Actor who played Luke Skywalker in original series wants to reprise his role as Jedi knight in proposed new trilogy of films
Return of the Jedi? … Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars series. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd
Mark Hamill has confirmed he is set to have talks with the team behind the new Star Wars films about reprising his role as Luke Skywalker.
Speaking to the ET Online website, Hamill revealed he had not yet sat down with the new president of LucasFilm, Kathleen Kennedy, nor the proposed writer of Star Wars: Episode VII, Toy Story 3's Michael Arndt, but expected to do so when the pair were less busy. He did not mention whether he expected to meet the film's recently announced director, Star Trek's JJ Abrams, who was appointed by Kennedy last month following Disney's $4.05bn (£2.6bn) purchase of all rights to the long-running space opera saga in October last year.
"They're talking to us," said Hamill, who was one of the first stars of the original Star Wars trilogy to suggest he would be interested in a return. "George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts – they would write us out.
"I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts. We're in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm. Both have had meetings set that were postponed - on their end, not mine. They're more busy than I am."
Hamill's repeated use of the term "we" could be taken to imply that all three original Star Wars leads might be set for a return, as has been rumoured. Harrison Ford's involvement as Han Solo is "a done deal" according to a report earlier this week on the influential Latino Review blog, while Carrie Fisher has also said she would be minded to play Princess Leia once again. Hamill went so far as to say he would like to see other former cast members return.
and here i was thinking we already have a post for all this stuff.
that said, hamill looks terrible these days.. great voice actor, but a face for radio you might say heres hoping hes a cgi floating blue jedi ghost or something...
It could of gone in the thread about diz wanting to buy yes, but this is more of a character/actor thread. It would be more fitting for the original author of the thread anyone wants this in to rename it as any curiosity about all that now has passed and has been decided on.
This in its own right is more fitting to the truth of today and the stand on diz and starwars lol.. eat it..
lol Hamill just needs to lose a few pounds and he can perfectly be a Master Jedi Knight, member of the reformed Jedi Council. That he looks old? Well, he's supposed to! Even as Luke Skywalker
We don't need a new thread for this.. mainly because every single cast member is guaranteed to confirm they'll return.
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We don't need a new thread for this.. mainly because every single cast member is guaranteed to confirm they'll return.
Are you sure about that, it would be awesome to have like 20 different threads when we finally discover Jar Jar Binks is making his triumphant comeback as well.
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