8 Star Wars Movie Scenes Where Reshoots Are Painfully Obvious

Now, I'll admit this one blew my mind. So, if you don't want the illusion of this scene ruined forever, here's your chance to skip to the next entry. It's okay. I understand.

Revenge of the Sith has plenty of great lightsaber duels, but one of the strangest is Palpatine's battle with Mace Windu (and other members of the Jedi Council). At times it's badass (when it's 1v1 with Mace) and at times it's a bit awkward (those weird close ups), but overall it pulls through to become one of the flick's most iconic sequences, and does Anakin's final slide to the Dark Side justice.

Obviously it's a pivotal scene, and George Lucas went back and forth tweaking things to make sure it was perfect, even after production had wrapped. Though details are sketchy, based on behind the scenes footage it seems that Anakin was initially going to be present for the entire fight, and that Palpatine would use the Jedi's lightsaber to protect himself.

This fact is actually painfully present in the finished film, because other than the reshot scene where Mace confronts Palps, the Sith is actually using Anakin's lightsaber. You can clearly tell the hilt is not Palpatine's own in a bunch of the shots.

Most likely it would have been far too expensive to reshoot the action, and Lucas assumed if he changed the colour to red, nobody would notice he was holding the wrong hilt.

Once you do realise though, it becomes a constant reminder of what this scene might have been like originally.