The character of Boba Fett made his first public appearance at the
San Anselmo Country Fair parade on 24 September 1978. In the parade, the Boba Fett costume was worn by
Duwayne Dunham, who was working at the time as an assistant film editor before later becoming a film and television director. After his image and identity were revealed in the
Holiday Special, costumed Fett characters appeared in shopping malls and special events, putting up
wanted posters of the character to distinguish him from the franchise's
Imperial characters.
Skywalker saga Original trilogy Fett's theatrical film debut was as an unnamed bounty hunter in
The Empire Strikes Back as the "next major villain" beside Darth Vader. He is one of six bounty hunters assembled by Darth Vader, who promises a reward to whoever captures the crew of the
Millennium Falcon. Fett tracks the starship to Cloud City, where Vader captures its passengers and tortures its captain,
Han Solo. Aiming to collect the bounty Jabba the Hutt has placed on Solo (established in the original film), Fett questions Vader regarding the carbon freeze, which Vader intends to use on his true target, Luke Skywalker. Vader promises that the Empire will compensate Fett if Solo dies, but the smuggler survives and Vader turns him over to Fett, who leaves to deliver him to Jabba in his ship, the
Slave I.
Return of the Jedi features Boba Fett at Jabba's palace on
Tatooine, where Han Solo's friends are captured while trying to save him. Fett aims his weapon at
Princess Leia (disguised as bounty hunter Boushh) when she threatens Jabba with a thermal detonator, and he later travels on Jabba's
sail barge to the Great Pit of Carkoon (home of a sessile carnivorous creature known as a sarlacc) to witness the prisoners' execution. When the prisoners revolt and fight back, Fett flies over and briefly fights Luke. Chewbacca later warns Solo, who is still blind after being frozen in carbonite, that Fett is near. As Solo turns around, he inadvertently hits Fett's rocket pack, setting it off and propelling Fett into the side of the sail barge, from which he falls into the sarlacc's mouth. The 1997 Special Edition release of the film includes an additional scene of Fett flirting with some of Jabba's female dancers. In the 1997 Special Edition of
A New Hope, Fett briefly appears in
a reintroduced cut scene outside the
Millennium Falcon while Jabba confronts Han Solo.
Prequel trilogy A preteen Boba Fett (played by
Daniel Logan) appears in the 2002 prequel film
Episode II – Attack of the Clones, which reveals that he is an unaltered clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison), who had him created on
Kamino to be raised as his son as part of his price to serve as the template for the Grand Army of the Republic's
clone army.
Television The Story of the Faithful Wookiee Boba Fett appeared in the animated segment of the non-canon 1978 Holiday Special, set after the events of
A New Hope. This marks his first appearance in the franchise. He is first seen when he rescues Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, and R2-D2 from a Panna dragon. Fett presents himself as an ally to the heroes but it is later revealed that he was working for Darth Vader the whole time - to reveal the location of the Rebels to the Empire. Fett ignites his jetpack before leaving and promising that they will meet again.
Droids Boba Fett appeared in the non-canon 1985 animated series,
Star Wars: Droids, set 15 years before the original trilogy. The series was produced by the same
studio that created the animated segment of the 1978
Holiday Special, and Fett was again voiced by Don Francks (who had been uncredited for his original role in the
Holiday Special). In the episode "A Race to the Finish", he is hired by the Fromms to help them get revenge on the masters of the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO. Fett later turns on them after failing their request, and decides to accept Jabba's bounty on the Fromms as compensation.
The Clone Wars Logan reprised his role as the voice of Fett in the 2008 animated series
The Clone Wars. The final three episodes of the
second season of the series, entitled "
Death Trap",
"R2 Come Home" and "Lethal Trackdown", were aired on April 30, 2010, and attracted an average of 2.756 million viewers during the original broadcast. The finale is significant for ending "with twin fandom bangs, courtesy of Boba Fett and a mammoth beast inspired by
Godzilla". Fett's entrance in the series commemorates the 30-year anniversary of the character's appearance in
The Empire Strikes Back. In the story arc, Boba infiltrates Mace Windu's flagship in the guise of a clone trooper cadet, hoping to exact revenge against the Jedi for killing his father. After a failed attempt to bomb Windu in his quarters, he sabotages the ship's engines, causing it to crash on a nearby planet. He and his bounty hunter accomplices then take hostages from the ship's crew, whom they try to use to bait the Jedi Master. Throughout the ordeal, Fett balks at committing violence against his fellow clones, which comes to a head when his mentor
Aurra Sing executes Windu's clone trooper second-in-command.
Plo Koon and
Ahsoka Tano eventually track Fett and his compatriots to pirate
Hondo Ohnaka's base. Fett is ultimately captured by the Jedi and sentenced to prison on
Coruscant; although he expresses regret for the collateral damage he has caused, he vows to never forgive Windu. Fett escapes prison in the fourth-season episode "Deception". He later forms his bounty hunter syndicate, Krayt's Claw, which includes
Bossk and
Dengar (both of whom first appeared in
The Empire Strikes Back alongside Fett). In the episode "Bounty", Krayt's Claw is hired to deliver a package to a dictator. When the
bounty hunters discover that their cargo is a young woman destined for a forced marriage to the despot, Fett is indifferent to her plight and insists the team proceed with their mission. Temporary member
Asajj Ventress, enraged, turns on Fett; she strangles him with the Force, binds, and gags him, and shoves him into the container in the captive's place, whereupon he is delivered to the nonplussed client.
The Mandalorian Boba Fett's presence in the original Disney+ series
The Mandalorian was first hinted at in the
first-season episode "
Chapter 5: The Gunslinger", which ends with a mysterious figure wearing boots and seemingly a cape approaching the body of assassin
Fennec Shand on Tatooine. as Boba Fett in the episode "
Chapter 15: The Believer" from
The Mandalorian In June 2020, it was reported that Temuera Morrison would appear as Fett in the
second season of
The Mandalorian. In the episode, the armor is eventually obtained by the Mandalorian after Vanth relinquishes it so that it could be returned to its rightful owners: the Mandalorian people. As he leaves with the armor, the Mandalorian is watched from the distance by a heavily scarred Fett. Fett's first full appearance in the series occurred in the episode "
Chapter 14: The Tragedy",
The Bad Batch Boba Fett is mentioned in
Star Wars: The Bad Batch, a CGI-animated sequel and spin-off from
The Clone Wars which premiered in 2021. The episode "Bounty Lost" reveals that Boba's original code name is
Alpha, and that Omega, an enhanced female clone who joined Clone Force 99 after the rise of the Empire, is a second unaltered replication of Jango and, therefore, Boba's sister. The episode "Plan 99" reveals that Emerie Karr is another female clone, therefore, another sister of his.
Visions Boba Fett appears in the 2021
anime series
Star Wars: Visions, voiced by Temuera Morrison in English and by Akio Kaneda in Japanese. He appears in the second episode, "Tatooine Rhapsody".
The Book of Boba Fett The Book of Boba Fett is a spin-off of
The Mandalorian focused on Boba Fett, which premiered on Disney+ on December 29, 2021. Morrison and
Ming-Na Wen reprised their roles as Fett and Fennec Shand, respectively, with Finnegan Garay portraying a young Fett with Daniel Logan's likeness superimposed over his own. The first trailer was released November 1, 2021. In
The Book of Boba Fett, Boba Fett and his partner,
Fennec Shand, begin rebuilding the old
criminal empire of
Jabba the Hutt on
Tatooine. The series was controversial among Star Wars fans for its weakening of the villainous aspects of the bounty hunter.
Other media In the first issue of
Marvel Comics'
Darth Vader (2015), the title character hires Boba Fett to capture the pilot who destroyed the
Death Star. In the concurrent
Star Wars comic (2015), Fett tracks the pilot, Luke Skywalker, to Tatooine, although the latter escapes after a brief fight. Fett then tells Vader the pilot's surname, unknowingly informing the Sith lord (formerly Anakin Skywalker) that he has a son. Fett also features in Marvel's
Bounty Hunters (2020), which is set between
The Empire Strikes Back and
Return of the Jedi. The comic miniseries
War of the Bounty Hunters (2021) is set in the same era, and will be preceded by standalone comics including tie-ins with
Star Wars,
Bounty Hunters,
Darth Vader, and
Doctor Aphra. Fett appears as a playable character in
Star Wars Battlefront (2015) and
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017), as well as several
Star Wars video games for mobile devices. On December 24, 2021, Fett was added as a wearable cosmetic for
Fortnite Battle Royale. On February 4, 2022,
Indy Stevenson posted a
The Book of Boba Fett comic entitled "
This Place Was Home" on
Twitter to a universally positive critical reception. The comic focused on "Boba's childhood relationship with Zam Wesell|[Zam] Wesell", a mother figure to him. Boba Fett appears in many other works set during the original trilogy, including the
choose-your-own-adventure book The Bounty Hunter (1994), the 1996
Shadows of the Empire multimedia project,
Dark Horse's short comic
Boba Fett: Salvage (1997), volumes of the young-reader series
Galaxy of Fear (1997–1998),
The Bounty Hunter Wars book trilogy (1998–1999), issues of
Empire (2002–2005) and
Star Wars (2013–14), and the
one-shot comic Boba Fett: Overkill (2006). Fett appears in the years leading up to
A New Hope in the comic
Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire (1999), in which Vader hires Fett before trying to kill him, as well as
Agent of the Empire (2012–2013),
Blood Ties (2010–2012), and
Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika (2000–2001). A 1983 issue of the original Marvel
Star Wars comic book set just after
Return of the Jedi depicts Fett temporarily escaping the sarlacc pit. Works such as Dark Horse's
Dark Empire series (1991–1992) further utilized Fett's survival. and fights side by side with him in
The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force (2003), set a decade later. He also appears in the e-novella
Boba Fett: A Practical Man, set 20 years after
Jedi. In the
Legacy of the Force series (2006–2008), set some 35 years after
Jedi, Han and Leia's daughter,
Jaina, asks Fett to train her to help her defeat her corrupted brother,
Jacen. In
The Last One Standing, Daniel Keys Moran developed a backstory for Fett in which he was once named Jaster Mereel, a "Journeyman Protector" lawman who was convicted of
treason. His backstory was depicted differently in
Attack of the Clones, leading to the Dark Horse comic
Jango Fett: Open Seasons (2003) retconning Mereel to Jango's mentor. A young-adult book series called
Boba Fett (2002–2004) depicts Fett's roots as a bounty hunter during the Clone Wars. He is guided by a book left to him by his father, whose ship and armor he has inherited, and begins working for Jabba the Hutt.
The Bounty Hunter Wars The Bounty Hunter Wars is a trilogy of novels by
K. W. Jeter set during the events of the original trilogy. The books were published by
Bantam Spectra in July 1998, November 1998, and July 1999, respectively. The trilogy depicts Fett as being more communicative than in the films because its plot requires Fett to show "an ability to convince people as well as kill them".
Boba Fett: A Practical Man Boba Fett: A Practical Man is an
e-novella by
Karen Traviss, which was published online in August 2006 by
Del Rey Books. Set 20 years after the events of
Return of the Jedi, it focuses on what led Boba Fett and the Mandalorians to fend off the extragalactic
Yuuzhan Vong invaders in
The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force (set a few months later). A Yuuzhan Vong named Nom Anor meets Fett on
Mandalore and begins giving him and the Mandalorians directions to help their invasion. Fett plans to do as much damage to the invaders as possible, even as he pretends to help them. He instructs a pilot to deliver his plea for help to the
New Republic, but with the Vong's next target still unwarned, the world falls without a fight. A Vong warrior asks Fett to assist in killing a Jedi; instead, Fett convinces the Jedi to deliver his message. The Jedi returns and confirms that Fett has a deal: the Mandalorians will continue to masquerade as Vong mercenaries while passing intel to the Republic. Fett agrees to have a few of his best commandos train planetary militias to fight the Vong.
Unproduced works A planned live-action TV series developed by
Star Wars creator George Lucas before the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, under the working title
Star Wars: Underworld, would have featured Fett.
Star Wars 1313 The canceled
LucasArts video game
Star Wars 1313, announced at
E3 2012, would have told the story of Boba Fett's career as a young adult bounty hunter between the prequel and original trilogies. Fett would have navigated past the scum of civilization in an underground area of Coruscant known as Level 1313. In 2013, as a result of Disney's acquisition of the franchise, all LucasArts projects then in production were shelved. In a December 2015 interview, Lucasfilm president
Kathleen Kennedy stated that the concept art for the game was "unbelievable" and that, along with
Underworld, it was "something we're spending a lot of time looking at, poring through, discussing, and we may very well develop those things further".
Level 1313 appears in
Star Wars media such as
The Clone Wars, in which it is visited by Ahsoka Tano, and ''
Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader's Castle''.
The Clone Wars episodes Fett was to have appeared in more episodes of
The Clone Wars before its cancellation. A series of Western-inspired episodes would have featured Fett teaming up with
Cad Bane to rescue a child kidnapped by
Tusken Raiders on Tatooine; Aurra Sing would have appeared as well. The story arc would have depicted Fett donning his Mandalorian armor for the first time, and ended with Bane blasting Fett in the head, creating the iconic dent in his helmet (an idea which came from George Lucas). Animatic footage of the climactic scene was shown at
Star Wars Celebration.
Standalone film In early 2013, Disney CEO
Bob Iger announced the development of a
Star Wars spin-off film written by
Simon Kinberg, which
Entertainment Weekly reported would focus on Boba Fett during the original trilogy. In mid-2014,
Josh Trank was officially announced as the director of an undisclosed spin-off film, but had left the project a year later due to creative differences with Kinberg, causing a teaser for the Fett film to be scrapped from
Star Wars Celebration. In May 2018, it was reported that
James Mangold had signed on to write and direct a Fett film, with Kinberg attached as producer and , but both Mangold and Kathleen Kennedy subsequently denied Mangold's involvement. In July, Daniel Keys Moran stated that Lucasfilm had considered adapting
The Last One Standing into a film. By October, the Fett film was reportedly dead, with the studio instead focusing on
The Mandalorian. The Fett film was afterwards reported to have also featured the other bounty hunters from
The Empire Strikes Back. ==Reception==