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S T A R W A R S
Principal cast (major players in the entire trilogy):
Luke Skywalker - James McAvoy
A courageous, orphaned young farm boy who is eager for adventure. Born on Polis Massa, his mother died in childbirth and he was raised on Tatooine by his aunt and uncle. In order to master the powers of a Jedi Knight, he must first learn to control his emotions and desires. His powers stem from a mystic connection to the Force, an energy field created by life itself. Luke is tutored in the ways of the force first by Obi-Wan and later Yoda, Obi-Wan's own master. Soon, however, Luke learns that Yoda and Obi-Wan have concealed from Luke his intimate connection to his greatest enemy, Darth Vader. Vader is in fact Luke's father and a servant of the Dark Side of the Force. Luke resolves to redeem his father from the evil that controls him, and this fateful decision determines both his own and Vader's fates, as well as that of the evil Galactic Empire.
Luke's quest to become a Jedi Knight is the main engine driving the plot of all three films. Indeed, all of the epic battles and cosmic events going on around him are in a sense only the backdrop before which Luke's inner struggles are played out. When we first meet Luke on Tatooine, he is a callow youth, dreaming of adventure and escape from the backwater setting in which he finds himself. The classic image from A New Hope, in which Luke stands looking out at the horizon as the twin suns of his home planet are setting, captures perfectly this romantic, dreaming quality of his character. Early in A New Hope, we also see the reckless, impetuous side of Luke's character as he races off after R2 without telling his uncle and as he spies on the Tusken Raiders, almost getting himself killed thanks to his immaturity. However, Luke is also motivated by a strong sense of duty and a desire to be a part of something larger than himself. In the person of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke finds this desire answered, as Obi-Wan offers to help Luke become a Jedi Knight.
Through Obi-Wan, Luke gets the opportunity to travel, to help the Rebel Alliance against the evil Empire, to feel closer to the father he never knew (who was also a Jedi), and to grow as a person through contact with the Force. In this way, Obi-Wan becomes a surrogate father to Luke, replacing Uncle Owen, who mainly wants to keep Luke safe, close to home, and, in that sense, in a state of immaturity. Obi-Wan is soon taken from Luke by Darth Vader, the man Luke believes killed his real father, repeating before Luke's eyes the act of parricide for which he already hates Vader. The irony, of course, is that Vader actually is Luke's father, a truth that devastates Luke when he learns it. Disappointed in Obi-Wan for hiding the truth from him and horrified at what Anakin Skywalker has become, Luke must learn at last to be his own man, moving out of the shadows of his various father figures and even learning to stand apart from the "grandfather figures" of Yoda and the Emperor, who are also fighting for Luke's loyalty.
In the end, Luke saves his father's soul, gains a sister, and sees Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Anakin (his whole paternal set, as it were) united in the afterlife. Much of his success is thanks to Yoda, who encourages Luke to examine himself and to judge how much he has been motivated by a desire for glory and how much by a true devotion to others. Through Yoda's teaching, Luke finally, after many missteps, learns to master his own feelings and gains a deeper insight to the feelings of others. By the end of the trilogy, the eager youth, constantly in over his head, has become the confident Jedi Knight, coolly strolling unarmed into Jabba's palace and, even more challenging, refusing to take the easy, dark path of hatred and anger.
Han Solo - James Purefoy
A brash, roguish smuggler orphan native of Corellia who becomes alligned, through a twist of fate, with the Rebel Alliance and their fight against the Galactic Empire. He becomes a hero despite his cynicism and instinct for self-preservation. Solo is captain of the Millennium Falcon, a battered hotrod of a starship that, like its pilot, masks a valiant heart in an unprepossessing exterior. The quintessential loner, Solo initially joins Luke and Obi-Wan on their quest purely for the money he is promised, but, moved by Obi-Wan's sacrifice and by the courage of his young friend, Solo ends up joining their cause and becoming a leader of the Rebel Alliance. Solo, always careful to preserve his independence, falls in love with Leia but enjoys sparring with her far too much to make his true feelings known. All that changes when Solo is captured by Jabba the Hutt, a gangster to whom Solo owes a small fortune. Luke and Leia lead an elaborate rescue of Solo, after which Solo is more honest about his devotion both to Leia and to the Rebellion they both serve.
Throughout much of the trilogy, Solo tries to resist commitment, whether to a person or to a cause, but finds his instincts overruled by his affection. For example, Solo initially leaves once he has his reward, but he returns to help Luke take on the Death Star. Later, he is set to leave again, but he delays his departure first to help rescue Luke and then to make sure Leia escapes during the evacuation of Hoth. Similarly, Han constantly needles Leia in order to get her to admit her affection for him but would never dream of being the first to express his feelings. Solo is later captured and held by Jabba the Hutt, giving his friends the chance return his loyalty, and Han is the one rescued. From this point on, Solo is a changed man, still cocky and brash, but now clearly committed to the Rebellion and to the woman he loves.
Leia Organa - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
An orphaned member of the Imperial Senate and, secretly, one of the leaders of the Rebel Alliance. Leia meets Luke Skywalker and Han Solo when they rescue her from the Death Star and soon becomes close to them both. Courageous, level headed, and sharp tongued, Leia's intense focus on the cause of overthrowing the Empire prevents her from acknowledging her growing attraction to Han Solo until it is almost too late. Early in the trilogy, Leia loses the only home she has ever known, when the planet Alderaan is destroyed by Grand Moff Tarkin via the Death Star, only to find a new family when she learns that Luke is actually her twin brother and, more disturbingly, that Darth Vader is her true father.
Leia is a post-feminist sort of princess, equally comfortable firing a blaster or piloting a ship as she is conducting a medal ceremony. She also has the potential to become a Jedi, just like Luke. Leia is a Senator, a princess, and a leader of the Rebel Alliance, and her devotion to duty and to the cause of freedom is one of her defining characteristics. This devotion prevents Leia from acknowledging to Han her growing love for him, and it even prevents her from admitting it to herself. Leia tells Han that he is needed as a leader and a pilot, but never that she needs him herself. Han, of course, tries to goad an admission out of her, but his efforts only cause her to bottle up her feelings even more, though she does make some efforts to inspire jealousy in Han by kissing Luke (before she learns that they are brother and sister). Leia finally tells Han that she loves him, just when it is almost too late and he is about to be frozen alive.
Leia takes part in the rescue of Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, freeing him from the carbon freeze, only to be taken captive herself by Jabba. Up to this point in the trilogy, Leia has dressed modestly, favoring practical, functional clothing over anything fancy. Now, however, she is forced by Jabba to don a revealing harem outfit, complete with gold bikini, and to wear a chain around her neck. Leia's reaction to the situation is thoroughly in character and reveals the way her character smashes the adventure-fantasy stereotypes about sexy princesses. In the confusion caused by Luke's surprise attack, Leia hops behind Jabba, loops the chain around his massive neck, and strangles him to death. Leia then helps Luke destroy Jabba's barge before escaping with the others. The scene is a perfect summation of the kind of reversal of expectations typical of Leia throughout the trilogy.
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader - Malcolm McDowell
A fallen Jedi Knight, now Dark Lord of the Sith and a fearsome evil presence. Darth Vader is the apprentice to the Sith Master, Emperor Palpatine, and serves as his chief enforcer, the iron fist with which the Emperor rules the galaxy. Vader pursues Luke and his friends relentlessly throughout the trilogy, ostensibly in order to crush the Rebellion of which they are a part. Vader's deeper motive, however, is to bring Luke, his long-hidden son, into the Emperor's orbit and to turn him to the dark side of the Force. In the end, Luke succeeds in awakening the good that is dormant within Vader, and Vader turns on his master, becoming, at the very end of his life, Anakin Skywalker once more.
Vader's respirator-enhanced breathing, massive frame, and intimidating armored costume, as well as his tendency to enforce discipline in the Imperial ranks by summary execution, combine to make him the baddest and most feared mother****er in the galaxy. From the beginning, Vader represents the antithesis of the warmly human Ben Kenobi, who is full of wisdom and slow to anger but quick to defend others. Vader, on the other hand, lashes out casually at those who displease him, though he does so as if motivated by a cool, almost rational anger, rather than a raging fury. Vader's conscious goal is to inspire fear wherever he goes and to use the anger and hatred this fear stirs up to control those around him. However, the surprising thing about Vader is that the monster turns out to be human after all.
Much of the drama of Return of the Jedi hinges on Luke's efforts to awaken the good that Luke believes, on rather little evidence, to be dormant within Vader's soul. The change finally comes when Vader is at last beaten and spared by Luke, who is then nearly killed by the Emperor. Vader's mask, impassive up to this point, is now lit cleverly in the glow of the Emperor's force-lightning so that pained expressions seem to flit anxiously across Vader's face. Finally, Anakin Skywalker reemerges from within Darth Vader, and he destroys the Emperor and saves his son. His last act is telling: he asks Luke to remove the mask so that he may see Luke with his own eyes—a rejection of the sinister man/machine aspects of Vader's being. In the end, Anakin Skywalker stands, purged of Darth Vader, with Yoda and Obi-Wan, the masters he once rejected.
Some people have suggested that he lose the breathing apparatus in this remake. But I think it's a crucial part of who he is.
PART ONE: A NEW HOPE
Plot: Far off in a distant galaxy, the starship belonging to Leia Organa, a young member of the Imperial Senate, is intercepted in the course of a secret mission by a massive Imperial Star Destroyer. An imperial boarding party blasts its way onto the captured vessel, and after a fierce firefight the crew of Leia's ship is subdued. The dark, forbidding figure of Darth Vader appears, brutally interrogating the crew and ordering his Stormtroopers to search the ship for the secret documents he believes it is carrying: the technical readouts for the Empire's mightiest weapon—a planet-sized battle station called the Death Star. In the confusion, Leia slips away and hides the secret documents, as well as a recorded plea for help, in the memory of R2-D2, a maintenance droid (robot). Leia is taken prisoner, but R2 gets away in an escape pod, along with his best friend, the android C-3PO. After crash-landing on the planet below, a barren, desert world called Tatooine, the droids set off in search of civilization but soon quarrel over the way to go. R2 insists that he has a mission to perform, but C-3PO wants no part of such an adventure.
The two droids go their separate ways but are soon reunited when they are both captured by Jawas, child-sized scavengers who trade in droids and technological scraps. The Jawas sell the droids to Owen Lars, a moisture farmer on a remote homestead. Owen's nephew, young Luke Skywalker, cleans the droids and, as he does so, stumbles across a bit of the message Leia had hidden inside R2. The holographic message is addressed to "Obi-Wan Kenobi." R2 refuses to divulge any more of the message. When Luke asks his uncle about the identity of Obi-Wan, Owen is reluctant to even discuss the subject, but he does drop one tantalizing hint: Obi-Wan was a friend of Luke's father, whom Luke never knew. Luke mentions his desire to leave home to attend the Imperial Academy for starpilots, but Uncle Owen is discouraging, much to Luke's frustration. When Luke's aunt Beru reminds Owen that Luke is too much like his father to stay on the farm, Owen replies that that is just what he's afraid of.
During the night, R2-D2 slips away, intent on finding Obi-Wan and completing his mission. Luke sets out in search of the truant droid the next morning, taking C-3PO with him. They soon find R2 but are waylaid by Tusken Raiders, barbaric tribal creatures who attack anyone trespassing on their domain. Luke is knocked unconscious but is saved by the timely appearance of old Obi-Wan Kenobi, who frightens off the Tusken Raiders and brings the group back to his humble shelter. There, Obi-Wan explains that he was once a Jedi Knight, one of an ancient order of warriors who fought for peace and justice in the time of the Old Republic, before the coming of the evil Galactic Empire. Further, he informs Luke that Luke's father was also a Jedi, one of his closest friends, and that his father was killed by Darth Vader, a former pupil of his who turned to the Dark Side of the Force. The Force, Obi-Wan explains, is the source of a Jedi's power. It is an energy field created and sustained by life itself, and it flows through the universe, binding it together. Through training, a Jedi is able to tap into the Force and gain great power and wisdom, but, as the example of Vader shows, there is a seductive, evil path to the Force as well.
Obi-Wan gives Luke his father's lightsaber, the traditional weapon of a Jedi. After viewing the entirety of Leia's message, Obi-Wan says that he intends to join up with the Rebel Alliance challenging the Empire and to bring them the plans hidden in R2's memory. He urges Luke to join him and to learn the ways of the Force, but Luke, echoing his uncle, is reluctant to get involved. Meanwhile, Leia has been taken into captivity on the Death Star. There, Leia is repeatedly interrogated by Darth Vader about the whereabouts of the hidden Rebel base, but she stoutly refuses to crack. When Vader is insolently challenged by the Death Star's Commander, he demonstrates his mastery of the Force by choking the officer into submission merely by raising his finger, until he is restrained by Grand Moff Tarkin, the Imperial governor. Back on Tattooine, Luke and Obi-Wan discover that the Jawas have been slaughtered by Imperial troops tracing the droids. Fearing for his aunt and uncle, Luke races home only to find them murdered and the farm in flames. With nothing left to hold him on Tattooine, Luke resolves to join Obi-Wan and to become a Jedi.
With the droids in tow, Obi-Wan and Luke journey to Mos Eisley spaceport in search of a ship to take them to Alderaan, the Leia's home planet. The Mos Eisley cantina, where the best pilots are to be found, is a rough place, and Obi-Wan is forced to act with deadly swiftness to defend Luke from a couple of toughs. Nevertheless, the pair manages to hire Han Solo, a brash smuggler, and his copilot, the Wookiee Chewbacca, to take them to Alderaan without attracting the attention of the Empire. After the deal is struck, Han Solo is cornered by Greedo, a lackey of Jabba the Hutt and a gangster angry at Solo for dumping one of his shipments. Solo blasts his way out of the confrontation but is forced to talk his way past Jabba himself when he returns to the hangar where his ship, the ugly-but-fast Millennium Falcon, is docked. Solo and Chewbacca are surprised when Imperial troops appear and start firing on the ship in an attempt to reclaim the droids, and the Falcon barely makes it off Tatooine and into hyperspace on the way to Alderaan.
On the Death Star, meanwhile, Tarkin has decided to break Leia by threatening her home planet, Alderaan, with destruction. Faced with this appalling dilemma, Leia reveals the location of the hidden base, only to have Tarkin proceed with the attack on Alderaan, merely to demonstrate the power of the Death Star. Aboard the Millennium Falcon, Obi-Wan is stricken, feeling the death of Alderaan as a massive tremor in the Force. Luke trains with his lightsaber, even as Han scoffs at Obi-Wan's trust in the Force. Obi-Wan replies by having Luke fight blind against a floating target, and Luke is able to defend himself by sensing the remote with his feelings alone, thereby taking his first steps, as Obi-Wan says, into "a larger world." The ship exits hyperspace where Alderaan should be, only to find the planet missing and an asteroid field in its place. Ben realizes the horrible truth when they catch sight of the nearby Death Star, and the Millennium Falcon is quickly captured. The group manages to hide from the guards in Han's smuggling compartments, but Vader senses the presence of his old master, Obi-Wan.
The ship is unable to escape the Death Star as long as the station's tractor beam is operational, so Obi-Wan goes off alone to deactivate it. In his absence, the others learn that Leia is aboard the station, and Luke convinces them to attempt a rescue. Han and Luke disguise themselves as stormtroopers and, with the droids plugged into the station's computers, break Leia out of her cell. Unfortunately, their activities are soon discovered, and the rescue takes a detour through a massive, monster-infested garbage compactor and several corridors and pitfalls swarming with Imperial troops. Leia is unimpressed with her rescuers' planning and soon begins to issue the orders, much to Han's chagrin. As the group fights its way back to the Falcon, Obi-Wan stealthily deactivates the tractor beam. On his way to the ship, he is confronted by Darth Vader, who is eager to face his old master. Vader and Obi-Wan duel with lightsabers, and the fight draws the attention of the guards. Realizing he is trapped, and not wanting to endanger his friends, Obi-Wan allows Vader to strike him down, only to disappear before Vader's stroke hits, merging his consciousness with the Force. Luke is horrified and lashes out, but the others force him onto the Falcon and they make their escape.
The fleeing ship is pursued by Imperial fighters but finally escapes, though Leia is convinced that they are being tracked, as indeed they are. The group travels to the Rebel base, with the Death Star right behind. A quick scan of the blueprints provided by R2 offers one slim chance: the Death Star has an Achilles' heel. A direct hit on a small, easily overlooked thermal port will destroy the station, if only a fighter can get close enough to target it. Luke signs up for the desperate assault, but he is disappointed that Han, having received his payment, plans to leave immediately. Watched anxiously by the Rebel command, the fleet of small, single-pilot fighters speeds toward the massive, impregnable Death Star. As the station slowly moves into position to obliterate the Rebels, the pilots maneuver down a narrow trench along the station's equator, where the thermal port lies hidden. Darth Vader leads the counterattack himself and destroys many of the Rebels, including Luke's boyhood friend Biggs, in ship-to-ship combat. Finally, it is up to Luke himself to make a run at the target, and he is saved from Vader at the last minute by Han Solo, who returns in the nick of time and sends Vader spinning away from the station. Heeding Obi-Wan's disembodied voice, Luke switches off his computer and uses the Force to guide his aim. Against all odds, Luke succeeds and destroys the Death Star, dealing a major defeat to the Empire and setting himself on the path to becoming a Jedi Knight.
Supporting cast (introduced in A New Hope):
Grand Moff Governor Wilhuff Tarkin - Jesper Christensen
A ruthless Imperial officer who works directly for Darth Vader. He oversees the progress of the Death Star and is its commander. Tarkin is extremely powerful, unafraid of Vader himself, supremely confident and cold. Tarkin orders the destruction of Leia's home planet, Alderaan, merely to demonstrate the power of the Death Star. Tarkin is destroyed himself, along with the first Death Star, by Luke Skywalker.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Bernard Hill
One of the last of the Jedi Knights, he currently lives in the Jundland outskirts of Mos Eisley. Obi-Wan is a steady, wise, reassuring figure who, though old, is still a Jedi, with a Jedi's deadly skill and uncanny powers. Obi-Wan reveals to Luke that his father was once a Jedi Knight and that Luke is meant to follow in his footsteps, but he doesn't reveal the full truth: that Luke's father Anakin is not dead but has become the evil Darth Vader. Obi-Wan also neglects to mention that Leia is Luke's twin sister, in an attempt to preserve her safety. Obi-Wan begins training Luke in the ways of the Force and continues to advise him even after Darth Vader strikes Obi-Wan down in a lightsaber duel. Far from being killed in the duel, Obi-Wan merges with the Force, preserving his consciousness even as he transcends the limits of the flesh.
Standard Cybot Galactica Protocol Transcultural Liaison Android Series 3 Model 0 / C-3P0 - Doug Jones
I like the idea of C-3P0 being an android like Data from Star Trek: TNG or or Bishop from Alien. Threepio is fluent in over six million forms of communication, and was designed to assist with etiquette, customs, and translations so that meetings of different cultures run smoothly. His current incarnation was built by Anakin Skywalker with centuries-old structural framework, a metallic endoskeleton encased in cultural human tissue. As an homage to the original Threepio, he wears a golden jumpsuit. Though more a diplomat than a fighter, C-3PO always comes through, proving his worth time and again as a translator, a computer hacker (with R2), and a surprisingly quick thinker in a tight spot. Despite all his worries and complaints, C-3PO's saving grace is his strong loyalty to "Master Luke" and his great affection for R2-D2.
R2-D2
A spunky, trashcan-shaped "astromech droid." R2, along with his friend C-3PO, is swept up into the epic battle for the fate of the galaxy when Leia hides the stolen plans for the Death Star inside his databanks. R2-D2 becomes Luke's robotic copilot and all-around mechanical assistant and always seems to find himself in the thick of the action. Unswervingly loyal, brave, and feisty, R2-D2 communicates in a series of electronic whistles, beeps, and chirps.
Chewbacca
Han Solo's friend and copilot of the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca is a seven-feet-tall Wookiee, a creature resembling a cross between a gorilla and an English sheepdog. Despite his intimidating appearance, "Chewie" is something of a softy, affectionate and loyal to his friends. When provoked, however, Chewbacca is truly ferocious, capable of tossing grown men around like rag dolls. A crack shot, skilled mechanic, and daring pilot, Chewbacca is always at Solo's side, deferring to the human's leadership, though the origin of their friendship remains mysterious. Born on the planet Kashyyyk, he was rescued from slavery by Solo and has since made it his life's debt to repay him by copiloting the Falcon.
Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan - Gabriel Byrne
Leia's adoptive father. I basically stole this part from .... I think Bluebeast's original Star Wars cast. For years, he has worked on the creation of an Artificial Star to aid planetary systems with dying suns. Grand Moff Tarkin convinces the Galactic Senate to hand the Star over to the Imperial Starfleet, for "military purposes." It is turned into an Imperial space station used to destroy planets with its hypermatter reactor. Organa is killed in the destruction of Alderaan by the Death Star.
A Rarefaction production
In association with Lucasfilm ....
Long ago in a galaxy far, far away ....
S T A R W A R S
Principal cast (major players in the entire trilogy):
Luke Skywalker - James McAvoy
A courageous, orphaned young farm boy who is eager for adventure. Born on Polis Massa, his mother died in childbirth and he was raised on Tatooine by his aunt and uncle. In order to master the powers of a Jedi Knight, he must first learn to control his emotions and desires. His powers stem from a mystic connection to the Force, an energy field created by life itself. Luke is tutored in the ways of the force first by Obi-Wan and later Yoda, Obi-Wan's own master. Soon, however, Luke learns that Yoda and Obi-Wan have concealed from Luke his intimate connection to his greatest enemy, Darth Vader. Vader is in fact Luke's father and a servant of the Dark Side of the Force. Luke resolves to redeem his father from the evil that controls him, and this fateful decision determines both his own and Vader's fates, as well as that of the evil Galactic Empire.
Luke's quest to become a Jedi Knight is the main engine driving the plot of all three films. Indeed, all of the epic battles and cosmic events going on around him are in a sense only the backdrop before which Luke's inner struggles are played out. When we first meet Luke on Tatooine, he is a callow youth, dreaming of adventure and escape from the backwater setting in which he finds himself. The classic image from A New Hope, in which Luke stands looking out at the horizon as the twin suns of his home planet are setting, captures perfectly this romantic, dreaming quality of his character. Early in A New Hope, we also see the reckless, impetuous side of Luke's character as he races off after R2 without telling his uncle and as he spies on the Tusken Raiders, almost getting himself killed thanks to his immaturity. However, Luke is also motivated by a strong sense of duty and a desire to be a part of something larger than himself. In the person of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke finds this desire answered, as Obi-Wan offers to help Luke become a Jedi Knight.
Through Obi-Wan, Luke gets the opportunity to travel, to help the Rebel Alliance against the evil Empire, to feel closer to the father he never knew (who was also a Jedi), and to grow as a person through contact with the Force. In this way, Obi-Wan becomes a surrogate father to Luke, replacing Uncle Owen, who mainly wants to keep Luke safe, close to home, and, in that sense, in a state of immaturity. Obi-Wan is soon taken from Luke by Darth Vader, the man Luke believes killed his real father, repeating before Luke's eyes the act of parricide for which he already hates Vader. The irony, of course, is that Vader actually is Luke's father, a truth that devastates Luke when he learns it. Disappointed in Obi-Wan for hiding the truth from him and horrified at what Anakin Skywalker has become, Luke must learn at last to be his own man, moving out of the shadows of his various father figures and even learning to stand apart from the "grandfather figures" of Yoda and the Emperor, who are also fighting for Luke's loyalty.
In the end, Luke saves his father's soul, gains a sister, and sees Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Anakin (his whole paternal set, as it were) united in the afterlife. Much of his success is thanks to Yoda, who encourages Luke to examine himself and to judge how much he has been motivated by a desire for glory and how much by a true devotion to others. Through Yoda's teaching, Luke finally, after many missteps, learns to master his own feelings and gains a deeper insight to the feelings of others. By the end of the trilogy, the eager youth, constantly in over his head, has become the confident Jedi Knight, coolly strolling unarmed into Jabba's palace and, even more challenging, refusing to take the easy, dark path of hatred and anger.
Han Solo - James Purefoy
A brash, roguish smuggler orphan native of Corellia who becomes alligned, through a twist of fate, with the Rebel Alliance and their fight against the Galactic Empire. He becomes a hero despite his cynicism and instinct for self-preservation. Solo is captain of the Millennium Falcon, a battered hotrod of a starship that, like its pilot, masks a valiant heart in an unprepossessing exterior. The quintessential loner, Solo initially joins Luke and Obi-Wan on their quest purely for the money he is promised, but, moved by Obi-Wan's sacrifice and by the courage of his young friend, Solo ends up joining their cause and becoming a leader of the Rebel Alliance. Solo, always careful to preserve his independence, falls in love with Leia but enjoys sparring with her far too much to make his true feelings known. All that changes when Solo is captured by Jabba the Hutt, a gangster to whom Solo owes a small fortune. Luke and Leia lead an elaborate rescue of Solo, after which Solo is more honest about his devotion both to Leia and to the Rebellion they both serve.
Throughout much of the trilogy, Solo tries to resist commitment, whether to a person or to a cause, but finds his instincts overruled by his affection. For example, Solo initially leaves once he has his reward, but he returns to help Luke take on the Death Star. Later, he is set to leave again, but he delays his departure first to help rescue Luke and then to make sure Leia escapes during the evacuation of Hoth. Similarly, Han constantly needles Leia in order to get her to admit her affection for him but would never dream of being the first to express his feelings. Solo is later captured and held by Jabba the Hutt, giving his friends the chance return his loyalty, and Han is the one rescued. From this point on, Solo is a changed man, still cocky and brash, but now clearly committed to the Rebellion and to the woman he loves.
Leia Organa - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
An orphaned member of the Imperial Senate and, secretly, one of the leaders of the Rebel Alliance. Leia meets Luke Skywalker and Han Solo when they rescue her from the Death Star and soon becomes close to them both. Courageous, level headed, and sharp tongued, Leia's intense focus on the cause of overthrowing the Empire prevents her from acknowledging her growing attraction to Han Solo until it is almost too late. Early in the trilogy, Leia loses the only home she has ever known, when the planet Alderaan is destroyed by Grand Moff Tarkin via the Death Star, only to find a new family when she learns that Luke is actually her twin brother and, more disturbingly, that Darth Vader is her true father.
Leia is a post-feminist sort of princess, equally comfortable firing a blaster or piloting a ship as she is conducting a medal ceremony. She also has the potential to become a Jedi, just like Luke. Leia is a Senator, a princess, and a leader of the Rebel Alliance, and her devotion to duty and to the cause of freedom is one of her defining characteristics. This devotion prevents Leia from acknowledging to Han her growing love for him, and it even prevents her from admitting it to herself. Leia tells Han that he is needed as a leader and a pilot, but never that she needs him herself. Han, of course, tries to goad an admission out of her, but his efforts only cause her to bottle up her feelings even more, though she does make some efforts to inspire jealousy in Han by kissing Luke (before she learns that they are brother and sister). Leia finally tells Han that she loves him, just when it is almost too late and he is about to be frozen alive.
Leia takes part in the rescue of Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, freeing him from the carbon freeze, only to be taken captive herself by Jabba. Up to this point in the trilogy, Leia has dressed modestly, favoring practical, functional clothing over anything fancy. Now, however, she is forced by Jabba to don a revealing harem outfit, complete with gold bikini, and to wear a chain around her neck. Leia's reaction to the situation is thoroughly in character and reveals the way her character smashes the adventure-fantasy stereotypes about sexy princesses. In the confusion caused by Luke's surprise attack, Leia hops behind Jabba, loops the chain around his massive neck, and strangles him to death. Leia then helps Luke destroy Jabba's barge before escaping with the others. The scene is a perfect summation of the kind of reversal of expectations typical of Leia throughout the trilogy.
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader - Malcolm McDowell
A fallen Jedi Knight, now Dark Lord of the Sith and a fearsome evil presence. Darth Vader is the apprentice to the Sith Master, Emperor Palpatine, and serves as his chief enforcer, the iron fist with which the Emperor rules the galaxy. Vader pursues Luke and his friends relentlessly throughout the trilogy, ostensibly in order to crush the Rebellion of which they are a part. Vader's deeper motive, however, is to bring Luke, his long-hidden son, into the Emperor's orbit and to turn him to the dark side of the Force. In the end, Luke succeeds in awakening the good that is dormant within Vader, and Vader turns on his master, becoming, at the very end of his life, Anakin Skywalker once more.
Vader's respirator-enhanced breathing, massive frame, and intimidating armored costume, as well as his tendency to enforce discipline in the Imperial ranks by summary execution, combine to make him the baddest and most feared mother****er in the galaxy. From the beginning, Vader represents the antithesis of the warmly human Ben Kenobi, who is full of wisdom and slow to anger but quick to defend others. Vader, on the other hand, lashes out casually at those who displease him, though he does so as if motivated by a cool, almost rational anger, rather than a raging fury. Vader's conscious goal is to inspire fear wherever he goes and to use the anger and hatred this fear stirs up to control those around him. However, the surprising thing about Vader is that the monster turns out to be human after all.
Much of the drama of Return of the Jedi hinges on Luke's efforts to awaken the good that Luke believes, on rather little evidence, to be dormant within Vader's soul. The change finally comes when Vader is at last beaten and spared by Luke, who is then nearly killed by the Emperor. Vader's mask, impassive up to this point, is now lit cleverly in the glow of the Emperor's force-lightning so that pained expressions seem to flit anxiously across Vader's face. Finally, Anakin Skywalker reemerges from within Darth Vader, and he destroys the Emperor and saves his son. His last act is telling: he asks Luke to remove the mask so that he may see Luke with his own eyes—a rejection of the sinister man/machine aspects of Vader's being. In the end, Anakin Skywalker stands, purged of Darth Vader, with Yoda and Obi-Wan, the masters he once rejected.
Some people have suggested that he lose the breathing apparatus in this remake. But I think it's a crucial part of who he is.
PART ONE: A NEW HOPE
It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the Death
Star, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save
her people and restore
freedom to the galaxy ....
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the Death
Star, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save
her people and restore
freedom to the galaxy ....
Plot: Far off in a distant galaxy, the starship belonging to Leia Organa, a young member of the Imperial Senate, is intercepted in the course of a secret mission by a massive Imperial Star Destroyer. An imperial boarding party blasts its way onto the captured vessel, and after a fierce firefight the crew of Leia's ship is subdued. The dark, forbidding figure of Darth Vader appears, brutally interrogating the crew and ordering his Stormtroopers to search the ship for the secret documents he believes it is carrying: the technical readouts for the Empire's mightiest weapon—a planet-sized battle station called the Death Star. In the confusion, Leia slips away and hides the secret documents, as well as a recorded plea for help, in the memory of R2-D2, a maintenance droid (robot). Leia is taken prisoner, but R2 gets away in an escape pod, along with his best friend, the android C-3PO. After crash-landing on the planet below, a barren, desert world called Tatooine, the droids set off in search of civilization but soon quarrel over the way to go. R2 insists that he has a mission to perform, but C-3PO wants no part of such an adventure.
The two droids go their separate ways but are soon reunited when they are both captured by Jawas, child-sized scavengers who trade in droids and technological scraps. The Jawas sell the droids to Owen Lars, a moisture farmer on a remote homestead. Owen's nephew, young Luke Skywalker, cleans the droids and, as he does so, stumbles across a bit of the message Leia had hidden inside R2. The holographic message is addressed to "Obi-Wan Kenobi." R2 refuses to divulge any more of the message. When Luke asks his uncle about the identity of Obi-Wan, Owen is reluctant to even discuss the subject, but he does drop one tantalizing hint: Obi-Wan was a friend of Luke's father, whom Luke never knew. Luke mentions his desire to leave home to attend the Imperial Academy for starpilots, but Uncle Owen is discouraging, much to Luke's frustration. When Luke's aunt Beru reminds Owen that Luke is too much like his father to stay on the farm, Owen replies that that is just what he's afraid of.
During the night, R2-D2 slips away, intent on finding Obi-Wan and completing his mission. Luke sets out in search of the truant droid the next morning, taking C-3PO with him. They soon find R2 but are waylaid by Tusken Raiders, barbaric tribal creatures who attack anyone trespassing on their domain. Luke is knocked unconscious but is saved by the timely appearance of old Obi-Wan Kenobi, who frightens off the Tusken Raiders and brings the group back to his humble shelter. There, Obi-Wan explains that he was once a Jedi Knight, one of an ancient order of warriors who fought for peace and justice in the time of the Old Republic, before the coming of the evil Galactic Empire. Further, he informs Luke that Luke's father was also a Jedi, one of his closest friends, and that his father was killed by Darth Vader, a former pupil of his who turned to the Dark Side of the Force. The Force, Obi-Wan explains, is the source of a Jedi's power. It is an energy field created and sustained by life itself, and it flows through the universe, binding it together. Through training, a Jedi is able to tap into the Force and gain great power and wisdom, but, as the example of Vader shows, there is a seductive, evil path to the Force as well.
Obi-Wan gives Luke his father's lightsaber, the traditional weapon of a Jedi. After viewing the entirety of Leia's message, Obi-Wan says that he intends to join up with the Rebel Alliance challenging the Empire and to bring them the plans hidden in R2's memory. He urges Luke to join him and to learn the ways of the Force, but Luke, echoing his uncle, is reluctant to get involved. Meanwhile, Leia has been taken into captivity on the Death Star. There, Leia is repeatedly interrogated by Darth Vader about the whereabouts of the hidden Rebel base, but she stoutly refuses to crack. When Vader is insolently challenged by the Death Star's Commander, he demonstrates his mastery of the Force by choking the officer into submission merely by raising his finger, until he is restrained by Grand Moff Tarkin, the Imperial governor. Back on Tattooine, Luke and Obi-Wan discover that the Jawas have been slaughtered by Imperial troops tracing the droids. Fearing for his aunt and uncle, Luke races home only to find them murdered and the farm in flames. With nothing left to hold him on Tattooine, Luke resolves to join Obi-Wan and to become a Jedi.
With the droids in tow, Obi-Wan and Luke journey to Mos Eisley spaceport in search of a ship to take them to Alderaan, the Leia's home planet. The Mos Eisley cantina, where the best pilots are to be found, is a rough place, and Obi-Wan is forced to act with deadly swiftness to defend Luke from a couple of toughs. Nevertheless, the pair manages to hire Han Solo, a brash smuggler, and his copilot, the Wookiee Chewbacca, to take them to Alderaan without attracting the attention of the Empire. After the deal is struck, Han Solo is cornered by Greedo, a lackey of Jabba the Hutt and a gangster angry at Solo for dumping one of his shipments. Solo blasts his way out of the confrontation but is forced to talk his way past Jabba himself when he returns to the hangar where his ship, the ugly-but-fast Millennium Falcon, is docked. Solo and Chewbacca are surprised when Imperial troops appear and start firing on the ship in an attempt to reclaim the droids, and the Falcon barely makes it off Tatooine and into hyperspace on the way to Alderaan.
On the Death Star, meanwhile, Tarkin has decided to break Leia by threatening her home planet, Alderaan, with destruction. Faced with this appalling dilemma, Leia reveals the location of the hidden base, only to have Tarkin proceed with the attack on Alderaan, merely to demonstrate the power of the Death Star. Aboard the Millennium Falcon, Obi-Wan is stricken, feeling the death of Alderaan as a massive tremor in the Force. Luke trains with his lightsaber, even as Han scoffs at Obi-Wan's trust in the Force. Obi-Wan replies by having Luke fight blind against a floating target, and Luke is able to defend himself by sensing the remote with his feelings alone, thereby taking his first steps, as Obi-Wan says, into "a larger world." The ship exits hyperspace where Alderaan should be, only to find the planet missing and an asteroid field in its place. Ben realizes the horrible truth when they catch sight of the nearby Death Star, and the Millennium Falcon is quickly captured. The group manages to hide from the guards in Han's smuggling compartments, but Vader senses the presence of his old master, Obi-Wan.
The ship is unable to escape the Death Star as long as the station's tractor beam is operational, so Obi-Wan goes off alone to deactivate it. In his absence, the others learn that Leia is aboard the station, and Luke convinces them to attempt a rescue. Han and Luke disguise themselves as stormtroopers and, with the droids plugged into the station's computers, break Leia out of her cell. Unfortunately, their activities are soon discovered, and the rescue takes a detour through a massive, monster-infested garbage compactor and several corridors and pitfalls swarming with Imperial troops. Leia is unimpressed with her rescuers' planning and soon begins to issue the orders, much to Han's chagrin. As the group fights its way back to the Falcon, Obi-Wan stealthily deactivates the tractor beam. On his way to the ship, he is confronted by Darth Vader, who is eager to face his old master. Vader and Obi-Wan duel with lightsabers, and the fight draws the attention of the guards. Realizing he is trapped, and not wanting to endanger his friends, Obi-Wan allows Vader to strike him down, only to disappear before Vader's stroke hits, merging his consciousness with the Force. Luke is horrified and lashes out, but the others force him onto the Falcon and they make their escape.
The fleeing ship is pursued by Imperial fighters but finally escapes, though Leia is convinced that they are being tracked, as indeed they are. The group travels to the Rebel base, with the Death Star right behind. A quick scan of the blueprints provided by R2 offers one slim chance: the Death Star has an Achilles' heel. A direct hit on a small, easily overlooked thermal port will destroy the station, if only a fighter can get close enough to target it. Luke signs up for the desperate assault, but he is disappointed that Han, having received his payment, plans to leave immediately. Watched anxiously by the Rebel command, the fleet of small, single-pilot fighters speeds toward the massive, impregnable Death Star. As the station slowly moves into position to obliterate the Rebels, the pilots maneuver down a narrow trench along the station's equator, where the thermal port lies hidden. Darth Vader leads the counterattack himself and destroys many of the Rebels, including Luke's boyhood friend Biggs, in ship-to-ship combat. Finally, it is up to Luke himself to make a run at the target, and he is saved from Vader at the last minute by Han Solo, who returns in the nick of time and sends Vader spinning away from the station. Heeding Obi-Wan's disembodied voice, Luke switches off his computer and uses the Force to guide his aim. Against all odds, Luke succeeds and destroys the Death Star, dealing a major defeat to the Empire and setting himself on the path to becoming a Jedi Knight.
Supporting cast (introduced in A New Hope):
Grand Moff Governor Wilhuff Tarkin - Jesper Christensen
A ruthless Imperial officer who works directly for Darth Vader. He oversees the progress of the Death Star and is its commander. Tarkin is extremely powerful, unafraid of Vader himself, supremely confident and cold. Tarkin orders the destruction of Leia's home planet, Alderaan, merely to demonstrate the power of the Death Star. Tarkin is destroyed himself, along with the first Death Star, by Luke Skywalker.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Bernard Hill
One of the last of the Jedi Knights, he currently lives in the Jundland outskirts of Mos Eisley. Obi-Wan is a steady, wise, reassuring figure who, though old, is still a Jedi, with a Jedi's deadly skill and uncanny powers. Obi-Wan reveals to Luke that his father was once a Jedi Knight and that Luke is meant to follow in his footsteps, but he doesn't reveal the full truth: that Luke's father Anakin is not dead but has become the evil Darth Vader. Obi-Wan also neglects to mention that Leia is Luke's twin sister, in an attempt to preserve her safety. Obi-Wan begins training Luke in the ways of the Force and continues to advise him even after Darth Vader strikes Obi-Wan down in a lightsaber duel. Far from being killed in the duel, Obi-Wan merges with the Force, preserving his consciousness even as he transcends the limits of the flesh.
Standard Cybot Galactica Protocol Transcultural Liaison Android Series 3 Model 0 / C-3P0 - Doug Jones
I like the idea of C-3P0 being an android like Data from Star Trek: TNG or or Bishop from Alien. Threepio is fluent in over six million forms of communication, and was designed to assist with etiquette, customs, and translations so that meetings of different cultures run smoothly. His current incarnation was built by Anakin Skywalker with centuries-old structural framework, a metallic endoskeleton encased in cultural human tissue. As an homage to the original Threepio, he wears a golden jumpsuit. Though more a diplomat than a fighter, C-3PO always comes through, proving his worth time and again as a translator, a computer hacker (with R2), and a surprisingly quick thinker in a tight spot. Despite all his worries and complaints, C-3PO's saving grace is his strong loyalty to "Master Luke" and his great affection for R2-D2.
R2-D2
A spunky, trashcan-shaped "astromech droid." R2, along with his friend C-3PO, is swept up into the epic battle for the fate of the galaxy when Leia hides the stolen plans for the Death Star inside his databanks. R2-D2 becomes Luke's robotic copilot and all-around mechanical assistant and always seems to find himself in the thick of the action. Unswervingly loyal, brave, and feisty, R2-D2 communicates in a series of electronic whistles, beeps, and chirps.
Chewbacca
Han Solo's friend and copilot of the Millennium Falcon. Chewbacca is a seven-feet-tall Wookiee, a creature resembling a cross between a gorilla and an English sheepdog. Despite his intimidating appearance, "Chewie" is something of a softy, affectionate and loyal to his friends. When provoked, however, Chewbacca is truly ferocious, capable of tossing grown men around like rag dolls. A crack shot, skilled mechanic, and daring pilot, Chewbacca is always at Solo's side, deferring to the human's leadership, though the origin of their friendship remains mysterious. Born on the planet Kashyyyk, he was rescued from slavery by Solo and has since made it his life's debt to repay him by copiloting the Falcon.
Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan - Gabriel Byrne
Leia's adoptive father. I basically stole this part from .... I think Bluebeast's original Star Wars cast. For years, he has worked on the creation of an Artificial Star to aid planetary systems with dying suns. Grand Moff Tarkin convinces the Galactic Senate to hand the Star over to the Imperial Starfleet, for "military purposes." It is turned into an Imperial space station used to destroy planets with its hypermatter reactor. Organa is killed in the destruction of Alderaan by the Death Star.
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Ambassador Tan Pandurang - Sung Kang
A member of the Imperial Senate, he is an ally of Leia's and also secretly a member of the Rebel Alliance. He is killed by Grand Moff Tarkin.
Owen Lars - Kenneth Cranham
Luke's uncle. A stern but loving man, Uncle Owen tries to keep Luke close to home but can't stop him from dreaming of adventure and excitement. Owen worries, with good reason, that Luke is very much like his father. He is killed by Imperial stormtroopers seeking R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Beru Whitesun Lars - ????
Luke's aunt. Beru is a kind woman and sees that Luke is not meant to be a farmer. Beru tells Owen that they will have to let Luke go someday. She is killed by Imperial stormtroopers seeking the droids.
Gen. Jan Dodonna - ????
A member of the Rebel Alliance.
Gen. Vanden Willard - ????
Wedge Antilles - Justin Bartha
A Rebel fighter pilot, one of the best in the fleet. He survives the battle of Hoth and the assaults on both Death Stars.
Biggs Darklighter - ????
A Rebel fighter pilot and one of Luke's childhood friends. Biggs is shot down by Darth Vader in the attack on the first Death Star.
Red Six Jek Tono Porkins - George Lucas
Enh, why not.
Gen. Cassio Tagge - James Callis
Adm. Conan Antonio Motti - ????
PART TWO: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Plot: After the destruction of the Death Star, the Empire quickly regroups and begins searching for the new location of the Rebel base. Imperial probe droids fan out across various star systems, and one lands on the surface of the icy planet Hoth. On the surface of Hoth, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are on patrol near the newly hidden Rebel base. Luke sees the Imperial probe strike the surface and goes to investigate on his own. Before he can identify the probe, Luke is attacked and knocked unconscious by a hulking yeti-like creature. Meanwhile, having returned to the base, Han orders Chewbacca to prepare the ailing Millennium Falcon for departure. Han explains to the Rebel general that he feels compelled to leave because of the bounty hunters sent after him by Jabba the Hutt. As Han heads back to his ship, Leia confronts him and tries to convince him to stay for the sake of the Rebellion. Han tries to get Leia to admit that she has more personal reasons for wanting him to stay, but she refuses and the two quarrel.
When Han learns that Luke has still not reported in, he heads out into the deadly Hoth night to find him. In the cave of the creature that attacked him, Luke has been pinioned in ice but is able to use the Force and his lightsaber to fight his way back to the surface. As he wanders blindly in a snowstorm, Luke has a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who tells Luke that he must seek out Yoda, the Jedi master who is to train him in the ways of the Force. As Luke collapses, Han appears out of the night to rescue him. Luke recovers after a short stay in the sick bay, and Han and Leia discover that the Imperial probe has located the Rebel base. Aboard his command ship, Darth Vader sees the transmission from the probe and, instantly recognizing the Rebel base, orders his fleet to the Hoth system. However, Admiral Ozzel brings the fleet out of hyperspace in such a way that the Rebels are alerted and have time to prepare an evacuation. Furious, Vader uses the Force to strangle Ozzel and promotes Piett in his place.
Luke leads the counterattack that attempts to hold off the approaching Imperial army of massive armored walking transports, as the Rebels hurriedly flee the base. Leia and C-3PO are forced to go with Han in the Falcon, while Luke and R2 head toward the Dagobah system, where Yoda is to be found. Unfortunately, the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon is broken, and Han and Leia are closely pursued by the Imperial fleet. In a desperate maneuver, Han flies into an asteroid field in order to escape the pursuit and barely avoids being crushed or shot down, ultimately finding shelter in a cave on one of the larger asteroids. Luke crash-lands on Dagobah, a swampy planet teeming with animal life but without any settlements or other signs of civilization. Luke and R2 make camp and are interrupted by the intrusion of an annoying, elderly little creature that pokes around, stealing food and offering to take Luke to Yoda. Luke reluctantly accompanies the creature to his home for a meal but quickly becomes impatient and angry at the delay. At this, the creature, who is of course Yoda himself, sighs and says that he cannot train someone so reckless and angry. To his surprise, Luke hears Obi-Wan's voice defending him and urging Yoda to take Luke on as a student. Luke begs Yoda for another chance, and Yoda agrees, warning Luke that what is to come will be the greatest challenge he has ever faced.
Just as he is hiring a group of bounty hunters to find Han and the others, Darth Vader receives a call from the Emperor, who has sensed that Luke has begun his Jedi training. Vader is given the mission of luring Luke to him so that Luke can either be claimed for the dark side of the Force or destroyed. As the Imperial fleet searches the asteroid field, Han and the others work to get the Falcon repaired. Han and Leia have a tender moment together, and Leia admits that she is drawn to Han when he isn't acting like a scoundrel, a term with which Han is inordinately pleased. The brief moment of peace is cut short, however, when Han realizes that the "cave" they have taken shelter in is actually the gullet of an enormous, worm-like monster. Han speeds out of the maw of the creature, back into the asteroid field, and back into the sights of the Imperial fleet. Still unable to jump to hyperspace, Han improvises, hiding the Falcon by latching directly onto one of the Star Destroyers. The captain of the Star Destroyer assumes that the ship has escaped, apologizes to Vader, and pays for his error with his life. Meanwhile, Han detaches the Falcon when the larger vessel dumps its garbage and floats away, unseen, with the debris.
Han decides to travel to the nearby planet of Bespin, where Lando Calrissian, an old friend, runs an independent mining station. However, Han himself fails to notice that his stealthy maneuver has been anticipated by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, who follows close behind. On Dagobah, Luke's training pushes him to the brink of physical and mental exhaustion. As Luke and Yoda rest before a sinister cave, Yoda tells Luke that the place is connected to the dark side and that Luke must go within and see what he finds. Luke enters the cave only to see a vision of Darth Vader approaching. Luke battles Vader and strikes off his head, but the face he sees within Vader's destroyed mask is his own. Later, when Luke is practicing levitating stones, he is distracted by the sound of his ship sinking further into the swamp where he crashed. Yoda encourages Luke to levitate the ship out of the water, but Luke is convinced such a feat is impossible. Luke makes the attempt, but he doubts himself and therefore fails. Luke is frustrated and angry but quickly awed by the ease with which Yoda then draws the ship out of the water.
Han and Leia arrive at Cloud City on Bespin, where they are greeted by Lando, who pretends at first to be angry with Han. Han marvels at the way Lando, once a gambler and rogue, has become a responsible businessman. Leia still does not trust him, sensing something odd about the situation. C-3PO wanders off on his own and disappears, only to be found later, in pieces, by Chewbacca. Before Chewbacca can reassemble C-3PO and find out what happened, Han, Leia, and he are taken to a banquet by Lando. Much to their horror, Lando has betrayed them and Darth Vader is awaiting them in the dining room. The three are taken captive and Han and Chewbacca are tortured, though seemingly without purpose. Back on Dagobah, Luke has another vision, this time of his friends suffering. Yoda tells Luke that what he has seen is may in fact occur, but he warns Luke not to act rashly. Luke insists on going to rescue his friends, though both Obi-Wan and Yoda urge him not to face Vader before his training is complete. As Luke and R2 depart Dagobah, Yoda reminds Obi-Wan that even if Luke fails, "there is another."
Lando, meanwhile, has come to regret his decision, which he made in order to preserve the independence of his settlement. Clearly, Vader has no intention of honoring his side of the bargain and plans to do just as he pleases. Vader's goal is to lure Luke to him so that he can be captured and brought before the Emperor, but first he needs to test one last part of his plan. Vader orders that Han be placed in "carbon freeze," a sort of suspended animation, so that Vader can be sure that the process he has in store for Luke is not fatal. As Han is lowered into the freezing chamber, Leia at last admits that she loves him, to which he replies, "I know." Han is frozen safely and is handed over to Boba Fett. As Luke arrives, Vader lies in wait and Lando resolves to free the others. Luke is guided into Vader's presence and the two at last stand face-to-face. Lando's men surprise the Imperial troops and free Leia and the enraged Chewbacca, who almost kills Lando with his bare hands. Lando convinces them that there is still time to save Han, and they race off.
Meanwhile, Luke and Vader duel within the depths of the mining complex. Luke is clearly overmatched by Vader, though he fights bravely and avoids the carbon-freeze ambush. Vader is relentless, however, and continues to push Luke, slowly increasing the intensity of his attacks. Eventually, Luke is bloody and desperate, fighting now simply to escape. Vader is too strong, however, and slices off Luke's hand. Though he is defeated, Luke angrily refuses Vader's offer to join him on the dark side, saying that he could never join the man who killed his father. Luke is devastated by Vader's next revelation: he, Vader, is Luke's father. Unable to deny what the Force tells him to be true, Luke casts himself off of the bridge on which they stand. Leia, meanwhile, has just missed Boba Fett, who has made his escape with Han as his captive. Lando orders the city evacuated, and he, Leia and Chewbacca head to the Millennium Falcon, joined by R2-D2 and C-3PO. Clinging to a weather vane below the floating city, Luke calls out mentally to Leia, who hears him and orders Lando to fly back for him. Luke is saved but deeply shaken by what he has learned. The hyperdrive on the Falcon is still not operational, as Vader gave orders that it be disconnected. R2, fortunately, is aware of the problem and reconnects it just in time for the friends to escape the pursuing fleet. Once they are reunited with the Rebel forces, Luke is given a cybernetic replacement hand. Luke, Leia, and the droids watch as Lando and Chewbacca head off in search of Han.
Supporting cast (returning):
C-3P0, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi (spirit), Wedge Antilles
Supporting cast (introduced in The Empire Strikes Back):
Lando Calrissian - Chiwetel Ejiofor
A professional gambler, card player, entrepreneur, smuggler, and all-around scoundrel turned semi-respecable businessman. He is a friend of Han Solo, and lost the Millennium Falcon to him in a game of sabacc. Currently, he is the baron administrator of the floating mining colony Cloud City and the Tibanna gas mine on Bespin. When Han and Leia turn to Lando for help in their flight from the Empire, Lando welcomes them warmly, only to betray them to Darth Vader soon after. Although Lando justifies his betrayal by claiming that he has no choice—he is trying to preserve the independence of the mining colony—he quickly realizes that any deal struck with the Empire is worthless. Lando evacuates the city and has his guards free Leia and Chewbacca, but not in time to prevent Han being taken captive by Boba Fett. After helping rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt, Lando, now thoroughly respectable, joins the Rebellion and leads the direct assault on the new Death Star.
Yoda
The greatest Jedi master and Luke's teacher. At first, Yoda is reluctant to take Luke on as a student, fearing that he is too much like his father, driven by ambition, anger, and a love of adventure. Yoda's fears seem well-grounded when Luke rushes off to face Vader before his training is complete, a reckless decision that nearly costs Luke his life. Later, however, when a more humble, controlled Luke returns to complete his training, Yoda sends him back to face Vader again, telling Luke that he must confront his father to become a true Jedi. Despite his elliptical way of speaking, Yoda is the most eloquent spokesman for the wisdom of the Force in the trilogy and represents the moral center of the films. Yoda, then, is the polar opposite of Emperor Palpatine, and it is by staying true to Yoda's teachings that Luke is able to triumph.
Boba Fett
A deadly bounty hunter working for Jabba and the Empire. Boba Fett shows great skill in tracking and capturing Han Solo, but he dies ignominiously in the maw of the Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi.
Lobot - Mathieu Amalric
Chief Administrative Aide of Cloud City, as well as the personal bodyguard of Lando Calrissian.
Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious - Christopher Plummer
The 82-year-old emperor of the totalitarian Galactic Empire (based on Coruscant), and the motivating force behind Darth Vader. Hideously scarred and twisted, the Emperor's own body seems to revolt against the evil it is forced to contain. The living embodiment of the Dark Side of the Force, the Emperor is driven purely by hatred, anger, and lust for power, and he desires to draw others to the Dark Side by bringing out these qualities in them as well. The primary focus of his attention is his apprentice, Darth Vader, and Vader's son, Luke Skywalker. The Emperor tries to pit father against son in a fight to the death, in the hope that Luke will destroy Vader and become the Emperor's new apprentice. The Emperor's twisted desire is thwarted, however, when Luke resists the lure of fear, anger, and hatred, becoming at last a true Jedi. Vader's love for his son is awakened by the Emperor's deadly attack on Luke, and he kills the Emperor, though not before sustaining a fatal wound himself.
A member of the Imperial Senate, he is an ally of Leia's and also secretly a member of the Rebel Alliance. He is killed by Grand Moff Tarkin.
Owen Lars - Kenneth Cranham
Luke's uncle. A stern but loving man, Uncle Owen tries to keep Luke close to home but can't stop him from dreaming of adventure and excitement. Owen worries, with good reason, that Luke is very much like his father. He is killed by Imperial stormtroopers seeking R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Beru Whitesun Lars - ????
Luke's aunt. Beru is a kind woman and sees that Luke is not meant to be a farmer. Beru tells Owen that they will have to let Luke go someday. She is killed by Imperial stormtroopers seeking the droids.
Gen. Jan Dodonna - ????
A member of the Rebel Alliance.
Gen. Vanden Willard - ????
Wedge Antilles - Justin Bartha
A Rebel fighter pilot, one of the best in the fleet. He survives the battle of Hoth and the assaults on both Death Stars.
Biggs Darklighter - ????
A Rebel fighter pilot and one of Luke's childhood friends. Biggs is shot down by Darth Vader in the attack on the first Death Star.
Red Six Jek Tono Porkins - George Lucas
Enh, why not.
Gen. Cassio Tagge - James Callis
Adm. Conan Antonio Motti - ????
PART TWO: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
It is a dark time for the
Rebellion. Although the Death
Star has been destroyed,
Imperial troops have driven the
Rebel forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Luke Skywalker
has established a new secret
base on the remote ice world
of Hoth.
The evil lord Darth Vader,
obsessed with finding young
Skywalker, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space ....
Rebellion. Although the Death
Star has been destroyed,
Imperial troops have driven the
Rebel forces from their hidden
base and pursued them across
the galaxy.
Evading the dreaded Imperial
Starfleet, a group of freedom
fighters led by Luke Skywalker
has established a new secret
base on the remote ice world
of Hoth.
The evil lord Darth Vader,
obsessed with finding young
Skywalker, has dispatched
thousands of remote probes into
the far reaches of space ....
Plot: After the destruction of the Death Star, the Empire quickly regroups and begins searching for the new location of the Rebel base. Imperial probe droids fan out across various star systems, and one lands on the surface of the icy planet Hoth. On the surface of Hoth, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are on patrol near the newly hidden Rebel base. Luke sees the Imperial probe strike the surface and goes to investigate on his own. Before he can identify the probe, Luke is attacked and knocked unconscious by a hulking yeti-like creature. Meanwhile, having returned to the base, Han orders Chewbacca to prepare the ailing Millennium Falcon for departure. Han explains to the Rebel general that he feels compelled to leave because of the bounty hunters sent after him by Jabba the Hutt. As Han heads back to his ship, Leia confronts him and tries to convince him to stay for the sake of the Rebellion. Han tries to get Leia to admit that she has more personal reasons for wanting him to stay, but she refuses and the two quarrel.
When Han learns that Luke has still not reported in, he heads out into the deadly Hoth night to find him. In the cave of the creature that attacked him, Luke has been pinioned in ice but is able to use the Force and his lightsaber to fight his way back to the surface. As he wanders blindly in a snowstorm, Luke has a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who tells Luke that he must seek out Yoda, the Jedi master who is to train him in the ways of the Force. As Luke collapses, Han appears out of the night to rescue him. Luke recovers after a short stay in the sick bay, and Han and Leia discover that the Imperial probe has located the Rebel base. Aboard his command ship, Darth Vader sees the transmission from the probe and, instantly recognizing the Rebel base, orders his fleet to the Hoth system. However, Admiral Ozzel brings the fleet out of hyperspace in such a way that the Rebels are alerted and have time to prepare an evacuation. Furious, Vader uses the Force to strangle Ozzel and promotes Piett in his place.
Luke leads the counterattack that attempts to hold off the approaching Imperial army of massive armored walking transports, as the Rebels hurriedly flee the base. Leia and C-3PO are forced to go with Han in the Falcon, while Luke and R2 head toward the Dagobah system, where Yoda is to be found. Unfortunately, the hyperdrive on the Millennium Falcon is broken, and Han and Leia are closely pursued by the Imperial fleet. In a desperate maneuver, Han flies into an asteroid field in order to escape the pursuit and barely avoids being crushed or shot down, ultimately finding shelter in a cave on one of the larger asteroids. Luke crash-lands on Dagobah, a swampy planet teeming with animal life but without any settlements or other signs of civilization. Luke and R2 make camp and are interrupted by the intrusion of an annoying, elderly little creature that pokes around, stealing food and offering to take Luke to Yoda. Luke reluctantly accompanies the creature to his home for a meal but quickly becomes impatient and angry at the delay. At this, the creature, who is of course Yoda himself, sighs and says that he cannot train someone so reckless and angry. To his surprise, Luke hears Obi-Wan's voice defending him and urging Yoda to take Luke on as a student. Luke begs Yoda for another chance, and Yoda agrees, warning Luke that what is to come will be the greatest challenge he has ever faced.
Just as he is hiring a group of bounty hunters to find Han and the others, Darth Vader receives a call from the Emperor, who has sensed that Luke has begun his Jedi training. Vader is given the mission of luring Luke to him so that Luke can either be claimed for the dark side of the Force or destroyed. As the Imperial fleet searches the asteroid field, Han and the others work to get the Falcon repaired. Han and Leia have a tender moment together, and Leia admits that she is drawn to Han when he isn't acting like a scoundrel, a term with which Han is inordinately pleased. The brief moment of peace is cut short, however, when Han realizes that the "cave" they have taken shelter in is actually the gullet of an enormous, worm-like monster. Han speeds out of the maw of the creature, back into the asteroid field, and back into the sights of the Imperial fleet. Still unable to jump to hyperspace, Han improvises, hiding the Falcon by latching directly onto one of the Star Destroyers. The captain of the Star Destroyer assumes that the ship has escaped, apologizes to Vader, and pays for his error with his life. Meanwhile, Han detaches the Falcon when the larger vessel dumps its garbage and floats away, unseen, with the debris.
Han decides to travel to the nearby planet of Bespin, where Lando Calrissian, an old friend, runs an independent mining station. However, Han himself fails to notice that his stealthy maneuver has been anticipated by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, who follows close behind. On Dagobah, Luke's training pushes him to the brink of physical and mental exhaustion. As Luke and Yoda rest before a sinister cave, Yoda tells Luke that the place is connected to the dark side and that Luke must go within and see what he finds. Luke enters the cave only to see a vision of Darth Vader approaching. Luke battles Vader and strikes off his head, but the face he sees within Vader's destroyed mask is his own. Later, when Luke is practicing levitating stones, he is distracted by the sound of his ship sinking further into the swamp where he crashed. Yoda encourages Luke to levitate the ship out of the water, but Luke is convinced such a feat is impossible. Luke makes the attempt, but he doubts himself and therefore fails. Luke is frustrated and angry but quickly awed by the ease with which Yoda then draws the ship out of the water.
Han and Leia arrive at Cloud City on Bespin, where they are greeted by Lando, who pretends at first to be angry with Han. Han marvels at the way Lando, once a gambler and rogue, has become a responsible businessman. Leia still does not trust him, sensing something odd about the situation. C-3PO wanders off on his own and disappears, only to be found later, in pieces, by Chewbacca. Before Chewbacca can reassemble C-3PO and find out what happened, Han, Leia, and he are taken to a banquet by Lando. Much to their horror, Lando has betrayed them and Darth Vader is awaiting them in the dining room. The three are taken captive and Han and Chewbacca are tortured, though seemingly without purpose. Back on Dagobah, Luke has another vision, this time of his friends suffering. Yoda tells Luke that what he has seen is may in fact occur, but he warns Luke not to act rashly. Luke insists on going to rescue his friends, though both Obi-Wan and Yoda urge him not to face Vader before his training is complete. As Luke and R2 depart Dagobah, Yoda reminds Obi-Wan that even if Luke fails, "there is another."
Lando, meanwhile, has come to regret his decision, which he made in order to preserve the independence of his settlement. Clearly, Vader has no intention of honoring his side of the bargain and plans to do just as he pleases. Vader's goal is to lure Luke to him so that he can be captured and brought before the Emperor, but first he needs to test one last part of his plan. Vader orders that Han be placed in "carbon freeze," a sort of suspended animation, so that Vader can be sure that the process he has in store for Luke is not fatal. As Han is lowered into the freezing chamber, Leia at last admits that she loves him, to which he replies, "I know." Han is frozen safely and is handed over to Boba Fett. As Luke arrives, Vader lies in wait and Lando resolves to free the others. Luke is guided into Vader's presence and the two at last stand face-to-face. Lando's men surprise the Imperial troops and free Leia and the enraged Chewbacca, who almost kills Lando with his bare hands. Lando convinces them that there is still time to save Han, and they race off.
Meanwhile, Luke and Vader duel within the depths of the mining complex. Luke is clearly overmatched by Vader, though he fights bravely and avoids the carbon-freeze ambush. Vader is relentless, however, and continues to push Luke, slowly increasing the intensity of his attacks. Eventually, Luke is bloody and desperate, fighting now simply to escape. Vader is too strong, however, and slices off Luke's hand. Though he is defeated, Luke angrily refuses Vader's offer to join him on the dark side, saying that he could never join the man who killed his father. Luke is devastated by Vader's next revelation: he, Vader, is Luke's father. Unable to deny what the Force tells him to be true, Luke casts himself off of the bridge on which they stand. Leia, meanwhile, has just missed Boba Fett, who has made his escape with Han as his captive. Lando orders the city evacuated, and he, Leia and Chewbacca head to the Millennium Falcon, joined by R2-D2 and C-3PO. Clinging to a weather vane below the floating city, Luke calls out mentally to Leia, who hears him and orders Lando to fly back for him. Luke is saved but deeply shaken by what he has learned. The hyperdrive on the Falcon is still not operational, as Vader gave orders that it be disconnected. R2, fortunately, is aware of the problem and reconnects it just in time for the friends to escape the pursuing fleet. Once they are reunited with the Rebel forces, Luke is given a cybernetic replacement hand. Luke, Leia, and the droids watch as Lando and Chewbacca head off in search of Han.
Supporting cast (returning):
C-3P0, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi (spirit), Wedge Antilles
Supporting cast (introduced in The Empire Strikes Back):
Lando Calrissian - Chiwetel Ejiofor
A professional gambler, card player, entrepreneur, smuggler, and all-around scoundrel turned semi-respecable businessman. He is a friend of Han Solo, and lost the Millennium Falcon to him in a game of sabacc. Currently, he is the baron administrator of the floating mining colony Cloud City and the Tibanna gas mine on Bespin. When Han and Leia turn to Lando for help in their flight from the Empire, Lando welcomes them warmly, only to betray them to Darth Vader soon after. Although Lando justifies his betrayal by claiming that he has no choice—he is trying to preserve the independence of the mining colony—he quickly realizes that any deal struck with the Empire is worthless. Lando evacuates the city and has his guards free Leia and Chewbacca, but not in time to prevent Han being taken captive by Boba Fett. After helping rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt, Lando, now thoroughly respectable, joins the Rebellion and leads the direct assault on the new Death Star.
Yoda
The greatest Jedi master and Luke's teacher. At first, Yoda is reluctant to take Luke on as a student, fearing that he is too much like his father, driven by ambition, anger, and a love of adventure. Yoda's fears seem well-grounded when Luke rushes off to face Vader before his training is complete, a reckless decision that nearly costs Luke his life. Later, however, when a more humble, controlled Luke returns to complete his training, Yoda sends him back to face Vader again, telling Luke that he must confront his father to become a true Jedi. Despite his elliptical way of speaking, Yoda is the most eloquent spokesman for the wisdom of the Force in the trilogy and represents the moral center of the films. Yoda, then, is the polar opposite of Emperor Palpatine, and it is by staying true to Yoda's teachings that Luke is able to triumph.
Boba Fett
A deadly bounty hunter working for Jabba and the Empire. Boba Fett shows great skill in tracking and capturing Han Solo, but he dies ignominiously in the maw of the Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi.
Lobot - Mathieu Amalric
Chief Administrative Aide of Cloud City, as well as the personal bodyguard of Lando Calrissian.
Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious - Christopher Plummer
The 82-year-old emperor of the totalitarian Galactic Empire (based on Coruscant), and the motivating force behind Darth Vader. Hideously scarred and twisted, the Emperor's own body seems to revolt against the evil it is forced to contain. The living embodiment of the Dark Side of the Force, the Emperor is driven purely by hatred, anger, and lust for power, and he desires to draw others to the Dark Side by bringing out these qualities in them as well. The primary focus of his attention is his apprentice, Darth Vader, and Vader's son, Luke Skywalker. The Emperor tries to pit father against son in a fight to the death, in the hope that Luke will destroy Vader and become the Emperor's new apprentice. The Emperor's twisted desire is thwarted, however, when Luke resists the lure of fear, anger, and hatred, becoming at last a true Jedi. Vader's love for his son is awakened by the Emperor's deadly attack on Luke, and he kills the Emperor, though not before sustaining a fatal wound himself.
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Adm. Firmus Piett - Colin Salmon
An Imperial commander who rises through the ranks as Darth Vader kills off his superiors as they disappoint him. Piett dies in Return of the Jedi when his Super Star Destroyer is brought down by Admiral Ackbar's fleet.
Maj. Gen. Maximillian Veers - Robert Carlyle
Like Grand Moff Tarkin, Veers is a sadistic imperialist. The mastermind of the devastating assault on the Rebel Alliance's Echo Base on Hoth, he is a cunning and capable Imperial officer.
Adm. Kendal Ozzel - Gary Oldman
An Imperial commander. Ozzel angers Darth Vader through his ineptitude one too many times, and Vader uses the Force to strangle him to death on the bridge of his own ship.
Capt. Lorth Needa - Adrian Pasdar
Commander of the Star Destroyer Avenger during the Battle of Hoth. Killed by Vader.
Gen. Carlist Rieekan - Kenneth Cranham
The Rebel officer in charge of Echo Base on Hoth.
PART THREE: RETURN OF THE JEDI
Plot: C-3PO and R2-D2 approach the imposing compound of Jabba the Hutt. At the gate, C-3PO explains that they have been sent by their master with a message for Jabba. Despite some resistance, the droids are able to talk their way into the presence of the powerful gangster in his throne room, where he wallows in the presence of his monstrous alien cronies. R2 delivers the message from Luke, who now claims to be a Jedi Knight. Luke simply asks Jabba to bargain for Han Solo's life and offers the droids to Jabba as a gesture of goodwill. Jabba accepts the gift of the droids (to C-3PO's dismay) but flatly refuses to discuss Han, whom he uses, still in carbon freeze, as a decoration in the throne room. C-3PO is put to work as a translator and is soon called upon to interpret for a masked bounty hunter who arrives with Chewbacca in tow. The bounty hunter bargains dangerously with Jabba, earning his respect. Chewbacca is taken to Jabba's dungeons, while the bounty hunter joins the ongoing party.
Later that evening, as the others sleep, the mysterious bounty hunter stealthily approaches the frozen Han. The bounty hunter unfreezes Han, who is weakened and temporarily blinded by his hibernation. Just as the bounty hunter reveals herself to be none other than Leia in disguise, Jabba, who has been observing all along, reveals himself and takes her captive. Leia becomes Jabba's personal slave, and Han is reunited with Chewbacca in the dungeons. Soon, Luke appears before Jabba, calmly striding past the guards, whom he immobilizes with a gesture. Luke attempts to use his Jedi powers to influence Jabba, but Jabba's mind is much too strong for such tricks. Jabba uses a trap door to send Luke to meet his pet, the giant rancor, but much to Jabba's surprise, Luke manages to slay the beast. Jabba decides to execute Han, Luke, and Chewbacca together by casting them into the maw of the Sarlacc, a monster something like a cross between a sand lion and a gigantic squid. Luke is unfazed, though Han is less optimistic about their chances. As they hover above the Sarlacc's pit, Luke springs his trap. R2, aboard Jabba's barge, launches Luke's new lightsaber to him, and Lando, who has been undercover as one of Jabba's guards, helps release Han and Chewbacca. Luke uses his Jedi skills to deadly effect, sending many of Jabba's henchmen, including Boba Fett, into the belly of the Sarlacc. Leia makes use of the confusion of the battle to strangle Jabba with her chains. In the end, the friends escape after having destroyed Jabba and freeing Han, Chewbacca, and the droids.
Meanwhile, Darth Vader pays a surprise visit to the new Death Star, where construction is running behind schedule. Vader informs the commander that he intends to put them back on schedule before the Emperor himself arrives to inspect the work. Suitably terrified, the commander redoubles his efforts. Luke journeys back to Dagobah, where Yoda tells him that his training is almost complete. All that remains is for Luke to face his father, Darth Vader, once more. Luke tells Yoda that he felt some spark of goodness still within Vader, and that it could be awakened. Luke watches as Yoda dies, fading into oneness with the Force. Obi-Wan appears in his ghostly form, and explains that what he told Luke was true, in the sense that, when he became Darth Vader, the man who had been Anakin Skywalker was killed. Obi-Wan then reveals that Luke has a sister as well, and Luke instantly knows that he means Leia.
In the meantime, the Rebel Alliance has received word of the location of the new Death Star, and, further, that the Emperor himself plans to visit the site soon. The Rebel leaders hastily put together a plan: Lando and Admiral Ackbar will lead a direct assault on the Death Star while it is unfinished and vulnerable. At the same time, Han will lead a commando raid on the nearby moon of Endor to knock out the force field generator that is the Death Star's only protection. Leia, Chewbacca, and the droids volunteer for the mission, as does Luke, who arrives at the last minute from Dagobah. As the commando group makes its way to the forest moon, Luke senses Vader's presence nearby, just as Vader senses him. Soon, the Emperor arrives aboard the Death Star and Vader informs him of Luke's presence on the moon below. The Emperor instructs Vader to bring Luke before him, and Vader departs.
The commando group, meanwhile, soon encounters Imperial scouts, who speed off on hoverbikes. Luke and Leia take off after them and become separated after a chaotic running battle through the trees. Luke returns safely, but Leia encounters Wicket, an Ewok—a creature rather like a teddy bear—who helps her defeat the Stormtrooper she was chasing and takes her back with him to his village. Han, Luke, Chewbacca, and the droids soon meet Ewoks of their own, when Chewbacca springs a trap and they are all captured. The primitive Ewoks regard C-3PO as a god and begin to prepare to cook the others as part of a feast in his honor. Luke uses his powers, and their mistaken belief that C-3PO is a deity, to frighten the Ewoks into releasing them. Leia soon rejoins the group and they spend the night in the Ewok village. As C-3PO regales the tribe with tales of the group's adventures, Luke tells Leia that he intends to face Vader and that if he is killed, she, his sister, must carry on the Jedi legacy. Luke then departs to seek out Vader. Han sees Luke and Leia deep in discussion and grows jealous. Leia comforts him without explaining.
Luke turns himself in to the Imperial forces and is soon with Vader. Luke tells Vader that he intends to turn him away from the dark side of the Force, but Vader dismisses the notion, though somewhat regretfully. Meanwhile, the Rebel fleet has assembled and moves into hyperspace for the assault. Han's commando team is taken by the Ewoks to a "back door" to the shield generator, where they quickly break in and begin to set their explosives. Luke is soon standing before the Emperor, the master of the dark side. The Emperor explains to Luke that the entire situation was a set-up: he has foreseen the approach of the Rebel Fleet and laid a trap on Endor for Han's group. On Endor, the Emperor's trap is sprung as Imperial stormtroopers appear out of nowhere and overwhelm the commandos. The Ewoks, however, see what is taking place and decide to act themselves, and they suddenly attack the Imperial troops.
The Rebel fleet appears out of hyperspace only to find the shield still up and a fleet of Star Destroyers awaiting them. Lando, aboard the Millennium Falcon, convinces Ackbar to stay and fight, trusting Han to get the shield down before they are all destroyed. The Emperor then tells Luke his last surprise: the Death Star, though structurally incomplete, is fully operational. The Emperor gives the order, and the Death Star begins blasting the Rebel fleet apart. Lando and Ackbar take their ships right among the Star Destroyers, hoping to use them as shields against the overwhelming power of the Death Star. Luke, meanwhile, is fighting for self-control as the Emperor tries to goad him into acting out of anger and hatred, which will carry him over to the dark side. Luke springs into action, reclaiming his lightsaber. The Emperor watches with glee as father and son begin to duel before him, knowing that the survivor will remain his servant.
On Endor, the Ewoks fight bravely, using their primitive spears and slings to surprisingly good effect against the heavily armored, well-trained, and vastly technologically superior Imperial forces. Eventually, Han is able to use the confusion the Ewoks cause to lure the Imperial officers out of the bunker and take them captive. They then destroy the shield generator, leaving the Death Star open to attack. Luke masters himself and refuses to fight Vader aggressively, simply defending himself from attack. However, Luke is forced to attack when Vader is able to read his feelings and learns for the first time that Luke has a twin sister. In order to save Leia, Luke attacks and defeats Vader, as the Emperor spurs him on. Luke, however, does not kill Vader when he has the chance. Rather, he throws away his lightsaber and faces the Emperor, fully in control and now a true Jedi.
Lando and several fighters fly directly into the superstructure of the Death Star and blow up the main reactor, escaping just ahead of the resulting blast. Enraged at losing Luke, the Emperor strikes him with purple bolts of pure dark side energy, slowly killing him as Vader watches. At last, something in Vader snaps, and he heaves the Emperor bodily into an abyss where he is torn apart by the Death Star generators. Luke has a last conversation with his father, now Anakin Skywalker again, and sees his shattered face before he dies. Luke escapes with his father's body just before the Death Star explodes. The friends are reunited on Endor, where Luke and Leia's relationship is explained to Han. As celebrations break out across the galaxy, on Endor, Luke sees the ghostly forms of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and now Anakin, smiling at him.
Supporting cast (returning):
C-3P0, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Emperor Palpatine, Lando Calrissian, Yoda, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi (spirit), Wedge Antilles, Adm. Piett
Supporting cast (introduced in Return of the Jedi):
Moff Jerjerrod - Robert Knepper
Adm. Ackbar
A fish-headed alien who is the leader of the Rebel fleet that attacks the rebuilt Death Star. Lando convinces Ackbar to press the attack, trusting that Han Solo will be able to destroy the shield generator protecting the Death Star.
Gen. Crix Madine - Josh Holloway
Mon Mothma - Helen Mirren
The highest leader of the Rebel Alliance.
Jabba Desilijic "the Exalted One" Tiure
A Hutt crime lord based on Luke's home planet of Tatooine who places a huge bounty on Han Solo, who owes him for a lost shipment. Jabba is an enormous, sluglike creature. He delights in his own cruelty and grossness but is strong enough mentally to resist Luke's Jedi mind-control. Jabba manages to capture Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO, as well as the frozen Han Solo, or so he thinks. In truth, Luke has stage-managed the entire captivity in order to get close enough to Jabba to strike him down and free Han. In the resulting struggle, Han is freed, Jabba's henchmen are destroyed, and Jabba himself gets his comeuppance at the hands of Leia.
An Imperial commander who rises through the ranks as Darth Vader kills off his superiors as they disappoint him. Piett dies in Return of the Jedi when his Super Star Destroyer is brought down by Admiral Ackbar's fleet.
Maj. Gen. Maximillian Veers - Robert Carlyle
Like Grand Moff Tarkin, Veers is a sadistic imperialist. The mastermind of the devastating assault on the Rebel Alliance's Echo Base on Hoth, he is a cunning and capable Imperial officer.
Adm. Kendal Ozzel - Gary Oldman
An Imperial commander. Ozzel angers Darth Vader through his ineptitude one too many times, and Vader uses the Force to strangle him to death on the bridge of his own ship.
Capt. Lorth Needa - Adrian Pasdar
Commander of the Star Destroyer Avenger during the Battle of Hoth. Killed by Vader.
Gen. Carlist Rieekan - Kenneth Cranham
The Rebel officer in charge of Echo Base on Hoth.
PART THREE: RETURN OF THE JEDI
Luke Skywalker has returned to
his home planet of Tatooine in
an attempt to rescue his
friend Han Solo from the
clutches of the vile gangster
Jabba the Hutt.
Little does luke know that the
Galactic Empire has secretly
begun construction on a new
armored space station ever
more powerful than the first
dreaded Death Star.
When completed, this ultimate
weapon will spell certain doom
for the small band of rebels
struggling to restore freedom
to the galaxy ....
his home planet of Tatooine in
an attempt to rescue his
friend Han Solo from the
clutches of the vile gangster
Jabba the Hutt.
Little does luke know that the
Galactic Empire has secretly
begun construction on a new
armored space station ever
more powerful than the first
dreaded Death Star.
When completed, this ultimate
weapon will spell certain doom
for the small band of rebels
struggling to restore freedom
to the galaxy ....
Plot: C-3PO and R2-D2 approach the imposing compound of Jabba the Hutt. At the gate, C-3PO explains that they have been sent by their master with a message for Jabba. Despite some resistance, the droids are able to talk their way into the presence of the powerful gangster in his throne room, where he wallows in the presence of his monstrous alien cronies. R2 delivers the message from Luke, who now claims to be a Jedi Knight. Luke simply asks Jabba to bargain for Han Solo's life and offers the droids to Jabba as a gesture of goodwill. Jabba accepts the gift of the droids (to C-3PO's dismay) but flatly refuses to discuss Han, whom he uses, still in carbon freeze, as a decoration in the throne room. C-3PO is put to work as a translator and is soon called upon to interpret for a masked bounty hunter who arrives with Chewbacca in tow. The bounty hunter bargains dangerously with Jabba, earning his respect. Chewbacca is taken to Jabba's dungeons, while the bounty hunter joins the ongoing party.
Later that evening, as the others sleep, the mysterious bounty hunter stealthily approaches the frozen Han. The bounty hunter unfreezes Han, who is weakened and temporarily blinded by his hibernation. Just as the bounty hunter reveals herself to be none other than Leia in disguise, Jabba, who has been observing all along, reveals himself and takes her captive. Leia becomes Jabba's personal slave, and Han is reunited with Chewbacca in the dungeons. Soon, Luke appears before Jabba, calmly striding past the guards, whom he immobilizes with a gesture. Luke attempts to use his Jedi powers to influence Jabba, but Jabba's mind is much too strong for such tricks. Jabba uses a trap door to send Luke to meet his pet, the giant rancor, but much to Jabba's surprise, Luke manages to slay the beast. Jabba decides to execute Han, Luke, and Chewbacca together by casting them into the maw of the Sarlacc, a monster something like a cross between a sand lion and a gigantic squid. Luke is unfazed, though Han is less optimistic about their chances. As they hover above the Sarlacc's pit, Luke springs his trap. R2, aboard Jabba's barge, launches Luke's new lightsaber to him, and Lando, who has been undercover as one of Jabba's guards, helps release Han and Chewbacca. Luke uses his Jedi skills to deadly effect, sending many of Jabba's henchmen, including Boba Fett, into the belly of the Sarlacc. Leia makes use of the confusion of the battle to strangle Jabba with her chains. In the end, the friends escape after having destroyed Jabba and freeing Han, Chewbacca, and the droids.
Meanwhile, Darth Vader pays a surprise visit to the new Death Star, where construction is running behind schedule. Vader informs the commander that he intends to put them back on schedule before the Emperor himself arrives to inspect the work. Suitably terrified, the commander redoubles his efforts. Luke journeys back to Dagobah, where Yoda tells him that his training is almost complete. All that remains is for Luke to face his father, Darth Vader, once more. Luke tells Yoda that he felt some spark of goodness still within Vader, and that it could be awakened. Luke watches as Yoda dies, fading into oneness with the Force. Obi-Wan appears in his ghostly form, and explains that what he told Luke was true, in the sense that, when he became Darth Vader, the man who had been Anakin Skywalker was killed. Obi-Wan then reveals that Luke has a sister as well, and Luke instantly knows that he means Leia.
In the meantime, the Rebel Alliance has received word of the location of the new Death Star, and, further, that the Emperor himself plans to visit the site soon. The Rebel leaders hastily put together a plan: Lando and Admiral Ackbar will lead a direct assault on the Death Star while it is unfinished and vulnerable. At the same time, Han will lead a commando raid on the nearby moon of Endor to knock out the force field generator that is the Death Star's only protection. Leia, Chewbacca, and the droids volunteer for the mission, as does Luke, who arrives at the last minute from Dagobah. As the commando group makes its way to the forest moon, Luke senses Vader's presence nearby, just as Vader senses him. Soon, the Emperor arrives aboard the Death Star and Vader informs him of Luke's presence on the moon below. The Emperor instructs Vader to bring Luke before him, and Vader departs.
The commando group, meanwhile, soon encounters Imperial scouts, who speed off on hoverbikes. Luke and Leia take off after them and become separated after a chaotic running battle through the trees. Luke returns safely, but Leia encounters Wicket, an Ewok—a creature rather like a teddy bear—who helps her defeat the Stormtrooper she was chasing and takes her back with him to his village. Han, Luke, Chewbacca, and the droids soon meet Ewoks of their own, when Chewbacca springs a trap and they are all captured. The primitive Ewoks regard C-3PO as a god and begin to prepare to cook the others as part of a feast in his honor. Luke uses his powers, and their mistaken belief that C-3PO is a deity, to frighten the Ewoks into releasing them. Leia soon rejoins the group and they spend the night in the Ewok village. As C-3PO regales the tribe with tales of the group's adventures, Luke tells Leia that he intends to face Vader and that if he is killed, she, his sister, must carry on the Jedi legacy. Luke then departs to seek out Vader. Han sees Luke and Leia deep in discussion and grows jealous. Leia comforts him without explaining.
Luke turns himself in to the Imperial forces and is soon with Vader. Luke tells Vader that he intends to turn him away from the dark side of the Force, but Vader dismisses the notion, though somewhat regretfully. Meanwhile, the Rebel fleet has assembled and moves into hyperspace for the assault. Han's commando team is taken by the Ewoks to a "back door" to the shield generator, where they quickly break in and begin to set their explosives. Luke is soon standing before the Emperor, the master of the dark side. The Emperor explains to Luke that the entire situation was a set-up: he has foreseen the approach of the Rebel Fleet and laid a trap on Endor for Han's group. On Endor, the Emperor's trap is sprung as Imperial stormtroopers appear out of nowhere and overwhelm the commandos. The Ewoks, however, see what is taking place and decide to act themselves, and they suddenly attack the Imperial troops.
The Rebel fleet appears out of hyperspace only to find the shield still up and a fleet of Star Destroyers awaiting them. Lando, aboard the Millennium Falcon, convinces Ackbar to stay and fight, trusting Han to get the shield down before they are all destroyed. The Emperor then tells Luke his last surprise: the Death Star, though structurally incomplete, is fully operational. The Emperor gives the order, and the Death Star begins blasting the Rebel fleet apart. Lando and Ackbar take their ships right among the Star Destroyers, hoping to use them as shields against the overwhelming power of the Death Star. Luke, meanwhile, is fighting for self-control as the Emperor tries to goad him into acting out of anger and hatred, which will carry him over to the dark side. Luke springs into action, reclaiming his lightsaber. The Emperor watches with glee as father and son begin to duel before him, knowing that the survivor will remain his servant.
On Endor, the Ewoks fight bravely, using their primitive spears and slings to surprisingly good effect against the heavily armored, well-trained, and vastly technologically superior Imperial forces. Eventually, Han is able to use the confusion the Ewoks cause to lure the Imperial officers out of the bunker and take them captive. They then destroy the shield generator, leaving the Death Star open to attack. Luke masters himself and refuses to fight Vader aggressively, simply defending himself from attack. However, Luke is forced to attack when Vader is able to read his feelings and learns for the first time that Luke has a twin sister. In order to save Leia, Luke attacks and defeats Vader, as the Emperor spurs him on. Luke, however, does not kill Vader when he has the chance. Rather, he throws away his lightsaber and faces the Emperor, fully in control and now a true Jedi.
Lando and several fighters fly directly into the superstructure of the Death Star and blow up the main reactor, escaping just ahead of the resulting blast. Enraged at losing Luke, the Emperor strikes him with purple bolts of pure dark side energy, slowly killing him as Vader watches. At last, something in Vader snaps, and he heaves the Emperor bodily into an abyss where he is torn apart by the Death Star generators. Luke has a last conversation with his father, now Anakin Skywalker again, and sees his shattered face before he dies. Luke escapes with his father's body just before the Death Star explodes. The friends are reunited on Endor, where Luke and Leia's relationship is explained to Han. As celebrations break out across the galaxy, on Endor, Luke sees the ghostly forms of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and now Anakin, smiling at him.
Supporting cast (returning):
C-3P0, R2-D2, Chewbacca, Emperor Palpatine, Lando Calrissian, Yoda, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi (spirit), Wedge Antilles, Adm. Piett
Supporting cast (introduced in Return of the Jedi):
Moff Jerjerrod - Robert Knepper
Adm. Ackbar
A fish-headed alien who is the leader of the Rebel fleet that attacks the rebuilt Death Star. Lando convinces Ackbar to press the attack, trusting that Han Solo will be able to destroy the shield generator protecting the Death Star.
Gen. Crix Madine - Josh Holloway
Mon Mothma - Helen Mirren
The highest leader of the Rebel Alliance.
Jabba Desilijic "the Exalted One" Tiure
A Hutt crime lord based on Luke's home planet of Tatooine who places a huge bounty on Han Solo, who owes him for a lost shipment. Jabba is an enormous, sluglike creature. He delights in his own cruelty and grossness but is strong enough mentally to resist Luke's Jedi mind-control. Jabba manages to capture Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, R2-D2, and C-3PO, as well as the frozen Han Solo, or so he thinks. In truth, Luke has stage-managed the entire captivity in order to get close enough to Jabba to strike him down and free Han. In the resulting struggle, Han is freed, Jabba's henchmen are destroyed, and Jabba himself gets his comeuppance at the hands of Leia.
Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
I hate Star Wars
Langsta
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Mara Jade - Amy Adams
One of Emperor Palpatine's elite personal assassins, Mara Jade changes her ways and falls in love with Luke Skywalker.
And finally, here's my rendition of Purefoy as Han Solo:
One of Emperor Palpatine's elite personal assassins, Mara Jade changes her ways and falls in love with Luke Skywalker.
And finally, here's my rendition of Purefoy as Han Solo:
Langsta
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I copied and pasted a large portion from SparkNotes, which surprisingly has some movie entries (which I was unaware of until today).
Ah cool , I was just thinking "Damn" if you had typed that your self :lol: In a good way.
Pretty cool cast dude , The only one I don't like Is Mara but that is just for the "she's not in it till the Thrawn trilogy" geek in me. Nice job. Unless another one beats it you have my vote
Langsta
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:shock: Woah, thanks!
No problem dude.
Langsta
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Damn, I would've cast Ron Glass as Vanden Willard, but it's too late now (there are too many pictures).
Decided to do this anyway.
In a reality deeply twisted compared to our own, one force of evil corrupts the land and spreads his view of survival of the fittest to the masses. The only people capable of standing against the might of "the Apocalypse" are the X-Men. The only difference is that these X-Men are led by the Master of Magnetism, Magneto. As Apocalypse's influence grows the X-Men must find a way to stop him. As the X-Men strike in waves at Apocalypse's forces he sends a crippling blow by sending his son Nemesis to confront the X-Men. Nemesis kills several X-Men but is turned into a being of pure energy. The team members known as Jean Grey and Weapon X are in turn imprisoned in Apocalypse's gene prison. As Magneto sees his X-Men laying dead around him he vows to finally end Apocalypse.
Magneto: Sean Bean
The master of magnetism and mankind's last savior is portrayed by the tortured Boromir of the Lord of the Rings films.
Colossus: Kevin McKidd
The scarred and repressed strong man of the X-Men is portrayed by the intense Lucius Vorenus of Rome.
Shadowcat: Kiera Knightley
The intangible assassin of the X-Men is portrayed by the sultry Emma Swann of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Quicksilver: Zachary Quinto
The super quick field leader of the X-Men is portrayed by the hero killing Gabriel "Sylar" Gray of Heroes.
Rogue: Liv Tyler
The power absorbing wife of Magneto is portrayed by the elf princess Arwen of the Lord of the Rings films.
Jean Grey: Milla Jovovich
The psionic powerhouse of the X-Men is portrayed by the destructive and sexy Alice of the Resident Evil films.
Sabretooth: Ray Stevenson
The strangely heroic and noble slasher of the X-Men is portrayed by the street vigilante Frank Castle of Punisher: War Zone.
Weapon X: Gerard Butler
The feral Canadian of the X-Men is portrayed by the courageous King Leonidas of 300.
Nemesis/ Holocaust: David Anders
The psychotic son of Lord Apocalypse if portrayed by the ancient samurai warrior Adam Monroe of Heroes.
AGE OF APOCALYPSE
In a reality deeply twisted compared to our own, one force of evil corrupts the land and spreads his view of survival of the fittest to the masses. The only people capable of standing against the might of "the Apocalypse" are the X-Men. The only difference is that these X-Men are led by the Master of Magnetism, Magneto. As Apocalypse's influence grows the X-Men must find a way to stop him. As the X-Men strike in waves at Apocalypse's forces he sends a crippling blow by sending his son Nemesis to confront the X-Men. Nemesis kills several X-Men but is turned into a being of pure energy. The team members known as Jean Grey and Weapon X are in turn imprisoned in Apocalypse's gene prison. As Magneto sees his X-Men laying dead around him he vows to finally end Apocalypse.
Magneto: Sean Bean
The master of magnetism and mankind's last savior is portrayed by the tortured Boromir of the Lord of the Rings films.
Colossus: Kevin McKidd
The scarred and repressed strong man of the X-Men is portrayed by the intense Lucius Vorenus of Rome.
Shadowcat: Kiera Knightley
The intangible assassin of the X-Men is portrayed by the sultry Emma Swann of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
Quicksilver: Zachary Quinto
The super quick field leader of the X-Men is portrayed by the hero killing Gabriel "Sylar" Gray of Heroes.
Rogue: Liv Tyler
The power absorbing wife of Magneto is portrayed by the elf princess Arwen of the Lord of the Rings films.
Jean Grey: Milla Jovovich
The psionic powerhouse of the X-Men is portrayed by the destructive and sexy Alice of the Resident Evil films.
Sabretooth: Ray Stevenson
The strangely heroic and noble slasher of the X-Men is portrayed by the street vigilante Frank Castle of Punisher: War Zone.
Weapon X: Gerard Butler
The feral Canadian of the X-Men is portrayed by the courageous King Leonidas of 300.
Nemesis/ Holocaust: David Anders
The psychotic son of Lord Apocalypse if portrayed by the ancient samurai warrior Adam Monroe of Heroes.
Age of Apocalypse Part II
After the events of Nemesis' attacks on the X-Men, the team is scattered and left directionless. Jean and Weapon X are being tortured for information by the sadistic Dark Beast. Magneto soon hears of a rumor that there is a man capable of killing Apocalypse. He sends his X-Men to find the man and they come upon the mutant Forge and his protégé Nate Grey. Nate Grey joins the X-Men after Forge is killed by Sinister. When the X-Men attempt to break Weapon X and Jean Grey out of the Dark Beast's facilities Jean Grey is killed by Prelate Havok and Weapon X stabs out Prelate Cyclops's eye but gets his hand blown off. The X-Men strike at Apocalypse by destroying Dark Beast's facilities. Apocalypse decides to finally get rid of the X-Men and tells his Horsemen to kill them.
Gambit: Josh Holloway
Magneto's master thief and Rogue's former lover is portrayed by the tough guy Sawyer of Lost.
Prelate Havok: Casey Affleck
The twisted energy mutant brother of Cyclops is portrayed by the outlaw Robert Ford of the Assassination of Jesse James.
Prelate Cyclops: Nathan Fillion
The conflicted one-eyed son of Sinister is portrayed by the strong-willed Malcolm Reynolds of Serenity.
Dark Beast: Christopher Eccleston
The sadistic and monstrous caretaker of Apocalypse's torture chambers is portrayed by the eerie Doctor of Doctor Who.
Sinister: Benicio Del Toro
The cruel and genius Horseman of Apocalypse is portrayed by the corrupt cop Jackie Boy of Sin City.
Forge: Javier Bardem
The technological genius and father to X-Man is portrayed by the quiet assassin Anton Chigurh of No Country for Old Men.
X-Man: Hayden Christenson
The last hope for humanity cloned by Sinister is portrayed by the future Darth Vader of the Star Wars films.
After the events of Nemesis' attacks on the X-Men, the team is scattered and left directionless. Jean and Weapon X are being tortured for information by the sadistic Dark Beast. Magneto soon hears of a rumor that there is a man capable of killing Apocalypse. He sends his X-Men to find the man and they come upon the mutant Forge and his protégé Nate Grey. Nate Grey joins the X-Men after Forge is killed by Sinister. When the X-Men attempt to break Weapon X and Jean Grey out of the Dark Beast's facilities Jean Grey is killed by Prelate Havok and Weapon X stabs out Prelate Cyclops's eye but gets his hand blown off. The X-Men strike at Apocalypse by destroying Dark Beast's facilities. Apocalypse decides to finally get rid of the X-Men and tells his Horsemen to kill them.
Gambit: Josh Holloway
Magneto's master thief and Rogue's former lover is portrayed by the tough guy Sawyer of Lost.
Prelate Havok: Casey Affleck
The twisted energy mutant brother of Cyclops is portrayed by the outlaw Robert Ford of the Assassination of Jesse James.
Prelate Cyclops: Nathan Fillion
The conflicted one-eyed son of Sinister is portrayed by the strong-willed Malcolm Reynolds of Serenity.
Dark Beast: Christopher Eccleston
The sadistic and monstrous caretaker of Apocalypse's torture chambers is portrayed by the eerie Doctor of Doctor Who.
Sinister: Benicio Del Toro
The cruel and genius Horseman of Apocalypse is portrayed by the corrupt cop Jackie Boy of Sin City.
Forge: Javier Bardem
The technological genius and father to X-Man is portrayed by the quiet assassin Anton Chigurh of No Country for Old Men.
X-Man: Hayden Christenson
The last hope for humanity cloned by Sinister is portrayed by the future Darth Vader of the Star Wars films.
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I like your Magneto, Colossus, Weapon X, Havok, and Cyclops.
Age of Apocalypse Part III
A flashback shows the past where Legion goes back in time and kills Xavier. The aged Bishop reveals himself to the X-Men and they embark on a journey to get the M'Kraan Crystal. Magneto sends Gambit after the crystal and the X-Men fight with the Horsemen. Most of the finale is the X-Men battling the Horsemen to the death. At the film's end Magneto and Nate Grey face off against Apocalypse and Holocaust. Magneto rips Apocalypse in half and Nate Grey sacrifices himself to kill Holocaust. Bishop goes back in time and stops Legion from killing Xavier. It shows the alternate reality with Magneto exhausted from the attack as the Human High Council drops nuclear bombs on Apocalypse's tower.
Captain Britain: Clive Owen
The head of the Human High Council and hero to England is portrayed by the gallant Arthur in King Arthur.
Emma Frost: Sienna Miller
The seductress telepath and member of the Human High Council is portrayed by the beautiful Francesca Bruni of Casanova.
Bolivar Trask: Michael Emerson
The inventor of the mutant hunting Sentinels is portrayed by the creepy Ben Linus of Lost.
Thunderbolt Ross: Sam Elliot
The former general of the United States Air Force is portrayed by the only good part of the Hulk movie.
Victor Von Doom: Jason Isaacs
The dictating ruler of the country of Latveria is portrayed by the aristocratic Lucius Malfoy of the Harry Potter films.
Mikhail Rasputin: Peter Stormare
The deranged brother of the X-Man Colossus is portrayed by the crazy former cosmonaut Lev Andropov of Armageddon.
Bishop: Ving Rhames
The time traveling member of the X.S.E. is portrayed by the secret agent Luther Stickell of the Mission Impossible films.
Abyss: Robert Knepper
The psychotic dimension hopping Horseman is portrayed by the serial killing T-Bag of Prison Break.
David Haller: Jared Leto
The son of Xavier who starts the entire Age of Apocalypse is portrayed by the manic Angelface of Fight Club.
Apocalypse: Michael Clark Duncan
The worldwide dictator and first ever mutant is portrayed by the kingpin of crime Wilson Fisk of Daredevil.
A flashback shows the past where Legion goes back in time and kills Xavier. The aged Bishop reveals himself to the X-Men and they embark on a journey to get the M'Kraan Crystal. Magneto sends Gambit after the crystal and the X-Men fight with the Horsemen. Most of the finale is the X-Men battling the Horsemen to the death. At the film's end Magneto and Nate Grey face off against Apocalypse and Holocaust. Magneto rips Apocalypse in half and Nate Grey sacrifices himself to kill Holocaust. Bishop goes back in time and stops Legion from killing Xavier. It shows the alternate reality with Magneto exhausted from the attack as the Human High Council drops nuclear bombs on Apocalypse's tower.
Captain Britain: Clive Owen
The head of the Human High Council and hero to England is portrayed by the gallant Arthur in King Arthur.
Emma Frost: Sienna Miller
The seductress telepath and member of the Human High Council is portrayed by the beautiful Francesca Bruni of Casanova.
Bolivar Trask: Michael Emerson
The inventor of the mutant hunting Sentinels is portrayed by the creepy Ben Linus of Lost.
Thunderbolt Ross: Sam Elliot
The former general of the United States Air Force is portrayed by the only good part of the Hulk movie.
Victor Von Doom: Jason Isaacs
The dictating ruler of the country of Latveria is portrayed by the aristocratic Lucius Malfoy of the Harry Potter films.
Mikhail Rasputin: Peter Stormare
The deranged brother of the X-Man Colossus is portrayed by the crazy former cosmonaut Lev Andropov of Armageddon.
Bishop: Ving Rhames
The time traveling member of the X.S.E. is portrayed by the secret agent Luther Stickell of the Mission Impossible films.
Abyss: Robert Knepper
The psychotic dimension hopping Horseman is portrayed by the serial killing T-Bag of Prison Break.
David Haller: Jared Leto
The son of Xavier who starts the entire Age of Apocalypse is portrayed by the manic Angelface of Fight Club.
Apocalypse: Michael Clark Duncan
The worldwide dictator and first ever mutant is portrayed by the kingpin of crime Wilson Fisk of Daredevil.
Kick *** Bluebeat , I don't think there is one in your cast I don't like. Some I don't know the actors but I trust the description as to why. I think my favourite of your cast is Jason Isaacs as Doom.
Nice job on synopsis too , sounds like something that would work very well
Nice job on synopsis too , sounds like something that would work very well
Langsta
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Enh, Michael Clarke Duncan as Apocalypse, Jared Leto as David Haller, Michael Emerson as Bolivar Trask, and Ving Rhames as Bishop don't really work for me. Christopher Eccleston doesn't really fit as Dark Beast either, and Keira Knightley is too British for Shadowcat. Also, Javier Bardem is Spanish, while Forge is Native American. It doesn't really fit well.
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Don't you mean Bishop. And I forgot to mention that Bishop was aged in the original series. My bad.
