Luke may have become one with the Force at the end of The Last Jedi, but before selling the rights to Star Wars to Disney in 2012, Lucas had had other plans.
Originally the franchise creator was going to helm Episodes VII, VIII and IX himself and now Hamill has revealed how the filmmaker planned to end the Skywalker saga.
Speaking with IGN, the Luke star said: “I happen to know that George didn’t kill Luke until the end of [Episode] 9, after he trained Leia.
“Which is another thread that was never played upon [in The Last Jedi].”
So not only was Luke supposed to die at very end of the Skywalker saga, but he was going to train Leia to be a Jedi.
Hamill continued: “George had an overall arc – if he didn’t have all the details, he had sort of an overall feel for where the [sequel trilogy was] going – but this one’s more like a relay race.
“You run and hand the torch off to the next guy, he picks it up and goes.”
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Hamill added: “Rian [Johnson, The Last Jedi director] didn’t write what happens in IX – he was going to hand it off to, originally, Colin Trevorrow and now JJ Abrams.
“It’s an ever-evolving, living, breathing thing. Whoever’s onboard gets to play with the life-size action figures that we all are.”
