SPECULATION Official Luke Skywalker Episode IX Discussion Thread

The time travel/dimensional thing seem to be a staple of STU and would just open the main story to a whole lot of issues. ST kind of used as a copout when they wanted to just blow away anything the new writers didn't like. If they do this it will just throw the chance for Luke's already bad ending to get hammered to death in so many more ways. This is where SW definitely wins over ST! Only good thing that would ever come out of time rifts would be Darth Yoda.

 

You know what is on the other side of that time portal.

 

So much win.

 

yeah, a force ghost cameo of Luke with no importance to the story is just super lame and the last nail in the coffin for old fans who wanted a fitting solution to Luke's character. What a shame.

 

Quite a small and petty thought: but why does Lukes metal hand disappear with him when he becomes "one with the force"?

Is it just that the director thought it looked better that way or that he didn't think about it? Or is there a genuine reason?

 

Without news of recasting, any time jump would mean maximum of 5 years?
I say maximum of five years because has anyone seen people in the 30's look at their own pictures from five years ago?

Beside, The Alliance to Restore the Republic defeated the Empire after 2 big battles? (Endor and Jakku). At that rate, I'm pretty sure the Resistance will mop up the FO in no time. No time jump needed.

 

I think they are gonna make Lukes first appearance of the film seem like big deal, i don't tink they are going to go down the route of Lukes been hanging out with Rey training the students.
I'd like to see Rey having students to, but that might not be the route JJ decides to go down, it would be quite a complicated thing to do on screen. Like you say their are a lot of characters who want screen time, so introducing a load of students and making the audience care about them would take quite a bit of set up. If you are going down that route you also have to spend quite alot of time on the Knights of Ren/Kylo students to set up their opponents. Then their is the issue of the last time the audience saw Rey she was basically an untrained not even apprentice who just had raw power, they would have to spend time establishing her as a sort of master and how she got to be a master, but this could if done badly massively exaggerate the mary-sue accusations. Plus then like you say you have to give Luke some time, you've got to give Kylo an arc, Finn, Poe, Rose, deal with Leia , not to mention come up with a fitting plot. Im not saying this is impossible but it would be quite a hard thing to pull off and could become more convoluted. JJ may decide he wants to go down the simple route of a simple story of Rey vs Kylo.

I think everyone is in agreement that a time jump is the way to go though.

 

I don't want Luke to appear to Rey. I want him to appear to Kylo. Hell, I want Luke, Han, and Leia to appear to Kylo at the end but sadly that won't happen.

 

"It really has tarnished my ability to enjoy it to its fullest," Hamill shared with ABC News of Fisher's passing. "You were asking earlier, 'Are you gonna come back?' I don't care anymore, on that level. Because Han Solo is gone, Luke is gone. You just can't get the band back together the way you wanted it to be, and it shouldn't be that way. It is what it is. Rather than being sorry that we can't have more of her, I'm just grateful that we had the time with her that we did."

http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/04/10/star-wars-mark-hamill-episode-ix-carrie-fisher/

 

I do wonder, if doing all the press work for the DVD/Blu-Ray releases of the Last Jedi has dragged up again all the emotion (for all concerned) about losing such a close friend. Perhaps coinciding with what may be Mark Hamill's last performance as Luke (in The Last Jedi) could stir up a whole pool of emotion.

I suspect that this story will get endlessly mis-quoted, without the appropriate context, in the next few hours. Ho hum.

 

One of my favorite things about Mark Hammill is he truly understands the appeal of Luke Skywalker. A clear example of this is when he talks about Luke's sexuality and how the ambiguity of that topic, opens Luke up to be whatever the audience chooses to project onto him. It's eloquence like this that has always had my deep admiration about Mark. He just seems to get that Luke Skywalker is not Batman, he's not a swashbuckling, snide-talking alpha-male hero (the kind so many who hated Episode IX seem to want him to be).

I love Luke, along with Doroty from Wizard of Oz, he is my favorite cinematic character. And one of the reasons he comes across so beautifully on screen is Mark Hammil's performance. That performance is greatly enhanced by Mark's thorough understanding of what makes Luke Skywalker so unique in American pop culture.

He speaks truth and he's a real gem. Can't wait to see what he does in Episode IX and very confident we'll get to see him perform in the next film.

Long live Luke Skywalker.

 

It was not mis-quoted. Here is the video for it. I don't deny that he was probably caught by emotions.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/rare-chat-family-star-wars-icon-mark-hamill-54368183

 

Still, is understandable since he lost a close friend, and he thinks that his character has fullfilled his role. About the misquote nightangel, he is talking about the context of how he says it, clickbait articles and people that hated the movie will take it that he hated the movie to support their argument