It's time for the Star Warsfranchise to retire Darth Vader. The Sith Lord is symbolic of a larger problem in pop culture: the inability to let iconic characters and stories rest. For Vader, though, ...

It's no secret that the Star Wars brand is losing momentum rather than gaining it, struggling to break new ground for the franchise's future, without alienating fans of its past. But if Lucasfilm and ...

Darth Vader arrives in Star Wars with more aura than any other character in the series, but time has taken away his mystique.