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Mark Hamill 'doesn't care' about returning to Star Wars

posted 7 years ago by darkpast (9029)
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-hamill-apos-doesn-apos-111319978.html

Mark Hamill 'doesn't care' about returning to Star Wars

The question of whether Luke Skywalker will return for Star Wars: Episode IX has been dogging fans ever since the iconic character was killed off in The Last Jedi.

Mark Hamill himself has remained coy about the prospect, which could technically happen (at least in the Star Wars universe sense), with him returning as a Force Ghost.

However, the star has now suggested he has lost enthusiasm for appearing in the films, especially with the passing of co-star Carrie Fisher and the on-screen death of Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

"It really has tarnished my ability to enjoy it to its fullest," Hamill told ABC News of Fisher's passing. "You were asking earlier, 'Are you gonna come back?' I don't care anymore, on that level. Because Han Solo is gone, Luke is gone.

"You just can't get the band back together the way you wanted it to be, and it shouldn't be that way. It is what it is. Rather than being sorry that we can't have more of her, I'm just grateful that we had the time with her that we did."

Luke passed away at the end of The Last Jedi after using his energy to create an astral projection and distract Kylo Ren while the Resistance escape the First Order.

Hamill also recently opened up about his role in the last Star Wars movie to Digital Spy, telling us that he thinks he was used as a "plot device" in the movie.

[–] Duck6 (425) 7 years ago

Yep people die.

[–] Hans-Wilhelm (1372) 7 years ago

They ruined his character so badly in VIII that I couldn't care less and I agree with him.

[–] Oscar (114) 7 years ago

The newer films are hard to care about, it's true.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I'm sure that Disney will make him an offer he can't refuse... or else. FUCK Disney.

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

I think they should just recast him... find someone else to play his 'force ghost' for 10 seconds, and include flashbacks of the new luke for continuity, and be done with it...

The hardcore fans will have a fit (they will have one in any case), but all of the other consumers will fall in line...

But it will not come to that... It all sounds like Hamill trying to negotiate for a better deal, or to hold onto loyalist fans... Remember when Daniel Craig said he didn't want to play Bond anymore? That was a couple of Bond movies ago as he will be in the next one... Similar dynamic here...

Just recast him, get Christopher Plummer to play and aged force ghost, Ridley Scott style...

[–] Quint (959) 7 years ago

Noone ever thought that Craig will not make another Bond. Only real naive movie goers beleived that for a seconed. Thats the business how Bond actors act in public. That happens since .... the second Bond movie.

But Mark Hamill is something different. He has enough money and he knows that thos Disney idiots destroying Star Wars (or to be more exact: already destroyed Star Wars). He had to made a movie with an complete and real idiot (Ruin Johnson without the smallest clue about movie making and a working movie plot). So why waste your time and help others destroying your most famous role ever even mor? Mark Hamill would be incredible stupid doing that.

And using different actors wont save Star wars anymore. Its already dead, paid Disneyboardwriter.

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

You're right that there is no saving StarWars, yet hardcore fans still have hope...

Recasting Luke will allow fans to move on, instead of waiting for someone to make things right again, which will never happen...

You're delusional if you think I'm a "paid Disneyboardwriter"... I don't like Disney movie in general and thought The Last Jedi was pretty mediocre...

[–] Quint (959) 7 years ago

So he blames Ruin Johnson again for the worst Star Wars movie ever. Seems like his contract duties with Disney are gone :) .

[–] AckbarsCorpse (316) 7 years ago

Technically they could pull of a "head job" ROTJ style at the end celebration of Ep9 if Hamill refuses to reprise his role.

[–] janelsenor (2048) 7 years ago

Love how all media outlets are misrepresenting this one as well. He clearly qualifies his statement. He doesn't care in respect to getting back with the OG team because they can't come back. He didn't say he doesn't care at all. It's clear from what he's said in other interviews that he does want to come back.

[–] Quint (959) 7 years ago

Other interviews wre forced by Disney. Remeber how he clearly attacked the idiot Ruin Johnson directly after the movie. Then the Disney layers remebered him about his contract and that movie promition is indeed part of it and he stopped his attacks. And now this promotion tour is done and he doenst have to protect the most stupid director ever in movie history.

So yes, Mark Hamill, as every other thinking human on this planet, simply hates Ruin Johnson and his version of Lame Wars.

[–] janelsenor (2048) 7 years ago

lol