10 Ways Star Wars: The Last Jedi Was Almost Completely Different
1. A COMPLETELY Different Luke (With A More Elaborate Jedi Temple)
Hardcore fans have known for many years that Mark Hamill originally wanted Luke to not only turn/return evil in Return of the Jedi - but that he would have a topknot hairdo, of all things.
Brilliantly, the original concepts for Luke adhered to this, with a small patch of hair on the back his head, alongside some more religious/symbolic markings on his forehead. Kylo too, was conceptualised in much the same way, though as both characters start out looking nothing like this, it would take one hell of an arc throughout The Last Jedi to see them change so drastically.
In addition was Luke's temple or homestead, and here the Last Jedi Visual Dictionary shows a place that's far more technologically advanced than the rubble n' X-Wing door hut he's using in the film.
Not only would Luke have some almost Vader-esque central dwelling within the room, but to even access different parts of the island would take a specific barge (not too dissimilar to the one Jabba the Hutt used in RotJ)
This would have shown Rey and Luke journeying to various underground or out-of-reach Jedi ruins, essentially carrying forward (on screen, anyway) the sorts of visuals from Rogue One, where we saw a collapsed statue of a jedi holding a lightsaber.
Instead we got a big, mossy hole in the ground, and that... was... fine?