Star Wars VII News: George Lucas Pitched Mark Hamill For A Obi Wan Kenobi Like Role In The Upcoming Sequel Thirty Years Ago [VIDEO]

Mark Hamill playing an old Jedi Mentor like Obi-Wan, doesn't even take a leap of the fans imagination that it is possible to happen in Episode VII. Fans certainly know that he has the beard to play the role, and based on an old interview that emerged this week, it seems like George Lucas had just the similar notion over three decades ago.

In the upcoming Star Wars film, Mark Hamill will be reprising his role as Luke Skywalker, together with Carrie Fischer as Princess Leia and Harrison Ford as Hand Solo. For that role, Hamill has matured an appropriately smart Jedi beard, one that is probable, signed his contract. During the interview Hamill told BBC, "It's really about the new generation of characters. We're just there to lend our support, and grow contractually obligated beards."

On the other hand, the contract simply need him to grow beard, but does not require him to live on set, work for 20 hrs a day until they wrap up the film and only cause him to have beard grown?

 During the 1989 interview with Hamill, he revealed Lucas once asked him,

"Would you consider playing an Obi-Wan-like character, handing Excalibur down to the next generation?" The sequel wouldn't be made until roughly 2011, Lucas told Hamil, and in return Hamill answered, "Gee, as much as I'd like to have a job lined up at the turn of the century ... well, I don't know."

All these years, fans are on the cliff of another Star Wars, but Hamill never thought he could reprise his role in the said Lucas film. Of course, we still don't have any idea how the role of Hamill play in the upcoming sequel, but we do know that the story is based on the sequel's trilogy of Lucas.