Original Darth Vader Actor Hasn’t Spoken To Lucas Since 1983 November 4, 2007
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Talk about bearing a grudge. In a recent interview David Prowse the ORIGINAL Darth Vader actor revealed that due to a dispute he had with George Lucas nearly 25 years ago he hasn’t spoke with Lucas since 1983.
Lucas seems like a nice enough dude to me – so what did Prowse do to be totally ignored by Lucas for over two decades?
In a nutshell he betrayed George Lucas’s trust…or did he???
I always wondered why we never EVER see David Prowse unmasked in Star Wars…
In the interview Prowse details what actually happened:
So, I get a phone call from a reporter saying ‘I’d like to do an article all about you and your weightlifting’. He turned up at my gymnasium that evening and halfway through he says, ‘you know you’re being killed off in this movie, don’t you? And another guy’s playing the dying Darth Vader?’ I said ‘they wouldn’t do that – they wouldn’t go and unmask somebody else after I’ve played the part for six years’. He asked if I had a call sheet, and he looked at it and it said: ‘Dave Prowse, Darth Vader, Studio 1’, and underneath it ‘Sebastian Shaw, Anakin Skywalker, Studio 10’. He finished the interview abruptly as soon as he’d told me all this and the next day The Daily Mail had the headline: ‘Darth Vader to be killed off in the next movie, in an exclusive interview with Dave Prowse’. And that ruined my association with Star Wars. I was ostracized while on the movie, the producer and director wouldn’t work with me and Lucas wouldn’t speak to me.
Sounds like a real Sith plot to me.
Read the full interview on the Void.
Battlestar Galactica Razor Flashback #5 : The Lab November 4, 2007
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“All this has happened before and it will happen again”
WOWOWOWOW. The flashbacks have all been awesome so far but this one really raises an incredible number of questions.
Adama stumbles onto a Cylon lab – obviously they’re experimenting on humans to try and make a biological cylon…or are they?
There is enough doubt and clues planted that the Cylon could very well have been biological beings to begin with..
The most curious line in the whole two minutes — all this has happened before and will happen again – was that just a voice in Adama’s head? the Fifth Cylon?
I don’t know…but I do know that these flashback – while only 2 minutes in length are excellent entertainment.
If you’re outside the US and don’t have the stomach for Flash BS – here’s the vid for your viewing pleasure..
Star Trek : The Menagerie Coming to Theatres in Canada and Europe November 2, 2007
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Americans won’t be the only ones that get to see Star Trek in the theater.
Canadians and European will get a chance to see the special screen of the Star Trek The Menagerie redone in all its HD glory on the big screen too.
Ahead Warp Factor 10 in Captain Sulu’s Excelsior November 2, 2007
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One of the rarest ships in the Star Trek Playmates fleet is the USS Excelsior…one of these rare beauties is not up for auction on ebay.
Check out the Excelsior yourself
Star Wars Dark Times #6 – Order 66 just won’t go away November 2, 2007
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Order 66 is a cornerstone even in the Star Wars universe..and this issue revisits that order from yet another angle.
We see old friend Quinlan Vos in the beginning which really got my hopes up that he’d be back (he’s not it’s just a small cameo) but Jedi Master K’Kruhk is the main jedi here.
No surprise as we know he survives in a later era but it’s great to see/read his escape from Palpatine’s tyranny. Seeing as this series has been so dark so far…i’m not sure i really want to know how badly things will go for KKrunk and what kind of terrible ordeal he will endure.
X-Files 2 : Coming June 25, 2008 November 1, 2007
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It’s official – 20th Century Fox has announced the X files 2 hits the big screen on June 25, 2008.
No word yet on the script though Scully and Mulder are both back.
If i were to guess…i’d say it would something to do with some kind of Alien DNA being produced in Iraq by Jihadists who themselves were the lead runners of some evil alien plot.
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