Ok, here’s another clip. It’s the custom opening text crawl! Since this fanedit only focuses on the immediate events leading to the Battle of Scarif, I’ve used the crawl to summarize the first two-thirds of Rogue One’s plot. Enjoy!
Damn. That’s really effective. And the Vader scene opening the movie actually feels really in place. Definitely looking forward to this edit 😃
I like what you have done. The only suggestion I have is that the last paragraph more directly set up what we are about to see. Some piece of information that that describes that Director Krennic has been summond by Lord Vader…
BTW, nice CGI on the ship approach. I only wish that they had chosen to use the traditional Lambada class.
Alright, so I’ve cut together a trailer for this fanedit. I thought it would be cool to include the animation of the Death Star plans at the beginning, and then actually give some details of the fanedit within the trailer. Here you go!
https://youtu.be/lqmAIqP_m8I?list=PLDR3QdXTNj4oHLjmhWYj_G_39VPVvjI_4
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Here’s a poster I made for this fan edit. Like my trailer which features the animated Death Star plans, this poster prominently features a few screenshots of the plans.
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Nice! Liked the trailer too. Also a good idea to release on May 4th. I wouldn’t be surprised if it got a bit of attention.
That poster is really great.
cool poster and the trailer has me intrigued - roll on 4th May 😃
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By the way are you going to address the issue that a weakness is known by Jyn to have been implemented by her father ? It’s totally inconsistent with ANH so I was wondering if you were going to remove it. And since the main focus of your edit is the battle of Scarif are you going to use a flash back structure to keep at least the dialogue between Donnie Yen character and Jyn about the kyber crystals and the Whills ? (could be cool to find a way to somehow keep that small interesting part)
By the way are you going to address the issue that a weakness is known by Jyn to have been implemented by her father ? It’s totally inconsistent with ANH so I was wondering if you were going to remove it. And since the main focus of your edit is the battle of Scarif are you going to use a flash back structure to keep at least the dialogue between Donnie Yen character and Jyn about the kyber crystals and the Whills ? (could be cool to find a way to somehow keep that small interesting part)
No, I’m actually removing any mention of Galen in this edit. He’s already dead by the time this film starts, so I found it odd for the characters to reference someone we haven’t seen on screen. No flashbacks with Chirrut either- talking about Kyber crystals is interesting but doesn’t add anything to this edit. I’m trying to keep it completely focused on actually stealing the plans and the ensuing battle.
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It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. I think this approach lends towards those who want to merge the films. Seeing your other work, I’d not be surprised if we see a mapleized merged edit by some other editors.
By the way are you going to address the issue that a weakness is known by Jyn to have been implemented by her father ? It’s totally inconsistent with ANH so I was wondering if you were going to remove it. And since the main focus of your edit is the battle of Scarif are you going to use a flash back structure to keep at least the dialogue between Donnie Yen character and Jyn about the kyber crystals and the Whills ? (could be cool to find a way to somehow keep that small interesting part)
No, I’m actually removing any mention of Galen in this edit. He’s already dead by the time this film starts, so I found it odd for the characters to reference someone we haven’t seen on screen. No flashbacks with Chirrut either- talking about Kyber crystals is interesting but doesn’t add anything to this edit. I’m trying to keep it completely focused on actually stealing the plans and the ensuing battle.
Ok, so it sounds great ! Yep you’re right about the kyber/whills dialogues which don’t add anything to your edit (actually they don’t really add anything to the theatrical version either but it was a nice touch).
You begin your edit with the Krennic/Vader scene (which is a very good idea), but are you going to keep some of Krennic/Tarkin and the very classy shot of the dish being placed on the death star as well (I don’t think you will since you mention the destruction of Jedha in your crawl) ? When I watched the movie a second time it occured to me that Krennic should have been the main character of the movie, so your “third act” edit could keep this “Krennic point of view” situation. Last question (sorry 😃), about the Yavin IV material, will you keep the Bail/Mothma scenes (I’m a big fan of Bail/Motham material found in Episode III fanedits) and cut the C3PO/R2 caméo ?
(edit: well, you plan on releasing your edit in 3 days so I guess I’ll know in a very not so far future what’s in your edit 😄)
It’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. I think this approach lends towards those who want to merge the films. Seeing your other work, I’d not be surprised if we see a mapleized merged edit by some other editors.
I’ve honestly thought about doing that merged edit of Rogue One and A New Hope, but there would be a couple issues.
Going from brand new Rogue One made in 2017 to A New Hope from 1977 would be glaringly obvious visually.
There isn’t any footage to link the Tantive IV escaping via hyperspace above Scarif, to then being captured by Vader’s Star Destroyer above Tatooine. I suppose you could splice in the deleted scenes of Luke and Biggs in Anchorhead, but the footage is poor quality.
It might be worth a shot however!
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Ok, so it sounds great ! Yep you’re right about the kyber/whills dialogues which don’t add anything to your edit (actually they don’t really add anything to the theatrical version either but it was a nice touch).
You begin your edit with the Krennic/Vader scene (which is a very good idea), but are you going to keep some of Krennic/Tarkin and the very classy shot of the dish being placed on the death star as well (I don’t think you will since you mention the destruction of Jedha in your crawl) ? When I watched the movie a second time it occured to me that Krennic should have been the main character of the movie, so your “third act” edit could keep this “Krennic point of view” situation. Last question (sorry 😃), about the Yavin IV material, will you keep the Bail/Mothma scenes (I’m a big fan of Bail/Motham material found in Episode III fanedits) and cut the C3PO/R2 caméo ?
(edit: well, you plan on releasing your edit in 3 days so I guess I’ll know in a very not so far future what’s in your edit 😄)
The Krennic/Tarkin stuff is going away, as are the Death Star construction shots. Cool stuff, but in the timeline of this edit, these events have already occurred. Bail and Mon Mothma are definitely still in the film 😃
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Looks like someone had the same ideas I had. While this is pretty rough, I think it could achieve the merge idea.
Looks like someone had the same ideas I had. While this is pretty rough, I think it could achieve the merge idea.
The editor seems to have put a lot of work into that! Even so, it’s a pretty rough scene. The music shifts too abruptly, and there’s no sense of pacing with the editing. However, the VFX shots with the blockade runner and Star Destroyer are pretty well done.
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It’s May 4, and that means that Rogue One: The Battle of Scarif is now complete!
It’s just under 50 minutes long, making it a nice little companion piece to the original theatrical release. Alternatively, you could watch this right before A New Hope! Again, the main point of this edit is to focus on the epic battle sequence from Rogue One, while also adding elements to make it fit in more with the other Star Wars films. This means, among other things:
If you’re interested in checking it out, let me know 😃
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Nice! Wo is the Download Link?
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15542662/rogue-one-fan-edit-john-williams-michael-giacchino-watch
Awesome!
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15542662/rogue-one-fan-edit-john-williams-michael-giacchino-watch
Awesome!
Great stuff eldusto84 😃
I’m certainty interested in watching your Edit.
Seems you also have some interest on reddit too…
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/68epx3/a_really_talented_filmmaker_edited_john_williams/
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Thanks for that Reddit link, oojason!
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Congratulations on finishing the edit! I’ll check this out as soon as possible 😃
I’ll be quick: it’s very well done. The Williams cues (great choices !), the sound effects, the shrink edit idea to “frame” this entire “SW short story” with Vader (which by the way tends to solve the theatrical version issue of Vader in R1; here he’s more a secondary character rather than just an extra who shows up at the end to kill random people), etc. I like it, it gets the job done to continue the Vader’s tale from Episode III to Episode IV with a side-story than just the story of characters I don’t care about (Jyn et al.).
Just a few issues:
That’s being said, I think your edit is clearly going to replace the theatrical version for me 😃
Thanks for sharing your excellent work (your Hobbit edit already was a huge improvement over the theatrical version).
Looking forward to checking this out.
I remember reading somewhere that Rogue One was originally conceived by John Knoll as an episode for the now-abandoned live action Star Wars TV series. Thus it’s somewhat fitting that you’ve cut it down to a length that could fit in an hour-long TV time slot.
Thanks for the lengthy feedback, MalaStrana. I am most likely going to release a 5.1 version with a higher compression rate, and could also fix some of the issues you’ve brought up. I have a sound engineer friend who’s going to have a crack at matching Vaders dubbed lines…I agree it’s not perfect.
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Count me as someone who enjoyed the Vader pun. Especially for an hour-long movie, I think it’s perfectly fine.
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