So that’s what you look for.” Ahead of his return engagement with fantastical puppets, Hamill referred to himself as “a Muppet fanatic, from the minute I saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show. “He said the script for Age of Resistance was really, really good, and he was right. “The last time I saw Gary Kurtz before he passed away, I told him I was doing this and he had read the script and really gave his seal of approval,” Hamill continued. “What I loved about was how daring and dark it was, as opposed to the other projects that were associated with the Muppets, and it’s really come into its own,” he said, comparing the film to Return to Oz, another Kurtz film that was once criticized for being too dark before finding its audience decades later. Hamill took his children to see the 1982 film in support of his friends, co-directors Henson and Oz (whose legendary work crafting Star Wars‘ Yoda more than itself speaks for, mmm) and producer Gary Kurtz (who also produced Star Wars).