In the 30 plus years since Return of the Jedi, the Dark Side is clearly still large and in charge, Luke Skywalker - and Rey and Kylo - are all walking the line between good and evil, and the only person getting any real work done is Leia. While it’s doubtful Lucas would admit this today, there’s a great quote buried in the 1997 book Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays in which Lucas admits the following: George Lucas totally considered having Luke Skywalker fall to the Dark Side in Episode VI. Still, all of this would ignore one fascinating detail. But, because that story is no longer considered canon, it’s safe to assume this version of Luke in The Last Jedi, never went through any of that. When this topic comes up, hardcore Star Wars fans will undoubtedly remind the uninitiated of the fact that Luke Skywalker did briefly turn to the Dark Side in the 1991 comic book series, Dark Empire. This isn’t an evil version of him.” This comment stood in stark contrast to Hamill’s goading of Star Wars fans online with various suggestive tweets about Luke Skywalker being the “villain” of the new film. “Luke has lost confidence in his ability to make good choices,” Hamill told Disney Insider. On November 6, Mark Hamill supposedly cleared-up all confusion about whether or not Luke Skywalker will really turn to the Dark Side in The Last Jedi.

Back in 1982, Lucas totally toyed with the idea of Luke succumbing to evil, which in turn, created all our evil Skywalker theories 35 years later.

And that’s because George Lucas came up with it first.

Luke Skywalker probably won’t turn to the Dark Side of the Force in Star Wars: Episode VIII- The Last Jedi, but if he did, it wouldn’t be writer/director Rian Johnson’s idea.

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