In 1978, George Lucas had approved a new character for The Empire Strikes Back: a bounty hunter known as Boba Fett. The character had been sketched out by designers Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston, and it was finally time to show off a prototype of the costume. The results of that early exhibition — in which assistant film editor Duwayne Dunham played Fett — have been floating around online for some time, but a new video of the test was posted on YouTube today.
There's a definite thrill of geek joy in seeing somebody go over the minutiae of an early Star Wars costume, but the best part is how the matter-of-fact screen test contrasts with the mythology that would grow up in later decades. Boba Fett would prove one of the trilogy's...
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