Sorry just going back to the peter Mayhew script tweets about his shooting script.
I seem to remember a discussion about a scene which is yet another variation at mos - eisley docking bay. Somone coming to tell them that they did not have clearance for travel or could not take off… I don’t remember to be honest. But I do remember people getting excited about the potential character that pays a visit to the falcon before they take off.
Montross character you mentioned he pulls a gun on Han…
The thread is in the general discussions here somewhere in regard to peter mayhew tweets on his shooting script.
Sorry but I am really tired been a busy day I just do not have the energy to search for it right now.
Thanks for the script links
I think the principles likely ended up with a couple of drafts due to the revisions. The screen tests are all from an much older draft that bears little resemblance to the final shooting script. So unless we have a glimpse of the cover page to show us the draft and date, it is more likely to be an older draft and the scene in question was removed on revision and was never shot. All the footage I’ve ever seen matches the shooting script. I’ve never seen or heard of anything to indicate there are any scenes missing that we don’t know about. You have to remember just how much got dumped on the public back in the 70’s in terms of behind the scenes photos. We knew the Biggs scenes had been filmed, although they weren’t seen until the 90’s. so I’d be very surprised to learn now that there was anything of significance beyond alternate takes and what was cut from the shooting script in the Lucasfilm archives. Not impossible, but it would be something that Lucas imagined he might need. But the shoot was never that ahead of schedule or ahead of budget to do things like that. The evidence just doesn’t support it.
I’m more interested in what has made it out of the archives to be able to reorder and expand the movie to get closer to a previous edit. I really want to put in all the cut scenes (97 Jabba because I think they got some things right, although the base CG model is very wrong). And I would imagine that the lost cut had nearly all of those cut scenes in it (with the human Jabba).