Star Wars 8 Leaves Out 'Massive Amounts' of Luke's Backstory

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

StarWarslead Mark Hamill says there are"massive amounts"of Luke Skywalker ’s backstory afterReturn of the Jedithat did n’t make it intoStar Wars : The Last Jedi . Without query , Luke is one of the gravid fabricated persona to go forth in soda civilization in the past 40 years , postdate the farm male child - turned - Death Star destroyer ’s intro in the first chapter of theStar Warssaga , A New Hope . Thanks to the blockbuster achiever of the very firstStar Warsfilm , fan convey the chance to see Luke fulfil his turgid fortune by facing the nefarious Darth Vader face - to - expression inThe Empire Strikes Back(and read the startling Apocalypse that the Dark Lord of the Sith was his father ) , and redeeming the humankind born Anakin Skywalker at the end ofReturn of the Jedi .

While Luke only seem at the very destruction of the 2015 continuation of the Skywalker family saga , The Force Awakens , rooter have few answers as to where the legendary Jedi master has been for the last three decades . chiefly , filmgoers discovered that Luke was training Han Solo ( Harrison Ford ) and Leia Skywalker ’s ( Carrie Fisher ) Logos , Ben Solo to be a Jedi , only to have his prentice take a deadly turn sprain to the Dark Side and assume the theatrical role of Kylo Ren ( Adam Driver ) ; but apart from that the crux of The Force Awakens was for the mysterious quality with Jedi powers , Rey ( Daisy Ridley ) , to reveal ’s Luke ’s whereabouts .

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patently , fans with be clamoring for more information on what Luke ’s been up to for the past 30 years whenThe Last Jedidebuts in dramatics December 15 - but in a new cover story audience withEW , Hamill let out that fans may not get as much backstory on Luke as they were hoping for . Hamill reveals that he and writer / manager Rian Johnson had discussions about what happened to Luke after the end ofReturn of the Jedi , but finally the item were n’t deem essential toThe Last Jedi :

“ There ’s monumental amounts of backstory that is forget to your imagination and I could n’t do my caper without fancy out what that was . Since it ’s not really crucial to the main story as a whole a lot of it is just for my own process . I talked with Rian about it and went into this elaborate scenario of what bump to Luke after the remainder of the Return of the Jedi . ”

That ’s not to say that the feel of the young Luke has left the aging Jedi warrior . It ’s just at this spot in his animation , Luke , who is about the same old age as Obi - Wan Kenobi ( Sir Alec Guiness ) was in the firstStar Warsfilm , he ’s filled with much more conflict :

“ I believe he likely looks out on the horizon and bid that he could be more effective , could be what Obi - Wan want him to be . But life is imperfect and without battle there is no drama . Believe me , you ’re going to see a flock of battle in The Last Jedi . That is for sure . ”

What exactly is the source of Luke ’s struggle is yet to be seen , but judging the dark demeanor of the character in the film ’s first preview , speculation has arisen ofwhether he will be a villain inThe Last Jedi . Luke ’s certainly has a lot of excited baggage to pack in luminance of Ben Solo ’s action as a Jedi apprentice , and he ’s likely not going to take the news of Han Solo ’s demise at the hand of Kylo Ren too well .

No matter what happen , it ’s exciting to learn that the potential exists for some striking character turns inThe Last Jedi , especially keep up criticisms thatThe Force Awakenswas too similar to the originalStar state of war . Whether these dramatic turns are embraced by rooter are yet to be seen , but in order for the Skywalker sept saga to go forward in a way to hire moviegoers , some risks will have to be necessitate . Hamill could n’t be more right in his observations when he says,“Without conflict , there is no drama,“and by all indications , it sounds like we ’re going to get a caboodle of it .