Mark Hamill believes audiences might be undergoing \'Star Wars\' fatigue

Mark Hamill believes audiences might be undergoing 'Star Wars' fatigue

Press Trust of India  |  Los Angeles 

Mark believes the audiences might be suffering from the "Star Wars" fatigue.

The 67-year-old is the original star of the franchise, having played the role of in George Lucas' original trilogy.

After missing out on the prequel trilogy, reprised his role in JJ Abram's "Force Awakens" and Rian Johnson's "The Last Jedi".

During an interview with the Awards Chatter Podcast for The Hollywood Reporter, agreed that in the aftermath of under performing "Solo: A Story", the audiences might be a little tired of the franchise.

"Yes. I'm not gonna tell them how to run their business, but is there a possibility of 'fatigue'? Yeah, I think there is," the said.

"I've experienced it, to a certain degree. But they never listen to my ideas anyway, so who needs 'em?" he added.

When asked about his favourite film in the franchise, Hamill said it is the 1980 film, "The Empire Strikes Back", which, according to the actor, looks at the often not-so happy endings of the stories.

"I guess I'd probably have to go with 'Empire', only because it was so unexpected to have the protagonist be so soundly defeated, losing the hand and the dad Vader, all of it was pretty unexpected.

"And it was so cerebral: Yoda is such an important addition to the mythology and I thought it was so clever of George, the concept of the Force, so that you could talk about religion and spirituality without making people uncomfortable. So for that alone," Hamill said.

The actor is expected to be back as in the franchise's upcoming "Episode IX", which is expected to release later this year.

(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

First Published: Wed, April 10 2019. 12:15 IST