All good things come to an end. After lending his voice to Darth Vader for more than 45 years and through various Star Wars projects, actor James Earl Jones is retiring.
It’s the end of an era for Star Wars fans. Actor James Earl Jones, who has voiced Darth Vader since the franchise began, will no longer play the franchise’s iconic character.
The end of an era for Star Wars
He has been the voice of Darth Vader since 1977, he will stop embodying the cult emperor of the saga. James Earl Jones has ceded the rights to his sound archives so Disney can continue to bring the character to life in film and television. To vanity fair
We learn that the baritone’s participation in the Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi was already the result of cooperation between Vader’s interpreter and Bogdan Belyaev, who specializes in synthetic voice. So the 29-year-old artist used James Earl Jones sound archives and Respeecher software to rejuvenate the actor’s voice to sound like it did 45 years ago. He then advised the miniseries teams to ensure Darth Vader’s scenes were true to his acting. Belyaev had also previously worked with Book of Boba Fett to recreate the voice of young Luke Skywalker in a scene where Mark Hamill appears rejuvenated.
