How many actors does it take to play Darth Vader? Well, there’s David Prowse, the original physical Vader in the original trilogy. Then there’s James Earl Jones providing his iconic voice. In Revenge ...
Ben Burtt created the sound of my childhood. He gets that a lot. “Yeah, I hear that often,” says the legendary sound designer, creator of the lightsabre swish and Darth Vader’s electronic wheezing, ...
The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to award-winning Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Indiana Jones sound engineer, editor and voice actor Ben Burtt at its upcoming 77th edition in ...
The American Film Institute defines an iconic villain as a character whose wickedness of mind and will to power may still in the end mask a tragic side. (Soundbite of movie, "Star Wars") Mr. JAMES ...
In Obi-Wan Kenobi's season finale, the titular Jedi Master battled Darth Vader in an epic duel which finally revealed the origin of that scar on the Sith Lord's head. Vader's helmet was slashed open ...
Darth Vader is Star Wars' most iconic villain, but several things about the Sith Lord do not make much sense. Concerning the release order of Star Wars movies, Vader is one of the first characters ...
Yes, that’s me breathing. It came about because the script described Darth Vader as having a respirator, some kind of breath mask with a life support system. That’s about as far as the description ...