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Episode IV: A New Hope

unused footage: scenes 31- 40


B32 - EXT. TATOOINE - EDGE OF THE DUNE SEA

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Four Imperial Stormtroopers mill about in front of the half buried lifepod which brought Artoo and Threepio to Tatooine. A trooper yells to an officer some distance away.

TROOPER
This is the one. But there are no data tapes here, sir.


A second trooper, standing next to the officer picks a small bit of metal out of the sand and give it to the officer.

OFFICER
Droids!


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34 - INT/EXT. LUKE'S SPEEDER - DESERT WASTELAND - TRAVELING - DAY

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Luke adjusts something in the motor compartment.

LUKE
(yelling) How's that?

Threepio signals that it is fine and Luke turns back into the wind-whipped cockpit and pops the canopy shut.

LUKE
Old Ben Kenobi lives out in this direction somewhere, but I don't see how that R-2 unit could have come this far. We must have missed him. Uncle Owen isn't going to take this very well.

THREEPIO
Sir, would it help if you told him it was my fault.

LUKE
(brightening) Sure. He needs you. He'd probably only deactivate you for a day or so ...

THREEPIO
Deactivate! Well on the other hand if you hadn't removed his restraining bolt ...

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LUKE
Wait, there's something dead ahead on the scanner. It looks like our droid ... hit the accelerator.


From the Star Wars novelization:

"'It's him, all right,' Luke declared with mixed anger and satisfaction as the tiny tripodal form came into view.

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"The speeder banked and swung down onto the floor of a huge sandstone canyon.
" 5


Listen to the missing cue.


Sources:
1 - Star Warriors by John Peel, copyright 1985 Psi Fi Press, Inc.
2, 4 - "The Evolution of Star Wars" by Dr. David West Reynolds, The Star Wars Insider, Issue #41. Image 4 editing courtesy of JediSluggo.
3 - The Art of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, published by Ballantine Books.
5 - the Star Wars novelization by George Lucas, a Del RayŽ book, published by Ballantine Books.


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