Well Pre-production has started on ESB:Revisited. I'm just doing basic colour correction for now and then in a few months i will be starting the FX tests

Some changes that are planned so far for this edit:

1. Complete colour correction
2. New Emperor hologram so he looks more like he does in ROTJ than he does in the ROTS
3. Boba Fett's original voice restored
4. Shortened Wampa scene
5. Removal of ALL SE elements of Vaders shuttle leaving Bespin & docking with the Stardestroyer
6. More AT-AT's
7.  Redoing the bad colouring job on his panels in space done by ILM for the SE & recolouring any black panels
8.  Saber colours – re-rotoscoping all the lightsabers –no more Pink saber for Vader
9.  Removing sqib markers on wall where stormtroopers lasers will hit (Bespin)
10. Adding blast marks to stormtroopers who are shoot -yes
11. Add FX of MF landing gear retracting when taking off from Bespin
12  Attempting to fix the transparency of Fighters
13. First shot where we see Han before he blasts the Probe droid, changing the snow mound so it no longer has the probes debris before it is destroyed
14. Small tweaking to the Taun Taun facial movements and better blinking & motion smoothed out
15. Fixed the boom mike reflection in Luke's goggles on the TaunTaun. -done
16. Fixing visible crew members purple jacket as wampa kills the Taun Taun
17. Anthony Daniels chin is visible during the “Deck Officer!” scene- will be fixed
18. hangar doors can be seen to start closing twice - will be fixed
19. Adding Luke to the shot of the AT-AT falling over
20. Fixing matte work on shield generator. -I will be building a new shield generator prop so all shots will be new
21  Stabilising R2's text on Luke's readout. (When flying from Hoth)
22. Fixing missing frame from “This goes here, that goes there!” Watch troops on floor
23. Larger blockade orbiting Hoth
24. Adding more subtle display to Snowspeeders Instrument panels
25. Bad mixture of Luke element and speeder being crushed element- I will be working on that
26. Removal of Wires holding speeders
27. Correcting Probe Droids lasers to hit closer to Chewie
28. Add Laser shots hitting Rebels who die
29. You're Lucky you don’t' taste very good” restored
30. Fixing jump cut to Vader’s mask exploding revealing Luke
31. Removing Levitation Wires.
32. Fixing the ground that bows under Luke as he walks past Yoda saying "You want the impossible."
33. "Bring my shuttle" line restored
34. ALL SE additions of the Imperial shuttle removed.
35  Adding fleeing ships to bespin skyline after the evacuation order is given
36. New Bespin landing platform mattes to remove duplicate mattes used for different platforms
37. The new SE window as Lando leads them to Vaders trap will now be visible in all shots and not suddenly disappear like it does now.
38. Adding wind shield to Slave 1 that is missing on bespin platform
39. Fixing shots where Luke turns off/hands off lightsaber to offstage hand, but tip can be seen
40. As Vader and Luke fight on Gantry, you can see the edges of the matte painting used during flashes. this will be fixed
41. “Who are you!” voice for when 3P0 stumbles into the Troopers restored.
42. Removing obvious squib on Stormtroopers chest before Leia shots him in cloud city (Just before Leia gets in the elevator)
43. Fixing a set problem when Chewie bangs 3PO's head on the Falcon during the escape (3PO says "Bend down, that hurts" etc.) a fixture on the Falcon wiggles, making it look a little fake.
44. Maybe (and i say maybe) keeping the stars spiralling as Millennium Falcon goes into Hyperspace
45. maybe adding 3PO coming down stairs of Bespin
46. Removing Luke's Head popping back into the shot when he jumps off Carbonite platform
47. Fixing Jump-cut of steal gate doors closing behind Luke
48. Adding scorch marks to wall during Vader/Luke Lightsaber battle
49. Fixing 3PO’s leg changing position as he is holding up after escaping Cloud City
50. Replacing shadows of Falcon and TIEs on asteroid to be accurate to the shape of the ships.
51. Fixing the 'greeblies' falling off of 3PO when he interrupts Han and Leia.
52. When an asteroid hits the command tower on a Star Destroyer, the tower just magically dissolves belong the explosion element – a new FX shot will be added for this
53. Removing Han Mouthing Leia's "Hardly Enough to get me Excited"
54  Fixing TIE Fighter explosion through Asteroid crevice – I need to do a whole new shot for this. Its just too bad to salvage
55. Replace tool in Han's hand with Blaster when shooting Mynock
56. Fixing FX shot where the stardestroyer blasts the asteroids but one blows up before its even hit.
57. Fixing Anthony breathing/moving in costume after Leia turns him off
58. Removing Needa's blink (after being choked) when Vader's cape swipes past his face.
59. Adding camera shake as Stardestroyers shields collide "Take evasive manoeuvres"
60. Fix Imperial officers rank pins/cylinders – I’m not bothered too much with rank badges
61. Replacing Needa's shuttle with Lambda-Class T-4A Shuttle
62. Redoing the sequence where Slave 1 follows the Falcon so its not so close anymore
63. Fixing Luke getting his mechanical arm FX (forearm looks too fake)
64. New displays inside Slave 1
65. Adding better flames to the probe as it crash lands

THINGS I WILL NOT BE DOING:

1. no landing crafts deploying the AT-At's
2. No fleet jumping to hyperspace at the end of the movie
3. No Mon Calamari ships either at the end or larger ships in fleet
4. NO PT music
5. No seeing Lukes vision as we did with Anakins in ROTS
6. Not adding anything in just because its in the EU - The EU doesn't exist to me so no more EU suggestions

Here's the Teaser trailer. please note that all elements are just concept ideas and are not finished FX

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK REVISITED TEASER TRAILER v2. MPEG APPROX 50MB

Some clips to demonstrate the colour correction so far
HOTH BATTLE COLOUR CORRECTION FIRST PASS VISUAL COMPARISON XVID 25mb Approx

NEW YODA CLIP- xvid

SPEEDER COCKPIT TRANSPARENCY TEST FIX

2 MINUTE OPENING SCENES PREVIEW

NEW 9MIN PREVIEW

Here's a visual comparison between the basic colour correction (not final) for Revisited and the horrible colours in the 2004 DVD