‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Rian Johnson’s First Cut, Deleted Scenes, More

We’re less than two weeks away from “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and the secrecy around the movie seems even tighter than it was for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” So, until we know more, we’re just going to openly speculate that the porgs murder, oh I don’t know, Supreme Leader Snoke. Prove me wrong, Lucasfilm!

Director Rian Johnson has kept his lips sealed about any plot details, but did reveal the first two words in the film: “We’re not.” Wow, scintillating stuff!

In more interesting news, Collider got the filmmaker to reveal some details about the stuff that didn’t make it into movie, material that was trimmed from a much longer first cut of ‘The Last Jedi.’

“We had a long movie from the start. It was well over three hours, the first cut… It’s much better at two and a half [hours] than it was at over three, but it was a cut I had put together, is where we started. And it was over three hours,” Johnson said.

“A lot of really good stuff came out in the edit. I actually just reviewed the deleted scenes we’re gonna have on the Blu-ray. There’s a bunch of — some of my favorite scenes ended up having to come out just structurally… There’s a lot of really substantial, really good scenes. There’s a couple whole sequences actually that we lifted out. It’s weirdly — and this always happens — it’s like your babies you have to kill. It’s some of my favorite stuff from the movie,” he added.

And sorry fans, Johnson says he’s not going to make a director’s cut, emphasizing the version in cinemas is his director’s cut — but yes, you’ll see all those goodies on home video.

Undoubtedly, Johnson will be able to talk at length about the footage he left behind once everyone sees the movie on December 15th. For now, here’s a new international trailer (via Flickering Myth) that contains our favorite: snippets of new scenes!