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Concept art from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith proved that Boba Fett was going to appear, and the reason he didn’t leaves something to be desired.
In one of the most heartbreaking scenes in all of Star Wars, the silhouette of a young Boba Fett emerged from the shadows on Geonosis to pick up his father’s helmet. Jango Fett had just had his head separated from his shoulders by Master Windu, and in that one fell lightsaber swipe, everything Boba had ever known was over. Revenge seemed like the next, logical step, with Boba at least trying to hunt down and kill Windu for killing his father. However, that didn’t come to pass on the big screen, as Boba’s role in Revenge of the Sith was scrapped by George Lucas for a pretty strange reason.
Unused concept art from Revenge of the Sith shows that a revenge plot for Boba was actually in the works. Rather than having Windu die at the hands of Chancellor Palpatine, he would’ve been killed by a Boba. That path could’ve been the next logical step for Boba’s development on his path to becoming the most notorious bounty hunter in the galaxy, but Lucas opted for the other option.
The piece of concept art features a caption that explains the director’s reasoning, stating, “On January 10, Lucas states definitively that Boba Fett would only be 16 and therefore too young.” Immediately, it makes one wonder what the Star Wars architect is referring to. While a galaxy far, far away is a franchise typically geared toward younger audience members, it hasn’t held back on wartime brutality. Just in Revenge of the Sith alone, a twenty-two-year-old Anakin slaughtered Jedi younglings and was burned on Mustafar.
The age thing was more probably just an off of the top of head response that Lucas came up with because he had simply decided to go in a different direction. It seems more likely that he didn’t want to further complicate an already packed movie with an additional plot point, as it needed to be focused on the Sith’s revenge against the Jedi, not on a bounty hunter’s personal vendetta against one member of the Order.
Of course, Star Wars: The Clone Wars tried to retcon his absence by including Boba in a few episodes in which he tried to assassinate Master Windu. But in truth, that only made his absence in Revenge of the Sith all the more noteworthy.
The bottom line is that including Boba in Revenge of the Sith probably wouldn’t have improved the movie, but it might have benefited the character. Seeing him hunt down an injured Windu through Coruscant’s underworld would’ve added a new layer to the character, one that wasn’t really touched upon until his return in Season 2 of The Mandalorian.
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