Jabba the Hutt is a fictional character in George Lucas's space opera saga Star Wars. He is first mentioned in the first film, A New Hope, where he was referred to as a gangster who had a bounty on Han Solo who owed him money for dumping an illegal cargo. The 1997 release of a New Hope reinserted previously omitted scenes of Jabba - supplanting CGI images on the original human actor to fit with his depiction in later films. His first cinematic introduction was in the third film Return of the Jedi (1983) as an odious mass of greasy, insect-ridden flesh with a sadistic love of torture, Jabba served as a minor antagonist throughout the initial series, where he was shown abusing his many cohorts, putting a bounty on Solo's head, attempting to kill Luke Skywalker and kidnapping Princess Leia Organa for use as a sex slave. In this episode, Jabba dies.