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It looks like James Earl Jones will no longer be providing the voice of Darth Vader.
In a new report, Vanity Fair says that the 91-year-old actor has retired from the Star Wars job and signed over the voice rights to the character to Lucasfilm and Respeecher.
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Respeecher is a Ukranian company that uses archival recordings and an A.I. program to create new dialogue with the voices of performers who have either aged out of their roles or have passed away.
The method was recently used to recreate the voice of a young Luke Skywalker for The Book of Boba Fett and to mimic Vader’s voice, which James has now aged out of, for his scenes in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
James‘ retirement was effected by the conflict in Ukraine, where employees had been working on the programs all while war raged on from outside their windows.
“Dmytro Bielievtsov, the company’s cofounder and CTO, got online in a theater where tabletops, books, and more had been stacked in front of windows in case of blasts,” the outlet writes, before adding that one employee “took refuge in an ancient brick ‘basement’ no bigger than a crawl space.”
Matthew Wood, a sound editor at Lucasfilm, who has worked with James for the most of his Star Wars tenure, showed Respeecher’s capabilities and the actor agreed to sign over the rights to his voice to keep Vader alive.
“[James] had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” Matthew said. “So how do we move forward?”
However, there is an end note saying that James will be kept in the know for plans for the character.
James has voiced Darth Vader since 1977′s A New Hope.
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Star Wars character Darth Vader after 45 years in the role.As reported by Vanity Fair, the actor, 91, has signed off on archival voice recordings being used by young filmmakers, who plan to recreate Jones’ voice from his previous films for future Lucasfilm projects using artificial intelligence.“He had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” Matthew Wood, a veteran at Lucasfilm, said. “So how do we move forward?”Lucasfilm first partnered with Respeecher, a Ukrainian start-up that uses AI technology to create new dialogue from old voice recordings, on Disney+ series The Book Of Boba Fett to replicate the voice of young Luke Skywalker.Jones’ voice was artificially recreated for Darth Vader in recent series Obi Wan Kenobi, although Lucasfilm said the actor “guided” the performance.
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James Earl Jones is reportedly stepping back from voicing “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader.
James Earl Jones is reportedly stepping back from voicing “Star Wars”‘ Darth Vader.
Vanity Fair reporting that the 91-year-old actor has agreed to allow a Ukrainian AI company to replicate his voice for future “Star Wars” titles. In Vanity Fair’s new report published on Friday, sound artists at Lucasfilm and the Ukrainian AI speech company Respeecher discussed how Jones’ voice was recreated digitally for the recently released Disney+ series “Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi,” which saw prequel trilogy stars Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen return as Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker.
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Star Wars villain since 1977 and most recently took on the role for new Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, which also stars Ewan McGregor. But there have been reports of the actor wanting to retire, with speculation that Lucasfilm was using AI to replace Jones and use his voice for the future now confirmed. The actor himself seems to have approved the move, with the people behind the advanced technology saying he even offers them advice on it.
according to Vanity Fair.The Ukrainian start-up Respeecher, which specializes in voice cloning for content creators, used archival recordings and an AI algorithm to generate Jones’s voice for Disney+’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series, released in May.This was done in collaboration with Disney-owned “Star Wars'” production company Lucasfilm, which explained that Jones “guided” the character’s lines in the show, but his actual voice was generated by Respeecher, according to AV Club.Although the project coincided with the early days of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, Respeecher’s employees saw it to completion.
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