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Star Wars 1313 (2023)

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In 2012, LucasArts announced Star Wars 1313. 5 months later, LucasFilm would be sold to Disney, LucasArts would close and the project would be cancelled. What happened to the project? Did it really star Boba Fett? And how did it connect to the forgotten Star Wars TV Show Underworld?

Sources:
Force Unleashed Development
https://youtu.be/qGgTrI34Dx4?si=TwWzK68hcQreRfa4

Schreier, Jason. “Star Wars 1313.” Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Harper Paperbacks, New York, 2017, pp. 249–272.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/blood-sweat-and-pixels-the-triumphant-turbulent-stories-behind-how-video-games-are-made-jason-schreier/533879?ean=9780062651235

LucasArts and ILM: The Convergence of Games and Film
https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/03/25/gdc-06-lucasarts-and-ilm-a-case-study-in-the-convergence-of-games-and-film

Staff of Kings Beta Footage
https://youtu.be/MSDFgm7wSys

Robilliard’s Story (mentioned in BS&P) 1:31:00
https://www.youtube.com/live/4SNdrEGSVUY?si=pnCFsWY6LAtnyxJU

1313: A Combined Lucasfilm
https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/6/5/3066449/star-wars-1313-the-game-that-will-bring-lucasfilm-together

Rodriguez resigns
https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/05/07/lucasarts-president-darrell-rodriguez-resigns

Blackman Departure
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/-i-star-wars-i-storyteller-producer-blackman-leaves-lucasarts

Lucas Arts
https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/company-town-blog/story/2010-09-01/game-maker-lucasarts-lays-off-one-third-of-staff

Paul Meegan Departure
https://www.engadget.com/2012-08-02-lucasarts-president-paul-meegan-leaves-the-company.html

Boba Fett
1313 Concept Art - Boba Fett
https://www.slashfilm.com/532024/boba-fett-movie-star-wars-1313-concept-art/

1313 Unseen Gameplay - Battlefront Archive/Vault Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehW4OMiEr4

Battle of the Sith Lords - Project Damage/Darth Maul Project Retrospective
https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/10/26/the-story-of-the-darth-maul-game-that-never-came-to-be.aspx

Daniel Logan cancelled episodes
https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-the-clone-wars-canceled-too-graphic/

Unfinished Clone Wars Episodes
https://youtu.be/P2rpL2Z-8D4?si=PpEpgjnoCY9ghBdM

1313 Press Release
https://web.archive.org/web/20120606010619/https://www.lucasarts.com/company/release/news20120531.html

1313 Interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DP35A1UO8

1313 Developer Diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-xJnrl93M

Is 1313 Next-Gen?
https://kotaku.com/e3s-unsolved-mystery-are-watch-dogs-and-star-wars-131-5916567

Preview - 1313 going for a mature rating and a grounded experience
https://web.archive.org/web/20181121074945/https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/19/star-wars-1313-aims-for-the-thinking-gamer

George Lucas
The Beginning Documentary
https://youtu.be/da8s9m4zEpo?si=6ONSrEDzX5qAA4tC

Empire of Dreams
https://youtu.be/vB1DA5jZdIQ?si=6NLHXDoJ8SYnDdOy

George on Selling LucasFilm
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/george-lucas-star-wars-lucasfilm-disney-b1766442.html

Disney and Cancellation
George Selling Star Wars
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/george-lucas-star-wars-lucasfilm-disney-b1766442.html

Lucas Selling 154 days after Disney’s Acquistion
https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-just-154-days-after-acquiring-it/

Disney Interactive loses
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-disney-interactive-expected-to-begin-layoffs-20140203-story.html

LucasArts shut down
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-2013-4

Disney Shuts Down LucasArts, Fate Unknown
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-star-wars-1313-fate-unknown-flna1c9196197

Not necessarily killed by Disney
https://www.slashfilm.com/541519/star-wars-tv-show/

“We’re not throwing anything away”
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-wars-1313-may-not-be-completely-dead-after-all/

1313 “was always in danger”
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-1313-was-always-in-danger-report/1100-6406402/

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