THE FORCE AWAKENS Needed Luke And Leia Present During Han's Death Scene According To Mark Hamill

Mark Hamill thinks there was only one thing worth changing about J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it's centered on the fact that Finn and Rey watched Han die, not Leia and Luke...

By MarkJulian - Apr 20, 2017 04:04 PM EST

Filed Under: Star Wars

Source: Fandango

All the focus may currently be on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but Mark Hamill is still willing and ready to discuss The Force Awakens, and one issue in particular. When asked if he was bummed that Luke didn't get a reunion with Han and Leia in The Force Awakens, Hamill answered, "Absolutely. In fact when I was reading [the script] I thought, if Leia was trying to mentally contact me and she's unsuccessful, she'll rush to his aid. She'll get close to him, get into some dire situation and that's when I show up for a big 'YAY!", save her life, then we rush to Han and are in the same position that Rey and Finn and Chewie are. But we're too late to save him but still witness it. That carries so much [more] emotional resonance into the next film for his wife and his best friend, instead of two kids that have known him for what...20 minutes?"

Hamill did go on to quickly follow that up with the fact that over the course of filming Episode VII and VIII he told J.J. and Rian Johnson, collectively, probably over "a hundred bad ideas", however his changes to Han's death scene actually seem better than what fans ultimately received. Said Hamill, "After the movies come out, I'm making a list of some of the more outrageous things I suggested because I look back now and go, 'What was I thinking?'

Here's @HamillHimself on the Luke Skywalker/Han Solo reunion he wanted to see in #TheForceAwakens #SWCO pic.twitter.com/W3H4qiFpf8
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Kyos - 4/20/2017, 4:54 PM

There definitely should have been some kind of reunion between the three (and Chewie).

Kr08 - 4/20/2017, 5:16 PM

@Kyos - The biggest mistake Abrams made in this movie, which he actually admitted to, was never having a Chewie consoling Leia scene when they came back from the Starkiller base.

I was so disappointed when she went to Rey instead of Chewie.

Scarilian - 4/20/2017, 5:18 PM

@Kr08 - "I was so disappointed when she went to Rey instead of Chewie."

That was part of the original leaked script from when Rey was going to be revealed as a Skywalker during the Maz Kanata vision scene. Instead they decided against the reveal.

RagnarGolem - 4/20/2017, 4:57 PM

He's right, you know. :/

DAMN Jar Jar Abrams! You should have listened the old man!

PS: I really liked The Force Awakens.

RagnarGolem - 4/20/2017, 4:59 PM

Kevwebsz - 4/20/2017, 5:02 PM

No. That would've felt

Forced.

AdamWarlockHim - 4/20/2017, 5:26 PM

@Kevwebsz - badum tsk

KillerOfSaints - 4/20/2017, 5:44 PM

@Kevwebsz - You win today

MarsivNayr - 4/20/2017, 5:56 PM

@Kevwebsz - you're not wrong, though.

BackwardGalaxy - 4/20/2017, 5:03 PM

I agree that Rey and Finn knew him too short a time for their reaction to be too significant.... But that's why Chewie was there.

ELAYEM - 4/20/2017, 5:07 PM

I didn't feel anythig when Han died, which is a sign of a bad death.
I think Luke or Leia's reaction would've made me feel something, or maybe flashback scenes to Han and young Ben as a father and son.
Idk. But the scene wasnt moving at all for me, and it should've been with an iconic character like Han

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