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May 18, 2020 · Galactic designer: Joe Johnston at work on The Empire Strikes Back. “George [Lucas] wanted a new trooper,” Joe Johnston, visual effects art director on Empire and legendary filmmaker in his own right, tells StarWars.com. “The original idea behind Boba Fett was that he was going to be an army of super troopers.
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Work on the character who eventually became Boba Fett began in 1978, less than a year after George Lucas’ original “Star Wars” opened theatrically and captured the zeitgeist. TheWrap spoke to Joe Johnston, who originally designed the character and went on to direct films like “The Rocketeer,” “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and “Captain America: The Fir...
Around the same time that he inserted Boba Fett into “Star Wars,” Lucas began working on a new trilogy of films known as “the prequels.” Perhaps sensing Fett’s continued legacy as a cult character that fans were intrinsically drawn to, Lucas teased that Boba Fett would become a part of this new arc, which would chart young Anakin Skywalker’s transf...
In 2008, George Lucas launched “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” a computer-animated series set around the time of the prequels. While the storyline involving Boba Fett (and indeed, the Mandalorians) is too complicated and unnecessarily knotty (and, if we’re being honest, sort of boring), it is worth mentioning that Daniel Logan, who played the characte...
Dec 22, 2022 · VFX Art Director and Designer of Boba Fett. Credited as art director of visual effects on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Johnston designed Boba Fett. Since then, Johnston has become a major motion picture director. Trivia.
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He began his career as a concept artist and effects technician on the first Star Wars film, directed by George Lucas, co-created the design of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, and was art director on one of the effects teams for the sequel Return of the Jedi.
Dec 29, 2021 · Joe Johnston, the director of The Rocketeer and Captain America, talks about one of his most famous creations: Boba Fett. By. Matt Schimkowitz. Published December 29, 2021. Comments ( 26)...
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Dec 31, 2021 · With quotes taken from the official site and The New York Times, the man largely responsible for the look of Boba Fett alongside Ralph McQuarrie, director Joe Johnston looked at the history of the character, his inception, the original plans for what was then the Super Commando and why he believed Fett should never remove his helmet.
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Dec 29, 2021 · Check out an interview with Joe Johnston, acclaimed filmmaker and designer, on the creation of Boba Fett’s armor for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Learn about Boba Fett and Fennec Shand in the StarWars.com Databank. Read interviews with Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen on playing these fan-favorite characters.
