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Mark Hamill Doesn’t Care About Coming Back To The Star Wars Series

Still of Mark Hamill from Star Wars The Force Awakens/ Courtesy to Lucasfilm

Mark Hamill Doesn’t Care About Coming Back To The Star Wars Series

It seems Star Wars legend Mark Hamill is no more interested in reprising his role of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Saga as there will no longer be an on-screen reunion between Hamill’s Skywalker, Carrie Fisher’s General Leia Organa and Harrison Ford’s Han Solo.

Although Hamill had expressed his desire to return to the series in the past, he’s now said in an interview with ABC News that he doesn’t really care to do more Star Wars because of Carrie Fisher’s passing and killing off of Han Solo.

It really has tarnished my ability to enjoy it to its fullest,” Hamill said about Carrie Fisher’s demise. “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.”

Notably, Fisher passed away on December 27, 2016, after going into cardiac arrest at the age of 60. While some fans want Fisher’s character of Leia to be replaced by Meryl Streep in Star Wars: Episode IX, Hamill has his own opinion on the matter. The actor thinks Fisher as Princess Leia is irreplaceable.

In fact, Hamill is also not happy about the direction in which the Star Wars film franchise is moving forward. He thinks that releasing a lot of Star Wars film one after another will over saturate the Star Wars franchise.

I will say they should pace themselves, because you don’t want to over-saturate it,” Hamill said in an interview with Cinemablend. “I said to Disney, ‘Really? Five months after we come out comes [Solo: A Star Wars Story]? Can’t you at least wait until Christmas?’ But they’ve got things booked – they’re doing Marvel and their own movies, so that’s beyond my [purview.]

It would be interesting to find out if Mark Hamill will return as a Force ghost for Star Wars: Episode IX when the film hits theaters on December 20, 2019.

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