Star Wars: The End of Jango Fett like you’ve never seen it before!

Three years after suffering criticism – sometimes harsh – for the Phantom Menace and its sometimes insufferable Jar Jar Binks, but defended tooth and nail by George Lucas to the point that he became his favorite character in the saga, Attack of the Clones hit the ground running. Released on the screens in 2002.

Here too with its share of criticism; This time, Anakin Skywalker and Padme’s romantic scenes and their dialogues were all about smiling a lot (too much). Lucas once again stepped up to defend his film. The latter explained that he wanted a dialogue approach that was largely misunderstood at the time: “It’s very honest, it’s not ironic at all, and it gets to the point. But it’s dialogue that fits not only the rest of the movie, but the overall style of Star Wars.” commented the progenitor of Star Wars.

with a kinder look, attack of the clones offered some great moments like the duel between Count Dooku, played impeccably by Christopher Lee, against a 100% CGI Yoda, the first in the saga. The film also lifted the veil on the origin of the first trilogy’s central (yet rarely seen on screen) character: the mysterious Boba Fett. This bounty hunter, the kid in this second installment (Daniel Logan) is accompanied by his father, the mercenary Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison).

In the final arena battle on the planet Geonos, Jango Fett is finally killed by a blow from the lightsaber of the Jedi Mace Windu, who decapitates him after stopping it from exploding.

For fun, here’s the sequence below…

Jango Fett’s execution was greatly reduced in the theatrical version of the film. In the deleted scenes that didn’t end up being finalized, we see Mace Windu stab him in the kidneys as well.

An award-winning VFX artist named StayBombastic completely completed the special effects for this sequence, even adding a severed hand in front of the stab wound to the kidneys, and then cutting off Jango Fett’s head. The result really gives the fight a different flavor, showing the ferocity and skill that the Jedi can display in battle.

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We imagine that if this version didn’t make it into the final cut, it was probably because it was deemed too violent and would threaten the film’s PG rating.