This is my very first edit that aims to improve the much debated Star Wars Prequels. Why start in the middle of the trilogy you may ask? Well, in my opinion Attack of the Clones is the worst of the 3 prequel movies. The problem with this film has been talked about since its release; wooden acting, disingenuous love scenes, difficult to follow plot, ect. and like every prequel editor before me, I try to remedy the major faults with this movie. But what makes this edit different from the others?
Since I first started planning my edit of AOTC, the first thing I wanted to do was give this Star Wars movie a villain. Now I know what you are saying “Count Dooku is the villain”, and you are right. But we don’t find out or even see our main protagonist until the last 20 minutes or so of the movie. Therefore “Attack of the Republic” attempts to give Dooku a proper introduction and subsequently sprinkle him throughout the film. This was achieved through original Special FX and newly recorded dialogue written by me and recorded by voice actor Michael Picher. TBH the new SFX are a bit video gamey, but the SFX in AOTC aren’t that great to begin with, so I think it fits in fairly well and gets the point across.
I also tried to insert hyperspace back into this film. One of the things that made Star Wars so cool was seeing the space ships jump into hyperspace and travel through hyperspace. It was one of the things that gave Star Wars its feel and look. Therefore I have, with original special effects, added scenes of hyperspace in 2 places. The first is at the end of a reinserted deleted scene when Obi leaves to find Kamino, and the second is when the transporter carrying Ani and Padme to Naboo flies by the screen.
Another big change is the the color of Mace Windu’s lightsaber. From the first time I saw AOTC the purple lightsaber never set well with me. Then I learned the origin of the purple lightsaber. Apparently SLJ just wanted a purple lightsaber because purple is his favorite color and he wanted to know what scenes he was in. So I changed it to fit with what I believe GL originally intended Mace Windu to have (I mean, even the first Mace Windu action figure had a blue lightsaber). IMHO lightsabers should only be red, green, or blue, plain and simple.
I have also used a CGI rendering made by Hunsdorfex and replaced the Death Star in the geonosian war room with General Grievous. I did this because I feel that the addition of the Death Star was unnecessary and silly. Now instead we see Grievous where the spinning Death Star was. I have also changed the subtitles for Poggle to give the impression that the geonosians designed the Grievous suit and that it would be instrumental in defeating the Jedi and thus gaining control in the war they had just started. This is also more plausible that they would have designed the suit because the only thing we see them producing is battle droids and super battle droids. Therefore, we can be lead to believe that the geonosians design and produce robot soldiers and Grievous is just an evolution of that.
For the most part though, this edit of AOTC is similar to, and borrows ideas from Hal9000 and L8rtr’s edits. I stand on the shoulders of giants. Get it on the spleen now!