With The Book of Boba Fett the focus of the Star Wars galaxy right now and interest in all things Mandalorian as high as ever, footage from one of the most infamous ‘lost’ Star Wars games, the legendary 1313, is bound to catch people’s attention. Here, footage from the game shows Fett entering a bar on the tail of his quarry.
The footage isn’t entirely new, though. It may just now be seeing the light of day, but a deeper dive shows that former LucasArts animation director James Zachary uploaded these videos to his personal Vimeo account years ago, and fans are only discovering it now. Some of the footage is almost a decade old at this point, and while we’d love to embed the original videos, strict privacy settings mean we have to settle for The Vault’s compilation.
Star Wars 1313 was in development at LucasArts up until Disney closed the studio in 2013. And while Disney left the door open for potentially licensing the game to different developers, someone close to the project told Kotaku at the time that the chances of that happening were “effectively zero.” Star Wars 1313 enjoyed a single public showing at E3 2012, after which its focus was reportedly changed from original characters to Boba Fett at Star Wars mastermind George Lucas’ direction.
As for the game itself, Star Wars 1313 remains one of the greatest “what ifs” in both video games and Star Wars fandom. But don’t take my word for it; here’s Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy during an interview with Slashfilm in 2015 where she brought up the project unprompted:
“Our attitude is, we don’t want to throw any of that [Star Wars 1313 concept art] away. It’s gold. And it’s something we’re spending a lot of time looking at, poring through, discussing, and we may very well develop those things further. We definitely want to.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart.
He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
With The Book of Boba Fett the focus of the Star Wars galaxy right now and interest in all things Mandalorian as high as ever, footage from one of the most infamous ‘lost’ Star Wars games, the legendary 1313, is bound to catch people’s attention. Here, footage from the game shows Fett entering a bar on the tail of his quarry.
The footage isn’t entirely new, though. It may just now be seeing the light of day, but a deeper dive shows that former LucasArts animation director James Zachary uploaded these videos to his personal Vimeo account years ago, and fans are only discovering it now. Some of the footage is almost a decade old at this point, and while we’d love to embed the original videos, strict privacy settings mean we have to settle for The Vault’s compilation.
Star Wars 1313 was in development at LucasArts up until Disney closed the studio in 2013. And while Disney left the door open for potentially licensing the game to different developers, someone close to the project told Kotaku at the time that the chances of that happening were “effectively zero.” Star Wars 1313 enjoyed a single public showing at E3 2012, after which its focus was reportedly changed from original characters to Boba Fett at Star Wars mastermind George Lucas’ direction.
As for the game itself, Star Wars 1313 remains one of the greatest “what ifs” in both video games and Star Wars fandom. But don’t take my word for it; here’s Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy during an interview with Slashfilm in 2015 where she brought up the project unprompted:
“Our attitude is, we don’t want to throw any of that [Star Wars 1313 concept art] away. It’s gold. And it’s something we’re spending a lot of time looking at, poring through, discussing, and we may very well develop those things further. We definitely want to.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He currently contributes to Star Wars Insider, ILM.com and SkywalkerSound.com, having previously written for StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Starburst Magazine, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia and Model and Collectors Mart.
He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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