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Wouldn't mind if only they could have restored Boba's original voice in ESB. *cough, cough*
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It doesn't seem like George's word matters anymore. Star Wars is no longer his baby.
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If Mr. Binks is still around, he would look more like Boss Nass now.
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I thought Boss Nass was the ONLY gungan "Fat Guy" because he's their leader. It doesn't make sense, but then again, the name Jar-Jar does?
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Obviously he had to eat his rivals to prove his worthiness.
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It looks like there are plenty of helmeted characters in this film. I hope they let Boba set this one out. Plus, Max Von Sydow playing Boba Fett would be like getting Peter O'Toole to play the T-1000
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John Doom said:
I thought Boss Nass was the ONLY gungan "Fat Guy" because he's their leader. It doesn't make sense, but then again, the name Jar-Jar does?
I think it was on the DVD commentary that mentioned that's what Gungans look like when they age. As with Jabba, George was probably going for a Sydney Greenstreet vibe.
There was a fat Gungan or two elsewhere in TPM.
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I see. Well, it does make more sense now :D (but where did most of the elders go, then? Whatever. :\)
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Wookieepedia says the average Gungan lifespan is 65 years.
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Humans in the SW Universe age the same as real-world humans and Gungans get only a 65-year lifespan. Too much money and resources spent on clones, battle droids, and death stars to invest in anti-aging research, I suppose.
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Boss Nass is also the only green one. And the only one with eyes in his head instead of on stalks. Makes no sense.
Also, one of 'em had whiskers. The one that talks to Jar-Jar when he arrives in the lamp city. What's up with that?
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Also, one of 'em had whiskers. The one that talks to Jar-Jar when he arrives in the lamp city. What's up with that?
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Because all humans look exactly alike. ;)
Captain Tarpals gets all the chicks with those whiskers.
Only Ric Olie has more magnetism!
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I'm just glad were getting out of the PT Era & kickin' it back Old School Star Wars Style.
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The MVS-as-Boba-Fett thing was something I theorized not long after he was cast, and before I found out it was an actual rumor. It seemed odd to cast an actor that age in this particular film, unless it was because they wanted a character old enough to have spanned all three trilogies. In fact, I racked my brain trying to come up with characters whose age fit his in this timeframe, and for two solid days, I had myself convinced that Max Von Sydow, renowned international star of stage and screen whose career spans more than six decades, was cast to play Kitster, Anakin's childhood chum.
But it suddenly (concord) dawned on me that having an elderly Swedish actor play the octogenarian version of a little Maori boy is really no more insane than having him play the octogenarian version of a little Pakistani boy, and I became unshakably convinced that we'd be seeing a geriatric Boba Fett in TFA. But I soon dismissed such a twist as being too similar to what Abrams pulled with Khan... And now I read about this somewhat dubious "confirmation"...
I dunno... It does make sense on a number of levels, not the least of which being good business sense in keeping Boba fresh in the public's mind just in time for his spinoff film. And I heartily support so big a middle finger at the PT as casting an actor so irreconcilably different from Temuera Morrison. And, personally, the very idea; the very phrase "Max Von Sydow as Boba Fett" fills me with absurd delight. Just imagine a Star Wars fan sitting down to watch Flash Gordon in the theater in December of 1980, The Empire Strikes Back still fresh in his mind. Imagine telling him that the selfsame Max Von Sydow portraying Ming the Merciless up there on the big screen, will one day play the aged version of that badass new bounty hunter guy from Empire. I mean, it certainly beats having to tell him that Prince Vultan would go on to play an obese, West Indian-accented rabbit-frog in the first of an entire trilogy of shitty Star Wars films...
I guess what I'm saying is, "I like it. I hope it's true."
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But it suddenly (concord) dawned on me
*groan*
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It would be nice if they got Jeremy Bulloch back, even if it's just one shot in the suit.
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I really hope this isn't true. It would be a sure sign that they're just doing what Disney do best and shoehorning in easily bankable characters. Fanboys have bestowed far too much reverence on this character to begin with (I suppose the EU is largely to blame). He should stay dead. EU nonsense be damned!
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Or else - unthinkably - simply have the character turn up without the suit.
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Fanboys were bestowing reverence back in 1978. ;)
Why is it so improbable that he's not dead? He was the only one who fell into the Sarlacc wearing a suit that would provide some degree of protection, and built in weaponry to give it one bad case of heartburn.
He might even be retired and regrets his past now. A lot can change in 30 years.
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I'm ok with him surviving. The real issue is the way he "died"...
Isn't it funny? Through the SE, the Guy has made him appear everywhere in the OT, has made him a cool smooth talker hitman, yet he still dies like an ordinary bad guy in a cartoon :D
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George has said in the past he didn't appreciate how popular Fett was at the time, (nor understand why he's popular) and later regretted killing him off. He says Fett did escape.
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He didn't get the, "I know" line either.
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I feel like an idiot now but until I read this last few posts I thought that Boss Nass or what's his name is a different species, and not a Gungan. I always wondered why are the Gungans not ruled by a Gungan in TPM but they are in the Clone Wars cartoon
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You shouldn't feel like an idiot. It's a poorly made movie. That's not your fault.