The Star Wars universe is brimming with characters who haven’t yet been introduced to live-action, who have plenty of stories to tell, but the ghosts of Star Wars past seem doomed to haunt the spotlight. But if these classic characters are going to appear for a significant length of time, beyond stilted cameos, perhaps Lucasfilm should start hiring actors, instead of constructing digital puppets (when it comes to young Luke, Sebastian Stan is right there). Originally expected to release in 2025 the untitled film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker, long after Luke's sacrificial death in The Last Jedi. We never learn anything new about Luke in his digital appearances he exists only to separate Mando and Baby Yoda, to delay their inevitable reunion. Star Wars Celebration 2023, Kennedy officially announced Daisy Ridley would be reprising her sequel trilogy role in Lucasfilm's next Star Wars film. Luke’s blank gaze is bad enough, but the character’s lines are even delivered via a speech synthesizer, trained by Hamil’s old audio clips, which imbues Luke with an eerie detachment he’s like a character from an awkward video game cutscene, voiced by an actor who doesn’t quite understand the context of the conversation. control, who's totally aggressive, dangerous, and. He is also someone who understands the film industry inside and out, beginning as an actor. This is a version of Kirk without any boundaries, one without self. Out of the two puppets that appear in this episode, Grogu is the more expressive. hats throughout his acting career and worn them all so well too. Boba Fett, on other hand, seems to represent the overstuffed worldbuilding that plagues a galaxy far, far away - we don’t always need to know what happened to every adversary, ally, and weird background alien that appeared in the original trilogy.īoba is one of many side characters who have been spread too thin, stretched out across an unnecessary, unremarkable narrative.ĬGI Luke Skywalker, on the other hand, represents Star Wars at its most empty and nostalgic the de-aged character is a remarkable technical accomplishment, and a poor replacement for Mark Hamil. While you see the face of Mark Hamill when you think of Luke Skywalker, in another timeline, there could be another actor that is brought to mind when you think of the Jedi Knight.
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