Alas, the Luke Skywalker actor confirmed that there was no truth to those rumors, and the beloved star survived to reprise his role as Luke one more time in Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi two years later.
In fact, during the production of The Force Awakens, false rumors started to swirl that Mark Hamill had injured himself performing in a scene on Skellig Michael.
Of course, these stories of danger on the sets of Star Wars movies are nothing new.