[5][6][7] On April 3, 2013, it was announced that The Walt Disney Company had ceased internal development of all LucasArts projects, including Star Wars 1313.

At the time, a LucasArts representative indicated that the game may be revived through a licensing deal with an outside studio, but until then Star Wars 1313 would remain on hold.

[8] Star Wars 1313 was supposed to revolve around Boba Fett in his early adulthood,[3] navigating past the scum of civilization in an underground area of Coruscant known as Level 1313.

Though he gave the 1313 team more access to the Star Wars Universe, he also began to switch characters and rewrite the story based on what he felt would be more fitting for the game.

"[17] In September 2013, while speaking at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Lucasfilm chief technology strategy officer Kim Libreri demonstrated a video of motion capture being processed in real-time by the Star Wars 1313 engine and its assets.

[19] In a December 2015 interview with /Film, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy stated the concept art for the game was "gold" and that it was "something we’re spending a lot of time looking at, pouring through [sic], discussing, and we may very well develop those things further.