7 Star Wars Scenes Deleted For The Dumbest Reasons

Of the many original trilogy scenes George Lucas and co. decided simply weren't needed in his on-screen Star Wars universe, perhaps the most famous went down on Tatooine.

The original Star Wars almost contained a sequence that would have seen Luke Skywalker interacting with a few of his pals at Tosche Station - a repair shop and power station located on the outskirts of Anchorhead - after watching the film's early space battle go down from way below.

The son of Anakin himself Mark Hamill would later confess on the Russo Brothers’ "Pizza Film School" show that he felt the scenes that saw him talk to Biggs Darklighter - an Imperial Academy graduate who was about to defect to the Rebel Alliance - and his pals helped show that Luke wasn't "cool or popular" and "has no political persuasion", with the pure and innocent Skywalker wanting to, according to Hamill, "be in the Empire if it will get him off the farm!"

It definitely would have been interesting to see these old pals connect earlier in the movie before their eventual Yavin IV conversation, and one of the apparent reasons it was dropped from the movie in the first place is about as dumb as they come.

The story goes that after showing a rough cut of the picture to an audience, a fellow filmmaker teased Lucas by telling him that it felt like he'd created American Graffiti in space with this scene (via Acton.org), with that other rather famous Lucas feature revolving around a bunch of teens cruising around town in the early 1960s.

This silly bit of teasing, and Lucas ultimately wanting to focus on the droids before bringing the story to Luke in the movie (via IndieWire), is seemingly what led to a rather interesting initial Luke Skywalker introduction being deleted.