Star Wars: Episode 8 News: Mark Hamill Pranks Twitter Followers With ‘New Trailer’

Contrary to his much serious and quintessentail character Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill showed off his funny side to his  1.7 million-strong legion of followers who are enthused with his Star Wars tweets.

Posting funny stuff on Twitter was Hamill's newfound hobby since he was recently reprised for his role in the recent Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Taking a break from the film production, the actor seems to enjoy playing around the microblogging platform with jokes, behind-the-scenes snapshots, and adding fire to the hysteria over whether Rey is Luke's daughter or not.

Then just recently, he did again. He buzzed twitter with his usual trickery. He upped his Twitter followers' excitement when he posted a tweet that he'd been granted a 'special permission; from Star Wars director Rian Johnson to treat fans with a quick sneak of an Episode 8 trailer (literally).

"Brief glimpse of an EP8 TRAILER-Mine!" the Star Wars actor tweeted as quoted by Mirror UK. By that, what he actually he meant was a picture of his on-set trailer.

Putting aside Hamill's playful Twitter side, new reports surface that the original Skywalker character initially resisted about being signed-in as a cast to the Force Awakens set as first reported by IGN. Director JJ Abrams fended off criticisms that Episode 7 was a copycat of Episode 4 saying that putting Luke back was necessary to re-ignite interest back into the sci-fi franchise. And it did as Force Awakens now is a top grossing film.

"We knew that getting to Luke was the whole story, and I was desperate to do the next chunk that we knew would not fit into this one movie. We knew that we had that ending, but it was a frightening and tricky thing to do, but at first and in all honesty, Mark Hamill was a little resistant," remarked Director JJ Abrams as quoted by Digital Spy.