20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith

20. The Original Cut Was Almost Four Hours Long

It's true of basically every movie ever made that the original cut ends up being significantly longer than the whittled-down version that makes it into cinemas, though in the case of Revenge of the Sith, the length of the original edit is quite extreme indeed.

The film's final release clocks in at a fairly hefty 140 minutes, but the first cut? Just shy of a stonking four hours, with the opening battle and Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) rescue sequence concluding over an hour into the film alone.

Fans being fans, a petition was inevitably started to try and convince Lucas to release the four-hour cut, though considering it would require him to spend money polishing another 100 minutes of material - much of which may have featured heavily incomplete VFX - it's likely not worth the bother.

Still, it sure would be neat if the epic four-hour version materialised one day.