![]() ![]() Recasting the role of Luke is one option, but that approach didn’t work out for the middling Solo: A Star Wars Story. So why not bring Hamill back in a new movie? The Mandalorian has proven beyond doubt that there is ample room in the Star Wars galaxy for new adventures outside the traditional timeline – it operates entirely in the wake of the Rebels’ victory over the Empire in Return of the Jedi, a period before the rise of the First Order that was not previously considered to be fertile territory for the long-running saga. IndieWire reports that Hamill was on set to play the digitally de-aged Luke in that final scene where Baby Yoda is passed to his new mentor, though it appears that Max Lloyd-Jones starred as the Jedi knight for the action sequence in which Luke thrillingly destroys a platoon of mechanised dark troopers. Photograph: Jonathan Olley/©2017 Lucasfilm Ltdīut even if we don’t want to see those sad events played out in new movies, there are still decades of Luke’s life to explore, and it appears we now have the technology to experience them with the saga’s original actor in situ. Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill in The Last Jedi. Efforts based on Obi-Wan Kenobi’s middle years, Boba Fett’s later period and Ahsoka Tano’s post Clone Wars antics are perhaps the most heavily anticipated – but there is very little interest in more Skywalker clan-linked efforts of the kind that fuelled the space opera saga for nine movies after JJ Abrams inadvertently Death Starred the entire franchise last time out. ![]() Yet what if this isn’t the end, but rather the beginning? Disney-owned Lucasfilm currently has a problem on its hands, one that Hamill and an army of CGI technicians are more than ready to handle: Star Wars fans can’t wait for the umpteen new TV shows that are due to spin off from The Mandalorian. ![]() Especially as his last hurrah as a force ghost in the appalling The Rise of Skywalker let the side down. D id the closing episode of The Mandalorian’s second season just give us the final appearance of Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker in Star Wars? If so, the return of the original Jedi knight to carry away Baby Yoda to a future under his care, looks like a fitting farewell to the boy from Tatooine who destroyed the evil Empire. ![]()
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