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Major character deaths and interactions that could have changed everything in Star Wars!
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00:00If these unused moments had been preserved in their respective Star Wars movies,
00:05then much-loved Jedi Masters may not have survived Order 66.
00:10Fans could have found it tough to forgive certain villains turned heroes,
00:14and the boldest ending in the franchise's history would have possibly been lost forever.
00:19So I am Gareth, this is WhatCultureStarWars,
00:22and here are 10 more unused Star Wars scenes that would have changed everything.
00:26Number 10, Bail Organa's First Appearance, Episode 1, The Phantom Menace
00:32One of the most underrated performances found in the prequel trilogy came from the terrific Jimmy Smits,
00:39with the veteran actor bringing the brave and warm adoptive father of Leia Organa to life superbly during episodes 2 to 3.
00:46Smits would also build on that excellent work as Bail Organa in the likes of Rogue One, A Star Wars Story,
00:52and the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series.
00:54However, had George Lucas opted to stick to his original plan for one little deleted moment in Episode 1, The Phantom Menace,
01:01maybe fans would be living in a world where Smits was never past the Organa ball.
01:06Actor Adrian Dunbar was initially cast in the role of Bail Organa for that first prequel,
01:11with the character stating that Alderaan seconded the motion put forward by Padme Amidala
01:16for a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum in an unused moment.
01:20Not only did that scene not make the cut, though, Dunbar's role was also altered to that of Bail Antilles of Alderaan,
01:27one of the other figures nominated to succeed Valorum as Supreme Chancellor.
01:32Dunbar would later note how Lucas had told him his character would be involved in the next two flicks,
01:37but that ultimately never happened, and instead this original Organa was eventually replaced by the Smits.
01:43Number 9, Kylo Ren Tortures Chewie, Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker
01:48By the time Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker had reached its divisive conclusion,
01:54most happily accepted the return of Ben Solo,
01:57and forgave the troubled soul as he finally helped Rey take down the Emperor and the First Order.
02:02But if one specific scene involving a then-Kylo Ren and Chewbacca had been used in J.J. Abrams' underwhelming Skywalker Saga finale,
02:11then perhaps fans wouldn't have been as quick to celebrate Solo's redemption.
02:15Now sure, Ren had already murdered his own father,
02:18but he was very much a man torn between the light and dark side as he suddenly impaled Han Solo on Starkiller Base,
02:25so he still wasn't seen as a complete monster at this stage.
02:28However, a deleted Episode 9 scene would have seen Ren heading to a place so dark when face-to-face with Han's best mate Chewie,
02:35the actor in the suit, Yonah Shwatamo, noted in his raw My Life as a Wookiee book
02:40that he felt people may have struggled to forgive Kylo Ren in the aftermath.
02:44Shwatamo remembered being genuinely scared of the intense Adam Driver throughout the filming of the scene,
02:50involving Ren torturing Chewie,
02:52feeling the whole thing was likely just a bit too dark for the story Abrams and co. wanted to tell.
02:58In the end, the disturbing sequence that saw Driver becoming a real monster was scrapped,
03:03with Chewie just being saved after being captured by the First Order instead.
03:07Now I want to know really quickly, what is your favorite sequel moment?
03:11Was it Chewbacca being saved or something else?
03:14You let me know in the comments section down below.
03:16Number 8. Palpatine Plants More Seeds of Doubt in Anakin's Mind Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
03:23Revenge of the Sith certainly still boasted its fair share of moments between Anakin Skywalker and Sheev Palpatine,
03:30with the latter slowly manipulating the conflicted Jedi into joining him and turning to the dark side.
03:36But there was actually a deleted scene between the two that added even more glorious detail
03:41to Skywalker's heartbreaking eventual exchanges with his former master Obi-Wan Kenobi
03:45and beloved Padme Amidala on Mustafar towards the end of the flick.
03:50In this scene, the eventual Emperor was confronted by the Delegation of 2000,
03:55a number of Senators who demanded Palpatine return his emergency powers to the Senate once the war was over.
04:00Here, after being presented with a petition of the 2000,
04:04Palpatine proceeded to state to Anakin in private that the Senators, including Padme, were not to be trusted.
04:11In fact, he'd even go as far as to tell Skywalker that Amidala was hiding something,
04:16before claiming that Anakin just did not want to admit he sensed betrayal in his beloved.
04:21With the inclusion of this scene, Anakin's decision to suddenly lash out at his wife
04:25once Obi-Wan is revealed to have joined her on the lava planet,
04:29he's actually shown to have been subtly orchestrated by Palpatine, too.
04:33So not only was Palpatine responsible for making Anakin lose trust in the entire Jedi Order,
04:39this scene would have also shown how he planted the idea of Amidala's potential betrayal in Skywalker's impressionable mind,
04:46a move that directly led to Skywalker's choking off her and clashing with old master Obi-Wan.
04:52Number 7, Maz Gives Leia Luke's Lightsaber, Episode 7, The Force Awakens
04:56Remember back when The Force Awakens' first few trailers melted the internet all those years ago?
05:02Well, during that marketing material, there was actually a moment there which showed the old Pirate Queen Maz Kanata
05:08handing the Skywalker lightsaber over to what looked like Leia Organa.
05:12But when fans finally sat down to take in the first chapter of the sequel saga,
05:16they were surprised to learn that Leia didn't actually end up holding the legendary weapon at any point.
05:21Instead, Maz ultimately attempted to give Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber to Rey after her Forceback moment.
05:27Before Abrams opted to have Finn take the weapon to the Resistance base and Starkiller base, however,
05:33the director originally shot a few scenes that would have involved Kanata following our heroes to that former location.
05:38Here, she would have obviously given the iconic lightsaber to Luke's sister.
05:42But after realizing that the character wouldn't have had much else to do once she delivered the blade,
05:47Abrams told Entertainment Weekly that he felt the moment just became unnecessary.
05:52It was soon taken out, and both the lightsaber and Maz's original journeys in the film were ever so slightly altered as a result.
05:59Number 6, Luke Returns with the Blue Lightsaber, Episode 6, Return of the Jedi
06:03Speaking of lightsabers once wielded by the legendary Luke Skywalker,
06:08Return of the Jedi saw the iconic Son of Anakin debut a marvellous green version of the Sacred Jedi weapon.
06:15But if George Lucas had stuck with the initial and eventually unused version of the Jabba's sail barge sequence,
06:21then Star Wars fans may have had to wait a staggering 22 years to see the first ever green lightsaber.
06:27Qui-Gon Jinn would go on to use a similar weapon in 1999's The Phantom Menace, of course.
06:31You see, when Lucas and the team began shooting the final original trilogy film,
06:35they initially had Luke using yet another blue lightsaber in the flick.
06:40However, they soon realized during production that this blue blade was rather difficult to see
06:44when ignited in front of the clear Tatooine sky.
06:48So the call was eventually made to switch the blade from blue to green in the end,
06:52but not before a teaser trailer for the flick in 1982 revealed footage of a blue-bladed Luke
06:57swinging his weapon around on Jabba's barge.
06:59With this trailer now reminding fans just how close they were to waiting two decades
07:04for the first cool green Jedi laser sword.
07:07Number 5, Clones in Disguise at the Temple, Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith
07:12With Order 66 already well and truly being executed by the time Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda arrived at the Jedi Temple,
07:20To disable the coded retreat message in Revenge of the Sith,
07:23the finished flick simply showed the two Jedi Masters cutting through a bunch of 501st Legion clone troopers
07:29that they once fought alongside.
07:31But had the original version of that slaughter been left in the flick,
07:35that temple return and brief showdown would have certainly hit differently.
07:39In an earlier iteration of the sequence, Kenobi and Yoda were first greeted by a number of figures wearing Jedi robes.
07:46From a distance, the Masters may have assumed they were simply about to exchange words with some remaining survivors of the Purge,
07:52but as they got closer, it became clear that they were actually dealing with a bunch of clones attempting to lure them into a deadly trap.
07:59Even after Kenobi tries to make light of the unsettling situation by quipping how their former allies made terrible Jedi,
08:06these one-time generals having to slice through clones wearing the robes of fallen Jedi
08:11would have made for a far more disturbing arrival at the temple than the one we got.
08:15It also would have highlighted just how far these brainwashed clones were willing to go to wipe out the Order.
08:224. Captain Phasma is Turned On Before Her Death Episode 8 The Last Jedi
08:26Most would agree that the badass-looking Captain Phasma ended up being unforgivably wasted during the sequel trilogy.
08:34By the time she disappointingly fell to her death in The Last Jedi,
08:37the character's only real highlight came in the form of her intimidating arrival on Jakku.
08:41If Rian Johnson had opted to keep Phasma's alternative death sequence in this middle sequel chapter, though,
08:47the First Order villain would have actually been given a far more memorable end.
08:51In that other version of her demise, Phasma had Finn surrounded by his former colleagues.
08:56But just as it looked like the deserter was doomed,
08:59Finn reveals to all that Phasma was the one responsible for lowering Starkiller Base's shield
09:04after having a gun pointed at her head.
09:06Rather than just blindly continuing to follow Phasma after that revelation, however,
09:11her troops begin to question the person in charge.
09:14Then, before they can act, the Chrome Dome commits the most ruthless act of her entire time on screen,
09:20swiftly and brutally gunning down her own soldiers to conceal the truth.
09:24It's a properly shocking sequence, and unlike her other death scene,
09:28one that highlights just how far Phasma was willing to go to survive.
09:31Though she still couldn't do that in the end,
09:34with Finn ultimately blasting her through the chest in this deleted scene.
09:38Number 3.
09:39Force Ghost Qui-Gon Speaking to Yoda in the Films
09:42Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
09:44Those who have experienced the gift that is the Clone Wars animated series
09:48will know that Master Yoda ultimately learns how to return from the grave as a Force spirit
09:53after communicating with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn and passing a number of important tests.
09:59But there was once a scene that would have occurred towards the end of Revenge of the Sith
10:02that could have resulted in that aforementioned Clone Wars arc,
10:06one that went down before the events of Episode 3,
10:09likely never needing to become an animated thing.
10:11As Yoda meditated on a secret asteroid after battling with Darth Sidious,
10:16Qui-Gon's voice would have been heard telling the Jedi Master of the training he was set to give him
10:20that would help him merge with the Force at will.
10:23From here, Yoda would have likely begun learning the secret of immortality at the same time as Obi-Wan Kenobi,
10:28rather than having a head start,
10:30with the little green legend obviously then telling Qui-Gon's old apprentice
10:34about Jinn's training in the finished film.
10:36Now sure, it certainly would have been awesome to hear Liam Neeson's unmistakable voice one more time in the prequels,
10:42but when given the option of having this impactful Qui-Gon Yoda moment play out over one small scene,
10:48or over the course of a wonderful three-episode animated arc instead,
10:52it's safe to say very few would opt for the former.
10:54Number 2, The Heroes Survive, Rogue One, A Star Wars Story
10:59Rather than have the heroic rebels fighting to bring down the Empire survive after successfully stealing the Death Star plans from the enemy,
11:07Gareth Edwards had the likes of Jinn Erso and Cassian Andor tragically killed by that very superweapon
11:12in Rogue One, A Star Wars Story.
11:14It wasn't always going to be this way though.
11:16One of the first drafts of the movie contained eventually unused scenes that would have seen
11:21Jinn and Cassian actually find a way to get off Scarif,
11:24and hop in an escape pod after getting the plans over to Leia Organa.
11:28That wasn't necessarily because the likes of Gary Witter and John Knoll wanted a happy ending,
11:33they just assumed Disney wouldn't sign off on a finale that sees all of our heroes biting the dust.
11:38However, after ultimately feeling that their instinct of all the heroes having to pay the ultimate sacrifice was the right call,
11:44they asked Lucasfilm and Disney if they could have their darker ending.
11:48The folks in charge told them to go for it in the end.
11:51With that happy ending, one that still would have seen droid K-2SO die in action,
11:56being dropped in favour of the heartbreaking end they'd always desired.
12:00Huzzah?
12:01Number 1, Quinlan Vos died in the original Order 66 sequence, Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith.
12:08The charismatic and unpredictable Jedi Master known as Quinlan Vos
12:11was one of the few to have made it out of the galaxy-changing Order 66 alive.
12:17As recently as during Disney Plus' Obi-Wan Kenobi series,
12:20the titular Jedi was informed of the fact his old pal helped the path smuggle younglings across the galaxy,
12:26and safely away from the Empire.
12:28But had one deleted moment during Revenge of the Sith remained in the finished cut,
12:32then Vos surely wouldn't have been helping anyone.
12:34In the wake of Order 66 being given,
12:37Vos was once one of the first few Jedi taken out by the clone troopers.
12:40Whilst riding in a group of juggernaut tanks on Kashyyyk,
12:44one of said tanks would have suddenly turned around and opened fire on the helpless General,
12:49seemingly killing him right there and then.
12:51The unfinished death scene slash animatic obviously never made it into Episode 3 though,
12:55and Vos managed to thankfully survive in both Legends and Canon continuity,
13:00largely due to the character's popularity.
13:02Will fans ever see him again in the post-Clone Wars galaxy far, far away?
13:06Thanks to this scene never making the cut, at least there's still hope.
13:09Have a good night.
13:17Congratulations.
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