When did Darth Vader go red? Even though the official Star Wars toys in 2005 for Revenge of the Sith depicted Anakin Skywalker with a red lightsaber, the truth is, the moment the former Jedi switched to a Sith blade as Darth Vader, happened off-screen. And now, with a new entry into the Star Wars canon, the moment when Vader first gets a red lightsaber has been given a new canon wrinkle.
On Entertainment Weekly, a just-published excerpt from the book Star Wars: Master of Evil, by Adam Christopher, revisits the moment where Vader goes red and provides a slightly different context than a similar moment, first depicted in 2017.
