May the Fourth be with you! Today is the quietly (or perhaps not so quietly) celebrated nerd holiday of May 4th. I decided to share a few things that you all might find interesting in that light!
Here is a behind the scenes look at the scoring of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Recorded in Abbey Road Studios, John Williams spent a week with George Lucas, hashing out exactly how he wanted the soundtrack to score. This video has some great insight into what goes on while we are trying to record large bands, and the decisions that are made on the producer’s couch.
They continued the scoring at Abbey Road studios in 2005, working on Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith.
While we all known that Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones, the actor who portrayed the figure was actually David Prowse. We can see the curtain pulled back from the movie magic in this next clip, and hear what sounds more like Rick Moranis in Spaceballs, rather than James Earl Jones and the “real” Darth Vader.




