On March 27, Star Wars: The Last Jedi comes out on Blu-Ray (following a digital release on March 13). Among other special features, including numerous documentaries and a feature-length audio commentary from the director. There will also be fourteen Last Jedi deleted scenes, but Disney and Lucasfilm have been silent on what these sequences could entail. Still, there have been hints here and there over what ground will be covered.From trailer scenes missing in the finished film to publicized moments which were nowhere to be found in the final cut, to covering events which are implied, but unseen in the end product, there's a lot of potential for these fourteen cut moments. With a final duration of two hours and thirty-two minutes, The Last Jedi is already the longest film in the saga, so it's a sure bet that writer/director Rian Johnson was under a lot of pressure to keep the running time from getting out of hand.Related: The Last Jedi Blu-ray Includes 14 Deleted Scenes & Director CommentaryIn talking about The Last Jedi deleted scenes, Rian Johnson told Deadline, "We shot a lot... We were not at all precious about this film. We tore it apart. We ripped stuff out. There's going to be a lot of great deleted scenes... And it's not just shots of characters walking down hallways, either. There are entire sequences that got lifted out of it, which taken on their own are some of my favorite sequences in the movie."Needless to say, expectations for these scenes are quite high. Thanks to Star Wars News Net, we know a full list of what these scenes will be, and they're grouped around a few specific story threads:This Page: A New Opening and More Achch-To
Opening Scenes
The deleted scenes pick up right at the very beginning with 'Alternate Opening'. This could be anything from an opening crawl, to an intro featuring Luke and Rey on Ahch-To, since that's where The Force Awakens left off. Odds are this is simply alternate shots of the evacuation of D'Qar, playing out relatively similarly.
The other scene from the beginning is titled 'Paige's Gun Jams', which seems pretty self-explanatory. Considering Paige saw a number of obstacles to dropping her bomb load before her ultimate sacrifice, it seems like they actually trimmed out another, with "Paige's Gun" likely referring to the turret she manned on the Resistance Bomber.
Ahch-To
While the film jumps around its various plotlines at a breakneck pace, the slower, more introspective bits occur on the peaceful planet of Ahch-To, the site of the first Jedi Temple. Luke Skywalker had exiled himself here after his failure with Ben Solo, and the whole planet is rife with a heavy aura of melancholy, which is delightfully offset by the adorable porgs and the mysterious caretakers.
The first of the deleted scenes on Ahch-To is titled 'Luke Has a Moment'. This title is obviously a bit nebulous, but with the version of Luke we got in The Last Jedi, there are any number of moments to be had. If the movie had the time to take a slightly slower pace, it could arguably benefit from a few more introspective moments with Luke to allow the audience to get more into his headspace, so it's possible that's what this is. The Jedi Master spends the beginning of the movie shut off from the Force, so there's a lot to examine here.
Second is a scene called 'The Caretaker Sizes Up Rey'. Rey had a fairly antagonistic relationship with Ahch-To's island caretakers, so this is likely more along that route, with the caretaker likely giving the aspiring young Jedi a disapporoving look or two.
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It's already been revealed one Last Jedi deleted scene is Rey's third lesson in the ways of the Jedi, and this scene is likely the one titled 'Caretaker Village Sequence'. In this scene, a jaded Luke Skywalker sends her into what she believes is a raid by pirates, but it's just a beach party being attended by the caretakers and Chewbacca. Luke is trying to teach her a lesson about the fallacy of the Jedi way; he tells her not to save the village, since the Jedi way is to preserve balance, not to save lives, but Johnson ultimately cut the scene because it made Luke too unlikable. A brief glimmer of the scene can be witnessed in some behind the scenes footage, showing Rey, lightsaber in hand, running on the beach, charging into battle.
Finn & Rose & DJ & Phasma
One of the more polarizing elements of the film is Finn and Rose's failed excursion to the casino planet of Canto Bight. Acting on information from Maz Kanata (who has but a cameo in the film), they infiltrate the gambling resort in search of a master codebreaker... But they get stuck with DJ instead. They then seek to disable the tracking system on Snoke's ship, but get captured by Phasma. Their whole story is often dismissed by detractors of the movie because they don't succeed, and if they don't win, then what's the point? These detractors are arguably missing the whole point of the scene, of the film, and of Star Wars as a whole, but that's a discussion for another time.
Several of the Last Jedi deleted scenes included on the Blu ray will relate to this storyline. The relationship between Finn and Rose will surely be expanded, with their romantic chemistry being elaborated upon, possibly in the scene titled 'Rose & Finn Go To Where They Belong'; another scene, titled 'Rose Bites the Hand That Taunts Her' could refer to a moment while Rose and Finn are in captivity; and the creatures created for the Canto Bight sequence will get a longer look with both 'Extended Fathier Chase' and 'The Costumes and Creatures of Canto Bight'.
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A big addition to the film would be Phasma's execution of her own troopers. In a deleted scene, Finn tells her men that she is a traitor for lowering the shields on Starkiller Base in a scene aptly titled 'Phasma Squealed Like a Whoop Hog'. Rather than explain the complexity of the situation or try to reason with her men, she instead chooses to mow them all down with her blaster. This scene happens not too long after DJ reveals himself to be an opportunistic traitor, and it underscores the fallacy of the First Order, and the Galactic Empire before them; they are loyal to power, not to people.
Cut Cameos
There are a handful of celebrity cameos which wound up on the cutting room floor. The most well-known of these is British hunk Tom Hardy, who, like Daniel Craig in The Force Awakens, appears as a First Order stormtrooper. While infiltrating Snoke's ship, the Supremacy, Finn, Rose, and DJ, disguised in officer's uniforms, encounter several troopers on an elevator. One of them turns towards Finn and proclaims, in an exaggerated southern accent, that he knows FN-2187, but didn't think he would ever become an officer. It's a comic moment, but one which doesn't really add to the film, so it's easy to deduce it was cut for time.
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Princes William and Harry were also slated to have cameos in The Last Jedi, but their roles were cut because they were too tall. The 'Mega Destroyer Incursion Extended Version' is likely the scene in question here, with Hardy and the Princes being part of the extended beats.
Other Additions
There are three scenes that don't have obvious placement or context, titled 'Poe: Not Much of a Sewer', 'It's Kind of Weird That You Recorded That', and 'Rey & Chewie in the Falcon'. The first one obviously deals with Poe, as is possible for the second, with the title likely taken a conversation he has with BB-8 after his droid records an interaction (either with Holdo or Leia), and the final scene could occur anywhere from Rey and Chewie sympathizing over how disappointing Luke is on Ahch-To, a longer moment between them before she'd dropped off at the Supremacy, or even later on Crait.
Even months after its release, The Last Jedi is still a part of the pop culture conversation, and if these deleted scenes are as juicy as fans are hoping, then there will be plenty of Star Wars to discuss during the wait for Solo, the final episodes of Rebels, and of course next year's grand finale to the current trilogy, Episode IX.
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Source: Star Wars News Net
