47 years after the release of the first Star Wars movie, Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, has explained why George Lucas changed the character's name into the iconic version that it is today. It's a well-known fact that Luke's name in the original Star Wars (later retitled A New Hope) scripts was actually "Luke Starkiller", a much more aggressive version of the heroic surname that has come ... More @Wikipedia
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