What Mark Hamill is Saying about His Return to Star Wars

Slashfilm has assembled a bunch of fresh, detailed quotes from Hamill himself that seem to indicate that we're all jumping the gun just a little bit. Though Hamill says that he expects to be in the film and seems to want to be, he says no contracts have been signed and he hasn't talked to writers--he apparently has no more idea than the rest of us about where he'd fit into the storyline. He did assure us that Lucas had indicated there would NOT be new actors playing Luke, Han or Leia--either they were in or the characters would be written out. But, like some of the assurances we talked about yesterday, that seems to have come from an era in which Lucas expected to have more influence over the direction of the films than we should expect him to now. The upshot of this new information seems to be...there is no new information. Continue holding your breath.