Gary Oldman On Almost Playing General Grievous In Star Wars Prequels
Gary Oldman opens up about nearly voicing General Grievous in the Star Wars prequels. Released in 2005, Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith was billed at the time as the final Star Wars movie, closing out the prequel trilogy. The film grossed $868 million worldwide to become the highest-grossing film of the year domestically and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide.
While audiences were turning out to see how Anakin Skywalker turned into Darth Vader, the film also introduced a fresh new villain to the franchise in the form of the lightsaber-wielding cyborg General Grievous. Much like Boba Fett before him, Grievous made his introduction into the Star Wars universe first in the animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars in an episode airing in 2004. While Grievous only made one appearance in the film series, the character has become a beloved staple of the franchise and has appeared multiple times in the computer-animated seriesStar Wars: The Clone Wars with all the character's appearances following Revenge of the Sith being voiced by ILM sound editor Matthew Wood.
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Wood was not the original choice to play General Grievous, as originally Oldman was cast in the part. In an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, via The Playlist, promoting his newest series Slow Horses on Apple TV+, Oldman reveals that he did record dialogue as General Grievous and was directed by George Lucas who had a great time working with him. However, union rules ultimately prevented Lucas from using Oldman's vocal performance. Oldman said:
“Well, I did a voice for ‘Star Wars’…was it General Grievous?” What happened was something to do with union stuff and
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