In the episode, CGI Young Luke trains Grogu the ways of the Jedi. But Mark Hamill did not return to record any dialogue. Instead, Ukrainian company Respeecher was responsible for recreating and de-aging the actor's voice. Hamill's voice was completely synthesized using old recordings.
That's because whenever Luke speaks in "The Mandalorian" or "The Book of Boba Fett," it's actually a computer piecing together... The post Why Luke Skywalker's Voice Sounds So Weird in The Book of Boba Fett appeared first on /Film.
It was revealed shortly after the episode aired that Mark Hamill had reprised the role, with the assistance of a body double. Lucasfilm used deepfake technology to dial Hamill's face back to 1983, and the lines he read were re-dubbed with archival footage.
Plus he himself is from New Zealand, same as Temuera Morrison. Fan explanation: As Boba got older, he didn't want the same accent which all the clones had, so he forced himself to unlearn it. When the clones became less common, he decided to stop hiding it. You can still hear a little bit of Logan's accent in TCW.
It was received so poorly that Lucasfilm would go on to hire a YouTube deepfaker, who tweaked the footage from The Mandalorian from hokey cutscene into the realm of plausability, to re-do Luke for Boba Fett.
Why did Luke Skywalker Sound... Weird? - The Book of Boba Fett Controversy Explained
Why does Luke look so much better in Boba Fett?
The Book of Boba Fett actually used an actor who bears a striking resemblance to Mark Hamill, Graham Hamilton, and it may have simply been easier for Star Wars to use him without the deepfake - thus completely avoiding the "uncanny valley" effect seen in The Mandalorian.
“They effectively reproduced a de-aged version of Hamill for the shots by combining the texture from his face and also (the body double's) younger face," said Richard Bluff, a supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic VFX, to Esquire. Even the voice of CGI Luke isn't Hamill's voice.
One of the things fans noticed after watching "The Tragedy" is that Fett sounds different this time around. Morrison explained how Fett's rugged and scarred appearance actually led him to try something new with the voice. He recalled: I was doing that kind of background work — what's this guy going to look like?
Troy Kotsur is a deaf American actor who created Tusken Sign Language for the Disney+ live-action TV series The Mandalorian and later The Book of Boba Fett. He played a Tusken Raider in the fifth episode of The Mandalorian.
Why is book of Boba Fett so bad compared to Mandalorian?
While perhaps a few flashback episodes detailing Fett's escape from the Sarlacc Pit could have been an interesting way to flesh out his complete history in The Mandalorian, it didn't provide enough narrative material to justify another show entirely. Critics took note of the show's inability to match its potential.
Mark Hamill, renowned for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, has expressed concerns about the excessive use of CGI de-aging. Despite initially distancing himself from the franchise, he reprised the role in The Mandalorian through artificial intelligence-driven de-aging.
So we don't yet know the specifics of Skywalker's digital resurrection in The Book of Boba Fett. All we know is that the episode credits an actor named Scott Lang as Skywalker's stunt double, and Graham Hamilton as the performance artist.
As Slash Film reports, whenever Luke Skywalker speaks in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, it's not Hamill's real voice that the audience is hearing. Instead, the output of a highly advanced voice synthesizer called Respeecher is responsible for Skywalker's voice.
Even if Luke had seen Boba Fett, its unlikely he would have recognized him. They didn't really interact much in the movies, and Luke may have just assumed it was just another bounty hunter. After all, there were three people wearing Mandalorian armor on the cruiser's bridge.
Instead, Ukrainian company Respeecher was responsible for recreating and de-aging the actor's voice. Hamill's voice was completely synthesized using old recordings.
A recent article by Esquire points to executive producer Jon Favreau explaining about the voice this in a recent Star Wars doc, noting: "Something people didn't realize is that his voice isn't real. His voice, the young Luke Skywalker voice, is completely synthesized using an application called Respeecher."
Is Grogu Yoda? According to the events of "The Mandalorian" so far, Grogu and Yoda are not the same character. They are simply from the same species. The name of this species has never been revealed since "Star Wars" creator George Lucas wanted to give Yoda a sense of mystery.
While seemingly killed in Return of the Jedi after falling into a sarlacc, he has since appeared in Star Wars media set after the film, confirming his survival within the new canon, portrayed by Temuera Morrison.
Hailing from the planet Concord Dawn, Fett was a foundling of the Mandalorians trained by a mentor, and, as a Mandalorian warrior, fought in the Mandalorian Civil Wars before becoming a bounty hunter.
Bo-Katan dismisses Boba as a pretender and a disgrace to his armor, refusing to acknowledge Jango Fett as the father of Boba and disparaging him for being a clone.
Boba Fett looks so old because of his battle scars and because he was exposed and severely burned by the sun in the Tatooine desert. He is also a bounty hunter, so the stress and battles in his line of work greatly affected his look.
After defeating Vader in a duel on Mustafar, Obi-Wan Kenobi took Anakin's lightsaber with him into exile on Tatooine. Obi-Wan gave the lightsaber to Anakin's son Luke, who used it in taking his first steps along the Jedi path. But Obi-Wan didn't tell Luke the terrible truth that his father had become Darth Vader.
It was released in 1977 after the legendary filmmaker grappled with the idea of making the movie's protagonist a woman. He eventually decided to create two heroes; Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. A female version of Luke Skywalker that never came light.
Although not explained on-screen, given Luke's history with droids and the fact that the original trilogy takes place across a four-year period, it's probable that Luke simply learned Binary over time.
