{"id":8660,"date":"2019-06-22T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2019-06-22T08:03:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:03:42","slug":"heres-how-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-will-bring-back-luke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-mark-hamill-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How &#8216;Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker&#8217; Will Bring Back Luke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Luke Skywalker sacrificed himself (RIP) at the end of\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/em>, fans have taken to intense speculation as to how he will return in J.J. Abrams&#8217; new movie. Now, thanks to Mark Hamill, we know.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APEntertainment\/status\/1141637220404813825\">Associated Press<\/a> while promoting the new\u00a0<em>Child&#8217;s Play<\/em> remake, Hamill confirmed how and why he will reprise his most iconic role in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker\/249997\"><em>Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;The fact that I\u2019m involved in any capacity is only because of that peculiar aspect of the Star Wars mythology where if you\u2019re a Jedi, you get to come back and make a curtain call as a Force ghost.&#8221; Watch the clip below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HAMILL\u2019S LAST HOPE: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarkHamill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarkHamill<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HamillHimself?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HamillHimself<\/a>) is hoping to retire from his Jedi job in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/starwars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StarWars<\/a>\u2019 next installment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiseOfSkywalker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RiseOfSkywalker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kvdb53Sw31\">pic.twitter.com\/Kvdb53Sw31<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APEntertainment\/status\/1141637220404813825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For two years, the Force ghost theory was a popular one among devoted Star Wars fans, so hopefully, they can rest easy having it confirmed. Hamill also went onto say in typical, no-BS Hamill fashion, that he hopes his next appearance in the franchise will be his last. Why?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, because\u2026I had closure in the last one,&#8221; Hamill explained.<\/p>\n<p>We get it. After working off-and-on for 42 years in that galaxy far, far away, it&#8217;s easy to empathize with Hamill wanting this next movie to be the definitive ending for both him and his character. With Abrams saying that\u00a0<em>The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>\u00a0will conclude not just the new trilogy that started with 2015&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Force Awakens<\/em>, but also the entire Skywalker saga, it looks like Hamill will get his wish.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker<\/em> opens in theaters December 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Luke Skywalker sacrificed himself (RIP) at the end of\u00a0Star Wars: The Last Jedi, fans have taken to intense speculation as to how he will return in J.J. Abrams&#8217; new movie. Now, thanks to Mark Hamill, we know. In an interview with the Associated Press while promoting the new\u00a0Child&#8217;s Play remake, Hamill confirmed how and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}