Check Out Mark Hamill As Luke Skywalker On The Set Of 'The Book Of Boba Fett'
Star Wars fans were shocked to see Luke Skywalker return in the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian. The Jedi’s look, who was in his late 20s at the time of The Mandalorian not too long after Return of the Jedi, was created by a combination of Mark Hamill’s features and Max Lloyd-Jones’s body as a stand-in, and a lot of CGI on the end of Lucasfilm in order to create a de-aged Luke Skywalker.
However, Luke’s face looked slightly off. Soon after the premiere of the episode a YouTuber by the name of Shamook created a deepfake video of this scene with a Luke Skywalker that looked a lot more like Mark Hamill around the time of Return of the Jedi. The video quickly went viral and earned Shamook a lot of praise for his work and ultimately even a job at Lucasfilm. When Skywalker reappears in Chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett his look was much improved, which many fans contributed to the work that Shamook had done for his new employer.
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Lucasfilm has only released two so-called Gallery behind-the-scenes featurettes accompanying the second season of The Mandalorian (while there were 8 for Season 1). The second featurette deals exclusively with the making of Luke’s return to the saga as a much younger man than in the sequel trilogy. The documentary reveals that the scenes where Luke arrives on Moff Gideon’s starcruiser, wipes out his Dark Troopers, and takes little Grogu with him were actually shot twice: once with Hamill doing the acting and then again with Lloyd-Jones. This is to get a sense of how the “original” Luke acted out those scenes before creating the younger version.
According to a set of brand new BTS photos that were shared by Twitter user and hardcore Star Wars fan AZZATRU the same was done for The Book of Boba Fett. These pictures came from an upcoming new episode of Disney Gallery on Disney+.
The first picture shows Hamill, Lloyd-Jones, and Rosario Dawson, complete in her Ahsoka costume and makeup, geeking out either in or around the Volume, where large parts of both The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett were shot. Dawson is holding a little Grogu puppet and seems quite happy about her company.
The next picture shows Hamill in a not very Jedi-like black jacket with Dawson in front of bamboo-like plants that were used to create much of the vegetation on the still-unidentified planet where Luke built his Jedi academy.
Picture number 3 has Hamill, now in his Jedi outfit, staring in wonder at the little green lightsaber that once belonged to Yoda, which he is offering to Grogu as a gift if he chooses to stay and carry on with his training.
Then there is a photo from this exact same scene, showing Hamill talking to a Grogu puppet. The hands of a puppeteer in grey gloves the puppet’s mechanisms can be seen.
The next photo is from the scene where Luke walks with Grogu through the forest, levitating him every few steps with the Force so that he could keep up. This gives an idea of how all of the scenes in this episode involving Luke were probably made, with first having Hamill do the acting and then Lloyd-Jones, while a puppeteer helped Grogu make his little jumps. More kudos to this episode’s director Dave Filoni for creating the identical scene with both actors so that the two video tracks could later be combined in post-production.
The last picture that was revealed today has Mark Hamill happily looking at the Grogu puppet in a not too different way from when George Lucas held the little green friend when he visited the set of The Mandalorian.
Disney Gallery – Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett premieres on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth.
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