Idea: Star Wars A New Hope Special Edition Jabba Scene

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but I was just thinking of this tonight…

…has anyone considered changing this scene to leave it in a fan edit by overlaying terrible CGI Jabba with a Hologram image of Jabba and then changing Harrison Ford to match the deleted scene where he doesn’t step on the tail? Not sure of how painstaking that would be but guessing a lot.

It seems completely plausible that Jabba might send his minions to talk to Han and drop a Holo projector on the ground so that Jabba can show his seriousness of taking time to talk to Han but not so much that he actually has the time to be present (Han and Jabba aren’t peers and why is he able to slither around if Huts have such long lives and young CGI Jabba appears just a few human years before fat Don Corleone Jabba?).

Maybe Greedo just jumped the gun and instead of being a good little soldier decided to take matters into his own hands and then get’s snuffed out WHEN HAN SHOOTS FIRST.

Thoughts?

The only thing that would make this scene work is changing Jabba with Bib Fortuna with a few adjustements to the dialogues.

MalàStrana said:

The only thing that would make this scene work is changing Jabba with Bib Fortuna with a few adjustements to the dialogues.

Great idea with Fortuna. That would build up the suspense behind Jabba being some big crime boss that much more.

The Bib Fortuna idea could be feasible…if we had a clean HD copy of the original deleted scene, sans CGI.

The larger problem with the deleted scene is that it pre-empts and diminishes the already perfect introduction to the Falcon. The music swells Ben and Luke enter the Falcon hangar, then the music drops for Luke to deliver his classic “What a piece of junk!”.

Plus, I don’t think the deleted Jabba scene gives us anything we didn’t already have as viewers. It doesn’t show us a new environment, the extra plot about Han’s debt is extraneous and covered more efficiently in other scenes, the CGI execution is very poor, and Han’s dialogue “you’re a wonderful human being” doesn’t make sense with the eventual non-human rendition of Jabba.

I think the scene is an interesting extra curio but the film is better without it.

Matt.F said:

The larger problem with the deleted scene is that it pre-empts and diminishes the already perfect introduction to the Falcon. The music swells Ben and Luke enter the Falcon hangar, then the music drops for Luke to deliver his classic “What a piece of junk!”.

Plus, I don’t think the deleted Jabba scene gives us anything we didn’t already have as viewers. It doesn’t show us a new environment, the extra plot about Han’s debt is extraneous and covered more efficiently in other scenes, the CGI execution is very poor, and Han’s dialogue “you’re a wonderful human being” doesn’t make sense with the eventual non-human rendition of Jabba.

I think the scene is an interesting extra curio but the film is better without it.

All of this is exactly why the scene was cut in the first place. Let’s not forget that the dialogue in the Greedo scene was altered (including lifting two of Han’s lines wholesale from the audio track of the Jabba scene) to cover what little was lost by cutting this scene … and wasn’t changed back when the scene was reinserted for the SE.