For a movie as big as Star Wars 9 you could expect some security precautions to be doing down. However, Mark Hamill has revealed just how ridiculous the measures are for the latest instalment. Even for Mark, who has played Luke Skywalker from the get go in 1977, he has seen how crazy-tight security is now compared to the first flick, A New Hope, which had him showing everyone the script.
Now? Well he’s not even allowed to keep a copy for himself. ‘I remember back when I read the first Star Wars [script], I was like, “Wow, that’s the goofiest thing I’ve ever read”,’ he told Entertainment Weekly. ‘I gave it to my best friend to read, and I said, “What do you think of it?” He said, “It’s really wild, it’s crazy, can I give it to Meredith?” “Sure, go ahead.”‘It went around to all my friends. Of course back then nobody cared. Nowadays it’s like working for some secret deep state government organization, like being in the CIA.
They’re going to send rewrites over to Prague on this dark red paper that gives you a headache to read. ‘They’re going to fly [the rewrites] over with somebody from the company. They’re going to come and give it to me and wait for me to read it before I give it back. So no pressure! You can’t even keep it overnight. But that’s the way it is now.’ It was noted by the publication red pages hinder printing as whacking them into a photocopier will only produce black pages with no words visible. JJ Abrams, is one smart man.
