RotS DVD release date set

[JMK]

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/video/news20050725.html

Another countdown anyone? ;)

[Darth McBain]

Excellent. Now if they'll only not make any more changes or additional releases such as the 6-movie set with additional features... I'm getting tired of so many different versions. Oh well, we know it's bound to happen... :) At least we only have to wait about 3 months for the DVD - sweet!

[QuiGonJ]

At Comic-Con they promised no big box set right away. Sounds like we might get something for the 30th anniversary in 2007 though.

[JMK]

I imagine we'll see a bare bones 6 movie set in 2007, but I can't see them making all the changes that we know Lucas will make for the 2007 release. I'd say it's more likely that we'll see a huge re-release bonanza with new scenes etc. for TPM's 10 year anniversary.

[Jedieb]

Battlefront 2 is coming out the same day as well. Big day for wallets everywhere.

[Darth McBain]

I'm just waiting for season two of Clone Wars to be released...

[Jedi Master Carr]

I will be getting that first day that is for sure.

[JMK]

Me too, I'll be watching it that night, no doubt about that.

[Darth McBain]

Some updates on the DVD. Some of the special features sound good.

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/video/news20050926.html

[Eldorack]

This is so awseome...I cant wait to get ROTS and BF2

[Jedi Master Carr]

I am curious about the deleted scenes. Two we know, the Yoda one and basically the formation of the rebellion.

[JMK]

I really hope those 2 in particular get added back in in some cut in the future.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Of course not knowing what else got cut, but I say those two seem to fit. Are there any listings of what the other deleted scenes are? I was hoping for seeing what happened to Shaak Ti, and see some Wookie action we were promised once. I remember Lucas saying we would see them pull stormtroopers arms out.

[JMK]

That would be great, I'd love to see wookies pulling arms off.

[Tarsis]

Sweet! Ive been waiting of BF2 and now I get a nice lil bonus XP

[Droo]

AICN have images from some really sweet looking deleted scenes. Check them out:

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21422

[JMK]

Those are awesome.
Though I don't think the Shaak Ti scene will ever be reinserted because if I'm not mistaken she reappears in the movie in the form of a hologram in a council scene.

[Droo]

Or is she a ghost? Ooooooh! :lol

[Jedi Master Carr]

Yeah according to the novelization she is killed by Anakin. And I think they did a new scene where Anakin killed her.

[Eldorack]

Im just afraid of the price of the complete set ...:lol

[JMK]

I guess he whacks her at the temple?

[Darth McBain]

Cool pics, but where does the Shaak Ti stuff occur? At the end of clone wars, Grievous had escaped on the Invisible Hand and Shaak Ti was down on the surface of Coruscant in pretty sad shape. There's no way she could have made it up to the Invisible Hand (if that's where the scenes actually are) in time for those scenes to occur before Anakin and Obi-Wan showed up.

And if the scenes are at the Jedi Temple, Grievous was out on Utupau by that time.

???

Also, where do the water (fuel?) scenes occur with Anakin and Obi-Wan?

Overall, the imagery is cool, but I'm having trouble figuring out where these would have fit in the movie. I guess it's just as well they were cut.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Well according to the Making of Star Wars guide, she was suppose to be killed on board Grievious ship, but they shot the scenes and changed their minds and reshot it so Anakin killed her in the temple. I get that much as well from the novelization because in that Anakin decapitates her while she is meditating. Not sure how the scene was shot, though.

[JMK]

Yeah, the big question mark is how the hell did Shaak-Ti get on the Invisible Hand anyway? I'm guessing the Clone Wars cartoon had a hand in getting that scene cut.

If Anakin decapitated her while she was meditating in the temple, it could only be during the assault on the temple. If indeed she were there she must have been totally asleep at the switch.

[Jedi Master Carr]

I think here dying there showed, how the darkside was winning because the light jedi couldn't even see their own demise. Of course the deaths of the other jedis show that pretty well.

[Darth McBain]

Some more info on the DVD...

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/video/f20051006/index.html

I know I'm hitting Best Buy Nov. 1 to pick mine up...

[JMK]

Oh yeah, I'm saving my pennies for this. :D

[General Ceel]

Just 9 days left until the DVD comes out.

[Jedieb]

8 Days To Go
"Hey guys, instead of having Grievous appear like an unstoppable bad mofo like he did in the Clone Wars cartoon, let's cut the scene where he skewers Shaak Ti right in front of Anakin and Obi-Wan. Instead, we'll have him cough like he's suffering from asthma!"

"Great George, another brilliant bit of comic relief." :cry

[JMK]

I don't know why that was cut. I know we see her later, but seeing Grievous like that would have been such an exclamation point for his intro; this guy means business, and he's nasty. Instead we get the wheezing bionicle wuss.

[Darth McBain]

Originally posted by JMK
I don't know why that was cut. I know we see her later, but seeing Grievous like that would have been such an exclamation point for his intro; this guy means business, and he's nasty. Instead we get the wheezing bionicle wuss.

Probably to keep it a PG-13 rating... I don't know how graphic that scene was, but the outright killing of Shaak Ti right in front of your eyes might have upped the rating to an R.

Though I agree with you - after all the hype of Greivous, it would have been awesome to see him cut down Shaak Ti, one of the more beloved minor Jedi, to show that he is not a droid to be screwed with...

[JMK]

That sounds about right. Hadn't thought of the rating.