Star Wars: Luke Skywalker Mandalorian Stand-In Was Originally a Phantom Menace Jedi

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Fans of the Star Wars franchise were really beside themselves when The Mandalorian season two finale showed Luke Skywalker saving the day once again. The hero, who hadn’t seen canonically seen Return of the Jedi, ducked in at the last minute to destroy the evil robots that attacked Baby Yoda (Grogu) and take him to learn how to become a Jedi. It was later revealed that this young version of Skywalker was actually played by Mark Hamill – but the Jedi who originally planned to help Din Djarin was a silent hero from The Phantom Menace.

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In 1999, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace introduced a collection of new Jedi Knights, including Mace Windu, Qui-Gon Jin, and Ki-Adi-Mundi.

Included in this lineup was the alien hero Plo Koon.

Jedi Master Plo Koon was placed in the script where Skywalker is supposed to arrive in an effort to prevent leaks.

This information was revealed by Hamill and Jon Favreau in the Disney Plus show Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian.

Plo Koon’s deception meant that all of The Mandalorian’s staff had no idea of ​​Hamill or Skywalker’s return.

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Star Wars: Luke Skywalker returned in The Mandalorian (Image: DISNEY)

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Star Wars: Plo Koon was used in the concept art for the episode (Image: DISNEY • LUCASFILM)

Plo Koon was an extremely convincing lie when Star Wars boss Dave Filoni publicly revealed that the Kel Dor Jedi Master is his “favorite” from the mythos.

To add to the schedule, Plo Koon was even drafted in concept art to make it look like Skywalker was nowhere near the production of The Mandalorian.

Hamill also spoke of a return to the character after previously appearing in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.

He said: “Obviously when they went from the original trilogy to the sequels, there was a huge gap in time where these untold stories are, but I just assumed they were going to get an actor that was age-appropriate.”

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Star Wars: Mark Hamill agreed to rejoin the series (Image: GETTY)

Hamill continued: “I didn’t think much about it, I was like, ‘Oh if they wanted to tell stories about Luke after Return of the Jedi, I wonder who they’d get.’

“When they said they were going to use the aging process they used in the Marvel movies, I was stunned.

“I didn’t answer right away, I mean, I had to think about it. The more I thought about it, I thought, ‘This is really an opportunity that was totally unexpected, but was almost a responsibility.’ In other words, if they say they want me to do this, how can I say no?”

Favreau remembered finally getting Hamill on the project too.

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Favreau explained, “When you have those feelings, where it feels really compelling, you know you’re onto something.

“We knew if we could pull this off it would mean so much to so many people. Especially for Mark, it’s going to let him come in there and show Luke right now and make it a party, and also a highlight of the two-season arc about this little child’s journey.”

The documentary episode also revealed that Hamill didn’t even voice his own character.

Instead, Disney used a synthetic version of his voice to tell the story.

Favreau explained: “So I had archival footage of Mark at the time. We had clean-recorded ADR [Automated Dialogue Replacement] from the original movies, a book on tape he made from that time, and then also Star Wars radio plays that he had done during that time.

“I could take clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they could slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data.”

The Star Wars saga and The Mandalorian are now available on Disney Plus.

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