The Long Walk<\/em>, Mark Hamill plays the part of The Major, the militaristic despot character that runs the deadly game. In the Stephen King book, The Major is seen as a patriotic hero and even revered by some of the boys at the start of the competition. As the story progresses, he becomes a figurehead for everything evil and wrong about this nihilistic future.<\/p>\nI have been waiting most of my life for a movie adaptation of The Long Walk<\/em>. The Major is a prime candidate for an all-timer movie villain. If early reports are to be believed, Francis Lawrence has delivered an all-timer of a flick. Part of that has to do with Mark Hamill as The Major and the decision to cast him thanks to the work he did in The Last Jedi<\/em>. So, even if you vehemently despise that flick, its existence led to one of my favorite actors being cast in one of my favorite potential adaptations. I\u2019m always going to love it for that.<\/p>\nMark Hamill is racking up some great performances in the later part of his career. He\u2019s been deeply respected as a voice actor for decades, but with recent turns in The Fall of the House of Usher<\/em>, The Life of Chuck<\/em>, and now The Long Walk<\/em>, he\u2019s starting to get the attention and accolades he deserves as a dramatic actor on screen. I\u2019m willing to bet that a lot of folks are going to remember him after seeing The Major in The Long Walk<\/em>. They may not look at Luke Skywalker the same way again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways Oh, The Last Jedi. All these years later, you continue to rain down gifts upon those of us who enjoy the chaos you spread. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1992172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[360185,350109,348296,360186],"class_list":["post-1992171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-francis-lawrence","tag-luke-skywalker","tag-mark-hamill","tag-star-wars-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Last-Jedi-Led-To-Mark-Hamill-Getting-The-Role.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}