DELETED SCENE: A NEW PRESENCE...

Original STARWARS.COM caption for this photo: 'Darth Vader pauses about the second Death Star as he picks up a stirring in the Force.'

Newly arrived on the second Death Star, Darth Vader senses a disturbance in the Force, and the building powers of his son, in a deleted scene from Return of the Jedi. This info on the deleted scene originally came from the long-since-defunct Hyperspace section of STARWARS.COM of over a decade ago, though Howard Kazanjian, producer of the film, did not recall this sequence when AFICIONADO originally contacted him about it a few years back- alongside a brief corridor/life scene, previous unused footage of Vader in the meditation chamber from The Empire Strikes Back was utilized for Vader reaching out to Luke, alongside an ILM premises shot, post production scene of 'Luke' building his new lightsaber in a cave on Tatooine, which, too, would end up on the cutting room floor in 1983.

Posed image of Dave Prowse as Vader linked to this scene.

Prowse confers with Howard Kazanjian between takes.

A heads-up on an exciting all-new book dedicated to the producing career of Howard Kazanjian, from respected Star Wars behind the scenes chronicler, J.W. Rinzler:

https://www.thebeardedtrio.com/2020/07/making-of-star-wars-author-jw-rinzler.html