Mark Hamill wasn’t that pleased at first with the storyline Rian Johnson came up with for Luke Skywalker in “The Last Jedi,” but the two worked it out.
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” director Rian Johnson said the first big challenge of writing the movie was figuring out what Luke Skywalker was doing on that island.
That led to him realizing that Skywalker’s fate would have to be explored in the movie as well.
Warning: Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
There’s a lot to digest after watching the latest “Star Wars” movie, “The Last Jedi,” but perhaps the biggest is Luke Skywalker’s return to the franchise.
Following “The Force Awakens,” where the Jedi master shows up in the last shot of the movie and doesn’t utter a single word, “The Last Jedi” picks up right at that moment. For a lot of the story, we stay with Luke (Mark Hamill) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) on his secluded island.
Tech: Rian Johnson describes how Mark Hamill reacted to the Luke Skywalker storyline in ‘The Last Jedi’ — ‘It wasn’t the thing he wanted to necessarily hear’
