Vaderisnothayden said:adywan said:Ok direct from starwars.com:
There. the Jabba scenes were never finished and never in any version of the movie. So how could these people have seen it in this extended cut? one urban myth ended.
and about the Biggs footage:
http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/swcs/episode4/Biggs.html
accept it. this whole "extended cut" of star wars never existed. It is just an urban myth.
I know the official account that the Jabba scene wasn't in the final cut because Lucas couldn't get the creature for it, but I don't trust that account. See my first post on this page. I address reasons for questioning that account. It's not that I think the scene was in there, but when there's any reason to doubt the account and people are claiming to have seen it, questions are raised.
Re the Biggs footage, that article only addresses the Tatooine Biggs scene, not the Yavin one which the Star Wars Unauthorized Compendium says was in the film.
Also, the article claims the Biggs Tatooine scene was never shown in public, but on what are they basing that claim? The previous thing you posted implied that scene WAS shown in public at previews and was only deleted after the previews, so I don't know if we can trust the claim that it was never shown in public. Also, they say the sound mix wasn't finished and the scene was only in rough cuts. But if they're wrong about it being shown in public they could be wrong about that. And I don't know, maybe somehow a roough cut could have gotten out.
I don't mean to be a pain in the ass about this, I'm just concerned with what happened and I don't see justification for dismissing these claims outright. The official accounts can be wrong and I don't trust Lucas and co.
Thanks for the info, anyway. :)
You seem to be totally misreading what i posted. The article never said it was shown in public. it was a private preview screening which was for "Hollywood heavies", which was the fox execs and also the guy from Marvel. it clearly states it was in Lucas' private screening room. You need to read that again. No where does it say it was shown to the public.
If you read it the screening in the first quote was a very rough one and it mentioned that the scene with Biggs and Luke friends had been cut. Maybe in this one the other 2 biggs scenes ( where he tells him that's he is going to join the rebels and the Yavin temple scene) were intact. but the second one seems to be a final screening and then the rest of the Biggs scenes were cut. It all fits.
The novel & the Marvel comic had these scenes, including the grappling hook, intact. the illustrated storybook had pictures of the opening tredwell scene and biggs on Tatooine. Then the Radio play brought these scenes to life (apart from the grappling hook). the evidence is all there that its a myth, but it seems to me that even if hard evidence is produced then some people still wouldn't believe it.