Completed scenes released on DVD
- Grievous Slaughters a Jedi: Escape from the General — Anakin and Obi-Wan round a corner and find General Shaak Ti being held hostage by General Grievous. 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 Hand's 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.[49] Due to Shaak Ti's appearance later in the film, this scene is non-canon.)
- Rebel Alliance subplot
- A Stirring in the Senate (Bail's Office) — Senators including Bail Organa and Mon Mothma present the movement against the Chancellor to Padmé, sowing the seeds of the Rebel Alliance.
- Seeds of Rebellion (Padmé's Apartment) — Padmé suggests bringing the plan to the one Jedi she trusts, but the group agrees to appeal to the Senate first.
- Confronting the Chancellor (Palpatine's Office) — The senators, now including Jar Jar, present the petition to Palpatine and Anakin, who is acting as his personal bodyguard.
- A Plot to Destroy the Jedi? — Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda meet in the Temple to discuss the darkness surrounding Chancellor Palpatine.
- Yoda Exiled to Dagobah — Yoda arrives on Dagobah in the final montage. (This scene is mentioned in the novelization.)
Incomplete scenes released on Blu-ray
- Elevator Antics — 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.[1]
- Changes to Constitution — Palpatine presents legal changes meant to end the war to Anakin.[1]
- Utapau Chase Animatics — 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.[1]
- Anakin Kills Shaak Ti — 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 Hand's walls).[1] 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.[50] 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.[51]
- Jedi Imposters at the Temple — 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.[49] 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.)[1]
- Yoda Communes with Qui-Gon — Qui-Gon Jinn speaks to Yoda, who names himself Qui-Gon's apprentice. (This scene appears in the novelization.)[1]
Other cut scenes
- The Coruscant space battle and opening was supposed to be longer.[52]
- Anakin and Obi-Wan encounter a pair of Magnaguards on their way to rescue Palpatine.[source?]
- An alternate version of R2 hiding from the Super Battle Droids. This appeared in the teaser.[53]
- Extended duel with Count Dooku.
- After Obi-Wan remarks "You won't get away this time, Dooku," Dooku responds by igniting his lightsaber and saying, "Just because there are two of you, do not assume you have the advantage." The short scene with this line is in the Episode III video game.[54]
- Anakin punching and briefly driving his lightsaber into Dooku's face.[source?]
- An alternate shot of Palpatine grimacing as Anakin frees his arms.[54]
- Anakin carrying Obi-Wan on his back and pressing a button to call a turbolift.[3]
- Anakin, Obi-wan, and Palpatine unsuccessfully attempt to find a ship to escape with in the Invisible Hand's hangar bay, as the artificial gravity shifts again.[55] (The artificial gravity changing for a second time was included in LEGO Star Wars: The Videogame.[49])
- Palpatine's "reception committee" (consisting of Mas Amedda and four Red Guards) on Coruscant after being saved by Anakin.[4]
- An extended conversation between Anakin and Obi-Wan when the latter asks the former to spy on Chancellor Palpatine.[4]
- Obi-Wan visits with Padmé to discuss his concerns for Anakin. The scene was not completed as Anthony Daniels had fallen over while filming.[56]
- Extended conversation between Padmé and Anakin.[4]
- When Obi-Wan departs for Utapau, Anakin calls out "Master" instead of "Obi-Wan".[source?]
- Wookiee ambush.[source?]
- Anakin talks with Palpatine about Obi-Wan's mission to Utapau.[source?]
- Palpatine thanking Jar Jar for helping put him in power.[57]
- Extended fight with Grievous.
- An alternate fight sequence that includes many major changes from the final cut.[55]
- When Grievous escapes on his wheel bike and Obi-Wan whistles for Boga, the Varactyl destroys a crab droid with his tail before jumping down, after which Obi-Wan destroys several Super Battle Droids before mounting the creature.
- An extended chase, in which Grievous and Kenobi travel down a highway and hit oncoming vehicles, fly past active battlefronts, and continue through a train tunnel, which forces Grievous to at one point drive through an entire moving train, crashing into passengers.[55]
- Grievous using his bike to spin rocks and body parts of dead clones at Obi-Wan and Boga, and later, spin a giant wind turbine to block Obi-Wan from reaching him.[55]
- Obi-Wan hanging onto a cord trailing from the wheel bike and being dragged along with it, before managing to get it caught on a rock, which breaks the wheel bike apart and sends its pieces flying into the Soulless One.[55]
- Grievous landing several successful punches on Obi-Wan's face.[55]
- Obi-Wan tearing out the General's insides, including his heart, which he proceeds to shoot, killing Grievous, after which he kicks the body off of the landing platform.[55]
- Obi-Wan enters an Utapau Dragon Pen and selects Boga from several other Varactyls (This scene appears in the novel), and his ride to Grievous' hangar is extended.[source?]
- Grievous was originally going to try to escape in his shuttle, but Obi-Wan and Boga destroy it (This scene appears in the novel).
- Anakin and Padme have dialogue when looking out their windows.
- The fight between Palpatine and Windu underwent many changes during production.
- Palpatine's aide Dar Wac and a pair of Senate Guards try to stop Windu and the Jedi, but are pushed with the Force out of the way before entering the Chancellor's office.[58]
- Palpatine was originally meant to be played by a stunt double, however, George Lucas insisted that Ian McDiarmid continue to play him in order to not need to CGI his face. As McDiarmid was an older man and not as dexterous as the stunt double, the fight was slower overall.[source?]
- Anakin originally stood next to Palpatine when confronted by the Jedi.[59] Additionally, in bonus footage on the DVD, Anakin can be seen following closely behind Windu and Palpatine as they duel down the hallway, watching them.[60]
- Another version of the duel consisted of Windu arriving alone, with Kit Fisto and Saesee Tiin instead dying during Order 66, and Windu dropping dead when being hit with Force lightning, rather than being launched out of the window.[61]
- An second angle exists of Palpatine landing in front of the Jedi Masters after jumping over his desk.[18]
- An alternate duel between Windu and Palpatine was shot, and for reasons unknown never released to the media, which shows Palpatine dueling using Anakin's lightsaber. A few seconds of the alternate takes were used in the final film as the hilt can be seen for the briefest moment at least once, though the blade was edited to be red.[4] The scene is considered to be a piece of lost media, though it briefly appeared in the Revenge of The Sith deleted scene commentary through an amateur camera shot of the scene being filmed as Lucas explains it.[60]
- Windu attempting to defend himself with his remaining hand.[58]
- Extended Order 66 and Temple Purge.
- A completely alternate sequence features the deaths of Barriss Offee, who, while fighting on Felucia, is shot by an All Terrain Tactical Enforcer from behind, which proceeds to step on her body; Luminara Unduli, who is quickly surrounded by her troops and gunned down; and Quinlan Vos, who is riding in a convoy of HAVw A6 Juggernauts when the one in front of him suddenly stops and opens fire on his. Other differences from the final sequence include the Separatist attack on Kachirho beginning after Palpatine executes Order 66, with wookiees jumping inside the oncoming tank droids and killing their droid drivers; Ki-Adi Mundi being killed on Kamino instead of Mygeeto; Aayla Secura and Bly having dialogue; Plo Koon and his clone wingmen speaking prior to the latter shooting at the former, who ejects from his starfighter but gets shot in mid air; Stass Allie noticing the clones riding with her pull back, before being fired upon; and Gree attempting to kill Yoda being replaced with Yoda witnessing Unduli's death, which is what causes him to drop his cane. Additionally, various shots of Yoda sensing the Jedi dying, along with Palaptine also sensing them, but smiling, are interlaced between the various Jedi deaths.[55]
- Unduli and Offee's deaths were made official in the Legends comics Republic 82 and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith 3 respectively.[62] The latter also includes the dialogue between Secura and Bly.[63] In Canon, Offee's fate is still unknown, while Unduli was captured and executed later, rather than being killed immediately, as revealed by Dave Filoni in an interview with IGN.[64]
- Vos' inclusion was due to the character catching George Lucas' eye in a comic.[65] Though his appearance was ultimately cut from the movie, Lucas went on to allow Vos to survive when his fate in Legends was left up to Lucas' decision.[66] Vos is confirmed to have also survived, in Canon, in the Obi-Wan Kenobi television series.[67]
- Extended footage for the deaths of Whie Malreaux, Bene, and Cin Drallig, featuring more shots of Anakin dueling with the latter.[18]
- The trailer contains the shot of Ki-Adi Mundi turning around in disbelief, but rather than being a fair distance away from the bridge, as seen in the final film, he is instead standing directly on it.[68]
- The shot of Padmé crying featured in the trailer shows more of her apartment in the background.[68]
- 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.[source?]
- After the Jedi Temple massacre, there would be a small scene of Padme with Ellê, Moteê, and C-3PO, just before Anakin meets her.[source?]
- 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).[4]
- Palpatine's speech would have been longer.[source?]
- Bail tries to object to the Emperor's speech but Padme stops him and assures him that there will be a time (This scene appears in the novelization).[source?]
- 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.[68]
- 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.[69]
- Additionally, Rune Haako was supposed to be killed in the conference room, as seen by his body during the duel between Skywalker and Kenobi.[69]
- Extended Obi-Wan's visit with Padmé after learning of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side (This scene appears in the novelization).[4]
- More scenes with Captain Typho.[4]
- An alternate duel between Yoda and Palpatine, which was set to occur immediately after the the latter and Anakin's hologram call. During the fight, Cam droids start recording and broadcast it to large holoscreens in the ceiling of the Senate Chamber. Additionally, Palpatine uses Force lightning to blow open the roof and escape on a Senate pod, right before arriving clone troopers shoot at Yoda.[55]
- Vader levitating Padmé in the air while choking her.[70]
- R2-D2 and C-3PO help Padme onto her ship.
- An extended duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
- An alternate sequence with many differences from the final cut.[55]
- Anakin wields a red lightsaber.[55]
- Extended fighting on the piece of machinery floating down the lava river, which Anakin and Obi-Wan, at the end, jump off of at the same time.[55]
- A "cat and mouse" chase using the two platforms they land on, which are shown to be pilotable by leaning in a certain direction.[55]
- Anakin's maiming being a result of him jumping on Obi-Wan's platform, dueling, and going in for an overhead strike. Obi-Wan notices his legs are undefended and quickly slices them off, causing him to fall to the bank of the lava river below.[55]
- Obi-Wan using Anakin's lightsaber, along with his own.[4]
- At one point, the pair were to fight along the edge of a cliff.[4]
- Slightly extended shot of the volcano errupting.[53]
- The duo team up and fight a being known as the Mustafar Monster, which can be seen in concept art.[71]
- The two throw lava at each other with the Force.[55]
- While lying on the bank of the lava river, Anakin was supposed to ask Kenobi for help, to which the latter declines, resulting in the former's eyes turning from blue to yellow.[71]
- The Naboo star skiff shown flying off from Mustafar to Polis Massa.[4] This scene was featured in the teaser.[53]
- Additional footage of Emperor Palpatine's shuttle leaving Mustafar and arriving on Coruscant, along with two V-wings.[72]
- Padmé's scene of giving birth to twins would have been longer.[52]
- Dialogue between Palpatine and a surgical droid.[source?]
- 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.[4] This appeared in the teaser.[53]
- Vader causes a whirlwind of destruction that causes droids to break 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.[4]
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