James Earl Jones Retires As Darth Vader But Makes Cool Move To Keep Voice Alive

The 91-year-old Jones, who has played the iconic bad guy since the original 1977 “Star Wars,” last uttered a line for the character in 2019′s “The Rise of Skywalker.” Advertisement “He had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood told VF. “So how do we move forward?” The answer came in the Ukrainian startup Respeecher, which could convert old recordings of Jones into newly voiced fresh dialogue that sounds exactly like him. That way, Jones’ younger vocal imprint as Vader could be preserved for future projects ― and be manipulated by artificial… Read Full Article