Mark Hamill Seemingly Confirms Disney Did Everything They Could To Push Luke Skywalker Out of Star Wars

Mark Hamill has said what many original trilogy fans have been thinking–Han, Luke, and Leia should have appeared together in “The Force Awakens”.  He also confirmed that Disney was out to remove Luke Skywalker as the focus of “Star Wars.”

In a recent Actors’ Roundtable at “The Hollywood Reporter,” Hamill had the opportunity to explain what happened.

He and the other actors were asked about “What other living actor they would like to work with.” Hamill’s answer was Harrison Ford. Apparently, he really wanted to work with Ford again and even told J.J. Abrams that the trio could unite again, even for thirty seconds.

“Well, in the sequel trilogy’s Harrison Ford, ’cause I only had two cameos. I said, ‘aren’t we gonna have a moment where all three of us get together and raise the roof, it’ll only take thirty seconds.’ And JJ [Abrams] said, ‘well, Mark, it’s not Luke’s story anymore.’ I said, ‘Star Wars wasn’t Obi Wan’s story but Alec Guiness had a crucial commitment, you know…’ Anyway, nobody listens to me.”

JJ said “No”.

From Hamill’s comment, we can glean three things:

1. Disney wasn’t going to give fans the one thing they wanted. Lucasfilm even teased a possible reunion in the trailer to get fans to come. It was frankly one of the two dumbest things they could have done. It started to erode fan goodwill.
2. Disney was indeed taking Luke Skywalker out to promote their new characters, as evidenced by Abram’s alleged comment. This would be fine as long as the original trio had a positive part in “passing the torch” to the next trio. They did do this a bit, but it was divided and all focused around Rey. Han, Rey, and Chewie. Leia and Rey for training, and Luke and Rey for whatever the heck that was.
   Then they ruined Luke and made the character totally unlike himself to push him aside, all to make it “not Luke’s story anymore”.
   The Skywalker is now Rey, and fans were not happy.
3. JJ Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, and Rian Johnson caused the seemingly irreversible fracture of the “Star Wars” fandom, and Hamill was right. Abrams should have listened. A lot of us went to see them back together and were really mad when they didn’t do the ONE THING fans wanted to see.  All in the name of sidelining Luke. Which was the second dumbest thing they could do.

Luke was seemingly sidelined and ruined intentionally

Many fans already suspected it was intentional. The comment seems to indicate that the assassination of Luke Skywalker’s character was true.

From reports of a picture of Luke with a red “X” over it. To the idea that Rey was going to be the better, no, bestest Jedi ever, surpassing Luke, but keeping the Skywalker name for the “Skywalker Saga”. Disney seemingly went out of their way to damage Luke Skywalker.

I would argue they did this to Poe and Finn as well. It seems that the idea was to give the male leads negative attributes to somehow elevate the female leads, who are trying to make them better. As a woman, I found it lazy. 

Poe is now irresponsible and causes tons of deaths, so Leia could teach him, and Holdo could show up and also put him in his place.  Finn picked up a lightsaber and tried to fight Kylo Ren, after changing sides from a Stormtrooper to a hero, but now suddenly wants to be a deserter and is a coward. But that’s Okay, Rose Tico is there to stop him and not let him choose to die for the cause (but Holdo got to.)  Frankly, I know a lot of fans wanted to see Finn become a Jedi with Rey, but then his having a penis probably got in the way.

Luke. Don’t get me started.

How are we supposed to believe that Luke Skywalker would try to kill his own nephew after they risked everything to save Anakin? Idealistic Luke could have been more tempered with time, but not to the level they made him out to be.

Disney really screwed up the sequel trilogy, and JJ Abrams was a big part of it.  Maybe if they had listened to Mark Hamill or the fans, they could have had films people still rave about to this day, along with Rey, Finn, and Poe being as iconic as Luke. But in their quest to destroy Luke, they destroyed those characters as well.

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