History Trivia / RevengeOfTheSith

** Several of the minor characters changed actors from ''Attack of the Clones''. Saesee Tiin went from Jesse Jensen, plus archival footage of Khan Bonfils from ''The Phantom Menace'', to Kenji Oates, Kit Fisto went from Daniel Zizmor and Jesse Jensen's brother Zachariah to Creator/HaydenChristensen's stunt double Ben Cooke, Luminara Unduli went from Mary Oyaya to Fay David, Stass Allie went from Lily Nyamwasa to Nina Fallon, Ask Aak went from Steven Boyle to Paul Spence, Rune Haako went from Alan Ruscoe to Sandy Thompson, and Passel Argente went from Steven Boyle to Marty Wetherill.

* RealLifeRelative: All of Creator/GeorgeLucas's adopted children appear in minor roles in this film, in addition to Lucas himself. As Anakin enters the opera house, Lucas is talking to Katie, [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Chi_Eekway_Papanoida who is playing his character's daughter as well]] and Amanda plays [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Terr_Taneel a red-haired Senator who walks by]]. As some troopers are trying to dismiss Senator Organa during the attack on the Jedi Temple, they're attacked by Jett Lucas (whose character name is [[{{Tuckerization}} Zett Jukassa]]).

* TheOriginalDarrin: An interesting case with Mas Amedda. In ''The Phantom Menace'', which was filmed in England, he was played by Jerome Blake. For ''Attack of the Clones'', which was filmed in Australia, he was played by David Bowers. While Bowers reprised the role for the principal photography in Australia, Blake reprised the role during additional photography in England.

* BillingDisplacement: Despite prominent billing as part of the cast, Creator/ChristopherLee is only in the movie for three minutes.

* TheOriginalDarrin: An interesting case with Mas Amedda. In ''The Phantom Menace'', which was filmed in England, he was played with Jerome Blake. For ''Attack of the Clones'', which was filmed in Australia, he was played by David Bowers. While Bowers reprised the role for the principal photography in Australia, Blake reprised the role during additional photography in England.

** Creator/LiamNeeson has said that he recorded a cameo as Qui-Gon Jinn, which was to feature in a scene with Yoda, further explaining the concept of a Jedi communicating from beyond the grave. In the script, the dialogue (in which Qui-Gon is heard, not seen) appeared in the scene, in which Yoda is meditating on the secret asteroid base, just before Bail Organa informs him of Obi-wan's return with Padmé. The scene does not appear in the deleted scenes section of the DVD, but an unfinished version was included in the Blu-ray release box set.

** Genevieve O'Reilly ended up absent from the film as her scene as Senator Mon Mothma was deleted. Warren Owens and Christopher Quirby also appeared as Fang Zar and Giddean Danu respectively, political allies to Mothma, before their scenes were cut along with hers.

* DeletedScene:
** Anakin and Obi-Wan banter while waiting for the elevator on the Invisible Hand.
** Anakin and Obi-Wan round a corner and find General Shaak Ti being held hostage by General Grievous and a large number of battle droids. Anakin and Obi-Wan are quickly surrounded by battle droids and Grievous pretends to show mercy to Shaak Ti, then he suddenly kills her with a well-placed Shiak strike to the chest. Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi have a brief sign language argument over what method they should use to escape, then draw their lightsabers and slice a hole in the floor. They fall down into a Separatist fuel tank; the surrounding battle droids proceed to take aim, but the experienced Separatist commander orders his troops not to fire in order to prevent the fuel from igniting. B2 super battle droids follow the Jedi, but are unable to stop them. The fuel rises to an overload discharge spark gap and the section of the ship explodes.
** Extended duel with Count Dooku, including a scene where after Obi-Wan remarks "You won't get away this time, Dooku," Dooku responds by igniting his lightsaber and saying, "Just because there are two of you, do not assume you have the advantage."
** Palpatine's "reception committee" (consisting of Mas Amedda and the maroon guards) on Coruscant after being saved by Anakin.
** Dialogue between Aayla Secura and Commander Bly, Plo Koon, and Jag.
** Palpatine presents legal changes meant to end the war to Anakin.
** Senators including Bail Organa and Mon Mothma present the movement against the Chancellor to Padmé, sowing the seeds of the Rebel Alliance.
** Padmé suggests bringing the plan to the one Jedi she trusts, but the group agrees to appeal to the Senate first.
** The senators, now including Jar Jar, presents the petition to Palpatine and Anakin, who is acting as his personal bodyguard.
** A Wookie ambush.
** Obi-Wan enters an Utapau Dragon Pen and selects Boga from several other Varactyls. This is included in the novel. His ride to Grievous' hangar is extended, and when the IG-100 [=MagnaGuards=] attack Obi-Wan, he fights them shortly and then crushes them with a section of the ceiling.
** Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda meet in the Temple to discuss the darkness surrounding Chancellor Palpatine.
** A longer pursuit between Obi-Wan and General Grievous. (Creator/StevenSpielberg oversaw the creation of the scene.)
** Extended Order 66 and Temple Purge shots, and others, which show the deaths of Barriss Offee, Luminara Unduli, Whie Malreaux, Bene, and Cin Drallig.
** After being shot down by his troops, Obi-Wan evades a Nos monster in the depths of Utapau. The Nos Monster attacks several Republic seeker droids, while Obi-Wan sneaks past some baby Nos Monsters. ("The Nos Monster")
** Anakin enters the meditation chamber in which Shaak Ti is concentrating and stabs her in the back.
** When Obi-Wan and Yoda arrive at the Jedi Temple they find a group of clone troopers disguised as Jedi waiting outside. The two Jedi aren't fooled and kill them all.
** A scene where Obi-Wan visits with Padmé to discuss his concerns for Anakin. The scene was not completed as Creator/AnthonyDaniels had fallen over while filming.
** [[http://www.forcematerial.com/home/2017/2/20/how-was-george-lucas-going-to-end-jar-jars-story According to Ahmed Best]], there was a deleted scene where, before he crowned himself Emperor, Palpatine mockingly thanked [[UnwittingPawn Jar Jar Binks]] for granting him the emergency powers that allowed him to take over the Galaxy.
** Extended Separatist Slaughter, which shows Wat Tambor being killed by Anakin Skywalker (now Darth Vader).
** The Naboo star skiff shown flying off from Mustafar to Polis Massa (this scene was featured in the teaser trailer).
** An extended duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin which shows why at one point in the movie Anakin is missing his lightsaber, Obi-Wan at one point uses it along with his own.
** Qui-Gon Jinn speaks to Yoda, who names himself Qui-Gon's apprentice.
** Yoda arrives on Dagobah in the final montage.

* TheOtherDarrin: In the Japanese dub, Takashi Inagaki voices Palpatine due to his previous actor Katsuhiko Kobayashi dying of hepatocellular carcinoma on May 6, 2005.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/GeorgeLucas intentionally put extra weight into the Darth Vader helmet so that when Hayden Christensen first walks around in the Vader suit, he almost stumbles, since Anakin/Vader's not used to the Vader suit yet. He is also too short to fit in the classic costume (Creator/DavidProwse is 5 inches taller than Christensen) so [[ScullyBox they had to build a new one that bumps him up to the appropriate height.]] He actually saw mostly though the mouth grill rather than the eyes.

** Obi-Wan enters an Utapau Dragon Pen and selects Boga from several other Varactyls. This is included in the novel. His ride to Grievous' hangar is extended, and when the IG-100 MagnaGuards attack Obi-Wan, he fights them shortly and then crushes them with a section of the ceiling.

* DescendedCreator: Matthew Wood, a supervising sound editor at Lucasfilm subsidiary Creator/SkywalkerSound (where he previously worked on all three installments of the ''Star Wars'' prequel trilogy) performs the voice of General Grievous.

** The original title for [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI]] was '''''Revenge''''' ''of the Jedi'', but Lucas changed that feeling that vengeance wasn't quite the Jedi way. The Sith, however...

* LoopingLines: Creator/HaydenChristensen and Creator/EwanMcGregor had to record grunts for when they were fighting. That's right. ''Grunts''.

** Genevieve O'Reilly ended up absent from the film as her scene as Mon Mothma was deleted.

* RefittedForSequel: The track "Love Pledge and the Arena" from the ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' soundtrack was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin originally meant for that film's arena sequence]], but was mostly cut in favor of recycled music from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. However, key portions of the track were instead utilized for ''Sith'', during the invasion of the Jedi Temple and the battles of Kashyyyk and Utapau.

** A scene in which Anakin and Obi-Wan discuss battle strategy via hand signals.

* SparedByTheCut: In prior cuts, Shaak Ti was killed in the beginning by General Grievous. This scene was cut, and Ti's death was moved to a scene during Order 66. However, that second scene was also cut, removing Shaak Ti's death from the film continuity entirely. Ti then returned in ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', where she was fought and killed by Starkiller. This remained her canonical death until ''Star Wars'' was acquired by Disney, putting nearly all the Expanded Universe material into the non-canonical ''Legends'' continuity. Shaak Ti's canonical death was then established to be during Order 66 just like in the second deleted scene.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Ahmed Best [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/star-wars/268861/star-wars-jar-jar-binks-fate-how-actor-ahmed-best-originally-wanted-the-character-to-get-hacked-to asked George Lucas to kill off Jar Jar Binks]] in the film just so the character, already reduced to a cameo role, could at least have a dramatic send off, but George didn't want to do it.
** There are a good amount of scenes that were not included in the final film, or even finished. These included ''two'' death scenes filmed for Shaak Ti (in the first, captured alongside Palpatine and executed by Grievous; in the second, killed by Anakin in the Temple massacre) which were both discarded,[[note]]''Videogame/TheForceUnleashed'' took advantage of this by turning her into a boss. As far as the storyline goes, it is confirmed by ''Star Wars Insider 87'' that ''neither'' scene was canonical, and that she actually survived Order 66; after the Disney reboot, the second death scene--where Anakin kills her at the Jedi Temple--was eventually confirmed to be canon (which at least aligns better with Clone Wars as she was not captured on Coruscant).[[/note]] Anakin and Obi-Wan treading through the sewers on Grievous' flagship, Wat Tambor's death by Darth Vader in Mustafar,[[note]]Though in the final cut, he can be seen hiding in the conference room of the factory, and images of the scene were featured in ''Revenge of the Sith'' merchandise.[[/note]] an entire subplot of Padmé holding meetings with Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and other senators to plan the birth of the Rebel Alliance, and a 30-second scene of Yoda arriving on Dagobah.
** The entire film was shot with Anakin having a more complex set of motivations behind a gradual slide to the Dark Side. In post-production, however, [[ExecutiveMeddling executives complained]], saying that Anakin should just have one single easy-to-understand motive behind his turn. It was decided that the desire to save Padmé would be that motivation, which required the movie to go through a lot of editing and re-shoots. The end result, unfortunately, left Anakin's turn to the Dark Side feeling jarringly rushed when it actually happened.
** Anakin had concept art involving having a mohawk and tattoo's. George Lucas rejected that because he felt it was "[[ObviouslyEvil Too Much]]." Hayden was originally dressed with his long hair in a ponytail, but felt uncomfortable because it made him look "[[PrettyBoy Too Pretty]]."
** The creation of Grievous's character was entirely left by Lucas to the art deparment, which conceived a handful of versions of him. Their first idea was making him a CreepyChild on a floating chair, but Lucas shot it down for being too hard to take seriously. They then thought about him being a floating, tentacled alien head, but this was rejected as well for being too weird. The character was finally designed was a cyborg alien warlord, which Lucas eventually gave green light to.
** Count Dooku was originally going to survive until the midpoint of the film, with his death being the final push Anakin needed to join the Dark Side rather than Mace Windu's. His death was instead moved to the opening sequence, which had changed from its original conception (seven battles on seven different planets showcasing the fury of the Clone Wars, rather than Palpatine being kidnapped by Dooku and Grievous).
** The actual of kidnapping of Palpatine was present in the early drafts of the film, but it was cut and passed over to be depicted in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars''. The opening battle was originally over 45 minutes in length even after they cut out that part, including the aforementioned first Shaak Ti death scene. Part of the extra footage ended up in the videogame of the film.
** Palpatine was going to have much more dialogue while witnessing Anakin' and Dooku's duel. He would have shouted to Anakin that Dooku revealed to him he paid the Tuskens to murder Shmi Skywalker.
** If Shaak Ti's death by Grievous had made it in, Tsui Choi from Dark Horse's Star Wars comics would've been shown taking her place on the Jedi Council. The idea was dropped after the scene was cut, though Choi still has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo on Kashyyyk.
** Padmé originally had a much larger role talking with other senators about opposing Palpatine's increasing accumulation of power, the "delegation of 2,000." Officially this remains canon, and was the early beginnings of the Rebel Alliance as many of the same senators became Rebel leaders like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, but was cut because it was a subplot that ''couldn't'' [[ForegoneConclusion go anywhere]] and it was just a few more political meetings. Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma ended up a DeletedRole in this film, but was [[RoleReprise brought back]] to play the character in ''Film/RogueOne''.
** Lucas considered having Han Solo appear as a young boy raised by Chewbacca, but decided against it due to the improbability of it and the plot hole that would be created by young Han knowing of and interacting with the Jedi, yet not believing in the Force as an adult (which is already kind of incoherent, though not as blatant). Concept art for this can be found in the ''Art of Revenge of the Sith'' book and is reproduced [[http://www.slashfilm.com/see-lucasfilms-concept-art-of-young-han-solo/ here.]]
** The original script revealed that Palpatine used the power of the Force to will the midi-chlorians to start the cell divisions that created Anakin, as part of an evil scheme to breed the perfect Sith. The conversation ended with Palpatine saying "You might say [[LukeIAmYourFather I'm your father]]." Palpatine's role at this was replaced in the Legends canon by Darth Plagueis'.
** There exists concept art of a teenage Boba Fett killing Mace Windu during Order 66. Windu's killer was changed to Palpatine, as Lucas felt Boba was far too young to believably pose a challenge to a Jedi Master. This plot idea was used for ''The Clone Wars'', though Windu obviously was not killed.
** Anakin was originally supposed to be watching the entirety of the duel between Palpatine and Mace Windu, but they realized that the implications were too subtle and somewhat confusing. This led to reshoots that has the moment where Anakin and Padmé "watch" each other across Coruscant and the duel had to be redone because Palpatine was using Anakin's lightsaber. As mentioned by a [[WordOfGod Lucasfilm executive]], the original cut made it fairly clear Palpatine was [[WoundedGazelleGambit playing up being helpless]] to get Anakin to side with him, while the reshot version made it seem that Mace Windu could have legitimately killed him, making it more shocking when Palpatine kills Mace with power that the audience honest didn't believe he still had in him.
** A glimpse at the original backstory as seen in the novelization of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' (as well as strongly implied by Leia's lines in said film) shows us that her mother, who is now known to be Padmé, was originally meant to survive Anakin's turn to the Dark Side.
** The scene on Mustafar where Padmé and Anakin meet was supposed to be different. Anakin would've been wielding what seems like his red lightsaber from the OT, Padmé would've not been pregnant and would've been wearing different clothes, and most of all, Padmé would've probably come to the conclusion that Anakin was dead and that Vader needed to die, [[http://i.imgur.com/o82yHlO.jpg as she was shown carrying a dagger.]]
** The ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' novelization also said Anakin fell into a pool of lava. In the movie, he doesn't actually touch the lava, but the fumes are hot enough to set his clothes on fire. This may have been changed to make Anakin's survival a bit more plausible.
* WordOfSaintPaul: Creator/SamuelLJackson has stated that Mace Windu beat Palpatine, while the novelization implies that [[WoundedGazelleGambit Sidious threw the fight to manipulate Anakin]] (something that is also backed by a Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} executive). The film, which the novelization differs a fair lot from at several points, leaves it ambiguous.

** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' ended up showing the actual kidnapping of Palpatine, which was present in the early drafts of this movie but then passed over to be depicted in that series. The opening battle was originally over 45 minutes in length even after they cut out that part, including one scene having Grievous execute Shaak-Ti in front of Anakin and Obi-Wan.
** There are a good amount of scenes that were not included in the final film, or even finished. These include two death scenes filmed for Shaak Ti (captured alongside Palpatine and executed by Grievous or killed by Anakin in the Temple massacre) and neither was used[[note]]''Videogame/TheForceUnleashed'' took advantage of this by turning her into a boss. As far as the storyline goes, it is confirmed by ''Star Wars Insider 87'' that ''neither'' scene was canonical, and that she actually survived Order 66; after the Disney reboot, the second death scene--where Anakin kills her at the Jedi Temple--was eventually confirmed to be canon (which at least aligns better with Clone Wars as she was not captured on Coruscant).[[/note]]. Anakin and Obi-Wan treading through the sewers on Grievous' flagship, Wat Tambor's death by Darth Vader in Mustafar[[note]]Though in the final cut, he can be seen hiding in the conference room of the factory, and images of the scene were featured in ''Revenge of the Sith'' merchandise.[[/note]] an entire subplot of Padmé holding meetings with Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and other senators to plan the birth of the Rebel Alliance, and a 30-second scene of Yoda arriving on Dagobah.
** If Shaak Ti's first death scene had made it in, Tsui Choi from Dark Horse's Star Wars comics would've been shown taking her place on the Jedi Council. The idea was dropped after the scene was cut, though Choi still has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo on Kashyyyk.
** Lucas considered having Han Solo appear as a young boy raised by Chewbacca, but decided against it due to the improbability of it and the plot hole that would be created by young Han knowing of and interacting with the Jedi, yet not believing in the Force as an adult (which is already kind of incoherent, though not as blatant). Concept art for this can be found in the ''Art of Revenge of the Sith'' book and is reproduced [[http://www.slashfilm.com/see-lucasfilms-concept-art-of-young-han-solo/ here.]]
** There exists concept art of a teenage Boba Fett killing Mace Windu during Order 66. Windu's killer was changed to Palpatine, as Lucas felt Boba was far too young to believably pose a challenge to a Jedi Master. This plot idea was used for ''The Clone Wars'', though Windu obviously was not killed.
** Count Dooku was originally going to survive until the midpoint of the film, with his death being the final push Anakin needed to join the Dark Side rather than Mace Windu's. His death was instead moved to the opening sequence, which had changed from its original conception (seven battles on seven different planets showcasing the fury of the Clone Wars, rather than Palpatine being kidnapped by Dooku and Grievous).
** Padmé originally had a much larger role talking with other senators about opposing Palpatine's increasing accumulation of power, the "delegation of 2,000." Officially this remains canon, and was the early beginnings of the Rebel Alliance as many of the same senators became Rebel leaders like Mon Mothma and Bail Organa, but was cut because it was a subplot that ''couldn't'' [[ForegoneConclusion go anywhere]] and it was just a few more political meetings. Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma ended up a DeletedRole in this film, but was [[RoleReprise brought back]] to play the character in ''Film/RogueOne''.
** Anakin had concept art involving having a mohawk and tattoo's. George Lucas rejected that because he felt it was "[[ObviouslyEvil Too Much]]." Hayden was originally dressed with his long hair in a ponytail, but felt uncomfortable because it made him look "[[PrettyBoy Too Pretty]]."
** The original script revealed that Palpatine used the power of the Force to will the midi-chlorians to start the cell divisions that created Anakin, as part of an evil scheme to breed the perfect Sith. The conversation ended with Palpatine saying "You might say [[LukeIAmYourFather I'm your father]]." Palpatine's role at this was replaced in the Legends canon by Darth Plagueis'.
** The entire film was shot with Anakin having a more complex set of motivations behind a gradual slide to the Dark Side. In post-production, however, [[ExecutiveMeddling executives complained]], saying that Anakin should just have one single easy-to-understand motive behind his turn. It was decided that the desire to save Padmé would be that motivation, which required the movie to go through a lot of editing and re-shoots. The end result, unfortunately, left Anakin's turn to the Dark Side feeling jarringly rushed when it actually happened.