When we left off with Luke at the end of Return of the Jedi, he’d succeeded in becoming a Jedi Knight and made peace with his father before the redeemed Anakin died.
It was a fitting conclusion to Luke’s journey from desert farm boy to mystical warrior, but it’s not like his life just stopped after that.
This sequel trilogy offered the opportunity to see how an experienced Luke differs from his younger self and how he would be as a mentor figure, just like Obi-Wan Kenobi was to him.
Mark Hamill certainly would have been within his rights to decline participating in the new Star Wars trilogy, but as he detailed to ABC News, looking at this return through a James Bond-like lens helped him realize that playing Luke Skywalker again could actually be a fruitful endeavor.