• Kabaka@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    Via “The Making of The Empire Strikes Back.”

    Lucas has gone back and forth on this one in interviews, but the honest truth seems to be that he wanted dark/death + “invader.” Somewhere there’s a video of him admitting he had no idea about the translation of the name until well after it was chosen (sorry, I looked and couldn’t locate the clip in a timely manner).

    • CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      Yeah I’m not surprised. I’m always, like, in a state of suspension of disbelief when it comes to hearing about Lucas insane conceptualizations, like hearing he suggested names like ‘Darth insaneous’ or ‘Darth icky’ at points. When I heard the Vader/Father explaination I was like “this is both on the nose enough and also too cleaver to be true”