Star Wars icon Mark Hamill reveals the story behind Luke Skywalker's iconic name change from 'Luke Starkiller' in an interview on the Politickin' podcast.
47 years after the release of the first Star Wars movie, Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, has explained why George Lucas changed the character's name into the iconic version that it is today. It's a well-known fact that Luke's name in the original Star Wars (later retitled A New Hope) scripts was actually 'Luke Starkiller', a much more aggressive version of the heroic surname that has come to define the Star Wars episodic saga.
Over the years, the reasoning for this change has been explained in places, but Hamill himself has now provided his own explanation. Hamill reveals on the Politickin' podcast how he was made aware of his character's name change, as well as the circumstances surrounding it. He says that the scene where Luke introduces himself to Princess Leia inside her cell had already been shot with Luke's Starkiller surname, and that Hamill was confused to see the same scene on a call sheet later on. After asking why that was happening, Hamill was informed that his name had been changed to 'Skywalker', which Hamill responded to with 'Oh, my God, like fire'. When I read the screenplay, which by the way, was called 'The Adventures of Luke's Starkiller'. That's taken from the Journal of the Wills, Saga number one, the Star Wars, and my name was Luke Starkiller, that I read on the call sheet. When I rescue the Princess, I had filmed it. She said, 'Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?' And go what? Oh the helmet? I take the helmet off. 'I'm Luke Starkiller. I'm here to rescue you.' So we had filmed that and I got the call sheet and I saw that scene was on there again. I said, 'What's up with that?' They said, 'Oh, well, they've changed your name.' I said, 'To what?' And they said to Skywalker. 'I said Skywalker, Oh, my God, like fire.' Hamill then brings up the Star Wars focus group, and the contest they had on set surrounding this group's dynamic with Luca
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