james earl jones played the voice of darth vader in star wars episodes iii–vi, ix, and rebels.
james earl jones played the voice of darth vader in star wars episodes iii–vi, ix, and rebels.
who plays the voice of darth vader in star wars episodes iii–vi, ix, and rebels?
james earl jones
darth vader (voiced by james earl jones as darth vader, matt lanter as anakin skywalker, archive audio of hayden christensen as anakin skywalker in the fourth season) is the imperial army's cyborg sith commander and a former jedi corrupted by emperor palpatine. he first appeared in the extended cold opening scene that was added to abc's broadcast of "spark of rebellion" on october 26, 2014, where he orders the grand inquisitor through a communications hologram to hunt down the remaining jedi and try to lure any force-sensitive children they take as their padawans. filoni stated: "we wanted to do something special for the abc broadcast. we've added a scene which gives audiences insight into the inquisitor and includes a cameo by darth vader, voiced by the distinguished actor james earl jones." vader later appears in "fire across the galaxy" where he appears before grand moff tarkin and agent kallus sometime after the grand inquisitor's death. he next appears in the season 2 premiere movie "the siege of lothal", after tarkin requests assistance against the jedi presence in the rebels. vader then wipes out most of the rebel cell in the lothal system, injures half the "ghost" crew, destroys ezra's home and a community of displaced people on lothal and has minister tua murdered with the rebels blamed for the crime. after learning ahsoka tano—his former jedi apprentice—is among the rebels, vader is ordered by the emperor to dispatch another inquisitor to go after her in hopes of using her to find the remaining jedi. ahsoka later learns of vader's identity through a vision in a jedi temple on lothal, where vader arrives after it is claimed by the inquisitors. he then journeys to malachor and attempts to claim the ancient sith weapon hidden there, only to face ahsoka in battle after claiming to have destroyed anakin. he later emerges alone from the ruins. in "shroud of darkness," he appears as his former self—anakin skywalker, hero of the clone wars and ahsoka's former jedi master—as both a vision to ahsoka and a holographic recording providing lightsaber instructions, found within kanan's holocron. skywalker's voice is also heard briefly in a duel between vader and ahsoka in "twilight of the apprentice" after ahsoka slices vader's helmet open.
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bullet::::- in regards of characters, the duality of the split persona of fallen jedi, anakin skywalker / darth vader, has been compared to that of the hobbit creature smeagol / gollum. in both cases the former being the good person, and the later the corrupted one, with both characters acting as tragic figures showing what could happen to the hero should he be corrupted and abandon his cause (luke skywalker in "star wars", and frodo in "lord of the rings"). however darth vader's place as second in command would also give him a role, analogue to white wizard saruman being the second of command of "lord of the rings" main antagonist sauron (to which emperor palpatine would be the main antagonist equivalent, even if their backstory is very different). additionally, saruman has also been compared to "star wars" character count dooku, due to both characters being played by christopher lee. due to dooku being darth vader's predecessor as palpatine's second in command (which darth vader would kill and replace), lucas sought christopher lee due to saruman's influence on darth vader, and his performance as saruman. additionally "star wars the clone wars" and "rebels" animated series producer dave filoni, inspired the development of ahsoka tano on gandalf from "the lord of the rings" novels and films.
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