Star Wars Fever

Yup...the big movie event this weekend is Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith. I'm no groupie, but I did watch the re-released Episodes IV-VI when it was re-edited and re-shown around 1997. I've also wanted a dog named Chewbacca ever since then. So I was pleasantly surprised that Chewbacca was there in Episode III. Akala ko Wookies lang....di ko ine-expect na buhay na si Chewbacca nung mga panahon na yun. Tanda na pala ni Chewie!

Sure, Episode III tied up some loose ends in the story. But I kept wondering -- if Hayden Christensen was Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader, whatever happened to the actor who appeared as a hologram in the end of Episode VI (Return of the Jedi)? One of my friends insisted that he didn't appear as a human hologram at all. "Natakpan nga ng prosthetics diba, kasi nga nasunog sya." But I distinctly remember that Obi Wan and the "good" Anakin appeared as holograms at the end of that movie, after Darth Vader "dies". And since Anakin now looked like Hayden Christensen, what did they do with the hologram? How did they resolve that inconsistency? Ayan, napa-google tuloy ako. =p

So this is what they did:





The solution was actually simple. The original actor (played by Sebastian Shaw) was erased and Hayden Christensen's face appeared as Anakin.

And just for curiosity's sake...this was how Darth-Vader-Unmasked looked in the original version of the sequels. Try to compare that with how he looks in Episode III.

** Pictures and info from digitalbits.com