Hayden Christensen, the 42-year-old actor who broke into fame together with his portrayal of Anakin Skywalker in two of the Star Wars prequels, could also be planning a Hollywood comeback following his return to the Star Wars galaxy.
Christensen has had a rocky profession within the leisure trade, together with taking a four-year hiatus from 2010-2014. He appeared in a number of small initiatives after that, and was even thought-about for a cameo in The Force Awakens. However, his profession earned a second life again in early 2020 when he bought a name from his previous pal and co-star Ewan McGregor. McGregor himself was then plotting a return to the galaxy far, far-off with the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney Plus sequence, and requested Christensen to return again to the Star Wars franchise with him.
Christensen accepted, possible in no small half because of the latest change in tune from the Star Wars fandom — a bunch that beforehand despised and ridiculed him after the poor reception to the prequels, however now had advanced and was largely populated by the youthful technology these movies initially focused. Just a number of months earlier, he’d supplied his voice for a small cameo in The Rise of Skywalker and now, it appeared like the proper time to return again. The reception on the Internet was glowing, and there was maybe one one that was happiest about it: Dave Filoni.
At the time of the announcement in late 2020, Filoni was beginning to plot his live-action Ahsoka sequence, and Christensen’s Anakin/Vader was a key element of that story, as audiences lastly witnessed earlier this yr. News of the actor’s second return leaked to the press the next October, however no one at Lucasfilm actually acknowledged it till this September, when Part Four aired on the platform. Christensen’s involvement in Ahsoka was even higher acquired than his function in Obi-Wan Kenobi, which in all probability inspired him to consider that there’s nonetheless a spot for him on this enterprise.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the information on Wednesday that Hayden Christensen signed a brand new contract for illustration, returning to Independent Artist Group, the expertise company that first bought him the function of Anakin Skywalker greater than 20 years in the past. CEO Jim Osborne and agent Ed Limato signed him again then. Osborne mentioned in an announcement:
“Ed Limato and I signed Hayden Christensen early in his profession and it’s fantastic to be reunited with my previous pal.”
Christensen has been represented by Paradigm since 2014, after a small cease at UTA earlier than his four-year hiatus. Osborne was a part of Paradigm again in 2010 when the actor moved companies, and even advised Deadline that it was Christensen who’d handed on numerous high-profile initiatives:
“He wouldn’t learn for Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, he handed on Afterlife opposed Liam Neeson, he handed on Cheri reverse Michelle Pfeiffer. It’s so aggressive for younger actors proper now that sitting on a farm in Toronto just isn’t going to get him a job.”
But that’s all up to now now. With this transfer, it looks as if Christensen loved his time in Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka, and is lastly prepared to start accepting extra excessive profile roles. Whether or not he returns to the function of Anakin Skywalker once more stays to be seen, however with this information, we will definitely anticipate him to seem in additional movies over the subsequent few years.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish scholar that has motion pictures as his second ardour in life. His favourite film of all time is The Lord of the Rings, however he’s additionally an enormous Star Wars fan. However, fantasy motion pictures aren’t his solely cup of tea, as motion pictures from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he began to grasp the language of filmmaking. He is that man who will watch a black and white film, simply because it’s in black and white.
