Mark Hamill, legend of the Star Wars franchise, has joked about what the actual reason for A New Hope’s galactic civil war was.
Through the prequels and subsequent material, we have come to learn a great deal about the war we see taking place between the Empire and Rebellion in A New Hope but Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), says there could be a more straight forward reason for its inclusion.
Responding to a Twitter question, Mark Hamill says that although he hasn’t seen it in a while, he thinks the war was just a helpful plot device: “It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I always thought the war was just an excuse to provide a much needed conflict for an action-adventure movie. That, and to blow a bunch of stuff up, of course.”
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It's been a while since I've seen it, but I always thought the war was just an excuse to provide a much needed conflict for an action-adventure movie. That, and to blow a bunch of stuff up, of course.
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) February 1, 2020
The Star Wars universe has an incredibly deep and fascinating lore at this stage so Hamill’s tongue-in-cheek explanation isn’t going to quite cut it for die-hard fans of the franchise, even if it’s true (from a certain point of view).
