It’s Return of the Jedi in a behind-the-scenes look at Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker on the set of Star Wars: The Boba Fett Book. Hamill played the legendary Jedi Master in six episodes of the Star Wars saga and made a cameo appearance in a season 2 episode of the mandalorianreturning to a galaxy far, far away in the goofy fett Robert Rodriguez spin-off. The special documentary on the making of Disney+ Disney Gallery: The Boba Fett Book, now airing in parts of the world to celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4, reveals new looks at Hamill’s on-set performance with Jedi Padawan Grogu. See them below.
In boba fett book In the episode “Chapter 6: Out of the Desert Comes a Stranger”, Hamill and actor Graham Hamilton play a digitally aged Luke Skywalker, rebuilding the New Jedi Order five years later.return of the jedi. He is the teacher of Grogu, the foundling boy who trains in the ways of the Force under the watchful eye of Ahsoka (Rosario Dawson).
Mark Hamill and Rosario Dawson on the set of THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT pic.twitter.com/TLqwJWPliX
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“It’s a new process for both of us, so we’re just trying to give the filmmakers everything they need,” Hamill says in Disney Gallery: The Boba Fett Book. “I’ve done all the looks: theater, radio, TV, movies, each of them has their specific requirements. But this is a whole new look. With this, it’s a composite performance. Not just the stunt double, but also the input. from the director and what’s on the page, all of these elements come together, to make it a continuous learning experience.”
Said writer/director/executive producer Dave Filoni of Hamill’s on-set performance: “The key is having Mark there, because you understand how much it means to him, this character. You understand when you see him there and you just look at him. “. The eye of him when he saw Graham perform, this sense of pride, I think, that he had seeing that committed performance and that he was a part of it.”
Celebrate #MayThe4th Eve diving into these shots of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker on the set of The Book of Boba Fett. These images appear in the next hour-long episode of Disney Gallery premiering tomorrow on Disney+. pic.twitter.com/R9KL2Yb3GI
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After cutting-edge digital techniques took decades from Hamill, 70, in his mandalorian cameo (with stuntman Max Lloyd-Jones standing), Lucasfilm used CGI and deepfake technology to digitally recreate the young Luke Skywalker with a “fusion” of Hamill and Hamilton’s performances.
“We’d do shots with Mark, and then we’d do shots with Graham,” he explained. goofy fett director of photography David Klein. “It was always a camera, because we had what’s called a flow team on our camera, which is basically two small [infrared] cameras on either side of our shooting lens… and Graham has invisible infrared dots on his face. Some visible, others invisible. And it works very well. But ownership of that character belongs to Mark.”
Disney Gallery: The Boba Fett Book airs May 4 on Disney+.
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