Star Wars: The Last Jedi alternative opening
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Some fans love Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi for how writer-director Rian Johnson flipped the franchise on its head, only to bring everything back together at the end. However, others couldn’t stand his handling of the beloved characters after everything set up by JJ Abrams in The Force Awakens, believing he “ruined” Star Wars. Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker had only the briefest of cameos at the end of Episode VII, before returning two years later for the Jedi’s reluctant training scenes with Rey on Ahch-To.
Hamill was severely disappointed over the removal of scenes showing his character’s reaction to the death of Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, who was killed by his son Kylo Run in The Force Awakens.
Speaking previously with IGN, the 71-year-old said: “Yes, of course [I regret it being cut] because it shows Luke was putting on a facade in front of Rey and even Chewie, that he was embittered and sort of a broken man. And I think the fact that he could let his emotions out when he was by himself would have made an impact on the audience because it allowed them to grieve the loss of Han Solo just the way Luke felt it. But that always happens in films.”
Hamill added: “You say, ‘Oh, what about this scene where this happens or that happens?’ because you want to give the fullest experience that you can. And like you say, it was brief enough that I was — [chuckles] They had time for me to milk that big alien but to show any human emotion? Nah, we don’t have time for that. But again it’s not my call.”
Six months after The Last Jedi was released in 2017, Hamill was spotted on Twitter appearing to have cryptically slammed the movie for “ruining childhoods”, as was interpreted by some fans.
After Star Wars Day on May the 4th, for a few days afterwards, the Luke actor tweeted something related to each day. Then on May 9th, 2018, he wrote: “May The 9th Episode Be Perfect & Not Ruin Anyone’s Childhood.”
After Colin Trevorrow left Episode IX, Abrams was roped back in to direct what would become The Rise of Skywalker. The film was criticised for allegedly retconning Johnson’s plot points in The Last Jedi back to original plans in The Force Awakens. One prime example was rather than Rey being a nobody as Kylo Ren told her, she was in fact the granddaughter of Palpatine, who was Snoke all along.
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Hamill’s Luke had become one with the Force at the end of The Last Jedi, but reprised the role as a Force ghost in The Rise of Skywalker.
The star has since played a younger version of his character in both The Mandalorian season 2 and The Book of Boba Fett, having his performance motion captured with the help of an actor of his size and build in the early 1980s.
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