Luke's Backstory 'Not Important' To The Last Jedi

Mark Hamill reveals pregnant fate of Luke Skywalker ’s post - Return of the Jedibackstory are not important to the game ofStar Wars : The Last Jedi . When Luke last played a meaningful role in a saga motion-picture show , he was helping deliver Darth Vader and partying the night aside with his admirer on Endor , but thing drastically changed over the course of the following three decade . Taking his nephew , Ben Solo , under his wing , Luke watch in horror as his prized school-age child turned to the dark side and became Kylo Ren , destroy everything Skywalker had built . With Kylo terrorize the galaxy at the behest of the First Order , Luke went into self - impose exile on Ahch - To .

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Sitting down withDisney Insider , the doer was asked about his approach to depict an older Luke and tell the with child challenge he faced on the cinema was figuring out what had become of his classic grapheme :

" The biggest challenge for me was actually in the time between Return of the Jedi and Star Wars : The Force Awakens . I had to fuck what had happened to Luke during those years . I had to glean decades of backstory from the hand . And some of it I had to make up for myself . I had to know what he went through during that time . It ’s not important to the plot line for this film , but I did talk about some of my thoughts with Rian Johnson to ensure I was n’t coming up with anything in my personal backstory that would affect Luke ’s personation in this motion picture . "

This is similar to what Hamill said over the summer , when he confirmedThe Last Jedileaves a lot to the audience ' imaginationwhen it total to Luke ’s history . Surely , some motion-picture fan will perceive this as frustrative , but it ’s best to hold off judgement until the film is liberate . One of Johnson ’s more famous quotes during the buildup toEpisode VIIIis that a story is n’t a Wikipedia Sir Frederick Handley Page , imply everything he included in the script is there to service the narration of his picture show . There most belike will be references to Luke ’s past inLast Jedi , but it will only be what fans absolutely require to hear / see in guild for theLast Jedistory to work properly . Much like Rey ’s parentage , Luke ’s future and who he becomes over the rest of the continuation trilogy is more interesting than who he was .

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Whatever large-minded strokes are represent will almost definitely be elaborated upon at some point in time after the film comes out , however . With the story group firmly at work planning not just film , but books , comics , and everything in between , more detailed accounts of Luke ’s risky venture afterReturn of the Jedishould be available before long . The studio apartment , modishly , wantedThe Last Jedito be our first substantial gustation of Skywalker in this fresh era and now the floodgates can be opened .