Comic-Con 2011: Star Wars Deleted Scenes Revealed on Blu-ray | Comic Con | SPIKE

You may not realize this, but there's a lot of lost footage from the original Star Wars movies. George Lucas actually recut the entire first film with new effects before it was originally released, and trimmed away a lot of moments that fans have only heard rumors about. But now, we're getting a chance to see it.

Lucasfilm debuted a sizzle reel for the upcoming Blu-rays at Comic-Con that's a Star Wars fan's dream, full of little clips of sequences that have been kept in the vault for decades. Among the new moments:

• An entire scene set in a sandstorm.
• Luke building his new lightsaber at the beginning of Return of the Jedi.
• A shootout at what looks like the rebel base on Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back.
• And...Luke looking through his binoculars from A New Hope. Look, they can't all be pure excitement.

The Blu-ray of the full saga comes out September 16.

Source: LucasArts