Why did George Lucas killed any main Star Wars character, according to Mark Hamill

It may seem rude to tell this, but to say everything clearly: George Lucas blockbuster in 1977 “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” Centered on Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), an unsatisfied youth that hates their life on the desert planet of the Tatooine background. Its human existence is then interrupted by the discovery of a secret holographic press release hidden inside a droid that his uncle recently bought. The hologram is of Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), the sovereign of the planet Alderaan and the secret leader of the rebellion against the tyrannical Empire of the Galaxy. Shortly after, Luke finds himself uniting his forces with a sage living in the desert that goes through Ben (Alec Guinness) and leaving his world of origin on the spaceship of an upward passer named Han Solo (Harrison Ford), all in the hope of saving Leia and joining the rebel itself.

Luke, Leia and Han then trained the basic set of the original trilogy of the film “Star Wars”, with Hamill, Fisher and Ford finally resumed their roles in the Trilogy Suite which ended in 2019. The generations of “Star Wars” appeared before one of these characters died on the screen. In the original trilogy, of course, all three were still breathing at the end. We cannot say so much for the old Ben (alias Obi-Wan Kenobi) or the bad Dark Vader (David PROWSE) and the Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid).

It is easy to see why Lucas would not want to kill anyone in “A New Hope”, which is itself a relatively light game which recalls Lucas’ favorite science fiction series, the science fiction adventures of the 1930s (like “The Hidden Fortress”). In the two films that followed, on the other hand, the stories began to distort more, and it seemed that the lives were really in danger. Could Luke, Leia or Han be killed?

According to Hamill, there has never been a chance that it will happen. It seems that Lucas once told the actor that everyone would be safe because “Star Wars” is for children.

Readers should remember, of course, that Luke, Leia and Han died in the “Star Wars” films before Lucas sold the Disney deductible in 2012 and sold all creative control to a new team of writers and producers. It was not Lucas’ idea to kill his main characters (although he was not clear if he had planned to do it when he developed the trilogy in a row himself).

Addressing today, however, Hamill remembers having worked on “Star Wars: Episode VI of 1983 – Return of the Jedi” and feeling that Luke’s personal arch should lead to a more complex moral struggle. The “Star Wars” franchise, after all, takes place in a universe which is linked together by a living cosmic force called, well, the force, from which individuals can draw, allowing them to make powers fueled by justice (the clear side) or selfishness (the dark side). As Hamill saw, Luke should have been held at dawn on the dark side in “Return of the Jedi”, having cut his hand by his own father, a man he had learned was only Dark Vader. Hamill expressed his ideas to Lucas, who immediately killed him in an exchange that the actor told as follows:

“When I complained about things – in the third, I said:” Luke lost my hand, he has the black glove, should he not be about Luke struggling with the side on the dark side? “George said:” Mark is for children. “And that’s why he will never plan to kill the main characters.

Of course, Lucas finally started killing characters when he created “Star Wars: Episode III of 2005 – Revenge of the Sith”, which saw the heroic senator Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) – Luke and Leia’s mother – die in childbirth. But this film, a prequel, was a tragedy on the initial moral fall of Dark Vader and its evolution of the noble Jedi Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) to a villain and murderous of Sith. In a story like this, it was perhaps suitable for one of the main (more recent) characters to die.