To say that George Lucas has foresight is an understatement. The Star Wars creator, who had deliberate 9 complete movies within the galactic film franchise, determined early on to see whether or not Mark Hamill could be accessible three many years later for one of many movies.
Within the early 1980’s, Hamill was a visitor on quite a few speak reveals selling the Star Wars movies and a 1983 clip presently on YouTube from a type of on-air interviews — although precisely which speak present can’t fairly be decided — is of Hamill explaining a query that Lucas requested him presumably whereas making Return of the Jedi.
Conscious that Lucas had wished to make the subsequent trilogy a prequel to be filmed largely within the 1990’s, Hamill additionally knew that the sequel to Return of the Jedi could be the primary of the ultimate trilogy, and would movie within the early twenty first century, if issues went as Lucas deliberate. So, Lucas speaking about these future movies wasn’t too shocking, however then he requested Hamill if he could be in a type of movies as a type of Obi-Wan Kenobi kind of character who passes his Jedi knowledge to the subsequent technology.
Hamill’s preliminary response was to ask, “When would that be?” to which Lucas replied, “Round 2011.”
To place that into perspective, it’s like somebody asking that query in 2024 and saying they’ll begin filming in 2054. Understandably, Hamill couldn’t precisely decide to the position and commenced answering, “As a lot I’d prefer to have a job lined up on the flip of the century,” earlier than attempting to determine how previous he’d be after which settled on merely telling George, “Effectively, I don’t know.”
It was a much less entertaining dialog then the time George referred to as him pretending to be somebody who was attempting to purchase the script of The Empire Strikes Again from him, however it was one thing of a prophetic one.
Regardless of Lucas promoting his beloved house opera franchise to Disney, Hamill did, actually, return to play Luke Skywalker within the sequel trilogy some three many years after Lucas requested him. The Pressure Awakens was launched in 2015, thus pre-production clearly started a pair years earlier. 2011 wasn’t too far off. Hamill even reprised the Skywalker character as a Jedi instructor, like Lucas had mentioned he could be.
Hamill speaking briefly concerning the movie 30 years upfront shouldn’t be precisely a spoiler like Billy Dee Williams’ At present Present interview was, however it does make me surprise if I ought to stay up for seeing Daisy Ridley revive the Rey Skywalker character within the The Pressure Reawakens within the 2050’s.