With the home media release of The Last Jedi set to arrive here in the US later this month, Entertainment Weekly provides us with a first look at five of the 14 deleted scenes that will be included as bonus content on the film’s Blu-ray release.
A report on what we will be seeing content-wise for these highly-anticipated Episode VIII deleted scenes was posted back in December.
The Last Jedi still has some things left to reveal to Star Wars fans.
There will be 14 deleted scenes released as part of the home entertainment rollout for the film, some of them curiosities, others adding new layers to the characters and their motivations.
EW has an exclusive preview of that footage, as well as an interview with writer-director Rian Johnson in advance of the film’s download release on March 13 (available in both HD and 4K Ultra HD, and by way of Disney’s Movies Anywhere app) and its March 27 Blu-ray debut.
“I love each one of the scenes individually. I mean, every single one of them was not cut because it didn’t work. It was cut because the movie as a whole was better without it,” Johnson tells us. “So with each one of them, it’s that strange combination where it feels awful to cut it, but it feels good to cut it, because suddenly the pacing of a section of the movie feels much better, or suddenly the film is cleaner, or clearer, in many different ways.”
