The first Boba Fett screen test featured an all-white costume. Art director Joe Johnston painted the outfit shortly after.
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Thirty-five years ago, sound designer Ben Burtt introduced an early version of legendary “Star Wars” bounty hunter Boba Fett to director George Lucas and select members of the “Empire Strikes Back” production team — an epic behind-the-scenes moment you can now watch as if you were there.
“The Boba Fett character is really an early version of Darth Vader,” George Lucas says in the visual novel The Making of the Empire Strikes Back. “He is also very much like the man-with-no-name from the Sergio Leone Westerns.”
The concept of Boba Fett changed greatly as Lucas brought “Star Wars” to life. In an early draft, Lucas once referenced Fett as Prince Valorum, a Sith Knight who Vader utilized as a bounty hunter. Fett also represented Lucas’ vision of a supertrooper, but in March 1978, Lucas, concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, and art director Joe Johnston converted the super-stormtrooper into a galactic mercenary.
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