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Here's the thing about Hamill. . .
He says he told Rian Johnson early on, "I fundamentally disagree with every decision you've made for Luke."
Okay, asshole, so why the fuck did you make the movie? Is it just me, or does it seem like a bitch move to know ahead of time that you're unhappy with the direction the character is being taken, but then make the movie anyway, only to publicly complain about it after you've gotten paid?
You think people are being unfair to Rian Johnson but you call Mark Hamill an asshole?
Hamill would have been vilified if he had held out on Episode 8, especially after the way it looked like the story was going after Episode 7. People would just be in the dark and puzzled and think he had fucked everything up. They would think the makeshift story to explain his absence in Episode 8 was his fault and that he had robbed them of the Episode 8 they thought they were going to get, but actually never were.
Plus what do you think his contract looked like? Do you think there would have been no consequences to pulling out of Episode 8 after shooting Episode 7?
Do you think he ever thought the Episode 8 script would be what it was when he was filming Part 7 and committed himself in advance to Part 8?
He showed up to work and tried to put as much of the real Luke Skywalker as he could into what was on the paper.