I was certainly one of the fans who was disappointed that the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" trailer showed nary a blink of the older Han, Luke and Leia. It seems Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself, has advice for people like me: get used to it.
In an interview with Yahoo! Movies, Hamill said that the new trilogy is going to focus predominantly on a new generation of characters, in the same way the prequel trilogy centered on a young Anakin and Padme rather than trying to find tales in the years immediately leading up to the 1977 original.
When pressed on whether he was taken aback that he was left out of the new teaser trailer, Hamill dismissed that notion.
"Not really," he said. "This is about the new generation of characters; I think that's the most important thing. It's the opening act of a whole new approach to the storytelling. So I never thought that the stories would be - first of all, I never thought I'd be involved in it again, period. And then when George [Lucas] said that they wanted to do more, I rightly assumed that it wouldn't be our story, because we had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This must be our offspring and the current generation, with us there lending the kind of support that Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness did in the original. So no, that didn't surprise me. And I mean, I'm one of those people where I just think, 'Keep me out of it. I'll ruin it, I'm sure!' [Laughs] I'll show up and just ruin the whole thing."
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" will force-push its way into theaters on December 18, 2015.
