News Boba Fett Movie in the Works With James Mangold

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@HugeLobes
You're adorable. But no, seriously: reusing, adapting or integrating some element of a vaguely defined concept from decades prior does not equate to "THIS WAS ALL PLANNED OUT FROM THE START!!!".
It's a fluid creative process. In this case though the salient point was that said concepts didn't just pop out of thin air with the PT. There was a logical line of thought from one story element to another. Lucas had always kinda thought Boba was a left over clone. Boba turned out to be popular, so when the time came to tell the story of what the clones were all about, it was a natural fit to use that thread and make him more directly connected to the plot.

I mean the Boba Fett design started off as a "new" stormtrooper, so it makes sense that they'd base the clone armor around that idea. And if they did that without also including the actual Fett character design (Jango, in this case) to tie it all together, it'd feel very strange indeed; again, given Boba's popularity.

 

[JD]

Did Lucas have every single detail planned out from the start, or just a basic plan that hit the major points of his overall arc?
For the last few years I've been working on developing my own Urban Fantasy series/universe. Once I settled on my overall story arc that would play out over two or three smaller arcs over about 10ish stories, it's pretty much stayed the same, even new ideas have been worked into it. I swear I didn't realize how similar the overall structure was to Star Wars until I wrote this, I had honestly thought of it more as season of TV series.
That seems to be pretty standard with this kind of stuff, I don't think the finished version of any story, or even part of a story, has ever looked exactly like the early concepts did. Stories evolve as they change from concept to rough draft to final version.

 

[Reverend]

Did Lucas have every single detail planned out from the start, or just a basic plan that hit the major points of his overall arc?
For the last few years I've been working on developing my own Urban Fantasy series/universe. Once I settled on my overall story arc that would play out over two or three smaller arcs over about 10ish stories, it's pretty much stayed the same, even new ideas have been worked into it. I swear I didn't realize how similar the overall structure was to Star Wars until I wrote this, I had honestly thought of it more as season of TV series.
That seems to be pretty standard with this kind of stuff, I don't think the finished version of any story, or even part of a story, has ever looked exactly like the early concepts did. Stories evolve as they change from concept to rough draft to final version.

The interesting thing about the way the original Star Wars scripts evolved between drafts is that it wasn't so much about refining a story as refining the world he wanted to create first, then figuring out which story to set in said world.

There are certain elements that seemed to survive just about every single iteration, but they really weren't key story beats or even characters but specific scenes he wanted to see; like for example the cantina scene, the laser sword duel or the space dogfight at the end. The context changed, but the imagery stayed consistent, which says a lot about what kind of a storyteller Lucas is.