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New Star Wars Storyboards show abandoned concepts for the prequels
New Star Wars Storyboards show abandoned concepts for the prequels
emanswfan
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Just more of how the prequels could have been so much better and darker.
http://io9.com/storyboards-reveal-the-amazing-star-wars-prequel-you-ne-510134498
DuracellEnergizer
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Ce n'est pas DuracellEnergizerAn older Anakin and younger Qui-Gon are both great ideas, and both would have probably lead TPM - and by extension the rest of the PT - to being more faithful to the OT.
I don't see how a shapeshifting Jar Jar could be an improvement, though. If anything, it would have only made him more annoying.
As for the stuff with AOTC, none of the stuff mentioned would have made any significant improvement to the movie; it would have been just as bad, but in a slightly different way.
Though I do like the idea of Padmé pulling a knife on "evil" Anakin, it wouldn't have made her any less of a cognitive dissonant, racist ditz.
God doesn't think in terms of black or white - or even shades of gray - but in big, bright, bold hues of blue and orange.
Bingowings
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Magister Pontifex MaximusIt might be fun to see if James Robinson's performance in Braveheart could be edited into TPM with adjustment.
I loathe Braveheart but from what I can remember it was a more compelling performance than George got out of Jake.
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Leonardo
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Joliet JakeDuracellEnergizer said:
I don't see how a shapeshifting Jar Jar could be an improvement, though. If anything, it would have only made him more annoying.
The moment I read "shapeshifting Jar Jar" I was immediately reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJrTQjVGpT8&feature=youtu.be&t=30s
... And they had 'The Empire Strikes Back', the fifth of the four Star Wars films. He is fucking with us numerically, isn't he! "Children, count up to ten." "Four, five, six, one, two, three, ten". No, it goes, four, five, six, one, two, three… No, it goes: four, five, six. One... Two and three have not been made." "Two and three have not been made! What should they be?" "What should they be? We do not know. All we know is that there will be a big floppy character in it that goes, squawk squawk squawk... who needs a punch up the bracket!"
Burdokva
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Battleship CaptainYet again I have to say that TPM has the best core concept of the three prequel movies and could have been fantastic if only we had a young adult Anakin, and the romance with Padme begins right away.
Not that much of a fan of younger Qui-Gon, though. Liam Neeson added a lot of depth and gravity to the movie. And we already have far too many action star Jedi characters in the prequels.
So, the Geonosians are the Neimodians for TPM pre-production ?
Bingowings said:
It might be fun to see if James Robinson's performance in Braveheart could be edited into TPM with adjustment.
I had a similar idea for a fan edit. Not that particular actor but generally a late tenn-young 20's Anakin would greatly improve the movie even without much other changes (of course, in addition to drastic Jar-Jar cuts).
emanswfan
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DuracellEnergizer said:
As for the stuff with AOTC, none of the stuff mentioned would have made any significant improvement to the movie; it would have been just as bad, but in a slightly different way.
Though I do like the idea of Padmé pulling a knife on "evil" Anakin, it wouldn't have made her any less of a cognitive dissonant, racist ditz.
Well, I'm sure the article won't show you everything, they're hoping you buy the book to check it all out.
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I've been reading David Semillion's Star Wars 'Awkenings', and I must say its actually VERY good. And I've read extremely positive reviews of the second installment 'Split Horizons'. THIS is how the prequels should've been.
darth_ender
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"darth endeor was a meanyhead" - FatherSkywalker, et al--QFTI don't know how feasible it is, but I wonder if any of these better concepts could also be snuck into PT:R.
The ROTJ collaborative thread is a wealth of ideas, both on how to edit Return of the Jedi, as well as how to collaborate in an edit. Emanswfan has taken leadership of the project.
Password for all ROTJ-related clips: ROTJ
A very rough edit of how the Battle of Endor could go
A very rough idea of how ROTJ could end
Rough edit based on the final script with some deviation:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Bingowings
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Magister Pontifex MaximusLeonardo said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
I don't see how a shapeshifting Jar Jar could be an improvement, though. If anything, it would have only made him more annoying.The moment I read "shapeshifting Jar Jar" I was immediately reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJrTQjVGpT8&feature=youtu.be&t=30s
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Take it I'm a tad late to Semillion?
DuracellEnergizer
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Ce n'est pas DuracellEnergizerBurdokva said:
Not that much of a fan of younger Qui-Gon, though. Liam Neeson added a lot of depth and gravity to the movie. And we already have far too many action star Jedi characters in the prequels.
A younger Qui-Gon wouldn't have been able to be Obi-Wan's master, though, which would have preserved the whole "Yoda taught Obi-Wan" bit from the OT.
So, the Geonosians are the Neimodians for TPM pre-production ?
Yeah, the Geonosian design was originally the design for the Neimoidians. I think they changed it to the Duros-esque man-in-suit design due to SFX difficulties.
God doesn't think in terms of black or white - or even shades of gray - but in big, bright, bold hues of blue and orange.
Bingowings
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Magister Pontifex MaximusAlmost every space based series has a stab at shape-shifting (Star Trek, Space 1999 etc).
ILM invented morphing to pull off the plot device in Willow.
Almost always it's a beautiful woman turning into an animal.
The logical story place for the idea is Palpatine.
In the PT he is a friendly looking human politician and in ESB he is a prune faced, possibly alien thing with chimp eyes.
It seems they ditched the Mask/Schmoo/Barbapapa form of CGI shape shifting for Jar-Jar but instead went with the tried and true beautiful woman turning into something (here a weird alien) in AOTC.
Neither proposal shows signs of linking the concept to the story.
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New Star Wars Storyboards show abandoned concepts for the prequels