Mark Hamill on new 'Star Wars': 'They're talking to us'

Following reports that Harrison Ford was almost certain to appear in the new "Star Wars" movie as Han Solo, Mark Hamill said that his Luke Skywalker and Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia are also likely to show up -- but cautioned that no deals have been signed just yet.

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In an interview with ET Online to promote his new movie "Sushi Girl," Hamill was asked point blank if he will reprise his role as Luke in the J.J. Abrams-directed "Star Wars -- Episode VII." Hamill replied, "They're talking to us. George (Lucas) wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts -- they would write us out."

Hamill added, "I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts. We're in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run LucasFilm. Both have had meetings set that were postponed -- on their end, not mine. They're more busy than I am."

The 61-year-old actor admitted that when Lucas first broached the subject of returning to him and Fisher last summer, he did not know that the movies would be produced through Disney, which bought LucasFilm in late 2012. As for the tone he'd like to see in a proposed new trilogy, Hamill said, "I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous -- in my opinion, anyway. 

"And another thing I'd want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie and Harrison and Billy Dee (Williams) and Tony Daniels, everybody that's around from the original (returning)? I want to make sure that everybody's on board here, rather than just one."

While it seems obvious that Fisher and Ford would be back, the other actors are less of a sure thing (we're betting that Anthony Daniels would certainly voice C-3PO at the very least). As for the story itself, Hamill said he has no idea what Abrams, Arndt and Kennedy have in mind, but he's willing to make a guess.

"I'm assuming, because I haven't talked to the writers, that these movies would be about our offspring -- like my character would be sort of in the Obi-Wan range (as) an influential character," the actor mused. "When I found out (while making the original trilogy) that ultimate good news/bad news joke -- the good news is there's a real attractive, hot girl in the universe; the bad news is she's your sister -- I thought, 'Well, I'm going to wind up like Sir Alec (Guinness]. I'm going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots.'"

Hamill concluded that he hopes the new "Star Wars" finds "the right balance of CGI with practical effects," explaining, "I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings -- I'm sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that's unfortunate...If they listen to me at all, it'll be, 'Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.'"

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