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Greetings, Rebelscum fans! This week on the site, we’re looking at the Lars homestead where Luke Skywalker grew up. A young Luke and his adopted uncle have been featured in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Make sure to stay tuned throughout the week for more articles, insights, videos, and merchandising opportunities about this iconic Star Wars location!
Deleted scenes are the treasure trove of the Star Wars canon. Fans are always curious to see what moments were cut, why they were removed, and what their status is within the canon. Some scenes are somewhat minor, but others have drastic consequences for the events of the saga. A series of deleted moments from A New Hope provide insights on Luke Skywalker’s upbringing on Tatooine.
Lucas modeled a young Luke off of the same teenage anxieties that he had felt growing up in Modesto, California. These themes were present in Lucas’s 1973 film American Graffiti. Luke was a different type of protagonist than audiences had ever seen in science fiction back in 1977. He wasn’t a super-powered adventure hero like Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon; he was a relatable kid, and audiences were invested in seeing him pursue his dreams.
Lucas wrote several scenes featuring Luke interacting with his friends that were eventually removed from the finished cut. The reason was simple: he wanted a cohesive narrative that flowed from character to character. Lucas wanted to introduce the audience to R2-D2 and C-3PO in the opening sequence, introduce the droids to Luke, have Luke lead to Obi-Wan, use Obi-Wan to lead to Han Solo, and then return to the Death Star. These extra moments would have had to come before Luke’s introduction to the droids. Still, this alternate opening was frequently featured in other Expanded Universe material, and is considered canon.
Luke sees wreckage from the Yavin IV battles and jumps in his landspeeder, overjoyed. He rushes to Toche Station to tell his friends Biggs, Camie, and Fixer. Fixer and Camie don’t believe him. However, Biggs shows kindness to his old friend. Biggs is everything that Luke wants to be; he’s left Tatooine and trained in the Imperial Academy. Luke finds out that Biggs has made plans to defect and join up with the Rebel Alliance. In the movie novelization, Luke and Biggs refer to themselves as “two shooting stars” during an emotional conversation.
Fixer and Camie don’t have a huge role in these moments, but they’ve popped up in various Expanded Universe stories. Luke visits his old friends on Tatooine in the young adult novel Rebel Force: Renegade. Fixer and Camie have already been married. More insights on Luke’s childhood are included in Ryder Windham’s biographical young adult novel A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker. Windham’s novel follows Luke during the first twenty years of his life as he grows anxious of adventures in the stars.
Most recently, the characters of Camie and Fixer made an appearance in The Book of Boba Fett where they were seen having a run-in with the troublesome swoop gang at Tosche Station. This YouTube video we found edits the deleted footage from ANH and the scenes from BOBF together:
What do you think, Rebelscum fans? Have you checked out these scenes on the blu-ray of Star Wars: The Complete Saga? Have you ever gotten your hands on one of the exclusive Fixer action figures? Let us know in the forums, and as always, may the Force be with you!
