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Jabba the Hutt (/ dʒ ɑː ˈ b ə /) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a large, slug-like crime lord of the Hutt species. Jabba first appeared in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi , in which he is portrayed by a one-ton puppet operated by several puppeteers.
The scene was reinserted for the film's twentieth anniversary re-release in 1997, with Mulholland replaced by a CGI Jabba as he appears in Return of the Jedi. His many TV appearances included The Avengers (1967) episode The Fear Merchants (in the background of the gym scene), Doctor Who stories The Sea Devils (1972) and The Androids of Tara ...
The 2021 Disney+ series The Book of Boba Fett also saw the takedown of Jabba’s cousins, the Hutt twins, by the show’s titular bounty hunter (Temuera Morrison). Given that Boba Fett and Mando ...
In The Phantom Menace (1999), Jabba appears alongside Gardulla the Hutt, the prior owner of main character Anakin Skywalker and his mother, Shmi. She is explained as having lost them while betting on a podrace with junk dealer Watto , [ 3 ] and reappeared in The Clone Wars episode " Hunt for Ziro ". [ 4 ]
'The Rise and Fall of Jabba the Hutt' fell by the wayside despite a cool script, says Guillermo del Toro, who also teases his forthcoming 'Frankenstein.'
On Tatooine, Jabba sends the enslaved Princess Leia to Fett's quarters, where they converse platonically. The majority of the story takes place 15 years after Return of the Jedi , when Fett fell into the sarlacc; [ 4 ] his escape was dealt with in another short story by the author subtitled The Tale of Boba Fett .
Salacious B. Crumb is a Kowakian monkey-lizard in Jabba the Hutt's court. [18] The character's name (and aspects of its appearance) is derived from creature designer Phil Tippett's drunken mispronunciation of the word "shoelaces" and an homage to underground comix cartoonist Robert Crumb. [19] [20]
In response, the previously ineffectual Moff who governed Hutt Space, Sarn Shild, proclaims that he will restore law and order to Hutt Space. This announcement is met with dismay by the Hutts, and clan leader Jabba the Hutt plans to bribe Shild into sparing the Hutt homeworld, Nal Hutta. Towards this end, the Hutts pay Han, by now a smuggler ...