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Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 American epic space opera film that is a sequel to The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is the third installment in the original Star Wars trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the " Skywalker Saga ".
As in the previous films, David Prowse and Bob Anderson played the costumed scenes, while James Earl Jones and Ben Burtt provided the voice and breaths of Darth Vader. Shaw was cast in a single scene with Mark Hamill , during the moment aboard the second Death Star when Luke Skywalker (Hamill) unmasks his dying father.
In 2005, Al Gore referred to Tele-Communications Inc.'s John C. Malone as the "Darth Vader of cable", [141] and political strategist Lee Atwater was known by his political enemies as "the Darth Vader of the Republican Party". [142] Native American artist Bunky Echohawk portrayed General George Armstrong Custer as Vader in his painting Darth ...
From Return of the Jedi (1983) onwards, the Emperor became the ultimate personification of evil in the series, replacing his apprentice Darth Vader as the central villain. [ citation needed ] Though the films of the original Star Wars trilogy do not actually state the Emperor's name, the novelization of Return of the Jedi states his surname as ...
James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday morning at ...
Jones was paid just $7,000 to voice the iconic villain Sith Lord Darth Vader, who struggled with inner turmoil while also wielding a red lightsaber and Force choke abilities in the first Star Wars ...
The second Death Star appears in Return of the Jedi, and a similar superweapon, Starkiller Base, appears in The Force Awakens. Both the original and second Death Star were moon -sized and designed for massive power-projection capabilities, capable of destroying an entire planet with a 6.2×10 32 J/s power output blast from their superlasers.
James Earl Jones famously played Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" films. The line "Luke, I am your father" is commonly attributed to him, but the quote was actually something different.