Battle of Star Wars - Batch#3 Heats (featuring Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Darth Maul & Darth Vader)
Well, as I run this Battle of Star Wars, I somehow managed to not post on Star Wars Day! That was silly, wasn't it?!
Or maybe I'm just in shock. Shock at how Batch 2 went. Han Solo got knocked out, and now we have Kylo Ren joining Princess Leia in the VIP lounge as we start our search for a champion in Batch#3.
16 more characters raise their heads and prep themselves for you to whittle them down to one victor.
This one is a biggie too, some big names coming up against each other early! Let's see...
LUKE SKYWALKER
Our first hero. The first STAR WARS trilogy was very much about Luke Skywalker, as played by Mark Hamill. We saw him trained up under Obi-Wan Kenobi, then trained up further by master Yoda before he took on his own father - Darth Vader. Hamill returned for the new films, and THE LAST JEDI saw Luke die - much to the upset of many fans. Personally, I didn't mind it. Do you think he'll be a blue force ghost in THE RISE OF SKYWALKER?
CASSIAN ANDOR
In ROGUE ONE, Jyn Erso found herself in league with the likes of Cassian Andor, a pesky rebel against the Empire. Diego Luna is expected to reprise his role in a sky thriller for Disney's streaming channel.
CHEWBACCA
Alas, just a couple of days ago Peter Mayhew died. Just before Star Wars Day. Mayhew played Chewbacca, everyone's favourite Wookiee, since A NEW HOPE. Chewie was Han Solo's co-pilot on the Millennium Falcon, and continues on in THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, now played by Joonas Suotama.
PALPATINE
Aka The Emperor. Aka Darth Sidious. He was the shadow lurking behind Anakin's transformation to Darth Vader. Ian McDiarmid played the role (properly) from RETURN OF THE JEDI, in all the prequel movies, and is set to return - somehow - in THE RISE OF SKYWALKER.
OBI-WAN KENOBI
Old Ben, as we first meet him in A NEW HOPE (played by Alec Guiness), is the one that sets Luke on his way to being a Jedi. From THE PHANTOM MENACE, Ewan McGregor played the role, as we watched him rise from young Padawan, to Jedi master himself.
ORSON KRENNIC
Ben Mendelsohn played this villain, working for the Empire, that went after Galen Erso in ROGUE ONE. He was in charge of Advanced Weapons... aka the Death Star.
GALEN ERSO
Jyn Erso's father, and also the creator of … the Death Star. A good man, pressed into villainy. He was played by Mads Mikkelsen in ROGUE ONE.
JANGO FETT
Jango was the man from which all the clones in ATTACK OF THE CLONES came from. He kept one back for himself, to raise as his son - Boba Fett. Jango Fett was played by Temuera Morrison.
QUI-GON JINN
Liam Neeson has played Zues (who is essentially God), Aslan (who is a Lion, but essentially God), R'as Al Ghul - the guy that trained Batman, and here... Qui-Gon Jinn... the guy who trains Obi-Wan Kenobi... and (almost) Anakin Skywalker. Saldy, Qui-Gon didn't make it out of THE PHANTOM MENACE.
VAL
Can't say too much about Val, other than she's the love interest of Tobias Beckett, and they're both thieves - that a young Han Solo gets caught up with. Val was played by Thandie Newton in SOLO.
MAZ KANATA
Lupita Nyong'o played Maz, a friend of Han Solo in THE FORCE AWAKENS, She's over 1000 years old and used to be a smuggler. When we met her, she was looking after Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, and attempts to give it to Rey.
MON MOTHMA
A leader of the Rebel Alliance, she later becomes Chancellor of the New Republic following the fall of The Empire. Initially played by Caroline Blakiston (RETURN OF THE JEDI) and then Genevieve O'Reilly (REVENGE OF THE SITH and ROGUE ONE).
YODA
Luke Skywalker was expecting something different when he was to meet with this great Jedi Master. A fan favourite, the little green guy has switched between puppet to CGI and back again, but always voiced by Frank Oz.
DARTH MAUL
Played by Ray Park, and voiced by Peter Serafinowicz in THE PHANTOM MENACE, Darth Maul was the one responsible for killing Qui-Gon, before Obi-Wan cut him in half. It was a bit of surprise when it turned out Maul was the figure head behind Crimson Dawn in SOLO.
PADME AMIDALA
When we first meet her she's a Queen, but things change and the becomes a senator. She also falls in love with young Jedi Anakin Skywalker. She dies during childbirth of their twin children - Luke and Leia.
ANAKIN SKYWALKER
When we first meet him in A NEW HOPE, we only know him as Darth Vader, the big evil across the galaxy. It is revealed in THE EMPIRE STRIKES back that he is Luke's father,and during the prequel trilogy we get his back story as the young innocent Anakin is seduced by the dark side.
There we have it, your 16 Batch#3 candidates. Only 8 of them can advance to the next round, and there are some tricky pairings. Head over to twitter, follow procrastinalien, and vote for your favourites.
You've got three days. Go!


















