The design for an Imperial armor equipped with a jetpack, rocket launcher, and middle ages-inspired helmet soon jumped off the page and onto a Lucasfilm lot. While he made his on-screen debut in the animated segment of ‘78’s Star Wars Holiday Special as a bounty hunter, Boba was actually born as a new kind of stormtrooper in the concept art of the legendary Ralph McQuarrie and art director Joe Johnston. In fact, the creation of Boba Fett is emblematic of Lucasfilm’s signature approach to character building and the massive success of that process.īefore 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, there was already Boba Fett. As with other memorable Lucasfilm icons, including Indiana Jones, the studio put a lot of time into designing the bounty hunter. It’s a Disney+ show almost 40 years in the making, and not just because the pre-Disney canon had already established Boba survived the sarlacc pit, but because the villain always seemed destined for something bigger than his six-ish minutes of screen time and four lines of dialogue in the Original Trilogy.īoba is a great example of the kind of zeitgeist-grabbing myth-making that has made Lucasfilm such a successful movie studio over the last 50 years. 29, Star Wars fans will finally get something they could only fantasize about in 1983: the further on-screen adventures of Boba Fett.
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