What was the line that David Prowse said on Bespin set?

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In various Star Wars documentaries it is mentioned that Mark Hamill and George Lucas were apparently the only two people on set who knew that James Earl Jones would eventually dub Vader with the famous "Luke, I am your father" line. David Prowse actually had a different line in his script.

Is it documented anywhere what that line was? What did he say that was equally deserving of Luke's reaction?



Best Answer

I believe he actually said, "Obi-Wan killed your father."

I'll go find some proof.

From Wikipedia:

In the original film, Skywalker is told by Obi-Wan Kenobi that his father, Anakin Skywalker, was betrayed and murdered by Kenobi's own apprentice, Darth Vader. However, in The Empire Strikes Back, Vader himself reveals that he is actually Anakin. According to director Irvin Kershner, the shooting script had a false page with Vader's dialogue implicating Kenobi as the murderer of Luke's father, but at the time, only he, George Lucas, screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, and producer Gary Kurtz were privy to the knowledge that Vader and Anakin were to be the same person.

Moments before the scene was filmed, Mark Hamill, the actor playing Luke, was taken aside privately and told the truth by Kershner, who encouraged him to ignore the dialogue Prowse was speaking and "use your own rhythm compared to what he's doing". During filming, Prowse performed the false lines, while the real lines were later spoken by James Earl Jones in post production – the majority of the cast, including Prowse, were not aware of this plot twist until the first screening of the finished film; at the premiere of the film, Prowse was taken aback, and spoke privately to Kershner later, saying that he (in Kershner's words) "would have done it differently" had he known of the twist. In later years, Prowse claimed he would sometimes deliver joke versions of his lines in Empire and Jedi, knowing that the vocal takes would not be used.




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Who knew about the Vader twist?

Empire Strikes Back's twist ending also called into question who knew that Anakin was both Darth Vader and that Luke was his son.

Was James Earl Jones in the Vader suit?

But Darth Vader has always been bigger than just one actor. In the original trilogy, he was voiced by James Earl Jones, but the guy who was actually under the suit was David Prowse. Jones returned to voice Vader briefly in Revenge of the Sith and again in the 2016 Star Wars movie Rogue One.

How much did the Star Wars script sell for?

An original Star Wars script has sold for \xa313,000 as part of an auction of items owned by the actor who played Darth Vader. The script from The Empire Strikes Back was among 700 lots from the estate of Bristol actor Dave Prowse.

Who is in the Vader suit in Empire Strikes Back?

James Earl Jones revealed in a resurfaced American Film Institute interview that \u201cStar Wars\u201d creator George Lucas paid him $7,000 to voice iconic villain Darth Vader. Late actor David Prowse donned the Vader suit for the film \u201cStar Wars: A New Hope,\u201d but Lucas disagreed with Prowse's natural voice for Vader.



To Tell the Truth (1977) - David Prowse (Darth Vader)




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