no, all are not rumors. They shot scenes with Natalie Portman for Return of the Jedi. I read an interview she did that day of shooting months ago...............they did indeed shoot more scenes to be added into episodes 4-6 to tie the old and new trilogies together.......and they are indeed re-releasing them to theaters, just as they did in '97 with the speical editions.
I read McCallum's response too. Somebody wanted her inserted with Anakin, Yoda, and Obi-wan at the end.
As for OT extras, the SW Insider magazine has posted pics in several issues of scenes that were shot but cut. So it definetly has deleted scenes. There's a sandstorm scene in ROTJ after the destruction of Jabba's sailbarge, a scene at he beginning (that the ROTJ SE soundtrack contains music to) of Luke recording his message to Jabba and putting the lightsaber in his dome, in ESB there is a scene of threepio pulling a warning label off of a door so that Snowtroopers go in and get eaten by Wampas, there's an extended version of the heroes all talking with Luke after his ordeal in the Hoth wilderness: It's a shot of R2 pulling a bandage away from Luke's face. In ESB there's also an extended version of Han being interogated by Vader that was cut to keep the PG rating. When the Falcon pulls under Cloud City to get Luke, there's an extended scene of Lando on the hull pulling Luke towards the hatch. Go pick up the anniversary issues of ESB and ROTJ of the SW insider, they have the pics of these seens and why they were cut.
Other extras could include: Some of Joseph Campells interviews about myth as he has spoken about Star Wars and was a major influence to Lucas. A collection of print ads through out the OT's release, a look at the phenomenon, a look at the collectibles through the years, a look at the Star Wars weekends, interviews with cast about how it impacted they're careers, there have been several documentaries on its making over the years. Have you seen how much old footage of Indy's production they found for documentaires? I'm sure they can dig up at least that much for Star Wars.
There are two scenes deleted from ROJ I would like to see. one I saw in a picture in some collectors book had what looked like a royal guard attacking an imperial officer with his pike, the other involves a guard blocking vader's entry into the throne room and vader "pursuading" him with a mixture mind trick/force choke to let him in. Other things that just really bug me are the soundtracks (whatever you think of the prequals, you have to admit that williams has definitely grown as a composer) and all the english text and numerals in ANH. replace it all with aurubish and fix the death star battle control room scene to look more like the geonosis control room scene (leia looking at the radar thingy). The only other thing that I'd fix would be the ESB emperor.
btw, I also heard that they were adding allthe deleted scenes back to episodes 1 and 2 and filming some new scenes for ptm with jimmy smits. I hope the droid ship raid from AOTC gets in.
Now that I'm on a complete ego trip, what do y'all think about this ending for ROJ: new celebrations are shown, including theed, gungun city, kashyyk, kamino, and geonosis. Yoda, obi-wan and anakin appear as spirits, they smile at luke and change into their younger selves. luke and the others look away as in the current ending. the force theme plays as all the other slayed jedi appear around the three, dooku is also with them. slay younglings dart through the grass. all the jedi begin to rise out of the woods, turning to new stars in the heavens. as the camera pans up at a starry sky, they vaugely form a starry image of anakin kissing padme as a picollo plays a short variation of anakin's theme. cut to credits
sometimes editing can be a bad thing. dogma, for example would have been much better at its original 3 hour 15 minute length and would have made a lot more sense (not that it didn't make sense now). same with the star wars films. plus i always thought that the endingto Jedi was more than a little weak and anticlimactic. like a crappy michael chrichton novel.