Date 11/12/2015 - News People
?STAR WARS? legend MARK HAMILL is making a documentary about the history of the franchise?s lightsaber fights. The veteran actor, who rose to fame as ?Star Wars? hero Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy, is fronting a film titled ?Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel,? which tells the story of the most famous battle sequences. ?What people don?t realize is how much goes into what appears to be just minutes on the screen,? Hamill says in a statement. The documentary also features contributions from J.J. Abrams, director of the latest instalment Star Wars: Episode VII ? The Force Awakens, the new film?s star John Boyega and Ian McDiarmid, who played Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi and the prequel films.
