The sequel to Star Wars: Renascent (2011). Part II will focus on the storyline of the Empire Strikes Back with flashbacks to the first half of Revenge of the Sith.

“The Empire Strikes Back: Renascent” is the second of a three-part fan-edit which tells the story of Luke and Anakin Skywalker, simultaneously. The three films will mainly follow the storyline of the Original Trilogy and will have flashbacks to the Prequel Trilogy. It will feature new scenes, altered story lines, and will also feature some new music, which is why it’s a rebirth or a Renascence. This project was first started by two other fan-editors and it is being edited off of the Blu-ray release of the Prequel Trilogy and adywan’s edits of the Original Trilogy."

 

Edited in 1080p and 5.1 Surround Sound

Outline

 

Empire Strikes Back Renascent

 

Anakin says goodbye to his mother. (Son my place is here…)

(It was Anakin remembering) Yoda Vs Dooku

Dooku Arrives on Coruscant.

Begun the Clone Wars Have

 

ROTS

Cut “character” elements added to Vulture Droids

Cut Buzz Droids

Cut Obi-Wans fancy jump

Cut droid noises

After grievous, cut straight to elevator.

Obi-Wan asks R2 for help.

Skip to R2 taking too long.

Anakin says “none of those wire jokes… he’s trying!”

R2 finshes up

Obi-Wan and Anakin Arrive at Dooku’s.

His fate will be the same as ours.

 

ESB

 

Cut all Grievous in hanger crap.

Show the exteriors

Cut R2 humour.

Cut dialogue about how they get caught – Anakin says “R2 will be along shortly)

Spring the trap instantly

Cut droid screaming

Make security droids voices lower

Remove Greivous’s dialogue as he escapes.

 

ESB

Falcon escape intercut with Landing

 

Obi-Wan says “another happy landing”

Han Lands

 

Back to ROTS

Remove Jar-Jar’s line

Anakin sees Padme – remove scary music

“Happiest moment of my life”

 

ESB

Luke arrives at Degobah

 

ROTS

Anakin’s Dream.

 

ESB

Vader says “I want that ship”

Cut down a lot of the cave stuff

“Still I feel like – (cut the familiar thing)”

“Feel like what?”

Show falcon but cut it short.

Vader (cut before he meets with Emperor)

 

ROTS

 (Move Anakin’s conversation with Yoda to later)

Anakin meets with Obi-Wan

Anakin meets with Chancellor

 

ESB

Vader talks to Emperor

Luke says “Yoda”

 

Intercut with Anakin meeting with council and then Obi-Wan And finally Obi-Wan, Yoda and Mace talking.

 

ESB

“I am ready!” echoes through clip. Come back to Luke bumping his head.

Cut Obi-Wan’s line of “So was I, if you remember”

“You will be. You will be.”

 

TPM

Anakin meets the council for the first time.

 

ESB

Escape the Cave

Luke training with Yoda

Show Han and Leia

Vader

Luke training again with Yoda

Vader kills captain Needa

Han and Leia

Luke remembers…

He see’s Anakin’s dream, Anakin Crying, and then he see’s Obi-Wan, and then Han and Leia on Cloud City.

 

ROTS

Anakin talks to Yoda about premonitions

Anakin talks to Padme about democracy

Anakin meets with Palpatine at the Opera

“He could use the force – to create life”

 

ESB

Han and Leia arrive at cloud city

C3P0 is shot

 

ROTS

Anakin and the Council talk about Grievous

Anakin says goodbye to Obi-Wan

 

ESB

Luke leaves Degobah

“There is another…”

 

ROTS

Anakin’s dream again

Anakin promises Padme he’ll protect her

 

ESB

Bespin – Leia and Han

Vader’s trap

 

ROTS

Obi-Wan lands on Utopau

 

ESB

All the way up until before Luke is allowed to land

 

ROTS

Obi-Wan barges in on Grievous

Mace tells Anakin to deliver the message to Grievous

 

ESB

Luke is allowed to land

Solo is frozen

 

ROTS

Obi-Wan kills Grievous

 

ESB

Luke arrives

Begins his fight with Vader

Bobba Fett gets away

 

ROTS

Anakin talks to Palpatine and finds out he’s a Sith Lord

 

ESB

Continue with Leia and Lando

Cut before the last part of Vader V Luke

 

ROTS

Anakin tells Mace about Palpatine

 

ESB

Last part of fight with I am your father intercut with Padme’s Ruminations

Luke falls/lands

Leia and Lando pick him up.

Cut after Vader lands

 

ROTS

Anakin goes to see what’s happening/Intercut with the duel

Anakin walks in to see Palpatine cornered

 

ESB

Falcon’s final dogfight – cut before Vader calls out to Luke

 

ROTS

Anakin assists in killing Mace

“What have I done?”

 

ESB

Vader calls out to Luke

Luke says goodbye to Chewie and Lando

 

ROTS

Up until “You shall be known as Darth Vader”

“Thank you. My master”

This confused me:

ESB 

  

Cut all Grievous in hanger crap.

Show the exteriors

Cut R2 humour.

Cut dialogue about how they get caught – Anakin says “R2 will be along shortly)

Spring the trap instantly

Cut droid screaming

Make security droids voices lower

Remove Greivous’s dialogue as he escapes.

 

 

You say ESB without telling us if it begins where it typically does, or when in ESB when it goes back to ROTS. Maybe I'm reading it wrong? And there were a couple of instances of this. Regardless, good luck on the edit!

I recommend a different poster as it kind of lets the cat out of the bag (aren't we all supposed to be pretending this is a surprise?).

Please consider putting a audio option for us stereo viewers.

I've got the upmost respect for what you are attempting to do but the sound mix for the first part really doesn't play well through conventional television speakers or headphones (though I expect it's top drawer in fancy surround sound).

All my hopes.

Bingowings said:

I recommend a different poster as it kind of lets the cat out of the bag (aren't we all supposed to be pretending this is a surprise?).

This.

mrbenja0618 said:

This confused me:

ESB 

  

Cut all Grievous in hanger crap.  

Show the exteriors 

Cut R2 humour. 

Cut dialogue about how they get caught – Anakin says “R2 will be along shortly)

Spring the trap instantly

Cut droid screaming

Make security droids voices lower

Remove Greivous’s dialogue as he escapes.

 

 

You say ESB without telling us if it begins where it typically does, or when in ESB when it goes back to ROTS. Maybe I'm reading it wrong? And there were a couple of instances of this. Regardless, good luck on the edit!

Sorry about that - those are mainly just notes for me (so I know exactly what goes where). I just thought I'd post it for now so people could see the progress so far.

 

Bingowings said:

I recommend a different poster as it kind of lets the cat out of the bag (aren't we all supposed to be pretending this is a surprise?).

Please consider putting a audio option for us stereo viewers.

I've got the upmost respect for what you are attempting to do but the sound mix for the first part really doesn't play well through conventional television speakers or headphones (though I expect it's top drawer in fancy surround sound).

All my hopes.

I'll for sure be doing a Stereo option as well. Also, The poster looks weird now that my monitor is s little better. I'm going to adjust the poster soon.

As someone who indeed loved your original Star Wars: Renascent, I can't wait for this! It sounds fantastic. I'm sure that even the ROTS segments will be enjoyable.

What do you plan to use as a base for ESB? Will you wait for Revisited to come out or use a theatrical version like Harmy's?

That's the plan, yes. Keep in mind that this will be a 1080p edit primarily, so the ESB scenes will be upscaled, but the ROTS scenes will be native with some colour correction this time around.

I plan on doing these resolutions:

Bluray 1080p (50GB)

Bluray 720p (25GB)

DVD 480p (10GB)

 

And I'll probably just do a 720p MKV.

Here's a quick scheduling update:

MARCH:
A short-film I wrote last year has been selected for production and I'm Directing that - hopefully shooting it at the end of the month.

I'm also working with two clients for editing and graphic design.

Hopefully I can get started on No Country for Gunmen
APRIL:
Post-Production on my short film.

Another production I was doing has to be reshot because the lab tried developing COLOUR 16mm film with chemicals meant for B/W film. So that and a commercial I'm working on are taking up my month of April.

Hopefully I can finish No Country for Gunmen

MAY:
I have a move at the beginning of the month to a place still unknown (depends on work). On the 7th I have a surgery which takes about two-weeks for me to get full recover. I should be able to get back to full-force fan-editting during my second week of recovery through the end of the summer.

Hopefully I can start SMALLVILLE: Superman


JULY/AUGUST 2012
Hopefully I can start Tron: Liberty and get it done by the end of 2012

EARLY 2013
The Empire Strikes Back: Renascent


AND THEN...
All Harry Potter Films
Return of the Jedi: Renascent
All of the Avengers films (including Iron Man, TIH, CA, Thor, etc)


Hopefully that'll clear things up a bit. But yeah, next stop: No Country for Gunmen!



EDIT: Here are the formats I'll be doing

Bluray 1080p (50GB)
Bluray 720p (25GB)

DVD 480p (8GB)

MKV 720p

Thanks for the schedule, Asteroid-Man. I look forward to seeing all you various works/edits. Out of curiosity, do you think a BD-25 can only support a 720p movie? Wouldn't it be able to use a 1080p version with a reduced bitrate? Anyway, it's your decision, but, in my experience, I'm able to fit about 2 hours in good full 1080p quality on a BD-25.

I plan on having a fully interactive menu, so I'm not sure. We'll have to see.