re: Mark Hamil Hurts

mother of god

That would be amazing and awesome if he’d said FU upon reading the script.

But he saw the paycheck.

I’m not sure what the script said. From what we know it sounds like they filmed a TON of scenes and then pieced together something after filming. For example, if Mark is shocked my his character’s fate at the premiere, it obviously wasn’t in the script.

They may have killed his character without him knowing because they never filmed a death scene for him. Just CGI. Just a fricking CGI disappearance death for the most iconic movie character of the science fiction genre. fricking garbage.

Jesus H Christ

This quote makes me think maybe Hamil knew about Luke’s death:

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“Well, I’m still in denial,” Hamill joked about the fact he’s no longer alive in the “Star Wars” universe. “I just think he transported somewhere else…The first thing I said [to Rian] was, ‘Can’t you wait and do this in Episode IX?'” Ending Luke’s storyline felt necessary for Johnson so that the third and final installment in the current “Star Wars” trilogy could focus entirely on ending the stories of Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo Ren. Johnson never viewed “The Last Jedi” as Luke’s movie to begin with, citing “The Return of the Jedi” as the end of Luke’s hero journey.

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Indiewire.com

At this point, I wish they would have just left the original characters out of these movies altogether rather than using them to prop up their new, weaker characters.

this is pretty funny

I enjoyed the movie.

That video and story behind it is sad.

I love the guy, and he is almost a national treasure witht he Joker, Luke, etc, But Mark Hamil doesn't own Luke Skywalker it is a character he played. It sucks they couldn't at least work together and IMO I think they did his exit pretty well (Obi Wan went out very similarly) He will be a force ghost now, it had to happen.

More than Luke, though, they are shitting on the Jedi Order. it's obvious what they are doing, they are handing off Star Wars to the next generation. The whole movie was about burning everything down and starting anew. Luke becomes a necessary catalyst for this to happen amd even has the blessing of Yoda. This is the only movie they called the Jedi a "religion" based around the force and it's time to stop basing everything on that. Do we need 9+ movies about the Skywalkers and the Jedi/Sith war or should we move in a new direction? It would start to get stale eventually. People hated The Force Awakens because it was a total rehash of ANH. Johnson turns Star Wars upside down instead and equally gets shitted on. It's like I said earlier, Star Wars is too big for its own good, anything that ever comes out about the OT characters is going to be shitted on by half of the fan base literally no matter what.

Would I have done it different? Yes.

Check out this article from slashfilm that basically says TLJ doesnt care what you think about star wars and why its a good thing, I tend to agree with most of it.

I absolutely hated Luke until Yoda showed up to him and changed him back.