Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, has said he was initially reluctant to return in his iconic Star Wars role, believing that Disney would be unable to "catch lightning in a bottle twice."
  • xyzzy@lemmy.today
    20·
    2 个月前

    I thought this was an interesting take:

    “The reason I did Mandalorian was that Luke had a beginning and an end. There was no middle. It was like making a trilogy about James Bond as a young boy who first became aware of the Secret Service and wanted to be a part of it. Part two was him training to be an agent. Part three is earning his license to kill — The End. No From Russia With Love, Dr. No or Goldfinger. You never got to see Luke as a Master Jedi at the peak of his powers.”

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 个月前

      The episode in question is just magical. Him explaining the Force to Grogu and hearing the Williams musical cues makes it feel like a dialed back door pilot. It’s so upsetting that we may never get a proper post-Empire Luke Skywalker series unless Luke Skywalker gets completely recast.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      2 个月前

      He’s right. All anyone has wanted to see since the trailer for Last Jedi was Luke be an absolute badass for once. We got a glimpse of that for Vader in Rouge One, but never for Luke.

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    14·
    2 个月前

    The mistake was to not have a single scene where Luke, Han and Leia are all reunited.

    We only got a brief moment of Han and Leia, and an even briefer moment of Luke (force projected) and Leia.

    Come on, just one moment of fan service before the entire cast dies one by one.

    • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      For my money we have more than enough fanservice in media right now. Something like that would mean losing the power of that quiet scene where Luke mourns his friend on the Falcon, knowing that it’s his own bad choices that kept them apart for their final years.

  • nagaram@startrek.website
    8·
    2 个月前

    Honestly, I mostly liked the Luke bits of episode 8.

    The whole trying to kill Kylo thing was dumb, but everything else was fun IMO.

  • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
    81·
    2 个月前

    The Last Jedi was the film that made me quit the whole Star Wars franchise altogether.

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
      8·
      2 个月前

      I bit the bullet and watched Andor and apart from being an actually good series it is Star Wars how it should be done. It ties in with the rest of the universe in a sensible way. It feels like there is more out there. The sequels always felt like a small contained skirmish and not like the galaxy wide conflict it should be.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    3·
    2 个月前

    I thought Carrie Fisher was the one to convince him. She was enthusiastic from the start. And after she saw what she had to work with she died drowning in moon light, strangled by her own bra.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 个月前

    How could it be a mistake… like every kid who saw Star Wars in 77, I revere Hamill. how could taking a fat ass check be a mistake?

    Hamill’s mistake is that has always tried to distance himself from Luke Skywalker. He should have embraced it and leverage that fame and resources to his other work.

    Returning to Luke Skywalker couldn’t have any negative impact on his career. Outside of his voice work everything else he does is because he is the guy who played Luke.

  • usernamefactory@lemmy.caEnglish
    32·
    2 个月前

    TLJ was one of the best films in the franchise and a beautiful farewell to Luke. Glad he was convinced.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      12·
      2 个月前

      Wow. I starting to think I was the only one in the world that enjoyed TLJ. Now there’s at least two of us!