10 More Unused Star Wars Scenes That Would Have Changed Everything

Speaking of lightsabers once wielded by the legendary Luke Skywalker, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi saw the iconic son of Anakin debut a marvellous green version of the sacred Jedi weapon.

But if George Lucas had stuck with the initial and eventually unused version of the Jabba's sail barge sequence, then Star Wars fans may have had to wait a staggering 22 years to see the first-ever green lightsaber - Qui-Gon Jinn would go on to use a similar weapon in 1999's The Phantom Menace, of course.

You see, when Lucas and the team began shooting the final original trilogy film, they initially had Luke using yet another blue lightsaber in the flick. However, they soon realised during production that this blue blade was rather difficult to see when ignited in front of the clear Tatooine sky.

So, the call was eventually made to switch the blade from blue to green in the end. 

But not before a teaser trailer for the flick in 1982 revealed footage of a blue-bladed Luke swinging his weapon around on Jabba's barge, with this trailer now reminding fans just how close they were to waiting two decades for the first cool green Jedi laser sword.