Throughout the varied Star Wars motion pictures, few scenes extra heartbreaking than Mace Windu’s dying by the hands of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, which is streamable with a Disney+ subscription. The sight of Samuel L. Jackson’s Windu flying by means of a window isn’t simple to neglect. Curiously, it seems that Mace’s demise was meant to be fairly totally different. In actual fact, it will’ve concerned the highly effective Jedi being executed by one other antagonist completely. Fairly frankly, I’m glad all the things panned out accordingly.
How Was Mace Windu Initially Supposed To Die?
The feedback on the unique thought for Windu’s demise come from Daniel Logan, who portrayed younger Boba Fett in 2002’s Episode II – Assault of the Clones. Logan just lately appeared at GalaxyCon Richmond, the place he shared BTS tales with followers. It was through the occasion that the actor expressed his perception that Boba ought to’ve been the one to kill Mace, given the Jedi killed his father, Jango. From there, Logan revealed that George Lucas truly meant for that to be the case when he started crafting Episode III years in the past:
George Lucas held me for Revenge of the Sith, and we had ‘Revenge of,’ however they hadn’t completed the title. I consider it was most likely going to be Revenge of the Fett, as a result of the storyline, which you’ll be able to go and see on-line, there was a storyboard that was already created that Boba Fett was meant to have one other area scene with Mace Windu.
After studying these feedback, which come through Popverse, you’re most likely questioning simply how the diminutive Fett would have the ability to get the bounce on a talented warrior like Mace. Nicely, Daniel Logan additional alleged that the battle was plotted out in a manner that will make sense. And, after all, it has to do with what went down between Jango and Windu (who ought to’ve appeared within the Prequel Trilogy extra) through the occasions of Assault of the Clones:
Mace was going to come back at Boba like he did with Jango, however as a result of Boba had already skilled beforehand what had occurred, I hit the jetpacks, I fly the other way up, or on my again. As I’m flying on my again with the jetpacks alongside the bottom, I pull out Jango’s blasters and I shoot him proper between the abdomen, and that’s how Mace Windu was meant to die. I used to be sitting there at Lucasfilm like [makes excited noises]. They usually’re like, ‘Okay, we’re holding you for a 12 months.’ And I used to be like, ‘Okay.’ I saved calling, ‘Is it my flip but? Is it my flip?’
After all, the New Zealand-born actor – who was nominated for a Younger Artist Award for his efficiency as Boba – didn’t get to play out the scene as deliberate. And Samuel L. Jackson apparently had one thing to do with that.
How Samuel L. Jackson Impacted Mace Windu’s Dying, And Why I’m Glad About What What Performed Out On Display screen
Daniel Logan went on to assert that the Pulp Fiction actor took situation with the notion of his character being killed by a toddler. And, primarily based on Logan’s recollection, the Oscar nominee made his ideas fairly clear to Mr. Lucas:
Samuel Jackson went into George Lucas’s workplace and he says, ‘You understand, I don’t assume that this younger child ought to have the facility to have the ability to kill somebody who sits on the Jedi Council. And plus, I don’t wish to be killed by no punk child.’ I occur to be that punk child.
As blunt as that final half may appear and as a lot as I recognize what Daniel Logan delivered to Boba Fett, it was actually the suitable name to have Mace die by Palpatine’s hand. Windu is an extremely imposing character and deserved to die by the hands of somebody fairly highly effective just like the eventual Emperor of the galaxy far, far-off. It’s a tragic scene, for certain, nevertheless it feels proper for Windu to lose his life whereas making an attempt to apprehend the sneaky Sith Lord. Fairly frankly, the notion of him killed by Boba Fett within the Prequel Trilogy’s defining chapter simply feels underwhelming.
Almost 20 years since Revenge of the Sith hit theaters, Samuel L. Jackson continues to contend that Mace Windu survived the autumn and has shared wild Mace-related theories as to how that might be. Round November 2024, it was additionally rumored that Mace would certainly return in some capability, and that’s a prospect that offers me combined emotions. Regardless, Jackson is sport for a reprisal and enthusiastically responded to the prospect of main his personal Disney+ present.
As for Daniel Logan’s Boba Fett, the character did return on the animated sequence Star Wars: The Clone Wars and, throughout an arc in Season 2, younger Fett did certainly attempt to kill Windu. Logan reprised his position and did so once more when the younger Fett returned in Season 4. I am sorry Logan’s hopes for Boba did not pan out, however I stand by my place on Mace’s demise. If there’s any comfort although, Logan’s model of the bounty hunter did handle to depart a mark on the general franchise, of which the films are streamable with a Disney+ subscription.