Jango Fett’s Deleted Death Completed By Star Wars Fan

A fan-made video puts together an alternate version of Jango Fett’s death in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones from deleted footage. The bounty hunter, played by Temuera Morrison, made his debut in the second film of the prequel trilogy. The character met his fate at the hands of Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) during the Battle of Geonosis, where the Clone Wars first began. Morrison, who recently took on the role of Jango’s infamous son Boba Fett in Disney+’s The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, still wants revenge on Mace Windu for the way his debut Star Wars character met his fate by decapitation.

Even though the Star Wars films frequently kill off at least one major character, the franchise has always been family-friendly. Any depictions of violence are typically tame, since lightsabers cauterize the wounds they create. However, Jango’s end is arguably one of the most brutal moments in the Skywalker saga, with the bounty hunter explicitly being decapitated onscreen. Based on deleted Attack of the Clones footage finished in a fan-made video, the scene could have been even more merciless.

Now, Bombastic on YouTube has put together a fan-made scene of what Jango’s death could’ve looked like using deleted footage from Attack of the Clones. In the clip, Mace takes a more gruesome approach to his duel with the bounty hunter by swinging his lightsaber a few more times to strike him down. The raw footage shows Mace knocking Jango’s blaster from his hand, hitting his left shoulder and right hip, and then making the fatal blow to the bounty hunter’s neck. The fan’s edit takes this raw footage a step further by having Mace cut off Jango’s blaster hand, sever his left arm, stab through his right hip, and then deliver the final strike to his neck. The edited footage begins at the 4:04 mark in the video below:

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If this were to make it in the final version of the film, it would make the moment even more traumatizing for the onlooking and young son of Jango. The Clone Wars already explored the effect that this event had on Boba, who spent much of his time growing up trying to fill the void that Jango left behind in the bounty hunting world as well as going after the Jedi responsible for his father’s death. It’s also a testament to the lost way of the Jedi that led to their downfall during the Clone Wars. The Force-wielding knights were meant for peacekeeping, not war, and this gruesome look at what could have occurred—and, in part, still did—shows just how far they strayed down that path and led themselves to their fates at the hands of Order 66.

This makes everything that Boba goes through in The Book of Boba Fett even more heart-wrenching. The show took the audience through some flashbacks in Boba’s life, one of which included scenes of Boba watching his father fly away from his home planet Kamino in his Firespray gunship as well as cradling his Jango’s empty helmet just after his death on Geonosis. The character’s life was altered the day Jango was cut down by Mace, and it wasn’t until he came to terms with it during his adventures in The Book of Boba Fett that Boba was able to find another tribe with whom he could heal his internal and external wounds and keep himself from suffering the same fate as his ambitious father. This fan-made edit of the heightened violence that could’ve been added to Jango’s fate in Attack of the Clones is a good reminder of just how far the Fett legacy has come since then.

Source: Bombastic/YouTube

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Molly Brizzell is a staff writer for Screen Rant with life-long passions for writing, Star Wars, and fan communities. She recently earned her college degree in Writing and Communication with a minor in English and runs her own Star Wars blog with a specialized focus on The Mandalorian. Molly also shares passions for Marvel, Stranger Things, and more, and she may be one of Din Djarin’s biggest fans.

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