Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[kirk55555]

Naturally, a lot of fans are saying one variant or another of: "but he doesn't look or sound anything like the previous actors who played him and his father. It makes no sense." True, and a fair observation unless one factors extensive reconstructive surgery into the equation along with more than thirty years of aging by a person who was probably genetically programmed to age and mature faster than a normal human to begin with.

Wasn't there a specific line in ATOC about Jango wanting an unaltered clone/son, i.e. a clone who ages at a normal rate, etc? I know it was mentioned in the EU, but I was also sure that it was said in the movie. So, Boba wouldn't grow any faster than a normal person would, even if he was a clone. Not that its a big deal to me if Syndow is an older, beat up Boba. That could be interesting, although I would like to see Jango's actor be an older Boba in something. I just got to thinking about Boba being an unaltered clone, and whether that was only EU or in the movie.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

You all have got to see this...way cool!


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/06/w...ticle_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obnetwork

Very cool.

 

[Ithekro]

Boba was unaltered as a clone. He aged normally. Even in his appearances in The Clone Wars he was still around 12 years old and looked like 6 year old clones. Though while he didn't age twice as fast, he grew up very quickly after the death f Jango. Hunter Fett started early to get to having the reputation as the best by the time of The Empire Strikes Back. If you took off his helmet is Return of he Jedi he's probably look like Jango Fett did in Attack of the Clones. Maybe slightly older and probably more beaten up and scarred.

Boba surviving the Sarlac was something they'd done in comics and novels for years. he'd have a massive amount of scars from the Sarlac though. He might be nearly unrecognizable afterwards depending on how badly he was digested before managing to blow himself out.

 

[shapeshifter]

Who was left alive to know Fett was in the hole and call for a rescue? Wait, his helmet had an antenna attached, didn't it? Perhaps he simply called for help.

You all have got to see this...way cool!

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/06/w...ticle_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obnetwork

Reminds me of the Mutiplane camera effect.

 

[cooleddie74]

In the EU Boba Fett blasted and crawled his way out of the belly of the Sarlacc and didn't get help, at least none that I can remember. He fell into the pit with his weapons, helmet and jetpack so as long as he survived the initial attack by the Sarlacc's digestive system and his equipment still worked he could have used what he had to get out without transmitting a signal for help.

A lot of fans wanted Boba to survive ROTJ and reappear someday. Even if von Sydow isn't playing an elderly Boba Fett we may still yet see his return to the big screen.

 

[RoJoHen]

I will never understand the popularity of Boba Fett.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I will never understand the popularity of Boba Fett.

I don't know that anyone does. Not even George Lucas. I seem to recall an interview from the 90s where he was a bit mystified by Boba Fett's popularity.

 

[martok2112]

Fett just had that "mysterious stranger", Sergio Leone spaghetti Western quality about him. ... not to mention he had some of the coolest gadgets and gear of any SW character at the time. His background was the subject of much speculation among SW fans....was he a former stormtrooper? How did he become such a renowned bounty hunter?

Episode II did little to add to any satisfactory embellishment to his origins, so the Fett fanboys probsbly refuse the canon of Ep. II and continue to debate his "true" (as the fanboys would have it) origins to this day.

 

[BillJ]

I'd rather they move forward than bring back Boba Fett.

 

[Ithekro]

Disney canon has him as alive after Return of the Jedi at last report.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Fett just had that "mysterious stranger", Sergio Leone spaghetti Western quality about him. ...

But that was intentional. His skyrocketing popularity afterwards was not though.

 

[JD]

Have you guys seen the new "spoiler" that just got posted on Facebook via another website? Take it with a grain of salt the size of a Death Star until officially confirmed or denied by the folks in charge of the new movie, but

Spoiler: who Max von Sydow may actually be playing and why his character may be partially-reconstructed with cybernetic implants

they say he's an elderly Boba Fett who required surgery to repair the extensive damage caused by the Sarlacc more than thirty years earlier. So....yeah. True or a big pile of eopie poop, it's getting a lot of fans talking.

This strikes more as fan dreaming than anything else. I wouldn't totally rule it out, but I find it pretty doubtful.

 

[cooleddie74]

And it may be nothing more than fanboy rumor posing as spoiler, but it would be far from the strangest thing to happen to the Star Wars universe if it turns out to be grounded in reality.

 

[kirk55555]

In the EU Boba Fett blasted and crawled his way out of the belly of the Sarlacc and didn't get help, at least none that I can remember. He fell into the pit with his weapons, helmet and jetpack so as long as he survived the initial attack by the Sarlacc's digestive system and his equipment still worked he could have used what he had to get out without transmitting a signal for help.

Not quite true. He escaped himself, I think with an explosive to blow open the Sarlaac, but he would have died in the desert without help. The bounty hunter Dengar, and a dancer named Neelah from Jabba's group that survived the sail barge, saved Fett from dying of his wounds in the desert, and then traveled with him for a while. This was told in the excellent The Bounty Hunter Wars EU book trilogy by KW Jeter. I thought the trilogy was great, and it did a good job of explaining how Boba Fett survived the Sarlaac.

As for why people like Boba? For me, its all because of the EU. Without that, he's just a guy with a cool looking set of armor. The EU, both books and comics, made him cool to me.

 

[EnsignRicky]

A mid-eightyish Swedish Max von Sydow cast as a would be mid-sixtyish Maori Temuera Morrison?

Yeah, not seeing it.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

A mid-eightyish Swedish Max von Sydow cast as a would be mid-sixtyish Maori Temuera Morrison?

Yeah, not seeing it.

Last week I caught wind of an entirely different rumor about von Sydow's character.

Spoiler: Just a rumor

He's a disillusioned Moff and Daisy Ridley's adoptive father, living in exile on Jakku. The crashed Star Destroyer seen in the trailer was his, and the First Order believes he's dead.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Fett just had that "mysterious stranger", Sergio Leone spaghetti Western quality about him. ...

But that was intentional. His skyrocketing popularity afterwards was not though.

He was the one good part of the Star Wars Holiday Special. And then he was the special mail order figure you had to send away for. He talked back to Vader without getting choked out and even his reprimand about no disintegrations suggested he was a badass. C'mon, he was cool (at least before ROTJ...).

 

[BeatleJWOL]

I'd rather they move forward than bring back Boba Fett.

They can most definitely do both. In the EU Fett even turned out to be rather helpful on occasion.

 

[davejames]

Last week I caught wind of an entirely different rumor about von Sydow's character.

Spoiler: Just a rumor

He's a disillusioned Moff and Daisy Ridley's adoptive father, living in exile on Jakku. The crashed Star Destroyer seen in the trailer was his, and the First Order believes he's dead.

That sounds a whole lot more plausible.

 

[theenglish]

Fett just had that "mysterious stranger", Sergio Leone spaghetti Western quality about him. ...

But that was intentional. His skyrocketing popularity afterwards was not though.

The Boba Fett figures were a lot easier to find for presents than some of the more principal characters including Vader. We had Boba Fett before the movie came out as did several of my friends. I bet that had something to do with it.