Mark Hamill has explained why exactly Luke Skywalker's name was changed during the production of the first Star Wars movie.

PS: The name Starkiller is actually a reference to the original Star Wars script, in which Luke Skywalker is named Starkiller. Star Wars Battlefront II and its heavy implementation of micro ...

Unquestionably one of the more badass names ever to pop up in the galaxy far, far away - and one that originally belonged to Luke Skywalker in early drafts of 1977's Star Wars - Starkiller was ...

Luke Skywalker used it to destroy the first Death Star, and Poe Dameron (the Resistance's "best pilot") leads his fleet of X-wing pilots to destroy the Starkiller Base in "The Force Awakens." ...