The venerable Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson).
QUI- GON’S NOBLE end, as we all know, came at the hands, and blade, of Darth Maul, the Jedi Master breathing his last on the cold floor of the Plasma Refinery Complex in Naboo. Somebody had to lose the Duel Of The Fates, after all.
Qui-Gon’s noble beginning, by stark contrast, came when Liam Neeson sat down with George Lucas in a London restaurant. The purpose of the meeting was, ostensibly, to discuss the possibility of Neeson starring in the first Star Wars movie in over a decade. “Really all we talked about over lunch was the rearing of our children,” recalls Neeson of the “very practical and cool” Lucas. “Star Wars was not mentioned once.”