And there it is. Another heat rock.
SXSW just took place-- Mark dropped by, sort of unannounced and last notice.
Confirmed: Mark Hamill was to survive through Episode 9 in the storyline and scripts, but Disney wanted him dead. This video backs up the rumor leak that Mark was killed in post-production. And for me, this is 100% affirmation of that. Some of you can remain skeptical if you wish, but sometimes you need to look at the whole story and apply Occam's Razor.
The way Rian buries his head in his hands-- you can read-between-the-lines that Rian wishes he fought Kennedy and the storyline board on Luke's death. You have to be able to read bodylanguage to appreciate the gravitas on this one. JJ has a history of shouting the story committee down, soymilk Rian is apparently incapable of that. He's still a smug ass little man at SXSW as always.
I'm looking into the validity of the rumor that Rian called Mark Hamill a "Motherfucker" behind closed doors at SXSW.