Mark Hamill shares his old idea for Luke Skywalker’s tragic backstory in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and it would have been a twist that was much too dark for the franchise. During an appearance on the ...

Okay, listen, we, all of us, have disagreed with the line of thinking presented by canon at one point or another. And one of the most contentiously discussed movies ever is Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Mark Hamill was famously not especially happy about the direction Luke Skywalker took in Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi, expressing—while the 2017 Star Wars film was still in theaters—that he didn’t ...

Mark Hamill has spoken in detail about the backstory he made up for Luke Skywalker as we see him in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, after moving to clarify his dissatisfaction with Rian Johnson’s story.

“The fact that I went public with my dissatisfaction with the motivation for Luke becoming a suicidal hermit might have colored things in a way that, maybe I should have kept that to myself,” Hamill ...

Hamill had to dig deep to justify the actions of his iconic character in Rian Johnson's 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi.' Reading time 2 minutes Luke Skywalker had a wife and a kid who both killed ...

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