Anakin Skywalker's Slaughter Of Younglings In 'REVENGE OF THE SITH' Was Fully Filmed By George Lucas

It’s no question that one of the most gut wrenching scenes that is simply implied in ‘Star Wars” Revenge Of The Sith’ is the slaughter of younglings at the Jedi temple by a corrupted Anakin Skywalker during “Order 66”.

It's been confirmed that George Lucas shot Anakin Skywalker's attack on the Jedi Temple in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, but decided to scrap it for being too violent.

While we see Anakin approach the Jedi Younglings before igniting his lightsaber, it's left up to the viewer to try and avoid imagining what came next. However, we know he slaughtered those children at the behest of his new Master, Emperor Palpatine, hence why Obi-Wan Kenobi is left with no other choice but to do what he must to put his former Padawan down. 

During a recent interview with Star Wars Theory (via SFFGazette.com), prequel trilogy stunt coordinator Nick Gillard revealed that the scene we saw in the hologram watched by Obi-Wan and Yoda was actually shot...and cut by George Lucas for being too violent! 

"It's violent. When we did it, we wanted it to be really violent because it's [Anakin], you know, it's Order 66," he recalls. "I think I parry the first blow straight into the kid's throat, you know, which is awful - it goes straight in his throat. [Anakin] grabs the other girl and chokes her, I think he ends up cutting her as well."

"But when we shot it, we shot it full-figure, and George [Lucas] went, 'Oh dear, that's really violent,' and when I saw it at a movie it was shrunk down."

We’re sure some of you are bummed this wasn’t included in the final film but come on, Revenge Of The Sith was pretty damn dark in general and if left in, the film probably wouldn’t have been able to maintain a typical Star Wars rating of PG-13. We do wish it would have been included in the Blu-Ray release as a deleted scene though, that would have been stellar.

Could we, one day, get an actual R rated Star Wars film that shows us just how brutal the Sith and Jedi can be? We hope so!

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