Long before The Last Jedi hit theaters, Mark Hamill had crafted a deeply personal—and profoundly dark—backstory for Luke Skywalker. One that never made it to screen. While Rian Johnson’s version of Luke shows a disillusioned Jedi Master in exile, Hamill imagined a man crushed by personal tragedy, not just failure. This alternate backstory was so emotionally heavy that it would have changed everything we knew about Luke’s motivation in the sequel trilogy. A Devastating Family Story That Was Never Canon During an interview on NPR’s Bullseye with Jesse Thorn, Hamill revealed that he created a psychological framework to understand why Luke would abandon the Jedi and retreat to Ahch-To. His reasoning? Love, grief, and unimaginable loss. “I thought, what could make someone give up a devotion to what is basically a religious entity, to give up being a Jedi? Well, the love of a woman.”— Mark Hamill via Nerdist In…
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Looking Back: EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II and Its Bold Promise of New Movie Content
It’s been nine years since EA first announced Star Wars Battlefront II, promising content from the ‘new movies’ and a release just around the corner. The excitement was palpable—after all, this was the sequel to one of the most iconic Star Wars games ever made. But did it live up to the hype? Let’s take a trip down memory lane and see how that ambitious announcement shaped up. A Bold Announcement Back in 2016, EA made waves by confirming Star Wars Battlefront II would feature not only content from the Original and Prequel trilogies but also from the new movies. At the time, that meant The Force Awakens and the upcoming The Last Jedi. For Star Wars enthusiasts, this was the ultimate selling point—battles on Jakku, fights with Kylo Ren, and maybe even a chance to take down the First Order on Starkiller Base. The trailer dropped with epic visuals,…