Darth Vader Actor Dismisses STAR WARS Prequel Trilogy

Part 3 was pretty great. It's basically George Lucas "Lion King: Origins" with Scar as the main character, but still pretty great.

Episode 3 was pretty good, but I guess I agree with him on the other two. The acting in the first two was so wooden that it's impossible to really get into the story.

Sour grapes anyone? Prowse was ticked that it wasn't his face shown in Return of the Jedi (either when Luke removes Vader's mask or as the force ghost) and was probably ticked that they put Hayden in the suit at the end of Sith instead of asking him to do it again. I've heard he was ticked about it not being his voice as Vader too. Basically, he was a glorified stunt actor, so his opinion means nothing to me.

There's no sour grapes there. I met David late last year, as he is a good friend of a colleague. It was just after the star wars announcement and David advised that a few of the old cast are consulting on the new movies.

He also told us that the outline was about skywalkers kids and one turning to the light and one to the dark. Whilst nothing too interesting, this was before the recent rumours, so there may be something to this.

Episode I was great. The only Star Wars movie that earned more than billion dollars...

Lucas (ironically) is the perfect analogy to Vader. He (to all intensive purposes) BECAME just like Vader self-absorbed and domineering in his vision, lost focus, ignored others over the franchise's story and art direction and basically screwed over the potential of what Star Wars should of become.
Dermot Powers begged him to go with an eastern-inspired Sith Witch with dual curved handled lightsabers (which eventually became the Asaaj Ventress character) - he ignored that art direction for EP:2 and has ignored the talent around him that has advised him on other stuff which would of made the Star Wars prequel far better than they eventually turned out. Lucas wanted TOTAL control and paid the price when the trilogy decended into a childish, humourless whiny bitchfest about Anakin with shit characters like Jar-Jar.

I have respect for his original concept, but other directors have made better Star Wars films (ESB) and far better stories have come from the likes of Bioware writers: (KoTOR).

Hopefully Star Wars away from Lucas and his stupid 'Lucas Approved franking stamp' (he used to march around the art department stamping shit he liked as 'approved') - will mean that EP: VII will (hopefully) be a hell of a lot better.

After saying so about the second trilogy, there's no place for him in the new movies!

Eh, there's no real reason why he can't have some small background part. Warwick Davis got to come back in TPM and Lucas inserted himself and his kids into one of them (II or III, forget which), so, as long as it's something like that, I don't see the big deal...