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Rare Star Wars Script Protects Empire’s Darth Vader Secret

This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home. These days, you’d lose a metaphorical hand to a studio’s red lightsaber if you dished details on any major upcoming plot twists. Media training for interviews, fake scripts, and so much green screen that the actors couldn’t even really tell you what was happening on set if they tried are all extremely commonplace behind the scenes of the big franchises, so that invested audiences get to experience that collective shock when Cap wields Mjolnir, or J. Jonah Jameson live-streams the doxxing of…
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader Had a Rematch Before A New Hope

After Obi-Wan Kenobi defeated his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith, we assumed this was the last time they saw each other until their fateful duel on the Death Star in A New Hope. We were wrong. In fact, Hayden Christensen is set to return as Darth Vader in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, which is set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, to confront Obi-Wan, completely shattering what we thought we knew about each character’s history leading up to A New Hope. “This will be the rematch of the century,” Lucasfilm…
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Star Wars actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader, dead at 85

David Prowse, a one-time weightlifter and bodybuilder who became a film icon by playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died at age 85 after a short illness. According to multiple reports, the British actor’s death was confirmed via Twitter by his management, which stated, “It’s with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and millions of fans around the world, to announce that our client DAVE PROWSE M.B.E. has passed away at the age of 85.” It's with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world, to announce that our…
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