes Back. 216 00:10:36,761 --> 00:10:38,929 He was an unnamed Imperial officer 217 00:10:39,055 --> 00:10:41,932 who was actually dragging Princess Leia away from Luke 218 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,478 and he was a pilot in Revenge of the Sith. 219 00:10:45,561 --> 00:10:48,064 We're receiving a message from the chancellor's office. 220 00:10:48,147 --> 00:10:49,273 -Send it through. -Yes, sir. 221 00:10:49,398 --> 00:10:54,528 And then, I mean, Jeremy the person, after the films, at conventions. 222 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:57,281 (CROWD CHEERING, CLAPPING) 223 00:10:57,657 --> 00:11:00,117 BULLOCH: It was in the mid-'90s when they re-released the films 224 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:01,661 when it just took off. 225 00:11:04,747 --> 00:11:06,624 Then eventually, I went and I sort of 226 00:11:06,707 --> 00:11:09,669 dealt with all the setting the tables up and everything. 227 00:11:09,752 --> 00:11:12,546 So we did it as a partnership, which was nice. 228 00:11:12,630 --> 00:11:16,550 We went to Poland, and the whole town came out to meet him. 229 00:11:16,634 --> 00:11:18,302 Lots of lovely memories. 230 00:11:19,428 --> 00:11:21,931 And sometimes, he would stand in front of the table, 231 00:11:22,014 --> 00:11:25,559 he wouldn't sit down so that he could be there if they wanted pictures. 232 00:11:25,726 --> 00:11:28,437 And always took time to chat to people and everything. 233 00:11:28,979 --> 00:11:30,272 He loved all that. 234 00:11:30,981 --> 00:11:35,444 FILONI: He really appreciated what that character meant to people, 235 00:11:35,528 --> 00:11:37,363 what his performance had meant to people. 236 00:11:37,488 --> 00:11:38,572 (CROWD CHEERING, CLAPPING) 237 00:11:38,739 --> 00:11:41,909 He had a phenomenal relationship with Star Wars fans. 238 00:11:41,992 --> 00:11:43,160 He's one of the originals. 239 00:11:43,244 --> 00:11:45,121 This is the lovely metallic one, isn't it? 240 00:11:45,204 --> 00:11:47,039 -MAN: Yes, it is. -It just shines. 241 00:11:47,123 --> 00:11:52,420 It was a deep loss to all of us and the fans when he left us last year. 242 00:11:53,546 --> 00:11:55,548 BULLOCH: That's what he used to write on his photographs. 243 00:11:55,631 --> 00:11:58,175 "Stay cool. Stay cool. Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett." 244 00:12:03,514 --> 00:12:07,184 SANSWEET: Lots of people, over the years, have worn the Boba Fett costume. 245 00:12:08,978 --> 00:12:11,647 There were stunt guys who did some of the work, 246 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:13,691 especially in Return of the Jedi. 247 00:12:16,193 --> 00:12:18,320 RANDALL: This is what happens to an old stunt man. 248 00:12:18,404 --> 00:12:20,197 He needs this equipment in the morning. 249 00:12:22,491 --> 00:12:24,535 Maybe what I'll do is start with that wet suit. 250 00:12:24,618 --> 00:12:27,163 It'll pick up enough slack so it won't slip around. 251 00:12:34,253 --> 00:12:36,088 MAN: Why don't you go up this ladder? 252 00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:39,467 -MAN 1: Hey, buddy. -LUCAS: What if he came up higher 253 00:12:39,550 --> 00:12:42,052 and tighter so that you could get the dunes behind him? 254 00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:45,431 -Where is your hand go up? -Up four, down... 255 00:12:45,514 --> 00:12:48,559 MAN: The flexibility of the costume is such that you could produce 256 00:12:48,642 --> 00:12:50,394 virtually anything and justify it. 257 00:12:50,478 --> 00:12:51,604 Let's shoot this. 258 00:12:51,687 --> 00:12:52,730 Stand by to go. 259 00:13:08,037 --> 00:13:11,540 It's a wonderful thing when that character is performed by so many great people. 260 00:13:13,709 --> 00:13:16,253 LUCAS: I always liked him, and he was a good character. 261 00:13:16,337 --> 00:13:19,423 And then I came and needed another one, so I did Jango Fett. 262 00:13:19,548 --> 00:13:20,549 (BLASTERS FIRING) 263 00:13:20,674 --> 00:13:22,009 Boba Fett's father. 264 00:13:22,426 --> 00:13:25,888 Temuera Morrison was hired to play Jango Fett, 265 00:13:26,013 --> 00:13:28,265 and Boba Fett is the sole clone 266 00:13:28,349 --> 00:13:31,602 that was purely his DNA without alteration. 267 00:13:31,727 --> 00:13:34,438 My first introduction to Boba Fett was, um... 268 00:13:34,522 --> 00:13:39,610 Actually did a behind-the-scenes interview for Attack of The Clones, 269 00:13:39,693 --> 00:13:43,197 and they open up this book that basically explains all the characters. 270 00:13:43,405 --> 00:13:45,950 I remember I opened this book and I go... 271 00:13:46,158 --> 00:13:49,245 Whoa! I even get the jetpacks. (CHUCKLES) 272 00:13:49,411 --> 00:13:51,747 I remember the guy behind the camera probably thought, 273 00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:53,833 "No, you're only going to get a blue jumpsuit. 274 00:13:53,916 --> 00:13:55,626 "But the original guy has all of this." 275 00:13:56,627 --> 00:13:59,880 LUCAS: Acting-wise and everything, it was very good to have Tem there 276 00:13:59,964 --> 00:14:01,590 'cause he'd worked the character out, 277 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:05,511 and they were supposed to be the same person more or less. 278 00:14:05,761 --> 00:14:07,930 LOGAN: The first day I met him, he said to me, 279 00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:09,807 "I guess you're going to be playing my son, 280 00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:11,767 "and I'm going to be playing your dad. 281 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:14,103 "You call me dad and I'll call you son." 282 00:14:14,270 --> 00:14:16,897 Dad, I think we're being tracked. 283 00:14:17,481 --> 00:14:19,775 Hang on, son, we'll move into the asteroid field, 284 00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:22,570 and we'll have a couple of surprises for them. 285 00:14:22,736 --> 00:14:24,572 I remember being all of four-foot-nothing 286 00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:26,866 and I look up at him and I said, "All right, Dad." 287 00:14:26,949 --> 00:14:30,327 And he just looked back down at me with this big smile and he goes, 288 00:14:30,452 --> 00:14:31,453 "All right, son." 289 00:14:31,745 --> 00:14:32,788 (LIGHTSABER ACTIVATES) 290 00:14:33,330 --> 00:14:34,999 Whose helmet is that anyway? 291 00:14:35,082 --> 00:14:38,794 It belongs to a bounty hunter I killed on Geonosis. 292 00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:41,755 I was a fan of The Clone Wars, and I really loved the cartoon, 293 00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:43,340 and I was hoping to come back. 294 00:14:43,424 --> 00:14:44,800 BOBA: You got a problem with that? 295 00:14:44,884 --> 00:14:45,926 My name's Boba. 296 00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:48,804 I was so thrilled to be able to voice Boba Fett again 297 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,765 and to be able to fill in the gaps after Attack of The Clones. 298 00:14:52,391 --> 00:14:56,103 The greatest thing is I've been able to show my son Attack of The Clones. 299 00:14:56,604 --> 00:14:59,398 And I show him the little Kamino Escape blue figure 300 00:14:59,481 --> 00:15:01,525 and I would point out and say, "Hey, who's this?" 301 00:15:01,609 --> 00:15:02,651 He says, "Boba Fett." 302 00:15:04,987 --> 00:15:07,114 SANSWEET: I've been a collector all my life, 303 00:15:07,197 --> 00:15:10,784 and when Star Wars came out, that became the focus of my collection. 304 00:15:10,910 --> 00:15:12,411 (LIGHTSABER WHOOSHING) 305 00:15:12,661 --> 00:15:14,705 And when I moved up to Northern California 306 00:15:14,788 --> 00:15:17,291 to go to work for Lucasfilm in the marketing department, 307 00:15:17,458 --> 00:15:20,252 I needed someplace to store my objects. 308 00:15:20,419 --> 00:15:23,422 So I bought a house with chicken barns. 309 00:15:24,757 --> 00:15:28,177 So what used to house 20,000 hens, 310 00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:30,721 now houses Rancho Obi-Wan, 311 00:15:30,888 --> 00:15:33,390 a Star Wars Memorabilia Museum, 312 00:15:33,474 --> 00:15:36,018 which, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, 313 00:15:36,143 --> 00:15:38,479 is the world's largest collection 314 00:15:38,562 --> 00:15:40,522 of Star Wars memorabilia, 315 00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:42,650 including one or two Boba Fett items. 316 00:15:45,402 --> 00:15:50,908 So here is a maquette of the original Boba Fett costume. 317 00:15:50,991 --> 00:15:52,326 The all-white costume. 318 00:15:52,409 --> 00:15:56,956 And this is the original Boba Fett rifle. 319 00:15:57,039 --> 00:16:00,793 When he was wearing the all-white costume before production started. 320 00:16:01,377 --> 00:16:06,423 I think that there are well over 1,000 Boba Fett items in the collection. 321 00:16:06,507 --> 00:16:11,971 This is one of two Lego-authorized Boba Fett figures that were sold 322 00:16:12,054 --> 00:16:13,847 at FAO Schwarz. 323 00:16:13,931 --> 00:16:15,224 In our cantina set, 324 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:19,436 we have Boba Fett guitars from both Japan and the US. 325 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,438 And how many more than the 1,000 326 00:16:21,689 --> 00:16:24,608 is really hard to say because there are a lot of objects 327 00:16:24,692 --> 00:16:29,613 that have Boba Fett as part of a broader spectrum of characters. 328 00:16:29,697 --> 00:16:34,994 This is a Japanese Boba Fett toy, and it actually tap dances 329 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,247 to a couple of Star Wars melodies. 330 00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:42,668 There are many strange Boba Fett things, there are many fan-made Boba Fett objects. 331 00:16:42,751 --> 00:16:46,422 But perhaps my favorite because of what Rancho Obi-Wan used to be 332 00:16:46,505 --> 00:16:50,217 is a painted Easter egg of Boba Fett. 333 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:52,928 The inside of the egg is long gone. 334 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:57,474 One of the reasons that Boba Fett has become so popular among collectors 335 00:16:57,558 --> 00:17:02,896 is because of the story of the send-away Boba Fett action figure. 336 00:17:02,980 --> 00:17:07,276 Here we have two versions of the rocket-firing Boba Fett, 337 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,737 the one with a four-sided missile. 338 00:17:09,820 --> 00:17:13,032 And this was an attempt to do a locking mechanism 339 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:14,867 with an eight-sided rocket. 340 00:17:14,950 --> 00:17:18,328 This is instead what we all got in the mail. 341 00:17:18,412 --> 00:17:22,082 Boba Fett in a plastic package with a sonic-welded missile in it, 342 00:17:22,166 --> 00:17:23,625 and a note to consumers... 343 00:17:23,709 --> 00:17:28,130 "Sorry, the launcher has been removed from the product for safety reasons. 344 00:17:28,213 --> 00:17:31,216 "If you're unhappy, we'll send you a different figure." 345 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:35,095 The handful that are out there in the public among collectors 346 00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:39,767 came from the ones that were tested at Kenner Products in Cincinnati, 347 00:17:39,850 --> 00:17:45,314 and when they go up at auctions, they can go into the six figures now. 348 00:17:46,023 --> 00:17:48,609 The Boba Fett figure was a big deal because if you had that, 349 00:17:48,734 --> 00:17:51,361 you had a capable villain to do your adventures with. 350 00:17:51,445 --> 00:17:54,031 And it invited creative thinking. 351 00:17:54,114 --> 00:17:56,825 It invited stories to be told about this character. 352 00:17:56,909 --> 00:17:59,495 And now we play with biggest toys there are. 353 00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:01,413 And Boba Fett is still one of them. 354 00:18:01,497 --> 00:18:06,251 He gets out of the Darth Vader carrying case, and he's back in play. (LAUGHS) 355 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:08,962 (DEVICE BEEPING) 356 00:18:09,463 --> 00:18:14,218 KENNEDY: How the fans would react to Boba Fett reappearing in The Mandalorian. 357 00:18:15,219 --> 00:18:17,888 We knew it would be big, I have to say. 358 00:18:17,971 --> 00:18:21,308 I think this was sort of a gasp rather than a scream. 359 00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:25,979 MORRISON: All that time since the '80s, 360 00:18:26,063 --> 00:18:28,023 when Boba disappeared... 361 00:18:29,316 --> 00:18:33,070 and now it was like, "Here he comes. The great comeback" 362 00:18:33,153 --> 00:18:35,072 KENNEDY: To have Temuera Morrison back, 363 00:18:35,155 --> 00:18:37,074 he's just remarkable in the part. 364 00:18:38,367 --> 00:18:39,827 Big day today. 365 00:18:39,910 --> 00:18:41,495 (WHOOSHING) 366 00:18:44,414 --> 00:18:45,582 First reveal. 367 00:18:46,375 --> 00:18:48,418 I've been tracking you, Mandalorian. 368 00:18:49,419 --> 00:18:51,046 Boba, he's back. 369 00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:54,007 MAN: Here we go. And... Action! 370 00:18:54,675 --> 00:18:58,720 WEN: What happened to Boba Fett after he was swallowed up by the Sarlacc? 371 00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:00,514 That's a story in itself. 372 00:19:00,597 --> 00:19:02,141 I'm here for the armor. 373 00:19:03,267 --> 00:19:06,270 If you want my armor, you'll have to peel it off my dead body. 374 00:19:08,105 --> 00:19:10,482 Where's Boba been all this time? 375 00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:14,945 I don't want your armor. I want my armor. 376 00:19:15,404 --> 00:19:16,446 It belongs to me. 377 00:19:19,533 --> 00:19:22,870 BURTT: I never imagined that Boba Fett would be a character, 378 00:19:22,953 --> 00:19:27,416 that we'd be talking about 40-plus years after he was created. 379 00:19:29,042 --> 00:19:32,212 A character if you see it, and it enters your imagination 380 00:19:32,296 --> 00:19:35,215 at the right age, it changes your DNA. You sort of carry it along. 381 00:19:36,216 --> 00:19:38,844 And there was a whole generation of Star Wars kids, 382 00:19:38,969 --> 00:19:42,639 I would call them, and young fans that absorbed what was in the movies. 383 00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:49,938 And it became a culture. 384 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:52,608 The world was ready for this bounty hunter. 385 00:19:54,693 --> 00:19:57,029 FILONI: Temuera and what he's brought to the character, 386 00:19:57,738 --> 00:20:01,074 Daniel, Jeremy, these people that have been in the suit, 387 00:20:01,158 --> 00:20:03,493 it becomes their legacy as well. 388 00:20:05,954 --> 00:20:09,958 Fans have wanted this character to come back in Star Wars for so long. 389 00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:13,629 It's even more exciting to realize 390 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:17,132 that we have a whole series on the way that features Boba Fett. 391 00:20:17,299 --> 00:20:18,717 (CRACKLING) 392 00:20:18,967 --> 00:20:21,470 The anticipation is remarkable.