Okay, here's the deal... The Rebel briefing is staying in 100%. The Rebel Alliance assault on the Death Star and subsequent space battle will most likely be retained in its entirety as it's top-class filmmaking and IMO, is still to this day, one of the best sequences in any Star Wars movie. For me, the Executor colliding with the Death Star signifies the downfall of the Empire as much as Vader throwing Palpatine over the railing signifies the destruction of the Sith.
The Rebels' attack on the Endor bunker, however, is somewhat different. In short, we're going to go through every shot with a fine-toothed comb and everything objectionable, or worse - cute - will be eliminated.
And earlier in the film, instead of being captured by the Ewoks and almost eaten for dinner, the Rebels will land on Endor and rendezvous with the Ewoks as part of the Rebel plan to capture the bunker. And of course, the Ewoks will be expecting them as honored guests helping to free their planet.
As far as the ROTS deleted scenes... There's something about these scenes I like. I think the actress they got to play Mon Mothma was fantastic. And it's an interesting backstory which provides even more connections to the OT. But, I think I also have issues with some of the acting. Mainly Jimmy Smits.
We're gonna take a look at it and see where they'd fit, if they'd fit. There's a possibility that with a few snips and a change of music we may be able to pull a phoenix out of the ashes.
In any case, we would incorporate them into ESB if anything, not ROTJ, as ROTJ only uses the 2nd half of ROTS.
And yes, we'll undoubtedly be posting preview clips. I've talked to TJ and we're mulling over the idea of maybe doing monthly video webdocs, similar to what the official site was doing with the prequels, and post them on YouTube and our myspace page.
We'll see.
--ID