Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The Alamo Drafthouse has a long-standing tradition of Don't Talk PSAs. Everybody from Danny DeVito to R. Lee Ermy to ex-Texas Governor Ann Richards have told the millions of movie nerds who have walked through their doors over the decades to keep their mouthes shut and phones dark and silent during the movie.
Now they've been able to enlist the help of a Jedi Knight. Mark Hamill seems like a dude totally game for anything. I've heard stories from friends that have run into him over the years and to the person they said he was down to talk about whatever and was even still happy to nerd out about Star Wars.
My only interaction with him was when he hosted the 30th Anniversary screening of Return of the Jedi at the Egyptian Theater in LA. I was hanging out at the side of the theater before he went on and he turned to the small group I was in and asked if anybody had seen the new Batman movie (which at that point would have been The Dark Knight Rises). We hadn't, but I said I adored Dark Knight so much that I was really excited for it.
He nodded and then said, "Why are all our superheroes British guys? Superman, Batman, Spider-Man... They're taking over our superheroes!"
Not bad to have my one interaction with him be at a screening of Jedi and have him mock superheroes, even if he didn't put on his Joker voice.
Anyway, anecdote aside, the Drafthouse was able to lock him down for a no-Talking PSA at a junket for Kingsman (which is awesome, by the way) and he did a bang-up job! Check it out:
-Eric Vespe
”Quint”
quint@aintitcool.com
Follow Me On Twitter
