WARNING: Spoiler Alert! Please do not read any further if you have yet to watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
New imagery of Anakin Skywalker’s Force ghost reveals Hayden Christensen was very close to returning to the Star Wars franchise.
The new book The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens reveals original plans for Anakin’s return as either, presumably, Darth Vader in a vision by Kylo Ren, or as Anakin, serving as a warning to Rey.
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“”When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.’ That inspired me to propose, for the first time, that Anakin’s ghost could come back,” artist Iain McCaig explained. “If we see Anakin Skywalker, because he does flow back and forth between Darth Vader and Anakin, let’s see him as a character with a dark and light side. The reason Luke is this whole new entity is because he was the first to acknowledge his own dark side—that it was not separate from him.”;
How Hayden Christensen's Anakin was going to return in The Force Awakens https://t.co/M0UXtAy9Lb #StarWars pic.twitter.com/6xLQdCtzeF
– Indy Film (@TheIndyFilm) December 27, 2015
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Now, with mock ups of Anakin’s ghost out in the open, it’s time to speculate about who he’ll be haunting in the future. Could it be Rey, who began discovering her link to the Force in the seventh instalment? Or could it be Luke, who didn’t make it into The Force Awakens until the film’s very final scene?