The Man Who Carved Vader’s Mask Working on Guardians of the Galaxy

BleedingCool is reporting that Brian Muir, the man who sculpted Vader’s helmet and the stormtroopers and droids and a whole bunch of other things for the Star Wars saga, as well as The Ark of the Covenant in Raiders, and the Space Jockey in Alien, is working at Pinewood Studios working on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.

This is big news for Marvel fans, Star wars fans, and fans of science fiction in general. This strengthens the ever tightening connections between Marvel, Disney, and Star Wars.

There’s no official word about who or what he might be sculpting, but the obvious choice would be Star Lord:

BleedingCool did their best to verify, but came up with nothing official.

And our most sincere thanks to Jeff Vice, our very own Jerk-Bot, for the tip.