Star Wars Blu-Ray Announced For Fall 2011, Deleted Scene Revealed

At Star Wars Celebration V, George Lucas finally made the big announcement that the entire Star Wars saga would be released in a Blu-Ray box set in Fall 2011. According to IGN, the set will feature "all six live-action Star Wars feature films, with the highest picture and audio quality," along with extensive extras like "documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives." Details after the jump.

Lucas premiered one of the long-lost deleted scenes which will be included in the release, a scene from Return of the Jedi which involved Luke Skywalker assembling his new, green-bladed lightsaber prior to infiltrating Jabba the Hutt's palace, and stashing it in R2-D2's dome. The scene has completed visual effects and music because it was cut right before the final edit of the film was made during post production. Someone has captured the scene on video (found via AICN):

Lucas said that the original trilogy films included on the Blu-Ray release will be the remastered special editions. He explained:

"Releasing the originals is kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It's a very, very expensive process to do it. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version."

George, I'm sure fans are okay with having the original versions released without the remastering process, if that is what needs to be done.

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