Mark Hamill Talks ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ & Knew About It Last Year

The news of Star Wars: Episode VII just doesn’t stop. Ever since Lucasfilm was sold to Disney, a video of Kathleen Kennedy talking Star Wars with George Lucas has surfaced, news that the new trilogy might be an original story came to light, and we even listed our picks for the ten filmmakers who should be in the director’s chair. Now original Star Wars actor Mark Hamill is talking about the big announcement, and this is actually something that Lucas talked to him and Princess Leia actress Carrie Fisher about over a year ago. Hamill says “Yeah, last August, he asked Carrie [Fisher] and I to have lunch with him and we did.” Hamill sat down with EW this week for a chat and he talked about his reaction last year: “I thought he was going to talk about either his retirement or the Star Wars TV series that I’ve heard about …