Jackson Confirms He's Asked Star Wars Director About Mace Windu's Return

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Samuel L. Jackson confirms he's asked a Star Wars director to advocate for his return as Mace Windu. The Jedi was last seen in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, just moments away from killing Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) when Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) cut off his hand and Palpatine defenestrated him, an act that completed Anakin's turn to the dark side. Mace was thus considered dead, but without visual proof of termination, viewers have long since wondered if the Jedi survived.

Given Star Wars'continuing history of reviving characters previously presumed dead, this idea could be a very real possibility. For example, viewers saw Darth Maul get sliced in half by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, only for the character to make a return in the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars series. Another more controversial example of this is Palpatine's return in Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker; the fallen Emperor was brought back by the use of cloning technology that even drew out a lineage connected to protagonist Rey (Daisy Ridley).

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This has inspired Jackson to become even more vocal about his desired return as Mace Windu, to the point where he's even asked Star Wars director Bryce Dallas Howard about it. Jackson reveals this on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, in which the host asks Jackson where Mace is. The actor, who's recently filmedwith Howard, mentions that he asked her if she could "hook a brother up" and get Mace back to the Star Wars universe. Howard, who directed 2 episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett episode 5, agreed with Jackson that