Watch A Never-Before-Screened Scene Cut from the Original ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy

By on August 15, 2010 in News 16

Cut from "Return Of The Jedi"Looks like Gawker is keeping it on the ‘net here:

This is incredibly epic …

A never-before-screened scene cut from Return of the Jedi in which Darth Vader tempts Luke Skywalker to join the dark side, paired with footage of Luke constructing/activating his green lightsaber and officially becoming a Jedi Knight.

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  • Sd

    Waste of time.

  • Alech

    Needs moar gratuitous CGI.

  • RayFaux

    Who's that guy sitting with Michael Mcdonald? and why are they talking about Star Wars?

  • Consumer

    George Lukas cares more about Star Wars toys then plot elements…

  • Hadrian999

    he needs to let go of starwars,
    imagine how people would act if coppela sat around and still crowed about making “the godfather”

    • Alech

      The Godfather with Jar Jar would be AWESOME!

      • Hadrian999

        you could replace fredo with jarjar easily

  • Randyfagmoth

    I really can't believe they took that out. Thats an amazing scene.

    • 5by5

      Luke looks like a total badass in that scene, all hunkered down in his meditation cave, tweaking his weapon, readying for battle. That was wicked cool. Totally should have left that in, and dumped all the cheesy CGI characters that they inserted into the first Trilogy.

      Every time I see a replay of the “original” Star Wars Trilogy on the teevee and they play the digitally altered versions, it pisses me off, because they aren't historically accurate anymore. It's like colorizing a black & white film. It sucks. Putting back footage that was originally shot at the time, but not included like this, would be fine for a Director's Cut, but going back and slapping in things that they simply weren't capable of at the time? Lame.

      And I like Muppet Yoda hella better than Digital Yoda too. Frank Oz is just a better actor/puppeteer, and the character feels more real.

      • Gemmarama

        totally, old-skool monsters rule. my personal favourites are the ones in “clash of the titans” and “jason&the argonauts”. much scarier than any CGI i've ever seen. ray harryhausen was a genius.

  • Gemmarama

    star wars killed cinema: discuss…

    • dumbsaint

      The first(first) two were mostly innocent, return of the jedi not so much (http://io9.com/5611489/original-star-wars-produ…). There's been brilliant films since the 70s it's just that they rarely get a look in at whatever uberplex theatres. Jim Jarmusch, Coen Bros, Lynch and co are still making films.

      • Gemmarama

        exactly. star wars pretty much invented the blockbuster, and the rest is history…

  • Gemmarama

    totally, old-skool monsters rule. my personal favourites are the ones in “clash of the titans” and “jason&the argonauts”. much scarier than any CGI i’ve ever seen. ray harryhausen was a genius.

  • http://www.nickmeador.org/ ndmeador

    Dammit, I missed it. Dumb Lucasfilm took it off YouTube.

  • http://www.nickmeador.org/ ndmeador

    Dammit, I missed it. Dumb Lucasfilm took it off YouTube.