10 Awesome Star Wars Ideas That Nearly Happened

10. Anakin Skywalker Really Embraces The Dark Side At The Jedi Temple

Proving to be the real turning point when it came to Anakin Skywalker's inevitable fall into the Dark Side, the fallen Jedi's butchering of a room full of younglings within The Jedi Temple acted as one of the darkest beats the entire Skywalker Saga had produced.

However, according to Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid at Salt Lake City's FanX convention in 2015, the originally fully shot scene was said to be much more "gruesome", revealing that "a lot of young potential Jedi ended up on the cutting room floor."

And though the actor would admit cutting down the carnage was probably for the best in order to avoid a harsher rating for Revenge of the Sith, he did recall a conversation with George Lucas over the vivid slaughtering of the youngsters where the director explained:

"That's what he's like, this guy, he's uncompromising. People should know it."

Though it was clearly a wise move steering clear of too graphic a massacre scene for the sake of a PG-13 rating, seeing an uncompromising Anakin display just how far he'd fallen in such a disturbing manner would've likely made for a much more chilling closing stretch to the Prequels and his long-awaited transformation into Darth Vader.