Biggs had a larger role in earlier drafts of the script for the movie and several of the additional scenes appeared in the novelization. His additional scenes include a conversation with Luke on Tatooine where Biggs tells Luke of his secret desire to join the Rebel Alliance despite his training at the Imperial Academy. This scene was deleted from "A New Hope", but the book "Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy" depicts the missing scene at Tosche Station, and it can be seen in its entirety on the encyclopedic "Star Wars: Behind the Magic" CD-ROM and on the Blu-ray release of "A New Hope". Biggs also shows up on Yavin 4 in the Rebel base hangar where he is reunited with his childhood best friend Luke and helped convince Red Squadron to allow Luke to join the squadron about to depart towards the Battle of Yavin. Biggs assures Red Squadron leader Garvin Dreis that Luke can handle the X-wing, calling him the best bush pilot in the Outer Rim. This scene was reintroduced in the 1997 re-release of the film. However, a line in which Dreis referred to Luke's father Anakin and said that "if he had his skill he would do fine" remained on the cutting room floor. While flanking Luke's X-wing on its decisive attack run, Biggs was shot down and killed by Darth Vader.