Ugh, I was having such a good day too…
In a new THR roundtable, Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, dropped a bit of news from the Star Wars sequels that fans have pondered for while… just why did he, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) not meet up again in those three movies, giving fans what they’d been crying out for ever since 1983’s Return of the Jedi?
When the first sequel, The Force Awakens, came out in 2o15, directed by JJ Abrams, it featured Ford’s Han Solo and Fisher’s Leia Organa but Luke was missing throughout, with the drive of the story being the mission to find his whereabouts; when his location was revealed at the end of the movie. However, with Ford’s character being killed off near the climax, fans realised that the reunion of Han, Luke and Leia simply could never be.
We all wondered if anything would ever be good again in the galaxy far, far away.
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And now we know why…
In the roundtable, below, Hamill, talking about his return as Luke, revealed that JJ Abrams never wanted the trio back together and his reason seems to prove once and for all that Abrams, despite The Force Awakens still being a decent movie, had no idea what the fans wanted.
“I said, ‘Aren’t we going to have a moment where all three of us get together to raise the roof? It’ll only take 30 seconds.’ “ Hamill says, “And JJ said, ‘Well, Mark, it’s not Luke’s story anymore.’”
I’m sorry… what?
Look, yes, Rey was the focus of the story, but the core Star Wars movies are the Skywalker story with Luke being the last Skywalker – yes, we can argue the ending of The Last Jedi, but there’s no denying that, biologically, Luke and Leia are the last Skywalkers, so these movies ARE the Skywalker story, and that’s a story with Luke at the centre of it.
Man, maybe these movies were doomed from the start after all.
Ugh.
Watch the full roundtable:
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Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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