“Star Wars” is filled with huge concepts, and up till he offered the franchise to Disney, the overwhelming majority of these concepts got here from George Lucas. Most are nice and match the galaxy far, far-off fairly effectively. Nonetheless, with so many ideas coming to fruition, statistically talking, it solely is sensible that a few of them missed the mark. One of the vital notorious examples of a Lucas artistic head-scratcher got here from the beloved online game “Star Wars: The Pressure Unleashed,” which Lucas was very a lot concerned within the improvement of.
The sport facilities on Galen Marek (Sam Witwer), aka Starkiller — who might return to canon in quite a few methods — Darth Vader’s (Matthew Sloan) secret Sith apprentice and later his rival. In Sport Informer #250, former LucasArts employees shared that they really needed a reputation starting with “Darth” for Marek, seeing as he is Vader’s Sith learner, as an alternative of calling him Starkiller all through the sport. So, in response, Lucas — doubtlessly utilizing his rigorous character naming course of — got here up with two names: Darth Icky and Darth Insanius. These current claimed he wasn’t joking, both, persevering with the assembly as regular after tossing out his shocked silence-inducing solutions. Unsurprisingly, Starkiller remained Starkiller.
In a world the place Disney did not purchase “Star Wars,” George Lucas’ plans for his sequel trilogy grew to become a actuality, and he continued to broaden the franchise in new and thrilling methods, perhaps Darth Icky and Darth Insanius would’ve gotten time to shine.