Is Obi-Wan wearing the Skywalker lightsaber in the duel of Revenge of the Sith?

chef_carol

While watching again, after a long time the duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin in the Revenge of the Sith, I noticed that, for some scene Obi-Wan seems to be using Anakin's lightsaber. For instance, the following three images are extracted from three different, but consecutive scenes, the design of the saber handle looks quite different: This clearly looks like Obi-Wan's But just after: This is even clearer here with the small thing going out of...

Originally asked by Tom on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

There's most probably (definately?) a miscue here. I have found no evidence whatsoever that somewhere, during the battle, or for any other reason, that they may have switched weapons. Either the actors wrongly grabbed the wrong prop, or the one in charge got confused. 1 On this first screenshot, we see Obi-Wan Kenobi holding his lightsaber : This is his third lightsaber (see also Obi-Wan Kenobi lightsaber ) Now, I took another screenshot of the final duel. We see Anakin Skywalker holding his lightsaber: Now, this is his second lightsaber ( first lightsaber was destroyed in the foundry) Problem : on this screenshot, Obi-Wan Kenobi is holding Anakin Skywalker's. 1. I keep searching and will...

Full answer by OldPadawan: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/120624 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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