Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker Gets A Very Different Look In Star Wars: The Force Awakens Concept Art

Alzmann said Luke Skywalker was originally thought up as a Colonel Kurtz-type, the antagonist in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, which the great Marlon Brando portrayed. That didn’t call for a bald look for Hamill, but a much longer beard and long hair pulled up into a bun. The look seems to channel one of an old Samurai warrior and George Lucas very much draws from Japanese cinema with his work in Star Wars. But, in the end, the man bun was cut and Luke let his long hair down with a shorter beard.

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