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'Star Wars' Star Jetting Jango Back To Disney

Tem Morrison To Make Second Appearance At Annual Event

Posted: 1:27 pm EDT May 18, 2006

If you go to this year's "Star Wars Weekends" at Walt Disney World this year, be on your best behavior: Bounty hunter Jango Fett is back in town.

That's because Temuera "Tem" Morrison, who played the feared bounty hunter in "Attack of the Clones" and Clone Commander Cody in "Revenge of the Sith" is flying back int o Orlando, Fla., from his native New Zealand for theme park's annual four-weekend event.

"I'm looking forward to it. It's like going into going into a pictorial fairy tale book," Morrison told me in a recent @ The Movies interview. I'm bringing my son there, too, he loves it there."

Of course, fans really need not worry about Jango Fett's on-screen demeanor when meeting Morrison at Walt Disney World. At heart, he's really a good guy who will take the time to get to know you.

"I seem to get along with everybody pretty well," Morrison said. "We have a little bit of a laugh. I try to make it more than just an autograph and have a little chat with each and every one of them. They really appreciate that when you give them a little bit of your time."

This year's "Star Wars Weekends" event, which annually gathers various actors and filmmakers from the "Star Wars" movie universe to meet with fans and celebrate the film saga, kicks off Friday with appearances throughout the weekend by Peter "Chewbacca" Mayhew and saga producer Rick McCallum.

In the coming weeks, such talent will include Matt Wood (supervising sound editor and voice of General Grievous) and Jake Lloyd, who played the young Anakin Skywalker (May 26-28), and Jay "Captain Typho" LaGa'aia and Bonnie "Beru" Piesse (June 2-4). Warwick Davis, who played Wicket the Ewok in "Return of the Jedi" and made a cameo appearance in "The Phantom Menace," will be appearing every weekend as the event's emcee.

Morrison, along with Jeremy Bulloch, who played the grown-up version of his son, Boba Fett, in the classic "Star Wars" trilogy, are appearing the last weekend of the event, from June 9-11.

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This year's "Star Wars Weekends" appearance will be different for Morrison in that he has a new role in Commander Cody from "Revenge of the Sith" to talk about -- that and thousands of other clones.

"It's tough on me because I have to see the movie quite a number of times to watch all the rest of me in the background," Morrison said with a laugh.

While Morrison's first duty is to meet with the fans, he's also going to try and get a few minutes at the parks, too.

"I'm normally busy the whole day signing autographs, but last time I was there, I had a great time going on the Richard Petty NASCAR experience. I love the driving stuff," Morrison said. "I also went of Tower of Terror -- it was scary, mate. They got me on film, screaming."

While the "Star Wars" film saga is over, fans still have much to look forward to in a planned television series that McCallum said will be set between the prequel and classic trilogies. Morrison said he's hasn't been officially contacted to participate in the series, but is absolutely game to participate if called upon by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas.

And, Morrison said, he'd be thrilled to do a television series about Jango Fett -- before the character's death, of course.

"If there's anything there, it would be great of the adventures of Jango," Morrison enthused. "We better put that in George's mind. A weekly series about Jango Fett getting out there in the universe trying to make a living looking for some bounty -- being the Clint Eastwood of space."

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