It’s the kind of information that, if leaked today, would spread like wildfire around the internet – arguably the biggest secret in what would eventually become The Empire Strikes Back.

“Father can’t kill son, son can’t kill father,” the British actor says, “so they live again to star in Star Wars IV.” Somewhat intoxicated, perhaps, by all the fan attention, Prowse then drops an even bigger bombshell: Darth Vader is, in fact, Luke Skywalker’s father. The good news: it’ll be followed by Star Wars III. The bad news? The finished film won’t be out until the spring of 1980. The sequel, then simply known as Star Wars II, will begin filming in 1979.

Less than a year after the first film became a pop cultural phenomenon, there’s already speculation about what might happen in its sequel – and at a store in California, actor David Prowse stokes the excitement among fans even further.Īs a bustling crowd forms to get autographs or take photographs, Prowse, the six-foot-five actor who plays the evil Darth Vader, delivers an exciting morsel of information. It’s the autumn of 1978, and Star Wars mania is still riding high.

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