Is Hayden Christensen gonna voice Darth Vader?
I know he’s gonna be in the suit, but is he gonna do the iconic voice? Or get James earl jones?
shareJAMES EARL JONES!!!! The fandom will rise up in arms if anyone else does the voiceover, the Vader voice is iconic!
Christiansen can voice or stand in for CGI if there are any pre-lava Anakin scenes.
Kinda hope not. He's quite old and doesn't sound the same anymore (hardly surprising) so it's better to recast. Or stop having Vader show up in stuff. That would work, too.
shareYeah, he's 91, so I don't think that would work.
I was never a big fan of the prequels, but in a weird way I'm glad to see Christensen reprising his role.
Jones has been in poor health for a long time, but has done a lot of voice work because... he has THAT voice. And yes, he's still alive, there were a couple of false death announcements, and according to a one-second google search, he's still doing voice work.
Frankly, I think Disney's best course of action is to hire Jones, pay him a good rate for a voice actor, and get a bit of publicity out of bringing him back. And if he doesn't sound the same, get the sound effects department to make his voice sound more resonant or whatever, that can probably still be done, right?
Because really, they're making these streaming shows to establish Disney Plus as a force in the entertainment world, and to that end they'd get more positive publicity from bringing Jones back than by replacing him, and that's worth a few bucks. Everybody likes James Earl Jones, both fans and mainstream, and everybody would like to see the old man given some respect and a paying job! Hell, they can even make a short promo film with him and Hammill discussing what voice actors do.
They didn’t have mark hamil do the voice of Luke in the book of fett or mandolarion. They used a highly advanced voice synthesizer
shareNo, but but both Hammill and Jones have done a lot of voice work, and they're both huge Star Wars icons. It was just a thought, that might be fun, Hammill is fun.
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