10 Shocking (But Believable) Theories About Star Wars 7

4. Darth Vader Will Appear Somehow (As Played By A WWE Star)

Oh yeah, this is a big one. The rumour mill has even gone so far as to suggest that former muscle man David Prowse, who played Vader in the Original Trilogy, would be replaced by Irish WWE wrestler Sheamus, with an absence from the weekly TV show to take a trip very close to where the new Star Wars was filming taking as the most damning evidence of all. Whether or not that turns out to be true, nobody's really put much thought into how exactly Darth Vader would appear in The Force Awakens. He was sort of very dead at the end of Return Of The Jedi, and even given the thirty years since that film, he's unlikely to have recovered. One particularly hopeful so-and-so posits that he might be resurrected as a robot, or a clone, or some sort of robot clone. The safe money is on an appearance by the Sith Lord being made via flashbacks. With all those three decades of time in the Star Wars galaxy to fill in, it's possible they'll be a handful of looks back into the past €“ the prequels had a few flashforwards, with Anakin predicting bad times for him and Padme €“ which could very well involve Vader. Especially if his son becoming a Sith is part of the plot...