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Jos: When you were offered the role of Darth Vader, did you expect the movie to become successful at all?

Dave: No, not really, no. To be perfectly honest, what happened was I got a phone call from a very good friend of mine, who was a managing director for 20th Century Fox. He got in touch with me and said "Look, I got this guy called George Lucas, who's set up office in the 20th Century Fox offices in London, and he says he wants to see you." And I said "Well that's interesting, but who is George Lucas?"

The only thing he could tell me was that Lucas had done a film called "American Graffiti" which was very successful in America. So that's basically all I knew. I knew nothing about him whatsoever.

I eventually went up to see him, he showed me a lot of conceptual drawings from Star Wars and then he said to me "Look, I'm doing this film which is like a space science fiction movie and I'd like to offer you one of two parts in the movie". So I said "What are the two parts?" - "Well, the first one is a character called Chewbacca..." and I said "What the hell is that?" He said it's like a hairy gorilla who goes through the film on the side of the good ones. And I just said "No thanks, you keep it..."

I asked what the other part was and Lucas said "The other part's the big villain of the film". So I said "George, I'd like to play the villain!"

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Q. We thought that eFX was going to introduce its first products at Comic Con in July. How come you are offering the A New Hope Stormtrooper Helmet now?

A. Yes, that was the original plan to introduce our first products at San Diego Comic Con; however, as you know, many collectors were extremely disappointed when their order for a Stormtrooper Helmet was cancelled by either Master Replicas or their Authorized Retailers. Unfortunately not enough helmets were made and shipped before MR’s license expired and as a result a large number of customers were unable to own this iconic helmet.

Lucasfilm became aware of this issue and discussed it with us to determine a way to help out the fans and fix this short fall.

Rather than see disappointed fans facing high prices on e-Bay, etc., Lucasfilm granted eFX special permission to make additional helmets at this time, even though it was not part of our original product plan.

Q. What will be the cost and edition size of your Stormtooper Helmet?

A. The suggested retail price of this helmet will be the same as MR, US$399, and the edition size will be strictly limited to 500 pieces. This is substantially less than the 1,452 shortage of Master Replicas’ original published edition size of 2,500. However, 500 is the approximate number of MR direct and Authorized Retailer’s pre-orders that were cancelled and this number is consistent with the eFX philosophy of keeping collectibles, collectible.

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Project Lead Haden Blackman was very clear to me from the outset about his desire to have the music focus on the exact same core themes. The game travels to new planets, new locations, and with the exception of Darth Vader, we’re also dealing with a slew of new characters. From a musical perspective, all of those factors mandated the inclusion of an original score for the game.” Be sure to read the entire article for more!