10 Most Unusual Demands By Star Wars Actors

While doing press for The Last Jedi, Mark Hamill revealed that during the earlier stages of production he made an extremely odd request of the film's writer-director Rian Johnson - to give Luke Skywalker an evil clone. Yup.

Long story short, Hamill's son had told him about a 1993 Star Wars novel, The Last Command, where a clone is created from Luke's severed hand, hilariously named Luuke Skywalker.

Hamill felt it would be an interesting angle for the sequel trilogy's middle chapter, though unlike every other unusual demand on this list, Johnson actually shot him down. Hamill said in an interview with SFX:

"My son Nathan... told me years ago, 'Dad, there's this great story where they clone an evil Luke from your severed hand.' I said, 'Oh, baby, would I love that?' Not only could you get to play your evil twin, but what a great idea that you bring Luke back, and the audience starts noticing him undermining the heroes, cutting their fuel supply inexplicably, maybe even killing one of the supporting characters. It would be so mind boggling, and then of course the real Luke shows up and that mystery is solved.

When I suggested it to [Johnson] he said he thought that was a cool storyline too, but it's been done. Rian had to find a way to take elements of the movies that everyone expects to be there – the action, the adventure, the special effects, the creatures, and humor – so that everyone feels they're having a Star Wars experience, but also bring something new to the table, that's challenging, that hasn't been done before."

While it's tough to picture a clone Luke storyline going down well with fans - as Johnson said, it's been done - there are surely many who would've preferred it to the highly contentious arc he ultimately wrote for Luke.