I've been carrying this newpaper cutting around forever in my wallet and I just found it again. It was given me by my mother, who cut it from The Sun (a Uk tabloid - unfortunately the cuttin doesn't include the date but I would put it around March 2001).
The article is reporting on Christopher Walken's role as a Jedi in Episode II. Of course this is not true, but the article says that Walken's character will be called DARTH BANE.
Has anyone else heard that name muted? I think it's a good one. 😎
I've scanned the cutting and added it to this posting, but I've never done that before so if you can't view it let me know and I'll mail it out or repost it or transcribe it or something. 🙄
The file is a .jpg.
yerssot this is taken from sw.com databank
The Sith Lord Kaan and his Brotherhood of Darkness did battle with the Jedi Army of Light. The immense battle resulted in the annihilation of both armies.
One Sith escaped the carnage: Darth Bane.
Bane sought to keep the order alive, but he had witnessed the self-destruction that was inherent in the Sith's previous ventures. Bane crafted the Sith order to preserve it as much as possible. There could only be two, no more, no less. Bane took an apprentice. When that apprentice succeeded him, that new Sith Lord would take an apprentice. And so the Sith would quietly continue for a millennium. Although encounters with Jedi were rare, the Jedi did eventually learn of this new Sith structure, and thought themselves rid of this menace.
if this rumour is true perhaps we'll see darth bane in a ghost from in ep3 or even ep2?