Mark Hamill confirms how Luke Skywalker returns in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’
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Mark Hamill has just seemingly confirmed what every person who has ever seen a Star Wars movie or accidentally heard about Star Wars would have already assumed by just thinking about it for a second. Still, because figuring out the plots to Star Wars movies before they come out is more fun — and easier to do — than forecasting political elections, the following piece of information has to come with a massive warning. What Mark Hamill has said could be viewed as a spoiler that will ruin your enjoyment of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which isn't really even out for a half-a-year anyway. So, you've been warned, if you want to keep reading, this article contains some stuff that Mark Hamill said about how he's appearing in The Rise of Skywalker. (But if you've ever read any kind of book or seen a movie, of any kind, you will have seen this coming by virtue of the fact that you are a person in the world.)
Ready? After Luke Skywalker faded away and joined the Force in The Last Jedi, he will reappear in The Rise of Skywalker as…a Force ghost! On June 20, 2019, the Associated Press posted a brief interview with Hamill in which he said he "hopes" that The Rise of Skywalker is his last Star Wars movie and detailed exactly how Luke will return in the film.
"The fact that I'm involved in any capacity is only because of that peculiar aspect of the Star Wars mythology where if you're a Jedi, you get to come back and make a curtain call as a Force ghost."
That's right, Luke is doing exactly what everyone expected him to do, show up with a little blue aura around his body, and vaguely explain what he can't and can't do as a creepy spirit. Then again, who knows? Yoda was a ghost in The Last Jedi and that motherfucker was able to conjure a lightning bolt from the sky and burn down a tree, mostly just to pull a prank and make a complicated diss about Luke not being able to finish reading like six books that had been sitting on the planet for who knows how long.
So, will Luke be the kind of ghost who says ghostly things from the sidelines or the kind of ghost who takes Kylo Ren on a Dickensian adventure to show him the error of his ways? Either way, at this moment, we know Mark Hamill's Luke isn't the only ghost haunting the next Star Wars film; the long-dead Emperor Palpatine is back, too!
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