While the box office success of The Last Jedi ($620.1 million domestic, $1.3 billion worldwide) was no surprise, many aspects of the story certainly were surprising to fans, including the arc of the iconic Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), which came to an end in The Last Jedi.
“It was definitely a thread throughout the whole (making of the film) and it was a conversation with Mark throughout the whole thing.
I feel like it maybe comes across as if that’s what our relationship was the whole time, but it wasn’t.”
There had been talk that Hamill and writer-director Rian Johnson had “clashed” over their differing perspectives on how to handle Luke Skywalker, and during an interview at the SXSW Film Festival, Rian Johnson admits that they “butted heads” throughout the production.