Mark Hamill thought that Star Wars was a parody of Flash Gordon when he first read the script. The 73-year-old actor played Luke Skywalker in the original film, A New Hope, released in 1977, but he admits during the first read-through he was convinced that creator George Lucas had written a spoof,

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill initially thought George Lucas' 1977 space opera was a spoof of Flash Gordon when he first read the script and the director nor his co-star Harrison Ford gave him any advice on how to approach his character Luke Skywalker.