'Star Wars' Deleted Scenes on Blu-ray

[Finarvyn]

Found this article here:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/star-wars-deleted-scenes-video_n_906522.html

'Star Wars' Deleted Scenes: Complete Saga Blu-Ray Includes Forgotten Footage
Since the last "Stars Wars" original trilogy film, "Return of the Jedi," hit theaters in 1983, George Lucas has pumped out plenty of Skywalker-related content, but largely, the series' hardcore fan base have yet to agree that The Force is strong with the new material.

Sure, licensed canon-bending spinoff books have sold well, and video games will be forever popular, but when it comes to updates to the saga, big screen or small, the Jedi Council of fanatics have not been pleased. The prequel trilogy was a bit of a dud -- especially that first film with Jar Jar Binks and little Anakin -- and TV cartoons aren't exactly satiating the hunger for more "Star Wars" greatness.

This new update, however, may just put the light back in fans' sabers, so to speak.

The complete saga, packed with remastered footage and extras galore, is finally being put together on Blu-Ray, and amongst the goodies is a series of deleted scenes from the original three movies. Yes, unseen moments with Luke, Leia, Han, Obi Wan and Vader. To get you salivating, here's a sizzle reel of some of those moments.

No word yet if those scenes will make it into the upcoming 3D theater release, or how they play in to the planned movie-bridging TV show.

[thegreyelf]

Whoever wrote that article needs to do a little more research, or at least put aside his own negative bias--a sizable portion of the Star Wars fan base have very much enjoyed the prequel trilogy, and the Clone Wars animated series is actually wildly popular amongst the fan base. Even accounting for the vocal group of haters of the prequels, it's hard to call movies that set box office records "duds."

Also, the "planned movie-bridging TV series," is all but dead at this point, unless something has very recently changed.

That being said, I understand there's something crazy like 40 hours of bonus material on the new Blu-Rays, a good bit of which is brand new. So I'm looking forward to the set.

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I don't have Blu-ray.

[blackbarn]

I'll never pay for the Star Wars trilogy again until it is the originals fully restored. That bonus footage will be "out there" anyhow if you know where to look.

[trebormills]

i agree that having the originals restored and not "tampered" with would be really good. In my star wars han shoots first!

I hated the new films (visually stunning however and Darth Maul was a great enemy) but i do like the animated show. Maybe im to old and to in love with the first two films to dig the newer stuff