Already seen The Force Awakens 17 times and desperate to watch the exten꧑ded cut at home while snuggling up to your eve📖rlastingly cute £130 ? Sadly, it's not going to happen after director JJ Abrams revealed that the home video release will be identical to the theatrical one.

The🎐re is good news, however: although an alternate version of the m✤ovie isn't planned for sofa-based popcornings, some additional footage scooped from the cutting room floor will be included on both the Blu-ray and DVD releases.

. “With credits, the first cut was close to two hours and 50 minutes.” That's compared with two hours and 16 minutes for the eventual theatrical release – giving us at least 34 minutes of unseen goodness for detailed living room perusal.

“There&rsqu🐲o;s a shot where Kylo Ren turns on his lights༺aber, which was not in the movie,” . “There were a bunch of things we ended up not using.”

The lack of an extended cut is a considerable surprise given Star Wars creator George Lucas' reputation for meddling with his masterpieces. Despite nearly a dozen different releases on myriad formats, only once – in 2004, as limited edition bonus discs – have the original theatrical♔ cuts of the first three films been made available for home viewing. (And you can expect to pay £20 a pop for those versions now.)

There's no release date ꦗfor the home releases as yet, but inevitably the🔜y're already .