{"id":22247,"date":"2025-06-28T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22247\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:32:09","slug":"mark-hamill-says-rian-johnson-feud-over-last-jedi-is-not-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22247\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hamill Says Rian Johnson Feud Over ‘Last Jedi’ Is Not True"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMark Hamill<\/a> recently appeared on the \u201cBullseye with Jesse Thorn\u201d podcast<\/a>\u00a0(via IGN<\/a>) to promote his latest movie, Mike Flanagan\u2019s \u201cThe Life of Chuck,\u201d and cleared up some of the confusion surrounding his thoughts on Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2018s divisive \u201cStar Wars<\/a>\u201d movie \u201cThe Last Jedi.\u201d Hamill returned as Luke Skywalker in the film, although he was not the hero some fans remembered. This Luke was a miserable, hardened recluse living in self-imposed exile after his protege, Ben Solo, joined the dark side and became Kylo Ren. Luke blamed himself.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn interviews after \u201cThe Last Jedi\u201d opened in theaters, Hamill was honest about not loving this direction Johnson took with his character. He told\u00a0Comic Book<\/a> at the time\u00a0that he \u201cstill hasn\u2019t accepted\u201d\u00a0what happened to Luke and opposed such a dark heel turn. But in the new podcast interview, Hamill stressed that Johnson made \u201ca great movie\u201d with \u201cThe Last Jedi,\u201d adding: \u201cI\u2019d love to clear this up. \u2026 Rian Johnson is one of the most gifted directors I\u2019ve ever worked with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe fact that I went public with my dissatisfaction with the motivation for Luke becoming a suicidal hermit might have colored things in a way that, maybe I should have kept that to myself,\u201d Hamill admitted. \u201cBut I kept saying to Rian, \u2018This would just make Luke double down even\u2026\u2019 and he said, \u2018Well, your class at the Jedi Academy were wiped out.\u2019 I said, \u2018Rian, I saw entire planets wiped out! If anything, Luke doubles down and hardens his resolve in the face of adversity.\u2019 So that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHamill believed Luke would become even more of a hero and an advocate for the Jedi in the wake of Ben Solo\u2019s betrayal. In order to go in the complete opposite direction that Johnson scripted, Hamill needed to convince himself that Luke was possible of such darkness.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI said, \u2018Can I make up my own backstory of why he is the way he is? I don\u2019t want to just say that I have bumped my head and I have brain damage,\u2019\u201d Hamill said. [Rian] said, \u2018Yeah, do whatever you want.\u2019 So I made up a much, much darker backstory that I thought could justify him being that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI thought, \u2018What could make someone give up a devotion to what is basically a religious entity, to give up being a Jedi?\u2019\u201d Hamill then explained. \u201cWell, the love of a woman. So he falls in love with a woman. He gives up being a Jedi. They have a child together. At some point the child, as a toddler, picks up an unattended lightsaber, pushes the button and is killed instantly. The wife is so full of grief, she kills herself. I thought, that would be. \u2026 Because I hear these horrible stories about these children who find unattended guns and wind up dead. That resonated with me so deeply. \u2026 But [Rian] didn\u2019t have the time to tell a backstory like that, I\u2019m guessing. He just wanted a brief thing to explain it. And to me, it didn\u2019t justify it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat said \u2014 and I told [Rian] this \u2014 despite the fact that I disagree with your choices for Luke, I\u2019m going to do everything within my power to make your screenplay work as best as I can,\u201d Hamill added. \u201cAnd the only thing unfortunate about that is, I\u2019ve heard comments from fans who think that I somehow dislike Rian Johnson, and nothing could be further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLuke died in \u201cThe Last Jedi,\u201d although Hamill continued with the \u201cStar Wars\u201d franchise by appearing as a Force Ghost in \u201cThe Rise of Skywalker\u201d and then using de-aging technology to appear as a young Luke in the series \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d and \u201cThe Book of Boba Fett.\u201d Hamill told Comic Book<\/a> earlier this year he has no plans to return as Luke.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had my time,\u201d Hamill said. \u201cI\u2019m appreciative of that, but I think they should focus on the future and all the new characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tListen to Hamill\u2019s full interview on the \u201cBullseye with Jesse Thorn\u201d podcast here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Hamill recently appeared on the \u201cBullseye with Jesse Thorn\u201d podcast\u00a0(via IGN) to promote his latest movie, Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,20427,20428,14398,20429,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-22247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-mark-hamill","11":"tag-rian-johnson","12":"tag-star-wars","13":"tag-star-wars-the-last-jedi","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}