Honestly I’m definitely operating on the assumption that there will be no deleted scenes. I’m usually an optimistic guy but something in my gut just tells me there’s no hope here. Maybe it’s just the movie itself that’s made me pessimistic.

Truth is we have precedence on our side. JJ Abrams has never put out a film of his on home video without deleted scenes. And the only Star Wars film so far to not have deleted scenes is Rogue One, but because of the rewrites and reshoots, it’s likely there weren’t any deleted scenes that were compatible with the final version of the film.

Of course that’s where the pessimism comes back, because TROS faced a decent amount of reshoots and rewrites as well, though not nearly to the same degree. Ultimately, all we can do is wait. I expect an announcement some time later next month. Then we’ll know.