“Early in the script there was a description of Vader crossing between two ships in space so I created this mask so he could breathe in space, with a suggestion of teeth in the masks grillwork,” McQuarrie said. At this point, between the end of January and the first few days of March 1975, Ralph McQuarrie was brought in to paint five moments from this second draft to convince the officials at Fox to invest in the movie.ĭarth Vader costume parts for Return of the Jedi. Serving as the right hand to the Master Of The Sith, he engages in a duel with Deak Starkiller on a spaceship. The second draft would later change Vader from his role as a general into Darth Vader, a seven-foot Black Knight Of The Sith with features partially obscured by flowing black robes and a breathing mask. Kane is also the father of Annikin and Deak.
There are many Knights of the Sith (one is even wearing a breathing mask) who are led by a Prince Valorum, and then there is a Kane Starkiller who is described as a cyborg, half machine and half man.
This was not the only character in the rough draft that resembles Darth Vader as we know him today. In The Star Wars rough draft summary from May 1974, this character was a bit fleshed out and described as “Darth Vader, a tall, grim-looking general” he is tasked to conquer Aquilae. Before working on the rough draft, Lucas started making lists of the various ideas he had written down before in the Journal of the Whills (a two-page idea fragment) and The Star Wars treatment (dated May 1973, this is a 14-page treatment that evolved from the Journal of the Whills), and one of the names he had listed down was a General Vader, an Imperial commander. Deak Starkiller concept painting by Ralph McQuarrie.Ĭonsidering the importance of Darth Vader in the saga, it will come as no surprise that he was always in the script in some shape or form.
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