Denied! David Prowse Disinvited From Celebration!

[lazypadawan]

David Prowse has been booted from the roster of guests appearing at Celebration V. Why? Lucasfilm declared him persona non grata. Here's what Prowse posted on his site:

"It is with regret that I have been informed by my friends at C2 Ventures, Ben and Phillip, that I am not to be invited to C5 this year or any other Lucas Film associated events. After enquiring, the only thing I have been told is that I have "burnt too many bridges between Lucas Film and myself" - no other reason given."

TFN verified this with its co-owner/Rebelscum owner/Official Pix owner Philip Wise:

"Lucasfilm does have the right to prevent celebrity invitations to official Star Wars conventions and they did exercise this right as it relates to Dave Prowse and Celebration V."

Burnt too many bridges? Ya think? The only thing shocking about this whole story is why it took this long for it to happen. Prowse hasn't had much of anything kind to say about his former boss over the past few decades, yet he's been to prior Celebrations and other events.

Speculate and discuss.

Comments

[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

David Prowse. A legend in his own mind.

I remember reading an editorial on TF.N about a decade ago (pro-SW, amazingly enough) responding to Prowse's comments that people would be upset not to have him back as Vader. The editorial rightly noted that Prowse should be grateful to be apart of something that still makes him money years later. They noted the case of Jeremy "Boba Fett" Bulloch. They noted that Bulloch (think I'm spelling his name wrong) was not the voice of the character and freely admits that it was armor/mystique of Fett that made the character so popular but that he's happy to be apart of SW. He's still on good enough terms with GL and LFL that he even got a speaking cameo in ROTS.

If only GL and LFL would disinvite Entertainment Weekly permanently. I think that's only a use-use relationship now.

[may-child.livejournal.com]

You got his name correct. :-)

Bulloch played an Imperial guard in ESB as well as Boba Fett. He didn't, as you said, provide Boba Fett's voice, but then even THAT voice has been replaced by that of Jay L...I'm not even going to TRY to spell his name ;-p who played Jango in AOTC. I guess TPTB reasoned that he'd sound like Jango when he was grown up, since Boba was actually the clone, not the son, of Jango.

Bulloch has been very gracious and grateful to Lucas and LFL, and regularly appears not just at Celebrations and sci-fi cons and the like, but he's a fixture at SW Weekends. He got a physical cameo someplace in AOTC, I think, and the voice cameo in ROTS that you mentioned.

Had Prowse followed Bulloch's lead, he probably still wouldn't have been able to wear Vader's suit in Episode III, due to the physical impairments I listed in a previous post, but Lucas very well may have invited him to the set, to maybe coach Hayden on walking and gesturing while in the suit, and he may have gotten a cameo or two himself.

Instead, Prowse chose to slam Lucas and bitch and moan nonstop for decades, lending his warped perspective to any bedwetter who was willing to listen (and too lazy to check readily available facts). I don't know how he can possibly be surprised that he's been dis-invited to Celebration V, or that Lucas didn't let him play Suited!Vader in Episode III as he requested...heck, demanded, and expected. He reminds me of a particularly nasty girl I knew in sixth grade, who picked on me mercilessly, but then actually had the gall to be offended when I didn't invite her to my birthday party that year. Just like lazypadawan, I'm only surprised it took LFL this long to declare him persona non grata.

I wish they'd ban EWeakly too, but I guess it's "too popular" an entertainment rag to do away with. Though...didn't Lucas refuse to give them a cover-story interview for ROTS as he had for TPM and AOTC? Myself, I ended my subscription in 2002, not just out of disgust for their prequel-bashing, and indeed, their bashing of All The Star Wars Films That Aren't ESB, but out of disgust for their biased and factually inaccurate accounting of "X-Files" after David Duchovny announced he was departing the show and Mulder was replaced by Poochie, aka Doggett.

[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

Temuera Morrison was Jango. Jay Lag'aia was Typho. :)

Agreed on pretty much all counts on Prowse.

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Temuera Morrison was Jango. Jay Lag'aia was Typho. :)

Oopsie. You're right. *embarrassed face*

[trevelyanl85a2.livejournal.com]

typho?

[may-child.livejournal.com]

The captain assigned to guard Padmé at the beginning of Episode 2. The guy with the eye patch.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I hear ya.

[trevelyanl85a2.livejournal.com]

And this is why Megan Fox won't be coming back for Transformers 3. You don't slam the directors and producers for a movie serial you're a part of, no matter how famous you may be.

Humility helps, peeps.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Bingo.