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[StarWarsAnalyst]

👇FULL Alternate Dooku VS Anakin fight👇

[vananon]

Hayden was brilliant as Anakin. Period. No one other than Ewan studied saber combat as intensely as Hayden did.

[Steeledvirus]

This is insane. I wish they’d remake ROTS with the deleted scenes

[CoBud]

Holy fuck I've never realized they made the shot for Anakin and Dooku's final blitz resemble Luke and Vader's from episode 6. GENIUS.

[nickolasoriano]

Anakin is beyond badass in most of the deleted scenes of ROTS wtf

[D-Pooly]

Damn Grievous being pretty much immune to lightsaber give him a completely different vibe, such a beast

[IndorilTheGreat]

That lightsaber drop is so cool. Say what you will about the prequels, the fight choreography is phenomenal.

[WadeWilson]

3:25 I like how this B2-Battledroid takes care of his comrade and helps him get back on his feet

[essbe]

I don't know why they took away that slick move of Anakin's...letting go of the saber to protect his hands and then cutting Dooku's hands off makes so much sense.

[StarWarsCreations]

Love these videos man. It's insane how after all these years more and more unseen footage is just being released. I'm still holding out for the ultimate 3.5 hour version to come out someday 😅

[nchldmn]

I've been watching Nick Gillards videos for quite some time and I love that we are finally getting closer to the hour long ROTS battle!

[MDE]

I hope that in 2025, there’s a four hour cut of Revenge of the Sith.

[grandadmiralzaarin]

I do wish we'd gotten the full film, the RotS novelization brought to life in full. Minus Dooku begging for his life of course, Sir Chrisopher Lee was absolutely right that Dooku begging would have been out of character and it is good that was removed.

[MichaelJaeYT]

Wow this is insane. Nice job compiling everything, really looking forward to the animation you're working on

[mckayhatch]

I hear about things like this and I see the different deleted scenes from bonus material. It just makes me want a four hour cut of Revenge of the Sith even more.

[TheMemeRepository]

There a lot of elements I like in the older version of the fight versus what we got. The blinding of Dooku, the counters to previously devastating moves. It's great stuff. Wish they'd kept it in one way or another.

That being said, dropping the Sand People line was a smart move. No need to even imply that Dooku was involved there. I don't like that it would take away from the event as a senseless tragedy, but even if he was responsible, it makes no sense that he'd tip his hand like that, as part of Anakin's motivation for turning was to bring order to an unforgiving & chaotic universe. A universe that can tear his loved ones away from him randomly & without hesitation.

If Anakin knew that his mother's death was intentionally orchestrated, suddenly his focus shifts away from control on a cosmic level, and instead, redirects towards the people who have been targeting his loved ones; opening the door to many other questions about that event (such as why Dooku would even want his mother dead before the two had even met) which could blow up in Palpatine's face considerably. If Anakin even suspected that Palpatine arranged for the Sand People to kill his mother in a plot to lure him to the dark side, he'd never side with him, and Palpatine would know this.

So yeah, good decision to excise that line. Same goes for Dooku begging for his life.

[Salsmachev]

I think, on the whole, they made the right decision. I would have liked to see a little more Grievous, and I think having him kill Shaak Ti is a good addition. A longer duel between Anakin and Dooku would have been cool as well (the bit about Dooku having Anakin's mother killed is just stupid though, glad they cut that). Most of the rest would have hurt the pacing without adding much to the movie. I like the idea of the Obi Wan vs. magnaguards fight, but I'd rather have the fight with them on Utapau and I think having both is redundant.

[Strider-Ragnarok]

The fight choreography of the deleted scenes was superb. They were fighting fast and very fluidly.

[jimbojackson]

This is so cool! Wish there was a 3.5 hour ROTS.

[christophertorres]

ok but the little "hee hee I gottem" jig Hayden did in that rehearsal footage? Delightful.