ST Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader) in IX

I think Hayden can be excellent with the right material and director. Some actors depend more on this than others, and that's okay.

Everyday I come to the board just to see if there's any Anakin news; come on JJ!

 

I wouldn't bank on Hayden showing up in Episode IX just because Maul showed up in Solo. I think Maul's cameo was kind of needless, but I can understand why it was included since Maul was still alive and had taken over the underworld. The difficulty with Anakin is that none of the characters in the sequel trilogy have any prior history with him. I think it's possible to still make the sequel trilogy about his legacy without needing him to show up in it.

 

There's a scene in one of the Legacy comics where Anakin visits his descendent Cade Skywalker to try to talk some sense in him. At one point he changes from Anakin into Darth Vader to warn Cade that this is what he could turn into. I've always envisioned a similar scene in the ST if they brought Anakin back. Give Kylo the scare of his life like no other Force Ghost can.

 

That's such an elegant way to take care of the issue of recognition. Personally, I'm sure pictures of Anakin Skywalker exist -- there's a holocron of Anakin in Rebels, I believe, unless I'm misremembering.

But it would be dramatically powerful for Anakin to either appear as Vader at first to Kylo, but then to reveal his true self and the damage done to his body, and then his original self; or vice versa, as you describe above.

 

We really need to see more prequel/OT interaction in the finale. I really want to see young-Anakin (and/or maybe young-Obi Wan) interact with Luke in this final film.

We already missed an opportunity to see Luke looking at a picture of his mother on Naboo or Courscant. Don't let me down, J.J.!

 

Not banking on it, but I am praying for it.

 

Sounds perfect. As we know, they created Anakin/Vader Force ghost artwork for TFA.

 

Looked promising going forward after seeing TFA concepts. Had hoped they'd use at least his likeness in RO and my hopes were high going in to TLJ, but that doesn't seem to be the direction they're headed in. Unfortunately, I now think the chances of seeing him are slim to none.

There is, however, an even slimmer chance of working Anakin scenes in to this Obi-Wan film if it ever gets officially green lit. Flashbacks in TLJ maybe a flavour of things to come, as in non linear story telling. Would love to see Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor back on the big screen together.

Was good to see Hayden on TV at Old Trafford playing for Soccer Aid this Sunday, although his missed penalty in the shootout was shocking!

 

I think we should have Anakin play a role in turning Ben back and then having Anakin and Luke toward the end of the film on screen together.

 

I've envisioned the end of IX being a more classic group shot involving every force ghost seen throughout the saga, and perhaps a few new ones. I think there was mention somewhere of it somehow linking the PT to the new films on a broader scale... I dunno?

If so, the odds of Anakin appearing may be even after all.

 

Cloned Anakin. Comes back and falls in love with Rey leading to Love Triangle with Kylo.

BTW Love triangles are really love "V"s... unless Kylo and Anakin.....? hmmmm.

Anyway, yes it is terrible but I am in full commitment to terribad ideas for IX.

 

The only person that Rey or Kylo have met that would be a Force Ghost is Luke. Yeah Kylo would be related to some of them and has the same name as one, but they are still essentially strangers, Rey as far as we know has never even heard of any of them. I don't see the appeal of having them end the series smiled at by a bunch of strangers. It made sense with Luke because each played a role in his journey.

 

I miss him, I want him back. There are three ghosts watching over Luke at the end of Return of the Jedi, and two of them have gotten tangled up in Rey's story so far, but where is Anakin?

 

Maybe he's in limbo, because the damage he done as Vader is still playing a part in galactic events?

 

I don't know the story of IX and which way JJ and Lucasfilm is going to take it, do you? Who knows what characters may/not show up and interact? I imagined the possibility of an ending to a two hour plus film that may/not tie the whole saga together as was vaguely reported... I'm not writing a script, I visualised an image I would like to see. The appeal being the whole saga coming together, maybe ending the Skywalker story with every major player in one epic shot... Luke,Leia,Obi-Wan,Anakin,Yoda etc.

 

If they wanted Obiwan Yoda or Anakin's Force ghost to play a major role in the stories of the new characters they would have been introduced to them by now. Yoda was even in the last movie and didn't have anything to do with Rey. Showing up 2/3 of the way through a story is essentially a cameo at this point. As far as a random shot of all the Force ghost, without any real story driven reason for it, it would come off as fan service and cheesy. Plus we have no real reason to believe this will be the last "Skywalker Saga" film. That's speculation and even if it ends up being that way in the end they aren't going to make it seem like it. Completely the door for future movies in this story line would just be stupid. Why end any chance of making more in the future, thus losing out on money? Many of the GA only care about the saga films and so they will be giving up a large chunk of the audience forever.

 

For me I doubt it will happen at this point, but I would love to see IX tie the entire saga together somehow, and Anakin could be a means to do that. This is suppose to be a continuous story but for me, it doesn't seem like the last trilogy really fits into the same universe as the first two. Especially with how TLJ progressed. It seems like a dream sequence someone is having about GFFA instead of a cohesive story based in the same reality.

 

Again, I imagined an image at the ending of a film and who's talking about a major role? Yoda showed up because he's connected to Luke, as is pretty much every character throughout the saga, so calling it a random shot seems rather strange. Again, I'm sure in a two hour plus film the writers have enough time to weave a legitimate reason in to the story line... as I said before, who knows which direction the story will go?

I really think your over thinking my original post... yes, it's all speculation, but talking about the GA and box office takings is going way off on a tangent. I just think it would be sweet to see Anakin and a bunch of force ghosts show up, cheesy or not.

 

Yeah, I sort of understand where your coming from. TLJ is definitely a different kind of Star Wars film, I think, so I'm interested to see if they keep going in that direction or have they rehired JJ to reign it in somewhat?

 

I don't think they would ever include Anakin as a Fan service cameo. if he appeared it would be more plot connected and probably very brief also.

 

I wouldn't frame it that way, but they hired him to close the saga in a manner that is most like TFA, which is what they would want for obvious reasons. JJ is most likely to make the most people happy, and make a movie that sells huge at the box office. I still think it makes all the sense in the world to have Anakin show up to tie the saga together, but have my doubts that JJ will want to do that.

 

IMO, a talking ghost Anakin/Vader would diluate his "mystique". We only met redeemed Vader briefly at the end of ROTJ as an old man dying in the hands of his son. This was powerful. Very powerful. To see such a iconic character stripped down of his villainy and mask...and then we only saw him briefly as a force ghost, no real interaction. I think we should keep this sense of mystery, of post-redemption Vader/Anakin.

And there is another problem which is...well..many people wouldn't be very enthusiastic about seeing what was for them at best a miscast in the PT, at worst a provocation during the special edition of the OT...and they're the majority, i'm not sure JJ would take the risk (and i'm not sure he doesn't share this "point of view")

 

The overwhelming majority actually don't care enough to have an opinion; they are just showing up hoping to see an entertaining movie.

 

Anakin is way too tall to be good at limbo.

 

He’s boycotting Star Wars because of Rina Johnson.

Too many baseless assumptions.

I was lucky I could find this.

http://www.mtv.com/news/2807335/star-wars-poll-results/

As you can see based upon the results for Kenobi, around 50,000 voted for him as #1 character of the GL 6 SW films with 25% of the vote. Han got 17% and Vader 16%. Yoda and Luke were a distant 5th at 6%. In the same poll, Vader was #1 villain at 60%, and “Ani Skywalker” was well behind the 67% of #1 worst character Jar Jar, coming in as #2 worst character at 9%. He probably didn’t hurt the PT too much if you’ll kindly notice the films that got #1 and #3.