What A Return of the Jedi Post-Credits Scene Could Look Like
Return of the Jedi gets an appropriate post-credits scene in a new fan edit. Setting up future adventures via short scenes embedded within or appearing after a movie’s credits was not really a thing when the third Star Wars movie was released back in 1983.
But of course a lot has changed in the past several decades and nowadays post-credits scenes are a very big deal indeed. Movie audiences in fact have been conditioned to remain in their seats as the credits roll, as they anticipate added content that might provide a tease for a future film or even offer a huge character introduction (as in the recent MCU film Eternals, which used a mid-credits moment to bring in Harry Styles’ character Eros). But even as post-credits scenes gain in popularity and are increasingly used as a storytelling tool by filmmakers, there’s one franchise that has steadfastly avoided jumping on the bandwagon. Still to this day, there has never been a Star Wars movie that included an after-credits moment of any significance.
That long-established tradition of Star Wars movies eschewing post-credits stingers of course means nothing to fan editors who are happy to go back and make whatever changes they like to classic films of the past. One such editor has now done their work on Return of the Jedi, giving the third film of the original Star Wars trilogy a post-credits scene that couldn’t be more appropriate or frankly obvious. See the clip in the space below (via Star Wars Passion):
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The footage added to the end of the ROTJ credits by the above video's creator is of course taken from the current Disney+ series The Book of Boba Fett, which picks up the story of the legendary Star Wars bounty hunter after he was seemingly killed by the all-powerful sarlacc during the climax of Jedi’s famous Jabba the Hutt sequence. Amusingly enough, such an end-credits scene featuring Boba Fett clawing his way out of the sarlacc was actually contemplated by George Lucas when he put together his infamous Star Wars special editions back in the 1990s. But ultimately Lucas elected not to give Jedi a stinger of Boba Fett escaping the sarlacc, leaving it to Patton Oswalt and later The Book of Boba Fett to visualize such a moment.
Of course Star Wars purists do not take kindly to any tampering with the original trilogy movies, whether that tampering be done by fan editors or George Lucas himself. But in this case perhaps the purists can be a little lenient as the new Return of the Jedi stinger is quite appropriate and does properly tie Jedi to The Book of Boba Fett. It remains to be seen if Disney will now take note of this idea and add such a stinger to Jedi as it runs on the Disney+ streaming service. Given Disney’s seeming desire to tie together the divergent strands of the Star Wars universe in every way possible, it would not be a shock to see the company take a cue from this particular fan edit and make the Boba Fett Return of the Jedi stinger official.
Source: Star Wars Passion/Twitter