Scenes cut from Star Wars

This is a partial list of scenes (some filmed, some merely considered) that weren't included in any film version of either the original trilogy or the prequels. Some were cut due to time constraints, while others simply didn't fit into the overall flow of the story, though some fans hope that their favorite scenes will someday be included in a later edition of one of the films. Though it had been rumored that deleted scenes from all of the films of the series would be featured in the 2007 Star Wars Saga Boxed Set (which would most likely have included all six films and more special features), the year came and went and no such set was released.

The Phantom Menace
(NOTE: Most of these scenes made it to the novelization.)
 * Extended Podrace grid sequence, the Complete Podrace grid sequence. (DVD scene)
 * Extended Lap 2 sequence. (DVD scene)
 * 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.
 * When the "Ambassadors", Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, are led into the Trade Federation Conference Room at the beginning of the film, there are some exotic bird-like creatures singing in a cage near the door. When the Jedi notice the room is filling with deadly gas, the bird-like creatures drop dead in their cage as a visual cue that danger is literally in the air. ("Pylat Birds")
 * R2-D2 shows that he has booster rockets. (this idea would later be shown in Episodes II and III.)
 * Scenes showcasing Anakin Skywalker's pre-cognitive powers.
 * Padmé waking Anakin the morning of the podrace. (DVD scene)
 * Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Jar Jar escape their sub before it goes over a water fall. (DVD scene)
 * After saying farewell to Jira and giving her some credits, Qui-Gon and Anakin break into a run after they destroy Darth Maul's probe droids following them, thus explaining why they are running to the ship in the original version. (DVD scene)
 * Anakin has a fight with Greedo, the future bounty hunter. (DVD scene)
 * The Neimoidians escort Darth Maul on Naboo. (DVD scene)
 * Extended fight with Darth Maul on Tatooine, including Darth Maul jumping onto the ship's platform with Qui-Gon before falling off.
 * Extended lightsaber duel in Theed Generator Complex
 * Numerous shots were cut from the end battle. (Many of these can be briefly seen during some of the DVD documentaries.)

Attack of the Clones

 * Obi-Wan has the Kamino saberdart analyzed in the Jedi Analysis room in the Jedi Temple. (DVD scene)
 * Obi-Wan and Jocasta Nu discuss Count Dooku and the Lost Twenty.
 * Obi-Wan and Mace discuss the mystery of the missing data on Kamino and Anakin's ability to protect Padmé while Obi-Wan boards his Jedi starfighter. (This was dropped altogether and instead was combined with a discussion between Obi-Wan and Yoda; thus Mace, Obi-Wan, and Yoda are discussing it all together.) (DVD scene)
 * Extended arrival of Anakin and Padmé on Naboo.(DVD scene)
 * On Naboo, Padmé introduces Anakin to her family at her Naboo villa. (DVD scene)
 * Padmé shows Anakin her bedroom, which has holographic images of her humanitarian work. (DVD scene)
 * On Tatooine, while Anakin is searching for his mother, Padmé finds a box of 3PO coverings, and at C-3PO's request, puts his coverings on. Lucas decided this took too much away from the main plot and reshot earlier scenes involving C-3PO to have 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, or the fact that C-3PO didn't get gold plates untill the day Anakin was knighted.)
 * Anakin and Padmé are brought before Count Dooku, Jango Fett, and Poggle the Lesser requesting Obi-Wan's release. Dooku says he cannot do so unless Naboo joins the Confederacy, giving reasons for why he is forming the new government. (DVD scene)
 * Padmé and Anakin are put on trial by Poggle the Lesser, who finds them guilty. (After the scene where they go before Count Dooku was dropped, this scene didn't make much sense and was dropped as well.) (DVD scene)
 * The Jedi attack the Droid Control Ship: Ki-Adi Mundi and several other Jedi find one of the landed Droid Control Ships, and deactivate them, only to find that since Episode I, the droids have an independent backup system.
 * NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcers run over clones during the Battle of Geonosis.

Revenge of the Sith

 * General Grievous Executes a Jedi. The scene starts out when Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi round a corner in the Invisible Hand and find Jedi General Shaak Ti being held hostage by General Grievous and a large number of battle droids. Anakin and Obi-Wan are quickly surrounded by battle droids and General Grievous pretends to show mercy to Shaak Ti, then he suddenly kills her with a well-placed Shiak strike to the chest. Almost immediately Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi draw their lightsabers and slice a hole in the floor after having a brief sign language argument over what method they should use to escape. They fall down into a Separatist fuel tank, 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 ignition. B2 super battle droids follow the Jedi, but are unable to stop them from escaping. The fuel rises to an overload discharge spark gap and the section of the ship explodes. This scene is the only deleted scene to appear on the DVD but not considered to be canon due to Shaak Ti's appearance in the final film, as well as The Force Unleashed multimedia project.
 * Extended duel with Count Dooku
 * Rebel Alliance subplot - Three scenes featuring Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, Padmé Amidala, and other senators as they discuss the situation in the Senate and Palpatine's rise to power, and eventually establish the Rebel Alliance.
 * 1.("A Stirring in the Senate" is included as a deleted scene on the Special Features DVD)
 * 2.("Seeds of Rebellion" is included as a deleted scene on the Special Features DVD)
 * 3.The senators present the petition to Palpatine and Anakin, who is acting as his personal bodyguard. ("Confronting the Chancellor" is included as a deleted scene on the Special Features DVD)
 * Dialogue between Aayla Secura and Commander Bly, Plo Koon and Jag
 * Chasing the General
 * Crazy Yoda and a Wookiee ambush
 * Extended duel between Obi-wan and Anakin which shows why at one point in the movie Obi-wan is missing his lightsaber, Anakin at one point uses it along with his own.
 * The Naboo Skiff shown flying off from Mustafar to Polis Massa (this scene was featured in the teaser trailer).
 * Yoda arrives on Dagobah in the final montage.("Yoda Exiled to Dagobah" is included as a deleted scene on the Special Features DVD & in the UK theatrical release)
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi enters an Utapau Dragon Pen and selects Boga from several other Varactyls. His ride to Grievous' hangar is extended, and when the MagnaGuards attack Obi-Wan, he fights them shortly and then crushes them with a section of the ceiling.
 * Extended Order 66 and Temple Purge shots, and others, in which the deaths of Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli, Whie, Bene, Cin Drallig, and Shaak Ti are seen. In this cut version of Shaak Ti's death, Darth Vader enters the meditation chamber in which she's concentrating and proceeds to stab her in the back.
 * 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")
 * 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 though and kill them all. (There is a similar situation in Lego Star Wars The Videogame) ("Clone Jedi" is included as a production photo on the Special Features DVD)
 * Scenes featuring Captain Needa.
 * Extended Separatist Slaughter, in which Wat Tambor is seen being killed by Darth Vader.
 * Qui-Gon Jinn speaks to Yoda, who names himself Qui-Gon's apprentice.

A New Hope
Cut scenes from Episode IV include:
 * Luke in the Desert
 * Luke and Biggs
 * Vader and Bast
 * The Search for Artoo
 * Luke and Ben Spend the Night at Bestine.
 * A "Lost Cut" exists. This "Lost Cut" contained all the footage that George Lucas had shot up to that point, as well as on-set sound effects and a different opening. Aside from the small amount of still photos that have surfaced, very few people have seen it. It has since deteriorated to black & white, but an article about it was published in Star Wars Insider 41.
 * Luke's Poncho
 * Luke visits his friends at Anchorhead - Camie and Fixer. He tells them that he saw a space battle (between the Devastator and the blockade runner Tantive IV) with his macrobinoculars. When they go to see it for themselves, however, the battle has already ended and his friends do not believe him.
 * Luke's friend, Biggs, tells Luke he is going to defect to the Rebels.
 * A patron of the Cantina leaves and reports them to the Stormtroopers. The camera follows him out of the Cantina. 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".
 * Luke is seen haggling over the price he gets for his landspeeder for a little longer than is shown in the film.
 * A shot of a hidden gun on the Millennium Falcon shooting at Stormtroopers was cut. This shot was later used on The Empire Strikes Back in the scene where Leia, Chewbacca, Lando and the Droids reach the Millennium Falcon on Bespin.
 * The scene between Biggs and Luke in the rebel hangar bay lasts longer, involving Red leader speaking of knowing Luke's father
 * There was an additional rebel pilot, known as John D. He is killed shortly after making his first kill. His death still exists on film, with this single line "I'm hit!".

The Empire Strikes Back

 * While fleeing Imperial troops, Han suggests they take a shortcut through a room that has a sign on it. Leia tells him "that's where they keep those creatures" (the wampas). They run off and C-3PO tears off the warning sign, hoping the troops will mistake it for another room.
 * Wampa attack on Echo base
 * Dead Tauntauns
 * Bacta Tank
 * Wampa Attack
 * Wampa Trap
 * Bacta Mask
 * Luke and Leia's kiss
 * General Veers' "Death" (the character later appears in EU stories, though the accident which could have resulted in his death is discussed as though the scene had taken place)
 * Troops Meet Wampas
 * Alternate scene between Han and Leia on Bespin with kiss ("You should wear girls' clothes all the time.")
 * Luke's Rescue
 * Additional shots of Hobbie Klivian and his "death"

Return of the Jedi

 * Luke's original introduction. At Celebration V in Orlando, Fla, on Aug. 14, 2010, Mark Hamill and George Lucas screened a deleted scene of Luke tinkering his new lightsaber. The scene will be included as an extra in the fall 2011 Blu-Ray release of the movie.
 * Rancor Pit Grate
 * Barge Fight
 * The Sandstorm: Right after Jabba's Sail Barge blows up, Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, and the droids go back to the Millennium Falcon and Luke's X-wing (both of which are in the middle of a sand storm). Han thanks Luke for saving him and Luke explains to his friends that he has to go back to Dagobah.
 * Ben's Monologue
 * Jerjerrod
 * Darth Vader Force chokes Moff Jerjerrod to get into the Emperor's throne room.
 * Darth Vader lands in the Death Star docking bay with Luke, taking him to the Emperor. (this outtake was partially restored and placed in the special edition of The Empire Strikes Back, having Vader land in the Executor. Moff Jerjerrod can be seen in the new footage and is mouthing his dialogue from ROTJ.)


 * Endor Battle - General Crix Madine was to have scenes aboard a Mon Calamari ship during the final battle. These scenes were filmed. Actor Dermot Crowley claims to have spent a few extra days filming in a moving chair shouting things such as "Fire!". There are cut shots of rebel gunners aboard the Millennium Falcon. It was rumored that the B-Wing fighters would be given more to do during the battle in the Special Editions. These scenes have apparently been held back for a future release.