Comments on: The Lost “Star Wars” Opening Scenes

By: dagnabbit

dagnabbit — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:27:49 +0000

Yes, as a few have said, the scenes were in the Marvel comic adaptation. A more interesting deleted scene was also included in that adaptation: Han Solo being ambused into a meeting with Jabba the Hutt in the Tatooine spaceport. That scene was re-included with a CGI Jabba in the late 90’s re-release of Star Wars. But the original was filmed with an actor. It is that actor’s likeness that appears in the Marvel comic. Basically, Jabba is a scruffy human with a penchant for dressing in furs like a barbarian. You can’t hide the past, Lucas!

By: Whatev

Whatev — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:58:59 +0000

muskratboy — one of the funniest posts ever!!! Thanks!

By: Ken Zieger

Ken Zieger — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:48:00 +0000

The missing scenes were included in the Marvel Comics adaptation it the movie first came out. I remember reading the comic and wondering where the comic writer and artist came up with it.

By: Dave Knave

Dave Knave — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:22:31 +0000

I think the first bit of that (luke with the droid) is pieced together with some unused rushes and the audio play version – that is way to expositional….

I remember those scenes in the novel and the pic in the storybook too – I was surprised when they didn’t make the special edition – especially since they put the scene on Yavin back in

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:55:58 +0000

I thought Biggs was going to lead Luke to a Liopleurodon on their way to Candy Mountain.

By: darthmel

darthmel — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:35:00 +0000

jonas66, Lucas got the credit for the novelization but I’ve always heard it was actually written by Alan Dean Foster – part of the deal was that Foster got to write a sequel, which was Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. And I thought it was cute – I recognized the dialogue from the novel immediately. I always wondered why Biggs wasn’t in the movie more.

By: burg

burg — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:27:24 +0000

These scenes (or at least most of them are on the SW: Behind the Magic CD-Rom that came out some 10 years ago. You may want to check it out.

By: rexology

rexology — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:05:31 +0000

A still from the scene was included in “The Star Wars Storybook”, which I had as a kid. I always thought it was odd that Biggs had a larger part in the 30-some page picture book than he had in the movie.

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:39:51 +0000

wow I must be really nerdy…I have these on a computer program from the nineties!

By: Jess Q

Jess Q — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:12:53 +0000

I can’t imagine a “huge Star Wars fan” not having any idea who Biggs was. I mean, even before stuff was added back in, he was in the movie. I knew who he was before there was really an internet, and I wasn’t even that huge of a fan.