We’ve discussed several times how we’d love to see The Book of Boba Fett season two happen and how, if it did, it should see Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett going after Samuel L Jackson’s Mace Windu to avenge the murder of his father, Jango Fett, all those years earlier on the planet of Geonosis.
In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Windu brutally decapitates Jango Fett in front of his son, Boba, played by then-13-year-old Daniel Logan and according to Logan, George Lucas had originally planned on Boba having his revenge in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Speaking recently at GalaxyCon Richmond, Logan said he believes that he was put on retainer for Revenge of the Sith and he was set to be the one who killed Windu.
Fans of the Clone Wars animated series will know that Logan voiced a young Boba and in that series Boba went after Mace and tried to kill him – ultimately he failed because Mace had in the bigger story lived through the Clone Wars.
“George Lucas held me for Revenge of the Sith,” says Logan, “there was a storyboard that was already created that Boba Fett was meant to have another arena scene with Mace Windu.”
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He goes on: “Mace was going to come at Boba like he did with Jango, but because Boba had already experienced beforehand what had happened, I hit the jetpacks, I fly upside down, or on my back. As I’m flying on my back with the jetpacks along the ground, I pull out Jango’s blasters and I shoot him right between the stomach, and that’s how Mace Windu was meant to die. I was sitting there at Lucasfilm like [makes excited noises]. And they’re like, ‘Okay, we’re holding you for a year.’ And I was like, ‘Okay.’ I kept calling, ‘Is it my turn yet? Is it my turn?’”
However, Logan goes on to say that it was Jackson who put a stop to the storyline, saying he didn’t want to be killed by a kid: “Samuel Jackson went into George Lucas’s office and he says, ‘You know, I don’t think that this young kid should have the power to be able to kill someone who sits on the Jedi Council. And plus, I don’t want to be killed by no punk kid.’ I happen to be that punk kid.”
Although he does go on to say there are no hard feelings.
Of course, should Jackso return to face Boba now, it would be Temuera Morrison’s version of the character, not Logan’s, that he would be facing, so while it might be possible to resolve that story finally, it would mean that Logan would not be involved. Which kinda sucks.
But I do also agree with Jackson’s take. Sorry, Daniel.
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Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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