With the recent acclaimed live-action debuts of the Inquisitors and Cad Bane, let's hope its not too long before the lovable rogue is active anew somewhere in the Disney+ series pipeline.
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| Concept art for the epic re-match between old friends now bitter enemies... |
Here's the Penguin Books publishing blurb:
Dr. Aphra teams up with Darth Vader himself in this original script of the thrilling Star Wars audiobook production.
Dr. Chelli Lona Aphra, rogue archaeologist, is in trouble again.
A pioneer in the field of criminal xenoarchaeology, Aphra recognizes no law, has no fear, and possesses no impulse control. To her, the true worth of the galactic relics she discovers isn't found in a museum but in an arsenal. This viewpoint has led to a lot of misunderstandings. After her latest plan goes horribly wrong, her roguish ways are on the verge of catching up to her. That's when suddenly Darth Vader, terror of the galaxy, swoops in with his lightsaber and...saves her life?
Don't get her wrong--it's not like she's ungrateful. Sure, her new boss is a lord of the Sith. And okay, she may have just become a pawn in a deadly game being played by him and his boss, who happens to be the Galactic Emperor. And yes, the life expectancy of anyone who disappoints Vader can be measured in seconds.
But she's back doing what she does best. She's got a ship to fly, a heist to pull, and two unorthodox but effective metal buddies: Triple-Zero, a protocol droid specializing in etiquette, customs, translation, and torture, and BT-1, anastromech loaded with enough firepower to take down a battlecruiser. Together, they might just find a way to get the job done and avoid the deadly performance review that waits at its conclusion.
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| Image: via Star Wars Screen Caps. |
Though many of the Imperials in the scene were played by then out of work local lumberjacks and factory men in the Redwoods during US location filming in April/May 1982, there would also be a sizeable presence of talented UK/US stuntmen and one lone equally accomplished UK stuntwoman (Tracey Eddon, playing both Rebel Commando and, suffering for her art, forced into an Imperial Stormtrooper costume) ready for the subsequent major action sequences against the surprise Ewok enemy. Amongst those dutiful but ultimately defeated on screen Imperial Stormtroopers would be the late Frank Henson, whom Aficionado was sad to hear of his passing a while back.
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| Ted Grossman, Larry Holt and Julius LeFlore. Image: Larry Holt. |
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| Larry Holt would play both a Stormtrooper and Rebel Commando in location filming. Image: Larry Holt. |
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| Frank Henson and buddy. |
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| Two images featuring Larry Holt, Julius LeFlore, Ted Grossman and an unknown stunt actor? Image: Larry Holt. |
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| Bob Yerkes, Dan Zormeier as Peter Mayhew's stand-in, and Larry Holt. Image: Larry Holt. |
“Hayden was really cast for the next movie (EPISODE III), not this movie. What attracted me to him was the fact that he had this underlying kind of James Dean angst going on. Obviously, the fun one is the next one. Because the next one is where it really pays off.”
GEORGE LUCAS - PREMIERE MAGAZINE -JUNE 2002
“Anakin is overly confident, and too sure of himself. A part of his mentality is if he is the greatest Jedi ever why does he have to follow everyone’s guidance? It’s that confidence that makes for the propulsion towards the Dark Side. I thought it was very well justified how he’s going to go bad. I thought in many ways it kind of paralleled how any human being would gradually, through their reaction to certain happening, actually go bad.”
HAYDEN - STAR WARS UK FAN CLUB – JEDI JOURNAL ISSUE 3.2 - SUMMER 2002
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| An ILM technician feels the cold in this humorous image. |
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| Harrison Ellenshaw pulls out a matte painting used at the start of the snow battle. |
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| As seen in the film from the Walker cockpit. Image: Star Wars Screen Caps. |
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| Another backdrop piece for the snow battle. |
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| Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett with the Tauntaun snowscape, with Mike Pangrazio's painted backdrop. |
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| Two shots of Michael Pangrazio at work. |
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| Backdrop used for the Snowspeeder search for the missing Luke and Han on Hoth. |
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| Ralph McQuarrie at work on a Rebel base ice cave exterior. |
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| Work continues on the painting. |
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| It looks like a revised or alternate/similar matte painting design was used in the final film for the Rebel base entrance, placed over establishing footage at the Norway-filmed glacier trench. Image: Star Wars Screen Caps. |
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| And on an overall Hoth location backdrop. |
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| At work within the distant vaporator fields, Luke Skywalker is soon distracted by a sight in the skies above. |
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| Luke, wearing a floppy goggle hat that would not be seen in the completed film, adjusts a control box linked to the malfunctioning vaporator. |
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| Great deleted establishing image. |
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| Temporary lens flare for visual reference -it was planned that ILM would provide an optical insert replacement had the scene not been deleted relatively early in the film's US post production phase. |
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| Looking up, distracted. |
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| Another scene from the deleted footage. |
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| Posed publicity image from the scene. |
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| Close-in posed image of Luke using his macrobinoculars. |
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| Luke leaves the now malfunctioning Treadwell to its own devices. |
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| Publicity image taken linked to the scene. |
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| A great behind the scenes shot captured between takes. Note the technician attending to the Treadwell droid. Image: Kurtz/Joiner Archive. |
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| Treadwell droid photo image taken on Death Star set at Elstree during Summer 1976- presumably for later potential magazine publicity linked to John Stears' work on the film. |
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| The deleted scene as rendered by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin for the original Star Wars Marvel Comics adaptation, published from the end of 1976 onwards. |
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| Luke poses for some repair work. |
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| A shot not originally released in the seventies, showing Luke without his leg 'wrappings'. |
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| This posed image of Luke wearing his poncho was likely taken during a filming break at one of the Lars Homestead vaporators, later in the Tunisian filming. |
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| Posted 27th February, 2022. |
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| Fun invite for the UK wrap party, an event paid for directly by Ford, though he sadly wasn't present to enjoy the fun! |
Obi-Wan Kenobi exclusive first look at Darth Vader | EW.com
Obi-Wan Kenobi director explains the return of Darth Vader | EW.com
https://www.ign.com/articles/original-obi-wan-kenobi-scripts-were-too-bleak
https://ew.com/tv/hayden-christensen-obi-wan-kenobi-darth-vader-interview/
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| The striking final printed issue cover for Entertainment Weekly. |
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| Rumours of a new Princess Leia cameo? |
