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When you\u2019ve been acting in films and TV for well over 50 years, it\u2019s probably understandable if you don\u2019t remember some of the details of one or two things you worked on. To forget you were ever in a movie altogether is something else, though, and that\u2019s what happened to Luke Skywalker himself, Mr Mark Hamill.<\/a><\/p>\n Now, to give him some credit, the film we\u2019re talking about is a much-forgotten and even less loved Stephen King adaptation named Sleepwalkers from 1992, a movie that picks up a whopping 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and featured a lot of actors not many people have heard of, with the exception of Ron Perlman from Hellboy.\u00a0<\/p>\n And to give Hamill even more credit (or rather none at all, given he was uncredited), he only played a tiny role in the vampire flick, appearing on screen for fractionally less time than King himself, who turned up in it as a creepy caretaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n About his involvement in the film, Hamill told Entertainment Weekly: \u201cI totally forgot (about it). If I remember right, Mick Garris, the director, asked me, \u2018Could I do a small role?\u2019 I loved him so much, and I thought, \u2018I\u2019ve gotta do it to help him.\u2019 I don\u2019t even know if I got paid, but I totally forgot about it. <\/p>\n To be fair to everyone involved with Sleepwalkers, it\u2019s unlikely anyone was really operating at their creative peak, to be generous. King was coming off the back of a decade of massive cocaine and alcohol use, and Hamill had struggled to find work in the ten years or so since he\u2019d last strapped on a lightsabre<\/a> in Return of the Jedi, with directors aware that he would simply be unmistakable from his global fame as Skywalker. <\/p>\n Sleepwalkers was also not originally a Stephen King book, which may well have saved it to some degree. But King wrote it straight to screenplay, the storyline involving a rather laughable tale of two vampire shapeshifters who roam the earth, or rather Los Angeles, looking for human female virgins to feast on. <\/p>\n Rather surprisingly, Garris says he was approached about a sequel, however, with King\u2019s wife Tabitha to write the movie, but that never came to pass. It seems not only did Hamill\u2019s character not even get a credit on the first one, he also didn\u2019t get invited to the premiere, mainly because they didn\u2019t even hold one. And regardless, it\u2019s unlikely he would have known much about it, as he admitted: \u201cI don\u2019t remember the plot; I don\u2019t remember who I played. I should probably look it up,\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Hamill of course did have a big career renaissance as a veteran Skywalker, returning for the J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Wars trilogy that came to a conclusion in 2019, and again for the Disney series The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian.\u00a0<\/p>\n