10 Scrapped Star Wars Movie Scenes Better Than What We Got
1. Anakin Begs For Help - Revenge Of The Sith
To many, Revenge of the Sith is one of the best Star Wars films of all time, mostly because it tells the Shakespearean-esque tragedy of Anakin Skywalker.
Episode III is an immense, dramatic spectacle, with the final battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi arguably being the best lightsaber duel ever. After a fierce and brutal fight, Kenobi finally gets the upper hand by landing on the all-important high ground, and goads his fallen apprentice into jumping, which of course, he does.
Once Kenobi lands the decisive blow on Skywalker, he leaves him to burn alive. That wasn't exactly how it was always going to end, though.
In The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by J. W. Rinzler, an alternate scene shows Anakin, lying on the lava plains, begging Obi-Wan for help.
From that book:
After Anakin implores Obi-Wan to save him, George Lucas asked Ewan McGregor to say “I will not…” softer, almost to himself because after Anakin bursted into flames it’s as if Obi-Wan was talking to a dead person. That’s why he also suggested, to drive home this point, that McGregor changed the words in the script to the past tense “I loved you.”
This would have made Skywalker's fall even more tragic, since he was was not fully consumed by the Dark Side, yet was abandoned by Kenobi.