Luke Skywalker Actor Mark Hamill Officially Rules Out Star Wars Return: 'There's No Way I'm Gonna Appear as a Naked Force Ghost'

If you were wondering whether Mark Hamill mightiness play Luke Skywalker erstwhile again arsenic a Force ghost, deliberation again. The legendary histrion has ruled retired a instrumentality to the satellite celebrated sci-fi franchise, saying it’s present clip for Star Wars to determination past bequest characters and absorption connected the future.

In an interrogation with ComicBook.com to beforehand his caller movie, The Life of Chuck, Hamill was asked astir a imaginable instrumentality arsenic Luke’s Force shade successful upcoming Rey-led Star Wars movie, New Jedi Order. His reply was large and clear: nary chance. After all, Luke near his robes down successful 2017's The Last Jedi.

Mark Hamill archetypal played Luke Skywalker successful 1977's Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.

“I americium truthful grateful to George [Lucas] for letting maine beryllium a portion of that backmost successful the day, the humble days erstwhile George called Star Wars ‘the astir costly low-budget movie ever made,’” Hamill replied.

“We ne'er expected it to go a imperishable franchise and a portion of popular civilization similar that. But my woody is, I had my time. I’m appreciative of that, but I truly deliberation they should absorption connected the aboriginal and each the caller characters.

“And by the way, erstwhile I disappeared successful [The Last Jedi], I near my robes behind. And there’s nary mode I’m gonna look arsenic a bare Force ghost.”

Rey, however, is set to instrumentality to the satellite of Star Wars successful the Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy-directed sequel to the universally panned Star Wars: Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker. It volition archer the communicative of Rey arsenic she looks to rebuild the Jedi Order astir 15 years aft the events of that film.

We cognize adjacent to thing astir New Jedi Order. In January 2024, speaking to AlloCiné, Ridley teased a small much astir her caller film: "Once I knew what the communicative was and everything, I knew that it was thing I truly wanted to do," she said. “I deliberation it's a truly fantastic exploration of the Star Wars world. It's a truly chill mode of taking the communicative connected successful a spot of a antithetic direction."

In the shorter term, The Mandalorian and Grogu is owed retired 2026. Star Wars: Starfighter, Shawn Levy's Star Wars movie starring Ryan Gosling, is owed retired successful 2027.

At 2023's Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm announced 3 caller Star Wars diagnostic films: a Dave Filoni-directed New Republic movie acceptable successful his Mando-verse, a Dawn of the Jedi movie led by James Mangold, and the aforementioned New Jedi Order.

There is inactive truthful overmuch that tin and volition alteration erstwhile it comes to upcoming Star Wars movies and TV shows. But what we tin beryllium definite of is Mark Hamill playing Force Luke won’t beryllium a portion of them.

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