So Mark Hamill Almost Died on the Set of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS?!
B: It appears that this entire story was made up, since Hamill took to Twitter to say it's "completely untrue." Here's his tweet, followed by our original article below:
Whle shooting Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Harrison Ford broke his leg, J.J. Abrams broke his back, and now we have word that Mark Hamill apparently almost fell off a mountain and died during production last year!
While shooting in Ireland, he slipped on a "treacherous mountainside." It happened while he was climbing the steps of a place called Skellig Michael, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site off the coast of County Kerry in Ireland. I included a photo of it below.
The Times (via Daily Mail) reports that he would “have been a 'goner’” had he not been caught and saved by a guide from the Irish Office of Public Works. Good grief, what a terrible thing it would have been had that guide not been their to rescue Hamill. Thankfully the guy had quick reflexes and the strength to keep him from falling. Talk about a close call.
Skellig Michael is 180m-high and "boasts incredible views of an ancient monastery built at its summit and the Atlantic Ocean, however there is a dangerous climb up 600 old and slippery steps to reach it."
Apparently several people have slipped on the mountain and fallen to their deaths in recent years. It’s sad that other people have died there, but thankfully it did’t claim the life of Hamill.