These scenes were all shot, and the footage still exists. However, it is in a very raw state, not dubbed and not edited. Leone and his editor wanted to finish these scenes for a later release, but were prevented from doing so by Leone's death.
Did Leone ever discuss a sort of successor or something along those lines...someone who would be allowed to reincorporate those things if it were possible?
Because I wonder, now with unlimited space on DVD's with Blu-Ray, whether studios won't begin having two versions of every film - the theatrical version, and the "complete" sort of version. One would be much cheaper and for the general audience, but the other would sort of be criterion-esque. I know I'd snatch up a OUATIA criterion set.
