Well I can tell you for sure that no SIGNIFICANT story/plot elements will be removed. Mostly trimming out annoying stuff and some of the ewoks more ridiculous moments.

Also, salacious crumb will be totally removed. He'll be in the background of some shots still of course, but NO MORE CLOSE UPS OF HIM AND HIS STUPID LAUGH. UGHHHGHGHGHGHGH.

Jabba's palace will move alot more quickly, many close ups of aliens will be removed, and I will try to remove as many appearances by the Muppets as I can. (just kidding... but seriously though they look like muppets and I'm cutting out as much as I can)

NO musical or dance numbers at all.

Considering adding some music from the shadows of the empire soundtrack to the battle against the death star in space. (if you've played the video game, I'm looking at the song that plays in the very last level when your attacking the skyhook with dash's ship. The one with the choir). I like that song and think it would fit really well, add a dark tone to the battle, and add a sort of symmetry to the score (since phantom menace score has choirs in it, and not much of the original trilogy's score does. The only choirs I can think of in the OT is in the approach to cloud city and you can barely even hear them and the emperor's theme).

Again, any opinions on whether using the lossless pcm soundtrack would be beneficial? Also any suggestions on how I could get the isolated score that I have to match the sound of the music in the movie in terms of quality and tone? Don't want the music during cuts to all the sudden sound much more crystal clear than it just sounded you know.