New Star Wars 1313 footage reveals the (canceled) Boba Fett game we always wanted

Enlarge / Nice splash of colors and reflection effects in this newly unearthed footage of Boba Fett as the star of canceled game Star Wars 1313. (credit: James Zachary)

A new YouTube video making the rounds reveals that a long-canceled Star Wars game would have been the first time that bounty hunter and fan favorite Boba Fett starred in his own game.

Long before Fett became a fixture on Disney+, the game development teams at LucasArts began work on an action video game about bounty hunters and the planet Coruscant. As Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported in his games-industry book Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, that project, dubbed Star Wars 1313, morphed wildly over a four-year span. 1313 started development in 2009 but was canceled after LucasArts shut down in 2013-a casualty of Disney's acquisition of all things Lucasfilm and Star Wars.

While we've seen teases of Star Wars 1313 before-especially during its splashy debut at E3 2012-public footage thus far has been limited to the game's brand-new bounty hunter heroes. This week's video is the first to show what Boba Fett looked like as 1313's playable hero, a development shift mandated by George Lucas months before the E3 2012 reveal. Coincidentally, Lucas also demanded that Fett not appear in that public 2012 reveal.

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