Could Luke Skywalker Get His Own Star Wars Disney+ Series?
Luke Skywalker’s time at the center of the Star Wars galaxy doesn’t seem to be finished just yet. The Jedi Knight’s role has been expanding ever since The Mandalorian Season 2 finale, even showing up in The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 6.
His first appearance in The Mandalorian teased a more significant role in the future. Din Djarin tells Grogu that they’ll see each other again right before the child is taken away by Luke, so if a reunion was going to happen between the two, it seemed logical and fitting that Skywalker would be there as well. Despite Djarin and Grogu not actually coming face to face in Chapter 6, their story certainly doesn’t seem to end there, and the same can be said about Luke. Here’s why Luke Skywalker could be about to get his own Disney+ series.
The Mandalorian Is Better Without Jedi
Technology-wise, it certainly seems as if Lucasfilm has the potential to make a live-action series centered around a CG character. Lucasfilm and ILM used innovative new ways to bring a younger Luke back to live action, beginning in The Mandalorian. As highlighted by Disney Gallery: The Making of The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale, a deepfake technique was utilized to recreate the face of Luke Skywalker from the Return of the Jedi era. Mark Hamill filmed the scenes in character, as did stand in Max Lloyd-Jones.
With deep fakes popular among fans at the moment, using this technology to bring Luke back was more obvious to fans than the recreation of the character's iconic voice. Sound designer Matthew Wood revealed in the documentary that they uploaded thousands of hours of Mark Hamill speaking, in interviews and in Star Wars films, to an algorithm that then produced Luke’s lines in The Mandalorian. The technology is bound to
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