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| By Atlee Greene |
Disney purchased Lucasfilm for a cool $4 billion dollars and are wasting no time playing with their new toys. Star Wars: Episode VII will be released in 2015 and fanboy speculation is already at a fever pitch. What is the premise of the film? Who is going to direct? Will the original cast reprise their roles? Are they based on the novels/comics? What characters will grace us with their on screen presence? The possibilities are endless but there is one scenario in particular that I believe is guaranteed to occur; Darth Vader will return!
I know you are already thinking, "There's no way this can happen since he died at the end of Return of the Jedi, right?" While that is a hard detail to overlook, this is science fiction where absolutely anything can happen. Disney can make buku money by allowing the Dark Lord to rise from the ashes and in the words of Jay-Z, “Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Vader.”
While Star Wars has produced some of the most iconic characters in movie history, Darth Vader is the horse that drives the cart. All of the movies revolve around him and there is no one who can spread fear across the galaxy quite like Vader. Imagine the new wave of Darth Vader merchandise that would be released as a result of his return. This is a no brainer for Disney!
Creating a new lead villain is a losing battle. Whatever character they conjure up will instantly be compared to Darth Vader and anything that is even on par with the dark lord will be a failure. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that an even cooler bad guy be created but it is awfully hard to think of one. Darth Maul is great, but he could have been epic. Count Dooku was some old dude with force powers and General Grievous was just a four armed cyborg who coughed a lot.
How do we bring Darth Vader back from the dead, you may ask? While there are talented writers such as Michael Arndt and others creating the goods for Episode VII, let me put my thinking cap on and see what I can come up with.
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