Mace Windu
| Mace Windu | |
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| Star Wars character | |
Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu.
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| First appearance | The Phantom Menace (1999) |
| Last appearance |
The Clone Wars – "Unfinished Business" (2015) |
| Created by | George Lucas |
| Portrayed by | Samuel L. Jackson |
| Voiced by |
Kevin Michael Richardson (Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles, Star Wars: Obi-Wan and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter) Terrence C. Carson (Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002 video game), Star Wars: Clone Wars, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (video game), Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series), Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, Kinect Star Wars and Disney Infinity 3.0) Samuel L. Jackson (The Clone Wars (film)) Adrian Holmes (The Yoda Chronicles and Droid Tales) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Jedi Master, Jedi Council Member, High Jedi General, Master of the High Council |
| Affiliation | Galactic Republic |
| Homeworld | Haruun Kal |
Mace Windu is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in the prequel films and voiced by voice-actor Terrence C. Carson in other projects. He appears as Master of the High Council and one of the last members of the order's upper echelons before the Galactic Republic's fall, he is the Council's primary liaison but the Clone Wars caused him to question his most firmly held beliefs.
Several early incarnations of the character have been developed in the original Star Wars drafts as the narrator,Princess Leia's brother and Luke Skywalker's friend. Through the process of redrafting and copyediting, his character was removed from the original trilogy (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) but was reintroduced in 1994 when series creator George Lucas began writing the prequel trilogy.
According to an interview on the Late Show with David Letterman on May 13, 2005, the character's purple lightsaber was a personal request from Jackson to Lucas as a quid pro quo for appearing in the films, as well as a way of making the character unique and easily distinguishable.
As the prequel trilogy would call for Windu's death, one of Jackson's conditions for portraying the character was that Windu be given a spectacular death scene rather than be killed off ingloriously.
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