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"Star Wars" actor Mark Hamill, now 58, is pitching movies as part of a new production company where he is a board member. His first project will be to direct "Black Pearl," a low-budget thriller adapted from a comic book he wrote about a mentally-troubled masked vigilante. The company, Berkeley Square Films, has three initial movies on tap.
Hamill and his cousin Eric Johnson originally wrote "Black Pearl" as a script, but Dark Horse Comics took an interest and asked them to turn it into a graphic novel.
Johnson said the cast has not been selected for "Black Pearl," which Hamill hopes to begin shooting late this year.
While "Star Wars" helped him land parts in such movies as the teen comedy "Corvette Summer" and the war saga "The Big Red One" in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hamill generally found himself typecast and never achieved similar fame in a film role.
Hamill has said he will not appear in the movie.
(By the way, Internet Movie Database reports his salary for the first SW movie was $650,000.)
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