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Mark Hamill rerecorded his iconic 'Return of the Jedi' dialogue for the new 'Star Wars' trailer

Ian Phillips   

Mark Hamill rerecorded his iconic 'Return of the Jedi' dialogue for the new 'Star Wars' trailer

If you watched the brand new teaser trailer for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," you may have recognized a familiar voice. 

Mark Hamill narrates the opening of the trailer as his character Luke Skywalker.

"The Force is strong in my family," Skywalker says, "my father has it, I have it, my sister has it. You have that power, too." The voice-over caught some people off guard. Fans debated whether or not it was repurposed from "Return of the Jedi," or a brand new recording.

According to an interview with Hamill at "Star Wars Celebration," he rerecorded the famous dialogue from "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi" a week before the trailer's debut. However, not even he could figure out which version of his voice ended up in the final trailer. 

It turns out it was a little bit of both. 

"We used the original track and then we used what you recorded last week as reverb," Abrams told Hamill.

"There's a slight delay," Hamill explained. "So the delay is the new lines I recorded."

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Watch the trailer (and listen to Hamill's awesome voice-over) below:

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