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James Earl Jones is Retiring from Darth Vader, But an AI Firm Owns His Voice
James Earl Jones has been Darth Vader since the original Star Wars all the way back in 1977. While the man formerly known as Anakin Skywalker has been canonically dead since 1983, Jones has consistently reprised the role over the decades, including in 2016’s Rogue One and the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series. But all great…
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I Just Figured Out the Solution to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Biggest Continuity Problem
As cool as it will be to give the two characters another fight, there’s always been one problem with putting Darth Vader in Disney+’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series. In A New Hope, during their duel, Vader says, “When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master” — a clear reference…
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A Jedi, Like His Father Before Him
As one of, if not often the, primary protagonists of Star Wars, the saga at large has often existed in various forms to ask one single question, with a thousand answers: who is Luke Skywalker? Farm boy, pilot, Jedi, teacher, learner, master, legend, Luke has been so many things across his life, in so many…
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The Odyssey of Star Wars Turns the Original Trilogy Into Epic Poetry
We’ve had the Star Wars movies retold in Shakespearean style. Now, it’s time for the great Greek poet Homer to have a turn. Professor Jack Mitchell has taken the events of Rogue One through Return of the Jedi and retold them in the style of epic poetry of antiquity, like The Odyssey, The Aeneid, and…