Anakin to fight Obi-Wan

Samuel L Jackson has leaked details of the forthcoming Star Wars III.

15:26 10 March 2004

Samuel L Jackson has leaked details of the forthcoming Star Wars III.

According to BBCi the finale of the film will see a light sabre battle between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Jackson, who plays the role of Jedi Council member Mace Windu, also claims his own character will go out with a bang.

He is reported on the BBC as saying: 'Well I had to have a great death. You get to the point where you realise that all the Jedi want to die, but when you come to what we know as the first of them - Yoda, Luke, Obi-Wan - they're pretty much the only ones left, so the only person you could kill with any significance in this one would have to be me, so I've gotta go out with a flourish.'

'I had a very nice and kind of extended and great death.'

Fans are intrigued to see how Star Wars supremo George Lucas gets from the end of his last film, 'Attack of the Clones', to where the series began in 1977 with 'A New Hope'.

There is a great deal of anticipation around the fall of Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen, which results in the creation of Darth Vader. Many speculate that the death of new wife Padme, played by Natalie Portman, will send him over the edge.

A fight with Obi-Wan, played by Ewan McGregor, is what many fans expected. In 'A New Hope', before killing his former mentor, Vader hints that he lost a previous fight.

Jackson says he will miss working on Star Wars.