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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED ** — Page 67

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Swift S. Lawliet said:

I wish Luke, Han and Leia would still be seen together in the ending.
Since it’s much more sad in hindsight in The Force Awakens, since that would be the last time they were together in a main movie.

Why not have the Ewok celebration, the planet celebration, the shot of Han, Luke, and Leia together, and finally the ghosts and then Luke by himself, in that order. That way, everything can still be there.

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Shane said:

LordPlagueis said:

  1. Restore the deleted scene of Darth Vader in his meditation chamber calling out to Luke as he constructs his new green lightsaber. The scene seamlessly connects the opening Death Star sequence with the Tatooine rescue sequence, which seem disconnected in the theatrical version.

  2. Improve the pacing in the Tatooine rescue sequence. Cut the droid torture scene. Cut the song and dance routine. Cut the dancer falling through the trap door. Cut Leia haggling with Jabba over the bounty for Chewbacca. Cut the thermal detonator. Cut Leia bumping into wind chimes. Cut C-3PO warning Luke that he is standing upon a trap door. Cut the herd of Banthas. Cut the barge sailing over the sand. In general, trim the first act as much as possible.

  3. Restore the deleted footage of Yoda confessing, “Obi-Wan would have told you long ago, had I let him.”

I didn’t realize that these scenes existed, I’m going to have to find them. They sound really interesting.

We should all try to help this Project:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-saga-Extra-Extended-Edition-1080p/id/52131

If we could get the best avaible quailty scenes at all time, restored many times as time and technology improves. We could all then hopefully one day be able to cut in the scenes we personally miss into whatever Version/edit we enjoy to get the ultimate definitive personal edition we like.

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I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New year.

Things have been pretty slow here. I’m finally recovering from 4 weeks of flu and bronchitis , which knocked me for six. So i haven’t been able to do much. But that is going to change in the next week…

I’ll soon be making the B-wing pilot costumes. For the most part I’ll be sticking to the versions they made for ROTJ (but were only ever seen in the background). The only thing i will be drastically changing will be the helmets. The original ones designed and built for ROTJ looked awful. More like earmuffs than actual helmets. I never liked that design so the new ones will have more of a helmet like appearance. The design is almost locked down so i will start sculpting them in the next couple of weeks.

The cockpit designs are also near completion. Lot’s to work out with this though as the cockpit needs to be on some sort of low cost gimbal to give the rocking motion seen in other cockpit shots in ROTJ and for any dramatic shaking needed during the battle. I have a few ideas & one which i’m most likely going to go with that would be quite easy and effective to implement.

Now, staying with the pilots, i will be shortly opening auditions for the pilots. These will be short video auditions that can be easily sent to be via the net. It would, unfortunately, only be open to people that would be available in the first 2 weeks of July, that can get to Wolverhampton for the shooting dates. This would preferably people within the Midlands. More detail about this will be posted soon…

Thanks to being out of action due to illness, i haven’t been able to complete the new PC, but i can get back on that now. So i haven’t been able to get back to work on the colour grading work on ANH & ROTJ after the Xmas break. But that side of things should be completed within the next month, hopefully. So i can then get stuck into the editing and begin the effects work and pre-viz for all the new battle scenes in ROTJ.

Now quite a few people messaged me and posted about a video that has been circulating of a revamped Vader/ Obi-Wan duel from ANH and suggesting that i use footage from that in ANH:R HD. Well, unfortunately (from the preview clips that the creator posted) , that isn’t going to be possible. Not only is the video processed in a stylised way, but also the low camera angles do not match the cinematography seen in the film. It just would not blend in very well. When creating new footage to be inserted in any of the films you have to do it in a way that matches the look of the film. I personally think the re-imagining of the scene done by this person is amazing, but it’s just something that i feel would not fit well when inserted in the film itself.

Also i have been asked many times why i will be altering the design of the Tydirium shuttle. Well it’s something that never seemed right with me ever since my first viewings of ROTJ. Why would they use the same type of shuttle that dignitaries like the Emperor and Vader use for parts and work crew? They wouldn’t. It really needed to be a different type of shuttle.

So that’s it. Over the coming weeks i will post some of the new designs of the cockpits, helmets, shuttle etc. There won’t be any video clips for a few months yet (maybe some to show the colour grading) because i won;t be at the stage where i can share anything new.

Looks like i have a lot of catching up to do in here. I’ll try to answer some of the questions/ suggestions as soon as possible. I’m still not 100% at the moment and reading gives me a headache thanks to this bug, so it won’t be for a few days at least.

ANH:REVISITED
ESB:REVISITED

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Great to have you back Ady, hoping for your full recovery in the next few days.

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marioxb said:

Swift S. Lawliet said:

I wish Luke, Han and Leia would still be seen together in the ending.
Since it’s much more sad in hindsight in The Force Awakens, since that would be the last time they were together in a main movie.

Why not have the Ewok celebration, the planet celebration, the shot of Han, Luke, and Leia together, and finally the ghosts and then Luke by himself, in that order. That way, everything can still be there.

So, Luke just left Vader’s body chilling on Endor somewhere while he partied with his buddies?

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Darth Lucas said:

marioxb said:

Swift S. Lawliet said:

I wish Luke, Han and Leia would still be seen together in the ending.
Since it’s much more sad in hindsight in The Force Awakens, since that would be the last time they were together in a main movie.

Why not have the Ewok celebration, the planet celebration, the shot of Han, Luke, and Leia together, and finally the ghosts and then Luke by himself, in that order. That way, everything can still be there.

So, Luke just left Vader’s body chilling on Endor somewhere while he partied with his buddies?

Uh, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie. Better rewatch it I guess.

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Darth Lucas said:

marioxb said:

Swift S. Lawliet said:

I wish Luke, Han and Leia would still be seen together in the ending.
Since it’s much more sad in hindsight in The Force Awakens, since that would be the last time they were together in a main movie.

Why not have the Ewok celebration, the planet celebration, the shot of Han, Luke, and Leia together, and finally the ghosts and then Luke by himself, in that order. That way, everything can still be there.

So, Luke just left Vader’s body chilling on Endor somewhere while he partied with his buddies?

Yes, stowed in the shuttle that he used to escape the Death Star.

They told me they’d fixed it!

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Hey Ady, the new shuttle design could be a lot bigger, allowing room for heaps more rebels. I’d love to see a quick scene with 100?+ soldiers all buckled up aliens style.

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doubleofive said:

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One thing I’m curious about is the sequence of the Death Star firing. It’s always bugged me even as a kid that this was just reused footage from A New Hope. Does Rogue One offer anything extra to mix it up a bit?

Rogue One has similar but new shots in almost the same order as ANH. Not sure how identical DS1 and DS2’s control rooms should be.

Made this comparison of all the firing sequences. Alderaan & Yavin are different takes of the same shots with Yavin having the sequence of Han saving Luke and Luke firing the torpedos inserted halfway through, Endor is the Alderaan shots slightly out of order with the actual barrel shot mirrored (because the DS2 is firing towards screen right), while Jedha and Scarif are dynamic recreations of the ANH firing sequence with Scarif seeming faster because there’s no shots cut between them.

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Having just recently restored a music cue for destruction of Alderaan and realised I made a Mistake on sound effects for the particular scene…

Well the sound effects are a bit different each time.

For the destruction of Alderaan the Control room guy pulling the overhead switch sound effect is missing. This is present at the end of star wars though. And there is a sound in Return of the Jedi for the overhead switch but different.

The Guy who pulls the Lever on the control Desk at the Alderaan destruction the cool noise where it goes “Beeeeooooooo” (Same a tractor beam deactivation) happens after the Lever is pulled down at the end of a new hope it happens during the Lever Pull down in ROTJ we do not hear it at all!

Return of the Jedi has a kind of Whirring buildup in the control room which seems to have been planned from the original conception of Star Wars but dismissed in the first film.

As far as the Firing Cone goes the Laser is emitted after the formed cone in Star Wars but in ROTJ comes out the hole in the middle of the dish and through the triangle cone.

Rogue One copies Star Wars on the Laser…

But you Must Decide are the guys in the Laser Tunnel in the Middle of The Dish? Or are they on one of the Triangle points for the cone? Yeah it don’t matter but it does if you have the Super Laser coming out the middle of the Dish… I think better to stick with the original version of the weapon?!?

Also Look at the control Room Helmet… If Rogue one is correct that means some of the control room shots are flipped because of matey boy’s Radio gizmo on his helmet 😃 At a loss for knowing which side is right for the helmet confused now! Seems to be that the original helmet has the antenna on it’s left side… So I will trust that.

The Laser Core is no longer Yellow by ROTJ

Don’t trust the color of the Yavin Buttons! it is out on Hue

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adywan said:

ROTJ: REVISITED – PRODUCTION BEGINS & DONATION DRIVE

Maybe remove most of the end celebration (all planet celebrations are going anyway). Have a small portion of the Ewok celebration which then leads to the funeral pyre scene. This is where the Force Ghosts will appear and the film will end with Luke being alone (which in turn foreshadows TFA).

It’s not my edit, but I dislike the idea of removing the planet celebrations entirely. I grew up with the 1997 special edition VHS of Return of the Jedi and always loved the planet celebrations at the end (other than gungan screaming “Wesa free,” and the crowd surfing stormtrooper).

I strongly disagree with the idea of the film ending with Luke all alone. That would not be emotionally satisfying.
Return of the Jedi is meant to end on an uplifting note, not on a somber note. The closing shot should be of Luke and his friends. I see no reason to change it.

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I always wanted to see the scene (shown only in concept art) of the B-Wings doing a proper bombing run on a Star Destroyer. If that appeared, it could blot out the traumatic memory of the stupid “resistance bombers” from TLJ. 😛

I always imagined that “both endings” from the original ROTJ (the personal celebration) and the SEs (the greater celebration) could be successfully worked together, either as a transition, or as the latter being re-situated as a post-credits sequence. Lots of fixes could be done in the action sequences to make sure hits look like they connect and R2D2’s dome isn’t so badly painted over (shades of the “Emperor’s Slugs”) plus tons of green matte boxes around ships in the space battle. About the only “SE” change I would keep though really is Oola’s death, but it’s not strictly necessary (but the wonderfully improved Rancor has to stay).

ESB:R was great. My only gripe with it (if you can even call it that), were those overly fuzzy lasers that the Snowspeeders were shooting at various points in the Hoth battle, that don’t look like they fit. Otherwise, great job. I’m a bigger fan of ROTJ than the other two classics, so I probably will disagree with some of the other changes, but I lived through Lucas’ nonsense, I’m sure I can stomach a few missteps on this too. 😉 And thank goodness we have the De-Specialized Editions in High Definition.

Good luck and MTFBWY!

<i>TCBOO</i>

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KurganX said:

I’m a bigger fan of ROTJ than the other two classics, so I probably will disagree with some of the other changes…

I read your words, but I don’t understand them. =P

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adywan said:

Things have been pretty slow here. I’m finally recovering from 4 weeks of flu and bronchitis , which knocked me for six. So i haven’t been able to do much. But that is going to change in the next week…

Glad to hear you are feeling better Ady! I hear ya on that flu. That bug has been going around and it is nasty. We are all anxious to see what you are planning but not at the cost of your own personal well being, so get some rest and don’t over do it!

“You can’t polish a turd. But you can shape it to look like candy.”

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Adywan, do you plan on removing Chewie’s “quiet” growl that should’ve given his an Han’s position away, when they’re going all stealth to try to take down those Stormtroopers?

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I still cant believe that for many years “WEEESA FREEEE!” was the final spoken line of the Star Wars Saga.

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Adywan, great to hear your feeling better, I think you should go with your gut on the ROTJ ending over anything else. I’m not saying peoples opinions don’t matter, but this is you vision and I am more exited to see that come to fruition, than see any of the suggestions feature, even mine - which of-course are unbelievably fantastic (jk there’re pointless and add little value to the plot). Its your floor man, don’t let anyone upstage you!

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ray_afraid said:

adywan said:

No matter what ending i decide upon for ROTJ:R, the [galaxy] wide celebrations will NOT be included.

This is reason for planet-wide celebration!

I’m already celebrating over it here in Australia 😄

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I would love a modern after the credits scene, to see a hooded figure at the end of RotJ walk into Vader’s Castle on Mustafar and the doors shut behind them.

Preferred Saga:
1/2: Hal9000
3: L8wrtr
4/5: Adywan
6-9: Hal9000