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• — Luke Skywalker is in the Tatooine desert repairing a Moisture vaporator, assisted by a WED Treadwell repair droid, when he notices shining objects in the sky. Luke looks with his Macrobinoculars at two ships engaged in combat beyond the atmosphere. He jumps into his Landspeeder. The malfunctioning Treadwell blows a fuse and is unable to follow. Luke speeds off into the desert to find his friends. (This could have cut to the first film appearance of Darth Vader, although the scene is connected via circular wipe to the arrival at Tosche Station in the Blu-ray deleted scene. The next segment would follow R2-D2 and C-3PO ejecting from the Tantive IV in an escape pod.) Luke rushes into Tosche Station excitedly telling his friends about the battle above their planet. He is overjoyed to be reunited with his friend Biggs Darklighter who is on planet leave from the Academy. Camie, Fixer, and Biggs all follow Luke outside to see the battle with Luke's macrobinoculars. The battle appears to have ended and Luke's friends ridicule him for making it all up. (This scene was to come before PrincessLeia being led captive before Darth Vader.) The footage has been degraded by poor film storage conditions, but was restored somewhat in the Blu-ray edition.
• — This scene is a conversation between Luke and his oldest friend, Biggs Darklighter. Biggs has left Tatooine and is on planet leave from the Imperial Academy, where he is training to be a space pilot. Luke's envy of Biggs's success conflicts with his duty to his uncle and his reasons for remaining on Tatooine. Biggs quietly tells Luke that he has decided to join the Rebellion against the Empire. In an emotional exchange, the two young men say their farewells. (This scene was to come between the scene where C-3PO spots a distant Jawasandcrawler in the desert and the capture of R2-D2 by Jawas in the canyon.)
• — R2-D2 has absconded from his new master, Luke Skywalker. Early in the morning, Luke and Threepio rush off in the landspeeder to search for Artoo, with Threepio driving the landspeeder. They talk about Artoo, Ben Kenobi and how angry Uncle Owen is going to be. (The scene belongs at the start of the sequence where Luke and Threepio search for Artoo, before the attack of the Tusken Raiders. The moment was scored with a light version of Luke's theme; the music can be heard at the beginning of the cue "Land of the Sand People" on the original LP and CD configurations, or "Landspeeder Search" in the Special Edition album.)

• — As Luke's landspeeder races into the town of Anchorhead, he nearly runs over an old woman (an unfinished effects shot).
• — A shot of Beru dispensing the blue milk before she joins Owen and Luke at dinner.
• — Rough-cut footage of the Elstree Studios location cantina scene taken from the Lost Cut. The footage features some creatures that didn't make the final cut, Jenny sits next to Han and makes out with him, multiple alternate takes and cut lines, the full Paul Blake Greedo confrontation, etc.
• — In this short scene, Darth Vader and Chief Bast walk along a corridor on the Death Star. Bast reports that the search for the missing droids has extended to Mos Eisley spaceport. Vader observes that Princess Leia is resisting interrogation and Bast boldly criticizes Tarkin's plan to break her as "foolish." (The scene would have appeared between the scene where Han Solo encounters Jabba the Hutt and the scene where Luke and Obi-Wan find the Millennium Falcon in Docking Bay 94.)
• — Stormtroopers search the alleys of Mos Eisley for the missing droids.
• — The scene between Biggs and Luke in the Rebel hangar bay lasts longer, involving Garven Dreis speaking of knowing Luke's father when he was just a boy.

• The first edit of the film was by John Jympson and referred to as the "Lost Cut." It contained all the footage that George Lucas had shot up to that point, as well as on-set sound effects and a different opening. This rough cut contained a lot of alternate takes that were not used in the final version of the film, plus several scenes that were subsequently cut. George Lucas decided to reedit the whole film to give it a faster pace. Aside from the small amount of still photos that have surfaced and monochrome footage of the cantina, Luke and Biggs on the Behind the Magic CD-ROM, very few people have seen it. The Star Wars Holiday Special borrowed footage for the "Life on Tatooine" segment. The cut has since deteriorated to black and white, but an article about it was published in Star Wars Insider 41.
• Additional shot of the Rebel soldiers getting into position.
• Vader oversees captured Rebel soldiers aboard the Tantive IV.
• Alternate dialogue between Vader and Captain Antilles.
• There are many short alternate takes throughout Star Wars where Luke appears in his poncho which can be seen in stills and trading cards: Luke in the desert, in the Tusken Raiders' canyon, finding the destroyed homestead and in the hangar on Yavin 4. The only poncho scenes that made the final cut were in Docking Bay 94, on the Millennium Falcon flight from the Death Star, and the arrival on Yavin 4.
• Alternate establishing shot of Kenobi's hut and landspeeder parked outside, part of the Lost Cut.
• Luke decides not to replace C-3PO's restraining bolt in Kenobi's hut, from the Lost Cut. The scene appears in the film novelization.
• Extended dialogue between Luke and Ben inside Kenobi's hut.
• Extended conference room scene, with Cassio Tagge expressing his distrust for Darth Vader, referring to him as a "Sith Lord". This scene was later shown at Celebration 2017.
• Extended mourning of Owen and Beru Lars.
• Obi-Wan proclaiming "Well, there we are" before describing Mos Eisley to Luke.
• One long shot of the landspeeder traveling from the trooper checkpoint to the cantina, part of the Lost Cut.
• Ponda Baba was originally supposed to be decapitated instead of losing his arm. Footage of his head bobbing around on the floor was shown at the Cantina Archaeology panel at Star Wars Celebration 2019. This was most likely cut due to a decapitation being more violent than a dismemberment.
• A patron of the cantina (Garouf Lafoe) leaves and reports the altercation between Obi Wan, Luke, Ponda Baba, and Dr Evazan to the stormtroopers. The camera follows him out of the cantina. In the final version in the film, he can briefly be seen just before an optical wipe and then immediately outside talking to the stormtroopers as C-3PO says, "I don't like the look of this." This footage can be found on the "Cantina Rough-Cut" scene featured on the Blu-Ray.
• Luke is seen haggling over the price he gets for his land-speeder with Wioslea for a little longer than is shown in the film.
• Jabba the Hutt confronts Han Solo at the Millennium Falcon. The original scene featured Declan Mulholland as a stand-in actor for Jabba, who was to be later replaced with an alien creature, but the technology at the time was not up to the task of creating it. In 1997, the scene was re-added in the Special Edition with Mulholland replaced by a CGI Jabba, which was enhanced upon in a later release. Additionally, Boba Fett was added in the background.
• Extra shots of stormtroopers searching Mos Eisley.
• A shot of a hidden gun on the Millennium Falcon shooting at stormtroopers was cut. This shot was later used in The Empire Strikes Back in the scene where Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO reach the Millennium Falcon on Hoth.
• Extended Alderaan destruction, including additional dialogue and extra shots of the Death Star Overbridge after Alderaan's destruction, featuring Leia being led away by Darth Vader.
• Additional dialogue aboard the Millennium Falcon as it approaches the Death Star. Mark Hamill disliked the lines so much that he begged George Lucas to remove them, which he eventually did.
• Extra dialogue during Han and Luke's argument on whether to rescue Princess Leia or not.
• Extra shots of stormtroopers heading to their stations.
• More footage of Kenobi sneaking around the Death Star in search of the tractor beam.
• Obi-Wan's line "You can't win Darth. If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." during his duel with Darth Vader was originally longer with the full line being "You can't win Darth. If my blade should find its mark, you will cease to exist. But I warn you, if you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Most of this longer line is used in the film's novelization and in the Marvel Comics adaptation.
• A brief gag aboard the Death Star where after several Stormtroopers run through a corridor, a GNK power droid finds itself alone and scurries off.
• A scene in which Han, Luke, Chewbacca and Leia swiftly make their way past several Imperials without their disguises before reaching the window overlooking the Millennium Falcon. The last few seconds of this scene remain in the film before Leia mentions "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought". This can be found on J.W. Rinzler's The Making of Star Wars Enhanced Edition ebook.
• Luke and Han congratulate each other after the TIE attack on the Millennium Falcon.
• Several cut lines of Red Leader Garven Dreis and Gold Leader Jon "Dutch" Vander that were later used in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
• Shots of TIE Fighter pilots running to their ships.
• There was additional footage and dialogue of the Rebel pilot John D. He would have been shown having one TIE fighter kill before eventually being shot down. His death still exists on film, with the single line "I'm hit!"
• Dialogue of Luke instructing the Millennium Falcon to flee from the Death Star after firing the proton torpedoes. Versions of this dialogue are used in the film's novelization and in the Marvel Comics adaptation.

• — Han and Leia continue their argument beyond "You could use a good kiss!"
• (These scenes were removed due to the poor-looking wampa costume effects.)
• — After leaving the bacta tank, Luke and Leia almost kiss but are interrupted by C-3PO. Luke tells Leia that he has to go to the Dagobah system. Leia gets angry, explaining that Han was about to leave to pay off unpaid debts for Jabba the Hutt. Leia then says that she would get more loyalty if she went down the hall and recruited some of the wampas.

• — Luke in the bacta tank, with director Irvin Kershner providing the voice for 2-1B.
• — A snowspeeder crashes into an AT-AT Walker commanded by General Veers. (The character later appears in Expanded Universe stories, though the collision which could have resulted in his death is discussed as though the scene had taken place.)
• — Yoda trains Luke, who uses his lightsaber to cut up 4 metal bars that Yoda would have been levitating (no audio). This scene was included in the original novelization however.
• — Han works on the Falcon while the asteroid belt is bombarded by the Empire.
• — A version of the kiss on the Falcon in which Leia brings Han in for another kiss before they're interrupted by Threepio ("Okay, hotshot").
• — Lobot is captured by stormtroopers to be killed.
• — Leia tells Luke about Han's capture by Boba Fett.

• The wampa is shown in full form dragging Luke back to its lair (the scene proved difficult to film, due to the costume's effect on actor Des Webb).
• 2-1B evaluates a dead tauntaun (seen in background of the final film when Han asks where Luke has gone).
• Luke wears a Bacta mask to heal his facial scars.
• The Probe Droid shoots down a "snow squirrel" once it emerges from its landing pod (an unfinished effects shot). This was changed to a Wampa in the original Empire Strikes Back novelization.
• Additional scenes of the Rebels during the Battle of Hoth.
• Several extra snowtrooper scenes, including a shot of one manning an E-Web heavy repeating blaster.
• Luke returning to Echo Base amidst the wreckage of the battle.
• Extended confrontation with the swamp monster on Dagobah.
• Extra shots of the bounty hunters on the Executors bridge, extended scenes of Vader talking to them, and a removed subplot of the bounty hunters chasing the Millennium Falcon.
• Additional shot of Vader looming over Lorth Needa's body.
• Extended greeting between Han and Lando.
• A scene of Leia speaking with Ugnaughts.
• Extra dialogue and an alternate scene between Han and Leia on Bespin in which they kiss. ("You should wear girls' clothes all the time.")
• In the first draft of the script, a scene was included that featured Han, Leia, Chewbacca, and Lando sitting at the dinner table with Vader. Both Han and Leia were to drink wine while Lando feasts himself and Chewbacca sits in silence. Han and Leia would argue with Lando and Vader, the former of whom loses his appetite. The scene was ultimately cut when Lucas rewrote the movie's script.
• Extended torture scene that includes alternate angles and Vader standing at the doorway.
• Originally scripted scenes of Lobot were changed after it was decided the character would not speak.
• Extended Cloud City escape, with a longer scene of Lando attempting to open a door but finding it locked. In this shot, Lando, Leia, and Chewbacca run in from down the hallway, rather than the turbolift across from the door as seen in the movie. Additionally, the sequence of Lando rescuing Luke was to be longer.

• — After Darth Vader tells Moff Jerjerrod that the Emperor is coming, Vader goes back to his private chamber and begins to reach out to Luke. Later on Tatooine, as Vader is reaching to him through the force, Luke finishes building his brand new Lightsaber and ignites it for the first time. He then inserts it in a secret compartment in R2-D2's dome. R2 heads out of the cave, then he and C-3PO go to Jabba's Palace.
• — An additional battle in the shield bunker, where Han and Rebel soldiers encounter a squad of stormtroopers outside the control room. Han also reacts to being called "Rebel scum." (This scene was later used as gameplay in the "Triumph of the Rebellion" mission in Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike.)

• — Right after Jabba's Sail Barge blows up, Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Chewbacca, and the droids go back to the Millennium Falcon and Luke's X-wing (both of which are in the middle of a sandstorm). Han thanks Luke for saving him and Luke explains to his friends that he has to go back to Dagobah. (No dialogue is clearly audible.)

• A slightly extended version of Darth Vader's arrival in the second Death Star's hangar to speak with Jerjerrod shows more of Vader actually walking down the ramp. This shot was later utilized in the Special Edition of The Empire Strikes Back.
• An alternate shot of Greeata Jendowanian and Rystáll Sant reacting in horror to Oola execution.
• Luke using a force jump to escape the rancor and hanging from the ceiling grate until two Jawas bang their rifles on his hands, forcing him to let go. The scene appears in the Return of the Jedi novelization and in Return of the Jedi: The Storybook Based on the Movie. A promotional photo of the scene appeared on a Topps trading card.
• Peter Diamond wearing some kind of lightbulb suit in Jabba's Palace, as part of the design of an alien supposed to be added later in post-production.
• Drunk guests having a party aboard the sail barge.
• Barge fight between Ree-Yees and Saelt-Marae with C-3PO translating.
• Luke fighting with a blue lightsaber. The blade was later colored green to make it easier to see in front of the blue sky.
• After killing Jabba, Leia struggling to reach a nearby blaster pistol (which can be seen in front of her before the original scene cuts), but can't as she is still chained to Jabba's body. R2-D2 then comes to cut her chain, just as in the original film. A still promotional photo and a continuity photo of the scene exist, and it remains in the novelization and the Marvel Comics adaptation of the film.
• Leia getting a vibro staff and attacking a human sail barge gunner, before she goes up to the cannon to point it at the deck. A fraction of that footage can be seen in the final film where Leia moves to pick up the staff before Luke tells her to point the cannon at the deck. A far off view of that full scene being filmed can be found in some behind the scenes footage. Glimpses of the scene can be found as promotional photos, one of which was adapted for a panel of the Marvel adaptation of the film. The scene was also adapted in the second issue of the Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi comic series.
• Vader and several other Imperials walk down a hallway to the hangar where the Emperor will be arriving on the Death Star. Frames of this scene can be found on T-bone's Star Wars Universe website, and a promotional photo featuring the scene appears on a Topps trading card.
• Extra scenes of the Emperor walking through the Death Star with Vader, Jerjerrod, and his advisors.
• The Return of the Jedi Edit Droid Laserdisc featured a silent 59 seconds of R2-D2 repairing Luke's X-Wing on Dagobah and about 29 minutes of Frank Oz being fed lines as Yoda. Among the scenes included the filming of a scene that revealed that Yoda had forbade Obi-Wan from telling Luke about Vader being Luke's father.
• Ben's monologue.
• Extended Rebel briefing and departure for Endor, including Luke and Leia saying goodbye to Lando before he and Han see each other off.
• Vader and Piett peering over the scanning officer's shoulder.
• Extra shot of Leia on Endor.
• Jerjerrod getting stunned by a Force pike.
• Extra shots of the Rebel strike team taking defensive positions outside of the Endor shield generator bunker.
• Darth Vader lands in the Death Star docking bay with Luke, taking him to the Emperor.
• Luke refusing to fight Vader and throwing him his lightsaber. Vader can be seen holding it along with his own in the final film as he searches for Luke in the throne room.
• It was rumored that the B-Wing fighters would be given more to do during the battle in the Special Edition, however this proved to be untrue. A promotional photo of B-Wings flying away from an exploding Star Destroyer during the Battle of Endor does however exist.
• Extra shots of Lando Calrissian, Wedge Antilles, and several other Rebel pilots, including some of the cut ones, talking during the battle, notably when the Death Star begins to turn to face Endor and while they are flying through the superstructure during their assault on the reactor.
• A teaser trailer for the film (still using the "Revenge of the Jedi" title) and the 1982 theatrical trailer both feature a shot of Wedge Antilles in profile, inside his X-wing cockpit as it flies through the Death Star interior.
• Extended Rebel and Ewok celebration including Lando hugging Leia along with Han and Luke shaking hands with Wedge. The shot of Wedge and Luke was later re-added into the special edition.

• — Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Jar Jar Binks escape their bongo before it goes over a waterfall.
• — Padmé waking Anakin the morning of the podrace.
• — Introduction to the racers before the podrace, beyond that seen in the film, including an appearance of Ratts Tyerell's family.
• — An extension of the scene, which was partially reincorporated into film.
• — Anakin has a fight with Greedo, who accuses him of cheating, and Qui-Gon stops them.
• — After saying farewell to Jira and giving her credits, Qui-Gon destroys one of Darth Maul's probe droids following them. Qui-Gon and Anakin break into a run, explaining why they are running to the ship in the film.
• — About ten seconds of additional footage on Coruscant.

• — On board the Trade Federation starship, two droids discuss the arrival of the Republic cruiser.
• — Qui-Gon tries more diligently to expand the wager to include Shmi.
• — Extended fight with Darth Maul on Tatooine, including Darth Maul jumping onto the ship's platform with Qui-Gon before falling off.
• — Bail Organa votes for No Confidence in ChancellorValorum. (Organa would be recast as Jimmy Smits for Episode II, resulting in the renaming of the character played by Adrian Dunbar to Bail Antilles.)
• — A Naboo soldier shows Padmé via viewscreen that the battle droids have been deactivated.
• — Anakin flies his Naboo starfighter back into the hangar.

• When Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are led into the Trade Federation conference room, some exotic bird-like creatures are singing in a cage near the door. When the Jedi notice the room is filling with deadly gas, the creatures drop dead in their cage as a cue that danger is literally in the air. (Included in the novelization).
• Obi-Wan arriving on Naboo.
• Qui-Gon lecturing Obi-Wan about allowing a lightsaber to die out.
• Qui-Gon changing into his farmer disguise onboard the royal starship.
• Jar Jar becoming disoriented, being flung onto the walls and tumbling numerous times in the skiff's lower level.
• Jar Jar juggling equipment in Watto's shop.
• Extended scenes from Watto's Junkyard.
• Fode and Beed (the pod race announcer) was originally portrayed by two human heads on a cgi body, however test footage of this version of the character was unworkable and was scrapped for a completely CGI version. This decision was made rather late into production however as the original action figure of the character was the scrapped version.
• An extra shot of Qui-Gon lifting Anakin out of his podracer.
• R2-D2 was to fall off the landing platform on Coruscant and then fly back up showing that he has booster rockets. (These would later be shown digitally in Episodes II and III.) The scenes featuring the booster rockets were cut due to the practical effects being unworkable. The rocket feature made it onto the action figure however.
• Chancellor Valorum confronting Palpatine about the vote of no confidence.
• Scenes showcasing Anakin's precognitive powers.
• Promotional footage featured a line by Darth Maul saying "Fear. Fear attracts the fearful, the strong, the weak, the innocent, the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally." Portions of this were included in a talking Darth Maul mask made by Hasbro.
• A promotional image showed Darth Maul fighting Obi-Wan on Tatooine.
• Tendau Bendon speaking in the Galactic Senate.
• A close-up of Adi Gallia sitting in her council chair.
• A shot of Yaddle speaking, with the other Jedi Council members turned to face her.
• Nute Gunray and two other neimoidians escort Darth Maul on Naboo.
• Extended Battle of Naboo, including the lightsaber duel in the Theed power generator. (Many of these can be briefly seen during some of the DVD documentaries and original TV spots for the film.)

• — Padmé speaks before the Senate and objects to plans to create an army to fight against the Separatist movement.
• — Obi-Wan has the Kaminosaberdart analyzed in the Analysis Rooms in the Jedi Temple.
• — Obi-Wan and Mace Windu discuss the mystery of the missing data on Kamino and Anakin's ability to protect Padmé while Obi-Wan boards his Jedi starfighter. (This is replaced in the film with a discussion between Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda discussing it all together.)
• — Anakin and Padmé walk with R2-D2 and discuss her time as Queen on Naboo.
• — Padmé introduces Anakin to her family at her Naboo villa. Anakin can be seen walking with Ruwee through the window.
• — Padmé shows Anakin her bedroom, which has holographic images of her humanitarian work.
• — Anakin and Padmé are brought before Count Dooku, Jango Fett, and Poggle the Lesser and request Obi-Wan's release. Dooku says he cannot do so unless Naboo joins the Separatist movement, giving reasons for why he is forming the new government.
• — The couple is put on trial by Poggle the Lesser, who finds them guilty. (After the scene where they go before Dooku was cut, this scene was made unnecessary.)

• — Anakin and Obi-Wan share a speeder while pursing Zam Wesell. Obi-Wan has to remove a flag that gets stuck in the engine.
• — Obi-Wan and Jocasta Nu discuss Count Dooku and the Lost Twenty.
• — En route to Naboo, Anakin begins having nightmares about his mother.
• — Anakin walks with Ruwee in their garden.

• Anakin Skywalker opens himself up to the Force and meditates in a Coruscant room.
• Mace Windu and Yoda talk after a Senate meeting.
• Additional shots of Anakin standing guard outside Padmé's bedroom.
• Extended dialogue between Obi-Wan and Anakin while outside the Outlander Club on Coruscant.
• Extended scenes of Anakin and Padmé's travel to Naboo.
• Additional scenes of Anakin and Padmé playing in the field.
• A scene of Obi-Wan going back to Jango's apartment and finding it empty.
• On Tatooine, while Anakin is searching for his mother, Padmé finds a box of C-3PO's coverings, and at the droid's request, puts them on him. (Lucas decided this took too much away from the main plot and re-shot earlier scenes involving C-3PO with him covered from the start. Apparently this scene was taken out relatively late, as Hasbro released a C-3PO action figure that included a box of parts to complete him. Ultimately, C-3PO would not get gold plates in the Legends continuity until the day Anakin was knighted.)
• After Anakin returns to Lars homestead with his mother's body, Beru helps Padmé prepare a meal for him using blue milk. Beru asks Padmé about Naboo; she remarks that she prefers the desert landscape of Tatooine, and that she does not like to travel.
• Additional dialogue in the Lars homestead of Anakin apologizing to Padmé and her comforting him after he reveals he killed the Tusken Raiders.
• Additional dialogue when Anakin and Padmé land on Geonosis, with Anakin grabbing her arm to stop her from leaving the ship and her telling him to let go.
• A close-up of Luminara Unduli and Barriss Offee in Chancellor Palpatine's office.
• A shot of Bail Organa speaking the line "We must stop them before they're ready."
• Extended Jango Fett death, including Fett blocking Mace Windu's lightsaber with his armor.
• Extended Battle of Geonosis and the arena battle. Models of NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers had been made for a scene featuring them running over clones.
• Shots of Dooku wielding Obi-Wan's lightsaber alongside his own.

• — Anakin and Obi-Wan round a corner and find GeneralShaak Ti being held hostage by GeneralGrievous. Anakin and Obi-Wan are quickly surrounded by Battle droids and Grievous kills Ti with a shiak strike to the chest. Anakin and Obi-Wan have a brief sign language argument over what method they should use to escape, then draw their lightsabers and slice a hole in the floor. They fall down into a the Invisible Hands fuel tank and the surrounding battle droids proceed to take aim, but the experienced Separatist commander orders his troops not to fire in order to prevent the fuel from igniting. As the two Jedi climb out of the fuel tank, B2 super battle droid attempt to follow them but are cut off when Anakin seals the exit shut. The fuel rises to an overload discharge spark gap, and the section of the ship explodes. (This scene was included in LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, but Shaak Ti is not present and the generator room is not flooded. Due to Shaak Ti's appearance later in the film, this scene is non-canon.)
• — Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda meet in the Temple to discuss the darkness surrounding Chancellor Palpatine.
• — Yoda arrives on Dagobah in the final montage. (This scene is mentioned in the novelization.)

• — Anakin and Obi-Wan banter while waiting for the elevator on the Invisible Hand. Additional cut lines include Obi-Wan commenting how elevators never come when you need them, as they block blaster bolts from the oncoming Droidekas; and the Jedi pair mockingly saying "Roger roger" after they defeat the battle droids in the elevator.
• — Palpatine presents legal changes meant to end the war to Anakin.
• — The chase between Obi-Wan and General Grievous was supposed to be much longer. The pair raced along a road between the full battle of Utapau. Grievous was supposed to drive his bike through a speeding train. The scene also involved grievous driving in place to fling broken clone trooper at Kenobi and Boga. The pair drive out onto one of the massive turbines overlooking the sinkhole. Grievous drives on the spinning mechanism to make the turbine spin, creating a dividing line between the two adversaries. Grievous speaks into a comlink that he will meet with his fleet in moments. Obi-Wan then uses his lightsaber to sever the blades. However, one of the blades cuts into another turbine, which spins loose breaking the nub of their turbine off. The pair hang off another turbine below. Grievous manages to pull away, but in the process, the turbine breaks off and swings under, cutting the boom in half. Kenobi is hanging onto Grievous' bike. Grievous knocks him loose with his electrostaff, but the Jedi grabs onto a cable dragging from the vehicle. Kenobi loops it around a rock, causing the bike to break apart. The wreckage comes to rest on the landing platform where the General's starfighter is located. Grievous retrieves his blaster but he is trapped under the wreckage. Obi-Wan emerges from the darkness and spots the electrostaff sparking by the wreckage. He tries to grab it but Grievous bursts out of the wreckage and starts shooting at Kenobi. Kenobi grabs the electrostaff but Grievous flings him around and begins punching him in the face with his metal fists. However, Obi-Wan breaks free and rips out Grievous gutsack and then blasts it with the blaster. As grievous falls dead, Obi-Wan gives the body a kick and the general falls in to the pit below. This scenes was cut as it was considered too "gory" for a PG-13 film. Steven Spielberg oversaw the creation of the scene.
• — Anakin enters the meditation chamber in which Shaak Ti is concentrating and stabs her in the back, before leaving the chamber and walking through the Jedi Temple as it is being attacked (The shot of Anakin walking was featured in the trailer, but with the background replaced with the Invisible Hands walls). Ti's death was later shown in a vision to Yoda in Episode 12 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 6, Destiny, confirming this to be her Canon death. In Legends, however, she managed to escape and run from the Empire for many years, only to be killed by Galen Marek on Felucia in The Force Unleashed.
• — When Obi-Wan and Yoda arrive at the Jedi Temple they find a group of clone troopers disguised as Jedi waiting outside. The two Jedi aren't fooled and kill them all. (This scene appears in LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game. The movie includes the second half of this scene, removing the dialogue and using CG to remove the clones' robes and give them 501st helmets.)
• — Qui-Gon Jinn speaks to Yoda, who names himself Qui-Gon's apprentice. (This scene appears in the novelization.)

• The Coruscant space battle and opening was supposed to be longer.
• Anakin and Obi-Wan encounter a pair of Magnaguards on their way to rescue Palpatine.
• An alternate version of R2 hiding from the Super Battle Droids. This appeared in the teaser.
• Extended duel with Count Dooku.
• Anakin carrying Obi-Wan on his back and pressing a button to call a turbolift.
• Anakin, Obi-wan, and Palpatine unsuccessfully attempt to find a ship to escape with in the Invisible Hands hangar bay, as the artificial gravity shifts again. (The artificial gravity changing for a second time was included in LEGO Star Wars: The Videogame.)
• Palpatine's "reception committee" (consisting of Mas Amedda and four Red Guards) on Coruscant after being saved by Anakin.
• An extended conversation between Anakin and Obi-Wan when the latter asks the former to spy on Chancellor Palpatine.
• Obi-Wan visits with Padmé to discuss his concerns for Anakin. The scene was not completed as Anthony Daniels had fallen over while filming.
• Extended conversation between Padmé and Anakin.
• When Obi-Wan departs for Utapau, Anakin calls out "Master" instead of "Obi-Wan".
• Wookiee ambush.
• Anakin talks with Palpatine about Obi-Wan's mission to Utapau.
• Palpatine thanking Jar Jar for helping put him in power.
• Extended fight with Grievous.
• Anakin and Padmé have dialogue when looking out their windows.
• The fight between Palpatine and Windu underwent many changes during production.
• Extended Order 66 and Temple Purge.
• After being shot down by his troops, Obi-Wan evades a Nos monster in the depths of Utapau. The Nos Monster attacks several Republic seeker droids, while Obi-Wan sneaks past some baby Nos Monsters. ("The Nos Monster") This scene appears in the novelization only.
• Extended footage of a pair of clones on AT-RTs examining a crashed Wookiee fighter. Yoda emerges from the wreckage as a silly creature and the two dead wookiees, revealed to be Chewbacca and Tarfful ambush the clones. Yoda was also supposed to ride on a "Can-Cell" to his escape pod.
• Bail Organa hands his identification to a Red Guard before boarding his cruiser.
• After the Jedi Temple massacre, there would be a small scene of Padmé with Ellê, Moteê, and C-3PO, just before Anakin meets her.
• Obi-Wan, Yoda, Bail, and his deputy enter the Senate. The senate guard asks them for permits, but says it is a Jedi detention order. Kenobi tricks him with the Force and says he can stay with the senator, however, later Obi-Wan and Yoda go to the Temple (This scene appears in the novelization).
• Palpatine's speech would have been longer.
• Bail tries to object to the Emperor's speech but Padmé stops him and assures him that there will be a time (This scene appears in the novelization).
• The shot of Obi-Wan kneeling down over a dead Youngling, asking Yoda who could've killed them featured a different background in the trailer.
• Extended Separatist Slaughter, including the Separatist Council entering the war room, Nute Gunray ducking under the conference room table, and the Neimoidian Guards along with Wat Tambor being killed by Anakin Skywalker.
• Extended Obi-Wan's visit with Padmé after learning of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side (This scene appears in the novelization).
• More scenes with Captain Typho.
• An alternate duel between Yoda and Palpatine, which was set to occur immediately after the the latter and Anakin's hologram call. Sidious is the first to attack, launching a bolt of Force lightning, but Yoda grabs the Imperial Guards and uses their bodies to block it. Palpatine launches another attack, throwing the Jedi into a wall, but Yoda recovers and knocks the Emperor to the floor with a flying kick. Here, the fight is interwoven with Padmé's reunion with Anakin on Mustafar. As the duel moves to the Senate Chamber, cam droids start recording and broadcast it to large holoscreens in the ceiling of the Senate Chamber. When Palpatine is blasting Yoda with lightning on a floating pod, Yoda manages to redirect the lightning to a camera droid, hitting the Sith Lord from all directions and knocking him off. Additionally, Palpatine uses Force lightning to blow open the roof and escape on a Senate pod, right before arriving clone troopers shoot at Yoda.
• Vader levitating Padmé in the air while choking her.
• R2-D2 and C-3PO help Padmé onto her ship.
• An extended duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
• The Naboo star skiff shown flying off from Mustafar to Polis Massa. This scene was featured in the teaser.
• Additional footage of Emperor Palpatine's shuttle leaving Mustafar and arriving on Coruscant, along with two V-wings.
• Padmé's scene of giving birth to twins would have been longer.
• Dialogue between Palpatine and a surgical droid.
• Darth Vader initially had his arms raised up while on the table, however they were digitally lowered to where they are in the final film. This appeared in the teaser.
• Vader causes a whirlwind of destruction that causes droids to implode and fires to ignite.
• An alternate version of Obi-Wan delivering Luke to the Lars Homestead, that was shot during the production of Attack of the Clones.

• — Anakin and Ahsoka make their way past tanks using the crate, briefly losing it.
• — Anakin and Ahsoka (carrying Rotta) are confronted by Ventress and her battle droids. As she approaches them, R2 activates a trap door through which everyone drops into a pit. Anakin duels Ventress while Ahsoka cuts the droids down. Ahsoka then finds a way out, but unleashes a jungle rancor. Skywalker and Ventress fight on top of the beast until Ahsoka stabs it between the eyes, resulting in the rancor falling on Ventress. R2 then takes out the last battle droid, and they leave. Ventress stings the jungle rancor, making it jump up.
• — Anakin calls for a gunship. However, as it lands, it is shot down, and a vulture droid attacks. Ahsoka and Anakin fight the vulture droid until Anakin cuts off its head.
• — As Anakin, Ahsoka, and Rotta escape aboard the Twilight, Anakin orders Ahsoka to empty the cargo bay. Ahsoka goes back there, where she begins to fall out but is able to hold on to a cable. The cargo then destroys several vulture droids, and Ahsoka uses her lightsaber to make the debris spread out to hit them. As Ahsoka returns to the cockpit, Anakin tells her that the bay doors were in front of her.

• "Blue Shadow Virus"

• "Holocron Heist"
• "Cargo of Doom" (Incomplete scenes)
• "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back"
• "Senate Spy"
• "Weapons Factory" (Incomplete scenes)
• "Brain Invaders" (Incomplete scenes)
• "The Deserter"
• "The Mandalore Plot"
• "Voyage of Temptation"
• "Duchess of Mandalore"
• "Senate Murders"
• "Cat and Mouse"
• "Bounty Hunters"
• "R2 Come Home" (Incomplete scenes)
• "Lethal Trackdown"

• "Evil Plans":
• "Hunt for Ziro":
• "Ghosts of Mortis": — The Son talks to Sith LordsDarth Revan and Darth Bane. (Incomplete)
• "Padawan Lost": (Incomplete scenes)

• "Water War": (Incomplete)
• "Prisoners": (Incomplete)
• "Shadow Warrior": — Gungans surround Grievous on Naboo and trap him with energy binds. (Incomplete)
• "Mercy Mission": — Extended scene (Incomplete)
• "Nomad Droids": (Incomplete scenes)
• "The General": (Incomplete)
• "Slaves of the Republic": (Incomplete)
• "Escape from Kadavo":
• "A Friend in Need": — Extended scene (Incomplete)
• "Friends and Enemies": (Incomplete)
• "The Box": (Incomplete scenes)
• "Crisis on Naboo": (Incomplete scenes)
• "Massacre": (Incomplete scenes)
• "Brothers": — Savage Opress gets angry with a waitress as he looks at a map of the galaxy.
• "Revenge": (Incomplete scenes)

• "A War on Two Fronts":
• "The Soft War": — Lux returns to the others and is congratulated. (Incomplete)
• "Tipping Points": (Incomplete scenes)
• "The Gathering" (Incomplete scenes)
• "A Test of Strength" (Incomplete scenes)
• "Bound for Rescue" (Incomplete scenes)
• "A Necessary Bond" (Incomplete scenes)
• "Secret Weapons":
• "Missing in Action":
• "Point of No Return":
• "Revival" (Incomplete scenes)
• "Shades of Reason" (Incomplete scenes)
• "The Lawless" (Incomplete scenes)
• "The Jedi Who Knew Too Much" (Incomplete scenes)
• "To Catch a Jedi":
• "The Wrong Jedi" (Incomplete scenes)

• "A Distant Echo":
• "On the Wings of Keeradaks":
• "Unfinished Business":
• "Old Friends Not Forgotten":

• "Twin Suns" — Alternate scene where Maul sees a Force vision of Satine Kryze and Savage Opress.

• — Following the death of FN-2003 during the attack on Tuanul, FN-2187 spares the life of a villager.
• — At the D'Qar's Resistance base, MajorTaslin Brance informs GeneralLeia Organa that Tuanul was wiped out and there was no sign of the map. Brance also told her that Poe Dameron and his droid were missing. Organa orders them to find BB-8 instead of contacting the New Republic.
• — Unkar Plutt confronts Rey at Takodana Castle and warns her of the trouble she's in. Rey attempts to defend herself but is disarmed by Unkar. Chewbacca steps in to help Rey as Unkar makes fun of him. Angered by Unkar, Chewbacca then steps on Unkar's foot and rips his arm out of its socket which lands on a table in front of Wollivan.
• — While escaping Maz's palace, Han Solo, Finn, Chewbacca, and Maz Kanata are cut off by a group of stormtroopers, who wished to arrest them in the name of Supreme LeaderSnoke. Solo attempts to talk them out of it, asking "Do you know a Smoke?" and "What makes him Supreme?" He then asks, "Is this something [Finn] did? Is this about the stormtrooper boots?" to which Finn replies "That's how you knew." (This implies that Han realized that Finn was a deserted stormtrooper because of the boots he was wearing.)
• — Leia tells her emissary Korr Sella to warn the New Republic to take action against the First Order.
• — Resistance base personnel give Dameron and his pilots the all clear after the Falcon lands on Starkiller Base.
• — A squad of snowtroopers and Kylo Ren search the Millennium Falcon. Kylo goes up to the cockpit and then realizes that Han Solo is here. Ren then sees Dameron's X-wings moving in to attack when he walks out.
• — Finn and Rey take a snowspeeder but are pursued by another until Finn shoots the gunner and causes it to crash.
• — After Rey returns to D'Qar with Finn, Dr. Harter Kalonia assures her that Finn will be fine.

• Rey starting up her speeder.
• Scenes featuring Zuvio, the constable of Niima Outpost. Ultimately, his appearance in the movie was cut to only about seven frames, in total.
• A shot featuring the Skywalker lightsaber being handed down to Leia Organa Solo by Maz Kanata in the Resistance Base, as well as the accompanying voicelines from Mark Hamill.
• Robert Boulter shot a cameo as Luke Skywalker in Rey's vision sequence for a recreation of the Duel on Cloud City that was also going to feature Darth Vader. The vision was also supposed to include a young Ben Solo meeting Snoke.
• An appearance of Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghost.
• The Resistance beginning their attack on Takodanna.
• More scenes of Kylo Ren without his mask.
• Additional footage of Leia. When Carrie Fisher died in 2016, this footage was used in The Rise of Skywalker.
• Several lines of dialogue from the trailer were cut, including Kylo Ren saying "Nothing will stand in our way. I will finish what you started", Finn saying "I was raised to do one thing, but I've got nothing to fight for", and Maz Kanata saying "Hope is not lost today. It is found. Who are you?", along with Rey's response, "I'm no one".
• An alternate start to the lightsaber duel.

Rogue One required extensive reshoots late in its production. About 45 scenes that were featured in trailers or TV spots did not make it to the final film. According to director Gareth Edwards, these were simply bits and pieces, not entire scenes removed from the film.

• An opening title crawl.
• A shot of the Death troopers torching the Erso farm.
• Jyn Erso saying, "This is a rebellion isn't it?... I rebel," to Mon Mothma. The scene was in one of the trailers.
• General Draven asking Jyn to "state your name for the record", as well as "can you be trusted without your shackles?" with Jyn replying "Yes sir".
• Jyn addressing Mon Mothma and Cassian saying "Let's get this over with shall we?".
• Mon Mothma stating "We've intercepted a coded Imperial transmission, it indicates that a major weapons test is imminent."
• An overhead shot of Jedi statue ruins on Jedha.
• Jyn sitting in the pilot seat of the U-wing on Jedha with her and Cassian both stating "Good".
• Captured Rebel pilots on Jedha (altered in a later trailer to remove blood from the face of a soldier).
• K-2SO stating to Jyn "The Captain says you are a friend, I will not kill you" with Jyn replying "Thanks".
• Saw Gerrera without hair on Jedha.
• Saw Gerrera stating "The world is coming undone".
• Baze Malbus stating "They destroyed our home" and "I fight the Empire now".
• Orson Krennic in the Death Star control room.
• Orson Krennic telling Darth Vader: "The power that we are dealing with here is immeasurable."
• Darth Vader in the Death Star control room.
• Jan Dodonna surrounded by Rebel soldiers and pilots in the Yavin hangar.
• A shot of Rebel soldiers taking cover over a hill on the Scarif beach.
• K-2SO stating "That is a bad idea" instead of "I have a bad feeling...".
• Jyn looking towards the camera inside the tunnel to the data vault while it is lighting up.
• Jyn with a blaster facing off against a TIE Fighter at the top of the communications tower.
• Jyn, Cassian, and K-2SO running through the citadel with the Death Star plans.
• Jyn and Cassian Andor run across the beach with a data-tape. This was due to the citadel and the communications tower being two separate buildings originally, forcing the heroes to run across the beach to the other building in order to transmit the plans.
• Orson Krennic walking through the shore on the Scarif beach.
• Moroff present during the battle on Scarif.
• Cassian Andor and K-2SO originally were filmed dying next to each other on Scarif lying near a doorway.
• Alan Tudyk has stated that K-2SO was originally supposed to meet his end at the hands of Orson Krennic.

• — An alternate opening sequence for the film. After Finn awakens from his coma and realizes that he is aboard a ship, LieutenantKaydel Ko Connix tells Poe that they need more time as Resistance members flee in their transports, leading to the battle during the Evacuation of D'Qar against the First OrderDreadnoughts.
• — A scene during the battle over D'Qar where Paige's gun jams while she is in the Cobalt Hammer.
• — Following the scene in which Luke Skywalker asks Rey and Chewbacca what happened to Han Solo, he returns to his hut and grieves the death of his brother-in-law while Leia does the same aboard the Raddus.
• — A conversation between Poe Dameron and Finn aboard the Raddus in which Dameron would have revealed he stitched up Finn's jacket following the Battle of Starkiller Base, sewing up in the process the gaping hole that was left by Kylo Ren's lightsaber.
• — After recovering from his injuries in the bacta tank, Finn sees Rey's goodbye to him following the destruction of Starkiller Base recorded by BB-8.
• — The Caretakers meeting with Rey at Ahch-To and starting to take displeasure from her antics as she followed Luke for her first lesson.
• — Rey's third lesson: After Rey spots boats sailing towards the Caretaker village, Luke notes that they are raiders who are arriving to ransack the village, causing Rey to go to the village only to have Luke saying that if Rey attempts to retaliate, the raiders, with more reinforcements, will return to attack again, because a Jedi would let this to play out without getting involved. Rey charges into the village anyway and sees a cheerful Lanai reunion instead.
• — An extended version of Finn's and Rose's escape from the racetrack with the fathiers. After escaping from the Canto Casino, the fathiers would have crashed against several other locations, including Zord's Spa and Bathhouse.
• — After Finn, Rose, BB-8, and DJ infiltrate the Supremacy, once they enter an elevator, Finn meets 926, a fellow stormtrooper who knew him from his days serving the First Order. Unaware of Finn's defection from the Order, 926 congratulates him for his "ascension" and gives Finn a friendly swat on the posterior. Elsewhere in the destroyer, Kylo Ren awaits Rey's arrival.
• — After DJ's betrayal, when General Hux starts to taunt Rose and Finn for their failures, Rose bites Hux's hand, shaking him up until he gives the execution order and walks away.
• — An alternate fight sequence for Finn and Captain Phasma. Cornering Finn with the help of her fellow stormtroopers at a moving platform after Finn breaks the eye part of her helmet, Phasma prepares to finish off Finn, only to have him reveal her betrayal at Starkiller Base when she disabled the shields to save her own life. As she notes that the stormtroopers are uncomfortable with Finn's revelation, Phasma shoots them before they can do anything, but before she can shoot Finn, he cuts her hand off, prompting her to knock Finn aside with her baton. Just when she prepares to give Finn a final blow saying that he was always "scum," Finn responds, "Rebel scum" and shoots her with one of the dead stormtroopers' weapons.
• — Finn and Rose aboard a shuttle, and when Rose asks Finn where they are going, Finn answers that they are going to go to Crait to help the Resistance, which is where they belong.
• — During the Battle of Crait, Rey and Chewbacca fly the Millennium Falcon and see the First Order attacking a concentrated point on the ground where Luke is standing. It is unknown whether they knew that Luke wasn't physically there.
• — Though necessarily not a deleted scene, this sequence is a compilation of unused footage from the scenes at Canto Bight, which showcases the creature designs and the impressive sets that went into making the location from the final cut of the film.

• The Battle of Crait originally included All Terrain Heavy Scout walkers. Although they never made it past concept art, a LEGO set featuring the walker was made.

• — Qi'ra sticks a knife at Solo. After Solo and Qi'ra make plans to leave Corellia, Solo is brought to Proxima's pool.
• — As Solo and Qi'ra make their escape, they hide in a barrel of eels, that covers their scent from Moloch and his Corellian hounds.
• — Solo disobeys orders to jettison and instead crashes his TIE fighter. Solo, after receiving a eye wound, is then court-martialed by Commodore Almudin in a tribunal. Han attempts to defend, but is found guilty and is assigned to the infantry on Mimban.
• — Solo, alongside Beckett and his gang posing as mud troopers, fight the Mimbanese. Beckett gives Solo a different blaster and tells Solo to cover him. As Korso continues to fight he is badly wounded by an explosion. Beckett then pulls him back to shelter, but Korso dies.
• — In this version, after Solo speaks Shyriiwook, Chewbacca uses Han to try and break the pillar. Chewie gives up this attempt until Solo forces him to charge at the pillar.
• — On their way to meet Dryden, Solo and Chewie get into a snowball fight until Beckett tells them to stop and follow him.
• — Dryden gives Solo some Thwip feet that he eats as Beckett and Dryden talk about Nest's interference.
• — Solo asks one of the villagers on Savareen if they have extra cases as Dryden's ship arrives.

Unlike the previous eight main Star Wars films, The Rise of Skywalker did not include deleted scenes on its DVD release, and as such, no deleted scenes have been officially released to the public.

• Palpatine's broadcast. This was shown in the video game Fortnite.
• Hux and Pryde on Mustafar.
• Kylo Ren battling Alazmec warriors at Fortress Vader and meeting the Eye of Webbish Bog on Mustafar.
• Extended hyperspace skipping.
• Extended repairs of Kylo Ren's mask.
• A scene further explaining Palpatine's return.
• Extended scenes of Rose Tico.
• A scene featuring Kylo Ren paying respect to Vader's mask.
• Extended Knights of Ren search on Pasaana.
• Extended search for Rey on Pasaana.
• Extended activity on Kijimi.
• Pryde wielding his swagger stick.
• More scenes on Kef Bir.
• A torture scene between Kylo Ren and Chewbacca that was considered too dark to be in the final movie.
• A shot of Rey wearing dark robes sitting on Palpatine's throne.
• Leia holding Han's medal on her deathbed.
• Leia and Luke's duel extended.
• Lando and Chewie leaving for Exegol.
• A scene with Boolio imprisoned aboard the Steadfast.
• A rumored scene involving Anakin Skywalker's Force ghost (played by Hayden Christensen).
• Extended shot of the Citizens' fleet arriving at Exegol.
• All of the Force ghosts appear during Rey and Palpatine's final clash.

• "Rix Road" — At the end of Maarva Carassi Andor's monologue, she originally said "Fuck the Empire", but the line was dubbed over to instead say "Fight the Empire".

• "The Evolution of Star Wars: Exploring the Lost Cut" — Star Wars Insider 41