Newly discovered deleted scene from The Empire Strikes Back (updated with Part II)

Part I: Deleted Scene

For Part II, see HERE.

Blame Ovy! (Or credit him. Either way, he inspired this by asking about a certain feature.)








Star Wars experts are still debating whether this footage constitutes a genuine deleted scene from the original film, or whether it is new digital footage by a certain corportation in preparation for an upcoming special edition for an age of more inclusive political correctness.

This is, of course, a spinoff from the new Hot Toys Bespin Luke set (DX24) review, and you can check out the review here:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t7105-hot-toys-star-wars-luke-skywalker-bespin-dx24-review-and-fun-updated

For Part II, see HERE.

More Star Wars goofery:

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t6520-gubernator-s-random-photos

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t6115-recovered-previously-unreleased-footage-from-return-of-the-jedi

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t5484-star-wars-spoof-banned-tv-advertisement-from-the-80s-nsfw

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t4234-rivals-photo-heavy#59153

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t4151-oops-photo-heavy

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3671-star-wars-the-accident-story-photo-heavy-updated-with-alternate-deleted-footage

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3240-star-wars-a-happy-endings-story-original-trilogy-updated

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3178-star-wars-a-silver-linings-story-original-trilogy-updated-with-extra-photos

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2799-star-wars-the-further-adventures-of-darth-maul-updated-with-part-ii-may-2020

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2541-star-wars-a-love-gone-wrong-story

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2206-star-wars-moving-on-solo-story

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1862-star-wars-a-lone-scoundrel-story

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1852-star-wars-a-negative-body-image-story

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1150-star-wars-spacecops

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t909-star-wars-new-imperial-unit-aquatrooper-part-two

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1076-christmas-reruns-star-wars-christmas-revised-edition-not-the-holiday-special

That was funny!
What a great feature, individually moving eyeballs.
If she's always known, did she know it while they were on Hoth?

You are fast Sir.

If I had figures with seperately moving eyeballs, I'd probably fool around all day and get nothing sone.

Ha! I wonder if she knew in that first spin-off book “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye” where they made out again. Lucas really screwed up when he allowed the studio and his writers/directors to run away with his original vision with Empire and ROTJ and then ret-conned his own creation later on after the fact.

It was a galaxy far, far away, and a long time ago. The standards of propriety might have been different than current-day Earth USA.

Even English royalty, not so very long ago, preferred to keep the bloodlines untainted by outsiders.

Besides, one wouldn't want to dilute the midichlorian count.

davidd wrote:It was a galaxy far, far away, and a long time ago. The standards of propriety might have been different than current-day Earth USA.

Even English royalty, not so very long ago, preferred to keep the bloodlines untainted by outsiders.

Besides, one wouldn't want to dilute the midichlorian count.

And…there it is. One of the many reasons I wish George had died in a car fire before 1997 for bringing so many ridiculous and too coincidental elements to Star Wars…

Visisonor wrote:That was funny!
What a great feature, individually moving eyeballs.
If she's always known, did she know it while they were on Hoth?

Exactly! Good question. And glad you liked it.

Ovy wrote:You are fast Sir.

If I had figures with seperately moving eyeballs, I'd probably fool around all day and get nothing sone.

Well, strike while the iron's hot (which is unusually for me, really). I am the emperor of missed opportunities on the whole.
Now that's not entirely true. You would have put together a number of fun scenes, photographed them, and created an awesome additional storyline/faction/world with them.

Stryker2012 wrote:Ha! I wonder if she knew in that first spin-off book “Splinter of the Mind’s Eye” where they made out again. Lucas really screwed up when he allowed the studio and his writers/directors to run away with his original vision with Empire and ROTJ and then ret-conned his own creation later on after the fact.

Good question. To be honest I haven't read it, but it is natural to ask. Or the supposed memories of her mother? Part of me is glad they haven't gone back in and edited out even more original content (like they did to Sebastian Shaw's eyebrows or his likeness as a whole). I've recently watched a number of rather long Youtube videos by remarkably smug and self-satisfied Lucas defenders (he as the author has the right to do anything he wants, he really knows more than anyone else and we're too dumb to notice, he makes all these "incredible" references to other movies and only smart people who have nothing better to do than know and recognize these references are allowed to have an opinion, etc...), who correctly point out a number of problems with fanboy criticisms, but inconsistencies and bad choices are inconsistencies and bad choices. And don't get me started on plausibility or the it's-for-children excuse. That he created this fantastic world to begin with is achievement enough, and I take the point about not being overly-critical, but the Luca Infallibility dogma does not seem to persuasive. So Hayden Christensen replacing Sebastian Shaw is ok because Annakin "died" when he became Darth Vader (which both promotes the Prequel casting and deals with an inconsistency/lie by Obi-Wan in the Original Trilogy) -- that Sebastian Shaw played the repentant and "returned" Annakin apparently was forgotten.

davidd wrote:It was a galaxy far, far away, and a long time ago. The standards of propriety might have been different than current-day Earth USA.

Even English royalty, not so very long ago, preferred to keep the bloodlines untainted by outsiders.

Besides, one wouldn't want to dilute the midichlorian count.

LOL, maybe, but then again Lucas was very much writing from a modern US perspective, informed by anti-war protests, simplistic good vs bad dichotomy (the emperor "is the devil" -- no need to make him a credible or complex villain), hippie-ish spirituality and nature vs machine sentimentality, and then we have incredible plot armor (at the expense of actual armor), etc. I am not saying some of this does not have validity, but I enjoy his world much more than his specific plot.
 
European royalty was never that intimately intertwined within itself. But yes, first cousins, no problem (up until a certain point with Papal dispensation, of course). Of course, there were political and financial aspects to consider.

Oh, Luke is already shocked enough, please don't bring in Midichlorians. I think he'd jump out of the falcon into the real abyss of space. Although, if you recall one part of my Christmas Special, the potential of cross breeding force-sensitive Skywalkers did cross the emperor's mind.

GubernatorFan wrote:I think he'd jump out of the falcon into the real abyss of space.

No problem there. His sister could swim through the vacuum of space, so Luke should be able to, as well.

Stryker2012 wrote:

davidd wrote:It was a galaxy far, far away, and a long time ago. The standards of propriety might have been different than current-day Earth USA.

Even English royalty, not so very long ago, preferred to keep the bloodlines untainted by outsiders.

Besides, one wouldn't want to dilute the midichlorian count.

And…there it is. One of the many reasons I wish George had died in a car fire before 1997 for bringing so many ridiculous and too coincidental elements to Star Wars…

I wouldn't wish that on George Lucas, but I do prefer my Force more abstract. Another example of inconsistency. Why should kid Anakin get a more (pseudo)scientific explanation than basically adult Luke?

davidd wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:I think he'd jump out of the falcon into the real abyss of space.

No problem there. His sister could swim through the vacuum of space, so Luke should be able to, as well.

Oh no, I think you went from bad to worse with that suggestion!

Haha! Thank you for that laugh!
Putting those movable eyes to very good use! (Gotta love them!)

Diana wrote:Haha! Thank you for that laugh!
Putting those movable eyes to very good use! (Gotta love them!)

I'm delighted you enjoyed it, Diana. And yes, movable eyes are fun to play around with.

GubernatorFan wrote:

davidd wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:I think he'd jump out of the falcon into the real abyss of space.

No problem there. His sister could swim through the vacuum of space, so Luke should be able to, as well.

Oh no, I think you went from bad to worse with that suggestion!

That's an example of why nothing beyond the Original Trilogy counts for me.

And even the Ewoks wear thin on my tolerance limits, so a lotta the time I consider there to be but One True Movie.


(And then... porgs? Something to make even Ewoks appear menacing by comparison?    )

I will, however, accept your scenes as "canon."  

At least the post-Trilogy Star Wars saga offers plenty of satire-ready "'canon' fodder."

davidd wrote:That's an example of why nothing beyond the Original Trilogy counts for me.

And even the Ewoks wear thin on my tolerance limits, so a lotta the time I consider there to be but One True Movie.


(And then... porgs? Something to make even Ewoks appear menacing by comparison?    )

I will, however, accept your scenes as "canon."  

At least the post-Trilogy Star Wars saga offers plenty of satire-ready "'canon' fodder."

I think we are exactly on the same page about this! As for Porg, I think you've seen the story already, but they do make an understated appearance here:
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2541-star-wars-a-love-gone-wrong-story

Part II: Alternative Ending

The deleted scene seems to have an additional alternative ending filmed. Long story short, in his dejection, Luke took up his father on his offer, grew his hair out, and assumed the name Darth Fabious.

Oh no! This look will haunt me!

Darth Fabulous... or Darth Fabio?!?

Diana wrote:Oh no! This look will haunt me!  

That is the power of the Dark Side!

davidd wrote:Darth Fabulous... or Darth Fabio?!?

Well, aren't those two things the same thing? Actually, it is based on Fabio, but in deference to the "brilliant" choice of "General Grievous" and in homage to my students turning perfectly good Roman -us name endings (like "Fabius," the Latin precursor to Italian "Fabio") into English adjectival -ous endings (like "fabulous") -- which always drove me nuts. Anyway, it seemed appropriate.

Ha! That’s wild. I’m surprised he didn’t have hair like this in Corvette Summer.

Stryker2012 wrote:Ha! That’s wild. I’m surprised he didn’t have hair like this in Corvette Summer.

I vaguely remember some behind the scenes/non-character shots of Mark Hamill with fairly long locks, but not quite that long.