It goes without saying that many Jedi lost their lives during the course of Episode III. Palpatine and his dreaded Order 66 saw to it. On this page, we’ll discuss the deleted or modified deaths of some of the more prominent Jedi. Read More
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Rescuing Palpatine
You have to hand it to Palpatine. Organizing his own capture and rescue to reinforce his cover as a phantom menace to the galaxy was a stroke of pure evil genius. Poor Dooku probably thought so too until he had two lightsabers criss-crossing his neckline. I’m not sure that even Palpatine foresaw what a troublesome rescue it would be, however. What we saw in the finished film was a trimmed down version. Let’s take a look at some of the deleted/altered bits from the opening space battle to the big crash landing.