Darth Vader has left us

[Dire_Flumph]

Yeah. Prowse was to be paid in a percentage of net profit, but thanks to Hollywood accounting the original trilogy has technically never made a profit to this day.

Well, okay, that's a bit misleading. For one thing, the only place I'm aware of that being mentioned was in regards to Return of the Jedi, where his salary was to include net profits for that film as residuals (source), not that the residuals were his entire promised salary or that he never got a dime for playing Vader, which almost certainly isn't true.

Still, sad to see him passing, 2020 is claiming it's last few victims.

Edit:

And once he started complaining about being shafted out of his rightful pay for RotJ, Lucas banned him from conventions and all other large gatherings with an official Star Wars presence, which, in addition to alienating him from the series as much as legally possible, also served to even further ensure that Prowse could not have monetary avenues available to him through those conventions.

Ok, that's also misleading past a certain point. The reason that Prowse was banned was never made openly public, even I believe by Prowse who only stated that he burned too many bridges. Tying it to complaints about not being paid is speculative at best.

Can we mourn the man without tossing around accusations like that?