20 Things You Somehow Missed In Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
16. Darth Vader Only Has 8-Minutes of Screen Time
How much screen-time does being the biggest bad in the galaxy buy you? About 8-minutes, apparently.
That's according to the folks over at H8URS (via Looper), with that site figuring out that Darth Vader actually only appears on our screens over the course of A New Hope for around 6% of the entire runtime!
The fact he'd then go on to become arguably the most famous big-screen antagonist of all time in the wake of such a pitiful amount of overall minutes in front of the camera tells you all you need to know about how impactful the masked icon actually was.
Admittedly, Vader/Anakin Skywalker would go on to rack up some serious minutes in the spotlight as the subsequent Episodes arrived on the scene. But his 8-minute bout of show-stealing acts as an impressive reminder of what maximising your minutes really looks like.