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Star Wars 1313 Could Return, But Not Necessarily As a Game

"It's something we're spending a lot of time looking at."

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Lucasfilm has not completely abandoned Star Wars 1313, the mature-themed Star Wars game first revealed in 2012 but later presumed to be dead.

In an interview with Slash Film, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy agreed with the interviewer that the game's concept art looked stunning. She added that Lucasfilm is "spending a lot of time" thinking about how it might be able to bring 1313 back to life.

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"Unbelievable," she said about 1313's concept art. "So our attitude is, we don't want to throw any of that stuff away. It's gold. And it's something we're spending a lot of time looking at, pouring through, discussing, and we may very well develop those things further. We definitely want to."

Star Wars 1313 was originally announced at E3 2012 as a third-person action adventure game from LucasArts for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The game, said to feature bounty hunter Boba Fett as its protagonist, was reportedly canceled in April 2013 when Disney closed LucasArts.

As Slash Film points out, Kennedy's comments could be taken in a number of ways. 1313's tone and themes could serve as inspiration for future projects, possibly the standalone Boba Fett movie. Another option is the project coming back to life as a game. None of this is confirmed, however.

If 1313 does come back as a game, it would need to happen through Electronic Arts, which is now the exclusive developer of Star Wars console games. EA's latest Star Wars game was November's Star Wars Battlefront. Looking ahead, an Assassin's Creed-style action game is in the works at EA, with production on the project being led by industry veterans Amy Hennig and Jade Raymond.

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I feel i should point out that the game being made by Amy Hennig isn't the Assassin's Creed style game, that is the project Jade Raymond is going to be working on after her new team help Hennig at Visceral bring their Star Wars game to the finish line... They almost certainly going to be different beasts... Hell Hennig would be the perfect person to see 1313 to completiion

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They talk about 1313 as if it's a coveted ancient discovery whose secrets must be unlocked..... when really, wasn't that game almost f*cking finished??? Why not take that game and copy it onto a new engine and build upon it????? You own the company that made it do you not? You know, the one you shut down?

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What could have been :-(

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They'll make it accessible to 8 year olds

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great take a real awesome exciting and promising game and steal its concept art and idea to make a stupid disney movie. thanks for running star wars disney

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" If 1313 does come back as a game, it would need to happen through Electronic Arts"-freeze it in carbonite already or send it to the saarlak pit because EA will destroy it beyond repair

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They'll ruin it. Whatever potential it had is gone.

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Damn you Disney. You gave me a good childhood but you are ruining my adulthood. Most cancelled games never come back, but I guess there's some hope still.

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@gamer112696: A new hope? :D

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@DanZillaUK: I like it !!

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We want a new Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, KOTOR 3, Empire at War 2, a X-Wing/TIE Fighter sequel, and maybe if you have time after that either Republic Commando 2 or Imperial Commando so we can freaking find out what happened to Sev after 13 years!

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1313 already came back on the Clone Wars TV show.

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@Willy105: Didn't that finish long before 1313 was even announced?

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@DanZillaUK: No, 1313 was part of the episode "To Catch a Jedi", which aired almost a year after E3 2012.

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1313 based on the seedy under world of Coruscant, with Boba Fett as the the main man could have been anything. Unfortunately the early game play (shoot cover) didn't look all that inspiring from what I saw. It would be nice if Henning and Raymond could flesh something out giving great depth/story, bringing that under world / black sun element to star wars. Something where, you had all the gadgets at your disposal to take down marks, be it traps, close combat, long range sniping, or just run and gun when $hit hits the fan and you need to GTFO because it's all gone pear shaped.Maybe one day we'll see it? While the concept of 1313 sounded great, I'm not sure the execution was where it needed to be, it seemed to be shaping up like TFU which was fun for all of 2 minutes.

I'd be happy if they just give us a new X-Wing and Tie Fighter game for now please :)

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If not as a video game, then what? a board game?

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@kaalkurayami: I hope you don't try to fit everything in existence into just those two categories !!

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@ltjohnnyrico: lol that was funny. I was just kidding.

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@kaalkurayami: I know you were and I had hoped you would take my post in the same way (Which you did!!). Nice Post !!

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@kaalkurayami: A movie or comic most likely, Marvel's already made Lando, Chewbacca, and Darth Vader (with a Vader ongoing) mini series.

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I'm sure selling the exclusive rights of Star Wars to EA was profitable but from a creative standpoint, it was foolish. EA isn't known as a big innovator. At least let some other studios make games too.

1313 would be served as a game since it brings something new. Probably nothing will come of though as is usual for stories like this.

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@packerfan7575: I don't know about you, but I thought Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect, Dead Space, and Dragon Age (haven't played, but have seen and heard things) were innovative.

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@LPDisturbedHUEA it's a publisher not a developer those titles were made by bioware:

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@hellscorpio82: Exactly, but he's blaming EA for not being innovative, when they don't actually make the games.

And pretty sure Mirror's Edge is a DICE title and Dead Space is a Visceral title. The other two are Bioware.

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This kinda feels like yet another P.T type affair. "Oh you like this? you want this back? **** you and merry Christmas."

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@DanZillaUK: I think Lucasfilm/Disney is probably 10x classier than Konami.

Konami didn't allow Kojima to accept any awards, but yet Disney/Lucasfilm let George see The Force Awakens already.

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If you bring this game back to life please keep EA out of it, they ruined Battlefront, don't let them ruin this to.

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@Dark_sageX: They Didn't ruin Battlefront they just made a modern Battlefront with better mechanics ... Its a no brain shooter .. works for a lot of people !!

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@ltjohnnyrico: Battlefront 2 mechanics are better.

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@Nightelf123: Better than what ? I mean I imagine that it does a better job of flight mechanics than say .. my toaster .. or a coat stand .. but the mechanics are nowhere near as good as the new Game .. Im not saying the new Game is the best Game ever .. its a no brain MP shooter .. if you want a better MP Shooter RB6 Siege is good !! More a thinking mans shooter where as Battlefront is more jump in and run around !! .. Both have their place !!

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@Dark_sageX: Sadly that's never gonna happen Cause EA owns the rights to Star Wars games.

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Boba Fett is overrated.

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@Brakkyn: I don't know, I think he shows too little in the films, and gets a crappy death to go with it. I won't argue about overrated, but I do think he should get some more spotlight.

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@NTM23: Luke slapped his jet packing ass down a hole !! Not even EA can bring him back from that !!

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@ltjohnnyrico: It was Han Solo, who while still undergoing after affects of the thawing process from being frozen in carbonite, was battling with Jabba the Huts goons on his barge that knocked Boba Fett into the sarlac pit.

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Yeah i doubt it's "gold". But you keep telling yourself that.

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I would take that over Battlefront any day of the week.

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Just let it die, EA would just butcher it into dlc anyways.

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@rolento25: I don't remember them every saying anything about making 1313 a game this time around.

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@LPDisturbedHU: "If 1313 does come back as a game, it would need to happen through Electronic Arts, which is now the exclusive developer of Star Wars console games."

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@rolento25: Gamespot said that, not Lucasfilm. Notice how you had to quote it?

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@LPDisturbedHU: Lol what are grasping at.

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@rolento25: Single Player focused games don't suffer from quite the same level of DLC madness as multiplayer ones. Of course with EA 1313 would likely get a couple of DLC but it would at least more likely be an expansion rather than missing parts of the game. Story based action adventure games tend to be whole. There's also no reason EA couldn't resume work with Lucasfilm/ILM as was 1313. What made that game so appealing to evening movie fans, was that ILM created the engine or at least most of the visuals for the game. So a deal could definitely be made between the two studios to cooperate on a game. Here's hoping.

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I'm sure it will still get made, only the timeline in question.

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It was the worst idea EVER to abandon this game. It was literally on track to be GTA V in the Star Wars universe. I still cry myself to sleep at night thinking about it.

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@troll_elite: No it wasn't its a liner action Game .. I believe GTA has never been described as such !!

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@troll_elite: ... More like Uncharted in the Star Wars universe. I don't know how you would compare the game in any way, whether that be by design, or just how big it is in sales and popularity.

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@troll_elite: GTA V in SWU? What? Where did you get it?

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@bioswat: Yeah I'm wondering that too. I never heard anything about this being anything like GTA.

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