Darth Vader was actually originally a separate character from Anakin, and his name was just “Darth Vader”. That’s why Obi-Wan addresses him as “Darth”, whereas after that it’s a title, not a name, as Lucas retconned a bit to have a grand plan.
So when he was named Vader, he wasn’t even Luke’s father, so…
No one working on the first movie was even sure it would do well. Lucas may have had some plans in his mind for a bigger story, but at the time he was trying to get the initial movie made. I don’t even know if there’s evidence he had a huge franchise planned out with all the plots, but of course he’d claim he did once it took off.
In a similar vein
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Vader is German for Father, so this wasn’t as devastating a reveal in european markets
Source on this pls, never heard of it and am resident.
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Very close, alas no cookie. In German, that would be “Vater”. However, “Vader” exists with that meaning in Dutch.
Darth Vader was actually originally a separate character from Anakin, and his name was just “Darth Vader”. That’s why Obi-Wan addresses him as “Darth”, whereas after that it’s a title, not a name, as Lucas retconned a bit to have a grand plan.
So when he was named Vader, he wasn’t even Luke’s father, so…
No one working on the first movie was even sure it would do well. Lucas may have had some plans in his mind for a bigger story, but at the time he was trying to get the initial movie made. I don’t even know if there’s evidence he had a huge franchise planned out with all the plots, but of course he’d claim he did once it took off.
Yeah.
Reminded me of: George Lucas is a timetraveler and I wrote Star Wars
Dutch, and it’s a coincidence, nothing more.