DELETED SCENE: MADINE IN COMMAND!

General Madine (Dermot Crowley) and the bridge command crew of his Rebel Cruiser show their readiness for battle in a deleted scene from RETURN OF THE JEDI that finally made it to the Blu-ray release last year, of which we also got to see him say the classic line, "May the Force be with us".

More in-battle footage was shot of Madine in 1982, by Richard Marquand's camera team, which still hasn't been seen or released, including the bridge crew watching the destruction of either the Super Star Destroyer or the Death Star II and cheering!

Additional Note: In late 1982/early 1983 post-production for JEDI, it was decided to re-dub Mister Crowley's voice with a US actor: John Hostetter.

CLASSIC IMAGE: GENERAL MADINE- (DELETED) MAN OF ACTION!

OFFICIALPIX have been opening up LUCASFILM's picture treasure vaults and recently put out this image of UK actor Dermot Crowley as General Madine, sat in his command chair on the top deck bridge of his Rebel warship from RETURN OF THE JEDI. Madine's scenes directing the epic space battle against Imperial forces over Endor, filmed by Richard Marquand and Lucas (with his second unit), were sadly all cut from the finished film, though thankfully lots of stills from the sequences were released for publicity on the films release in 1983 (including one great colour image used for the characters KENNER action figure card).

Will those scenes, and other classic lost moments, eventually make an appearance on the upcoming ultimate Blu-ray set of STAR WARS? Lets hope so.