Restoring the complete vampa subplot would be probably a problem, even for Ady, right ?
But I'm still very excited

You have to look at it from their perspective. A that time, nobody knew they were brother and sister, so what is the problem? I have no idea why is this such an issue.

Oh man, oh man, oh man. Ady, you're on your way to doing it again! Great work on Palpatine. Did you cut and paste his ROTJ eyes? It's pretty seamless. I would echo the sentiments about a larger-scale snow battle. One thing I would remove is the extra Cloud City fly-bys. They just hollered "Look at what ILM did, just because they could!" But that's just me. This is your edit, man. I'll be sure to snatch it up.

In my opinion, Boba's old voice is much more badass and should be restored. If you want it to make sense, storywise, just imagine that he has a voice-altering device under the helmet.

Remember how different Leia sounded when she was disguised as a bounty hunter in Return of the Jedi? That's how much a device can alter one's voice.


I like that you will try to make the Emperor hologram look closer to how he looked in ROTJ, but I still maintain that the best and simplest thing to do is simply to darken the hologram so that most of his face is not visable.

Think of the scene in ROTJ when Palpatine lands in the hangar bay. As he and Vader walks and talks, only his mouth, chin and the lower part of his left cheek is visible. That's how I think it should be in ESB as well.


I also think you should try and increase the distance between the Slave I and the Falcon while Boba Fett is tailing them; he is flying way too close.

I'm really exaciting about this project, ady. If it's even half as good as the ANH edit, it's gonna be great.

are you thinking of making the inside of the at-at walkers red since the view of the cockpit from the outside is red? I can see it two way, all red( like the all blue hyperspace you did in ANH) or just a red screen in front of everyone.

If they haven't already, somebody needs to post this clip on youtube ASAP!

Well, the wishlist thread has kinda served its purpose by now, and I don't se any problem with a little repedition from that thread to this one. But I am gonna try and not repost things in the future, since your right that it's not good for the discussion.

Hey there, I just noticed tihs thread! I agree with bkev about the Yoda recolouring. That picture makes Yoda look like he was in the prequel trilogy (only better ). Maybe you should add some A-Wings and B-Wings to the final scenes with the rebel fleet. Maybe you should make Palpatine look a bit more like his 1980 counterpart (e.g. his face is more of a shadow; this way he looks more mysterious). Also, more cloud cars in cloud city would overall make it look alot better. I'm looking forward to this project. Good luck!
--Delta

I'm glad you won't be changing TOO many things in Empire, Ady. It's almost a perfect film and there were only a few minor things the Special Editions screwed up so it definitely doesn't need to be reworked as thoroughly as ANH or even ROTJ for that matter.

I've never been a big fan of the Fett , but I think it actually detracts from Boba's character to give him the voice of Jango fett, Boba may be a clone of Jango but he wasn't a typical assembly line clone and was given his own free will. He was orphaned at such a young age and had to make his own way in the galaxy and it certainly doesn't take long for a displaced child to lose an accent and adapt to his surroundings. I think retaining the original voice and delivery gives him back some the mystery he lost when episode 2 showed him as a young surly kiwi lad, maybe it's cos i'm an Aussie but the Kiwi accent always sounds a bit jarring and goofy and not very threatening at all.

unless Ady can come up with an interesting overlay of both actors voices and put it through a few vocal effects and create something unique for Boba ?

I like what you're doing with the Emperor hologram, it really looks more like the ROTJ emperor as we know him. Am I alone in thinking that the Emperor's appearance in Empire should retain some of the mystery it had in context of the original trilogy ? I wish they hadn't gone so drastic with his transformation in the prequals, and we could have seen how the dark side had consumed him and ravaged his appearance in the twenty odd years between ROTS and his final reveal in ROTJ. It's a pity that George didn't give his audience enough credit to bridge the gap and make the connection, even with the dialogue he felt the need to make the 'son of Skywalker' as obvious as he possibly could. I hope Adywan is cutting Mcdiarmind's Empire lines back to how they were in the original theatrical cut?

somebody mentioned putting 'Duel of the fates' into the Luke/Vader light saber battle at the end, but to be honest I think the light saber battle in Empire is the most gripping and closest to perfect battle that we see in the entire saga, it's a clear cut battle of the minds and a game of cat and mouse rather than the over the top aerobatics of the prequal trilogy, apart from some tweaking of the light sabers and a few effects shots, I think it would be best left pretty much exactly as it appeared in the original.

A long time ago (heh) I took a few rough notes on 'cleaning up' ESB myself. Little did I know I just didn't have ths killz to pull it off. Anyway, this is just a few bits and pieces I had... (apologies if any of this doubles up on what others have suggested. Some of it is pretty obvious stuff)

0:03:58 - Erase boom mike reflection in Luke’s goggles.
0:04:04 - Paint out crew-person’s hair at left side of screen.
0:04:05 - Extend Wampa’s arm to cover exposed end.
0:07:23 - Erase Anthony Daniels’ skin at 3POs neck.
0:09:55 - Move saber deactivation sound to 4 seconds later, or digitally retract saber earlier.
0:33:02 - Erase stick pushing over AT-AT.
0:33:29 - Fix matte work on shield generator.
0:35:35 - Fix jump cut when snowtrooper is hit by blaster fire.
0:36:23 - Stabilise R2's text on Luke's readout. (When flying from Hoth)
0:39:49 - Replace shadows of Falcon and TIEs on asteroid to be accurate to the shape of the ships.
0:40:48 - Replace audio with “You’re lucky you don’t taste very good.”
0:45:54 - Remove mouth movement on Han. (He mouths Leia’s lines along with her.)
0:52:04 - Erase the 'greeblies' falling off of 3PO when he interrupts Han and Leia.
0:52:16 - When an asteroid hits the command tower on a Star Destroyer, the tower just magically dissolves belong the explosion element. Would be nice to add a more realistically ruined tower.
1:08:29 - Erase wire lifting the rock.
1:11:24 - When Luke walks past Yoda, the ground flexes, giving away that it is just wood in that spot. (Hi Frank! How y'doing down there?)
1:13:36 - Remove Neida's blink (after being choked) when Vader's cape swipes past his face.
1:43:27 - Add windshield to Slave 1. (From memory, it looks like it's missing due to bluescreen work.)
1:45:14 - When Luke shuts off his saber, you can see the tip of the 'extended' prop being taken away when they swap it for a retracted one.
1:45:18 - Erase Luke’s head popping up at the last moment.
1:46:57 - Erase squib on stormtrooper’s chest.
1:54:49 - This shot of Leia is flipped, and Lando is still in the shot, despite being elsewhere at that moment.
2:00:41 - Fix colouring on Luke's fake arm so that the real skin and the 'robot arm' device match.