'Star Wars: Episode 8' Spoilers: A Skywalker Will Survive To Return In 'Episode IX'

Rey (Daisy Ridley) handing a lightsaber to Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'
Rey (Daisy Ridley) handing a lightsaber to Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Disney

Mark Hamill shaved his Star Wars: Episode 8 beard in a new video posted to his Twitter account. But don’t worry, he also states Luke Skywalker will return for Star Wars: Episode IX in 2019.

While Hamill didn’t even have a line in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he’s rumored to have a much bigger role in the follow-up, Star Wars: Episode 8 Don’t Believe All Those Fake Subtitle Leaks.

Here are some of the whacked out rumors we’ve heard about Star Wars: Episode 8

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And here’s everything we know for sure about the plot of the next Star Wars Episode movie:

Yeah. So Mark Hamill letting us know he survives this one (unless he's a ghost... ooOOOOooooOOO) may be the biggest Star Wars: Episode 8 spoiler yet. Anyway, here’s how the beard of the last surviving Jedi Knight gets shorn:

Star Wars: Episode VIII will be out in theaters Dec. 15, 2017.

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