Why was Qui-Gon's ghost scene ommited from the movie?

In the ROTS novel, after the twins are born Yoda goes into hiding on Dagobah and Qui-Gon Jinn appears to him as a blue ghost (just like Ben did to Luke in the frist trilogy) and they discuss the future of Skywalker's children and of the Jedi Order itself. It was pretty deep. Does anyone know why it was ommited from the film? My guess--time compression.

Originally posted by DiamondBullets
In the ROTS novel, after the twins are born Yoda goes into hiding on Dagobah and Qui-Gon Jinn appears to him as a blue ghost (just like Ben did to Luke in the frist trilogy) and they discuss the future of Skywalker's children and of the Jedi Order itself. It was pretty deep. Does anyone know why it was ommited from the film? My guess--time compression.

my guess is also time compression. Also, don't forget at the end of the movie, Yoda does tell Obi Wan that he's going to have to train to some day be able to do what Master Qui Gon did. So it's said that Qui Gon was the reason Obi Wan and Yoda were able to do that. It's just not shown.

~wickerman~

they shouldn't have cut it, it is very essential to the story

I think it was best left implied. The film was coming to a close and the pace of the film would have been worse. I'm not saying it would make for a bad ending, just a slightly drawn out one. I think the ending of RoTS couldn't be any better.

By the way, this is my first post in something like 3 years. I googled my name and found lots of my old posts about AotC and remembered how cool this place was 🙂

I don't wanna have to repeat this....

Liam Neeson broke his foot weeks before they were going to film his part, so they just put his voice in.

His voice was in the film?

No it wasn't.

Originally posted by LordSorgo
I don't wanna have to repeat this....

Liam Neeson broke his foot weeks before they were going to film his part, so they just put his voice in.

Not true. He wanted NOTHING to do with the film, they didn't even get his voice recorded.

If they did record his voice you know Georgey boy would have done a CGI ghost of Qui-Gon. He would have Qui-Gon out of focus and center the camera on Yoda, that way it would be harder to see that the Qui-Gon was fake.

I recon a lot was ommited from the film, there were holes everywhere.
Scandelous

On the DVD there´s gonna be more from what ive read, I would have liked to see "more" on the big screen and part of the original story.

Turds

I also heard that Neeson didn't want anything more to do with the movie, so that's probably another big part of why it wasn't shown.

~wickerman~

Originally posted by Ken Kenobi
Not true. He wanted NOTHING to do with the film, they didn't even get his voice recorded.

If they did record his voice you know Georgey boy would have done a CGI ghost of Qui-Gon. He would have Qui-Gon out of focus and center the camera on Yoda, that way it would be harder to see that the Qui-Gon was fake.

True. George Lucas said it himself on an interview with ET.

If Liam Neeson didn't want anything to do with the movie, why was he at the premiere in NY? I think Lucas cut it for time purposes. He said in an interview in late-April, he cut out anything that didn't have to do with Anakin that was making the film too long. That is why you don't see the formation of the rebel alliance with Padme & Mon Monthma. I disagree with that decision, but that is the way Lucas does things. I'm hoping in the ROTS DVD that Lucas put backs in: Yoda flying to Dagobah, and Qui-Gon talking to Yoda (if it was ever filmed).

I didn't hear anything about Qui being in ep3 does anyone have any footage. Also Im kindda glad he wasn't didn't really like Qui. Just for the stupid miniclorings(?) line. Sorry don't know how to spell it

All they needed to do is add him as CGI i could imagen the Scene so perfectly, Yoda Meditating and talking to Quigon and all we see In Quigons back looking towards Yoda, not showing his face but we could all guess and know who he was.

Originally posted by DenKi
All they needed to do is add him as CGI i could imagen the Scene so perfectly, Yoda Meditating and talking to Quigon and all we see In Quigons back looking towards Yoda, not showing his face but we could all guess and know who he was.

Yes, that would've been cool. I'm supposing this might be included in the promised TV series.

~wickerman~

THe scvene was never shot. Liam Nesson was on the View last week. They asked him about the scene, and he said he never shot anything or did any voice work.

Wells Liams abit of a F***k ********* ******** then.

What was the reason why Liam didnt bother anway?

Becos the thing that really ticks me of is that hes been in alot of Starwars Documents with interviews recently in and hes saying that Episode 3 will be amazing ect. ect. SO why didnt he wanna be in it

He did not give a reason, but syas it was the fans who started the crazy rumour that he was in the movie. Also when he gave hid answer, it sounded like the question upset him.

Liam is a classy guy, so he couldve wanted nothing to do with the film and not bashed it at the same time. I think they shouldve had at least his voice in their b/c it was kind of a big scene, especially when Yoda admits that he was a greater Jedi than they had thought. But they also left out most of the senate stuff (delegation of 2000) so alot of cuts were made to important parts. But look at it this way, now we still have some new SW stuff to look forward to!!

well that does it, i am officially boycotting liam neeson's films.
what a prick he is. he made a commitment when signing on, and now he's just so frikin high and mighty he cant be soiled by star wars

well i have 2 words for you liam, you arrogant snot nosed prick:

DARK MAN

bet you'd like us to forget that one, huh?