“ The Long Walk ” wanted Mark Hamill for his performance monitoring performance of ‘Star Wars”

Mark Hamill did not hesitate to discuss sound, we will say, aversion Luke Skywalker’s arc in the Star Wars Trilogy suite, especially in the film where the character is most important: The last Jedi. He almost closed the door when he returned to his most famous character, but the prolific actor was very busy with other roles, including two Mike Flanagan projects, The fall of Usher’s house And Life of Chuck. It is also The long walkOne of the rare adaptations of Stephen King these days which does not imply Flanagan, and it turns out that his Luc performance of the last days have helped to suggest it for the role.

In The long walkDirected by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games) and scripted by JT Mollner (Strange darling)Hamill plays the major, who oversees the title event – in which young men walk and walk until they win or die – with a cruel and ruthless hand.

“There are people that we could have gone who are clearly a major material,” said Mollner to Collider about Hamill’s cast. “But in the new Star Wars Films, there is a weariness to age Luke Skywalker that I really wanted for the major. And Mark spoke about this in a powerful way. “”

Wasness comes with aging, inevitably, but in the case of Luke, which is also wrapped in regrets of self -disgust and deep, which makes that what is hidden under this gruff shell all the more fascinating when it begins to crack. In other words, Hamill is exceptional to represent diapers of simultaneous anger – a quality that has apparently made him a good adjustment, although in a completely different context, because The long walk.

The long walk Also put Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Judy Greer, Josh Hamilton and more. He arrived in theaters on September 12.