Can you do anything about the hilt?

I think I can, but I’ll wait for the blue ray to do the tests, in better quality

Handman said:

Can you do anything about the hilt?

Yep, seeing that shot seals the need for hilt replacement to make the color change work for me.

There was a deleted scene shown today on the Star Wars show and the timecode was in the black bars below the image!

https://youtu.be/HjoJqZDjxgI

There. Yep, happy to see that time codes won’t be an issue! The effects are unfinished though. Hopefully other scenes look better or are easier to fix.

TheBossCheese said:

EPISODES 7 & 8 Restructured
The Last Jedi has memorable moments and quality visuals but really lacks in character development when in regards to The Force Awakens. The Force Awakens has more clear character arcs. For this reason I want to reorganize, edit, and add in FX. I am however not too experienced with editing. I’ve been using VSDC Free Editor and have been liking it. I need to know how to incorporate surround sound, Rotoscoping FX, generally I just need more experience. The highlights of this edit I suppose is that Rey does not use force powers until she meets Luke, Han dies during Episode VIII instead of VII, and that Starkiller Base is also saved for Episode VIII. Its like the last act of my episode 7 is the last act of The Last Jedi, re-edited, and then the 1st act of my episode 8 is the last act of The Force Awakens.

Episode VII

• The film plays out normally until Finn and Rey escape from Jakku in the Millennium Falcon. Finn and Rey then introduce each other. Finn asks BB-8 to take them to the Resistance base. Kylo Ren is upset that the droid escaped with the help of Finn and Rey. The film will play out differently from here.
  
• Finn and Rey arrive on Yavin IV and are immediately met with Han Solo and Chewbacca. No Ranthar chase, cut them hiding under the floor and just cut to han asking about who stole the Falcon. Han talks about Luke and the force.
  
• Finn and BB-8 exit the Falcon and find Poe Dameron alive (Cut Finn asking Poe for Help). Finn and Poe enter the base and speak with Princess Leia. (Only include thank yous, finn and leia do not need help.)
  
• BB-8 meets C3PO and 3PO explains how R2D2 has been in sleep mode since Lukes disappearance. 
  
• Cut to Rey going down into the basement and finding Anakin’s blue lightsaber. 
  
• R2D2 then wakes up to help show the way to Luke. 
  
• Rey leaves and goes to find Luke. (Not really sure if she should take the Falcon though. This is where Rotoscoping might be nice to incorporate a different ship for her on Acto because Han Solo is still alive.)

• With Rey gone the First Order arrive using the footage from the Maz Kanata castle raid scene. Han, Chewie, and Finn fight them off on the ground as Poe Dameron takes to the skys. 
  
• Using the evacuation of Yavin Base from The Last Jedi, the Resistance leave Yavin IV. Poe destroys the dreadnaught. The ship takes off into hyperspace. (Cut out General Hux)

• Rey arrives on Acto with a different ship and meets Luke Skywalker.

• The Resistance run to the abandoned Crait Base and wait for the First Order to follow them there. Luke appears and helps the resistance escape with his force projection. (Han and Chewie are rotoscoped into the scene with Luke and Leia. I had scene a post where a user mentioned doing this along with Han flying the Falcon off Crait.) Rey is not here.

Episode VIII

I am honestly not entirely sure on the order of the scenes for episode VIII yet. Need to watch The Last Jedi more first. The general idea is that Han Solo dies in Episode VIII, then Leia dies after the Tie Fighters blow up the Ship, and Luke dies after Rey does not turn to the dark side and join Ben.

• Kylo Ren is told by Snoke to kill his parents. 
  
• General Hux Starkiller Base Nazi speech.  

• Possibly actually have Maz Kanata’s Castle and using the shots of the Falcon on the outskirts of the castle make it seem like the whole Resistance is there. Even if we take out Maz Kanata herself we could at least probably show the bar scene and then show the Resistance on the outskirts, kinda like they are just camping out not really trying to stay in one place to long.
  
• The Resistance talks about how they can take down Starkiller Base. (Trim scene to make Admiral Ackbar, Han, and Leia the only ones who really know how to take down Starkiller Base) 

• Leia tells Han to bring their son home.
  
• Rey following Luke. Luke drinks some Blue Milk.

• Han, Chewie, and Finn land on Starkiller Base.
  

• Rey goes to Starkiller Base to try to turn Ben to the lightside against Lukes advice. She meets up with Han, Chewie, and Finn. Han Solo is killed by his son. (Have to assume she still has the Rotoscoped ship and not the Falcon.) 
  
• Starkiller Base destroys the Hosnian System/Corosaunt.
  
• Finn gets sliced in the back by Kylo. Rey returns him to the resistance. She hugs Leia and leaves in the Falcon with Chewie and R2D2. as she goes back to Luke.

• Rey comes back to Luke in the Falcon along with Chewie and he asks what happened to Han. This is why Luke not that nice to Rey throughout the movie because of the death of his friend.

• Leia dies by Kylo Ren’s Tie fighters. The Luke and Yoda scene should follow shortly after and Luke almost burns the texts out of rage because he felt Leia’s death.

• Rey leaves Luke again to go to Snokes ship after the dark side mirror cave. Finn wakes up and asks Poe where Rey is and that is how he ends up on Snokes ship. A chance to fight Phasma after she disables the shields in the same movie.

• Luke dies after we see that Rey does not make the decision to join the dark side with Kylo, because like Yoda his mission was completed in training The Last Jedi. End Credits, no broom boy. All the original trilogy actors now all die together in this movie.

This is just a general concept idea I have been thinking about. Like I said I really have to watch The Last Jedi more.

Very radical restructure. Sounds interesting. I wonder if mixing the two films so much would make for better tonal and stylistic consistency, as the lack thereof is one of the trilogy’s greatest flaws.

Moving the evacuation of D’Qar to Episode VII would mean we would miss out on seeing the way in which Rose’s sister Paige died (unless you leave it in anyways, in which case it would just feel awkward, since it’s setting irrelevant to the rest of the plot until the next episode). I guess it’s not critical, but it’s a nice moment.

As a sidenote the Resistance base is not on Yavin IV. It’s on a planet called D’Qar. Also, the correct spellings would be Ach-To and Coruscant.

Man, I really wish that scene was finished. So much better than what ended up in the movie.

I just Threw This Together Quickly its not the best editing but we can tweak it to make it work using after effects.

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Luke vs kilo new opening (green lightsaber - The supremacy)

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Is there any chance you can do something to insert that new deleted scene in a fanedit? I really loved the Last Jedi and I’m only interested in watching an extended cut with every possible new piece of material available, and that scene was soooo good. Those unfinished special effects are really disturbing but I wonder whether you would be able to make it work in the flow of the movie?

So, what Last Jedi fan edits do we have proposed so far?

darthrush’s Dark Cut
Hal9000’s Legendary Fanedit
My Light Edit
EvenSteven’s Firestorm Fanedit

Handman said:

So, what Last Jedi fan edits do we have proposed so far?

darthrush’s Dark Cut
Hal9000’s Legendary Fanedit
My Light Edit
EvenSteven’s Firestorm Fanedit

I intend to do one as well, haven’t made a thread for it yet though.

darthrush said:

After seeing it for a second time, I am set on the fact that I will be doing a pretty comprehensive edit of this. The stuff I like in this film, hits on ALL cylinders for me personally. But the Canto Bight stuff just made me so angry this time around and the runtime of the movie did wear on me. What the Last Jedi needs is a tight and focused edit.

My full idea for the ENTIRE finn/rose subplot is the following:

1. Finn says that they surely cannot get past the shield. Poe raises his head as if he has an idea. We get the Maz scene. I really don’t have any problem with this scene like others. Maz is shown to always be caught up in something. It further connects both films and we get a great joke for me where she kind of gets sexual and just makes everyone uncomfortable. This stays for logic sense and for my appreciation of it.
2. Then we have our first scene of Canto Bight. I would cut down as many weird shots of aliens, champagne, and jokes as possible. Sadly, the public property joke has to stay since that’s the reason they get put in a cell. I also would cut the entire part where Rose talks about the fathiers. Overall, just making this scene as quick as possible.
3. Once they’re in the cell, cut the joke about not needing DJ’s help. Like RogueLeader suggested, we cut from DJ walking out the cell and them following, to the ship leaving. You would flip the shot of Finn and Rose leaving the cell to show that they went the same direction and axe her line of “This way” so it feels less like they went on some detour and rather that they followed him. This would get rid of the entire fathier chase sequence.
4. We next see them on their way back. This scene stays intact.
5. After this basically everything would be the same except cutting the ironing joke and cutting BB-8 in the ATST. Also I would cut them riding on top of the ATST with BB-8 and after Finn defeats Phasma, it would cut to their ship escaping the burning hangar bay.

Hopefully this would make for a much shorter subplot. If there are any ideas to make an even more radically cut down version of this that sacrifices less screen time then I would love to hear it out. Anything to mitigate this part of the film.

quoted for best cutlist to date

Would it be possible to have audio of a Snoke and Luke dialogue as Rey is in the force cave of mirrors? I mean, could we make that scene into something like the vision from The Force Awakens where it actually conveys some story and reinforces why Rey wouldn’t trust Luke?
We get a hint from the novelization now that Luke sought some comunication with Snoke, in order to gain knowledge of the force, and I I thought why not use that to the advantage of the story?
I was thinking we could repurpose some of the more corney throne room dialogue of Snoke, and some of Luke’s dialogue, and maybe make some banter between the two?
Snoke: “Skywalker, so wise! you think you can turn him? Foolish child! He is heir apparent of Darth Vader, the balance of the Darkness and the light.”

Luke: “I failed you Ben, I’m sorry.” "I thought I could stop this, I was overconfident, I was “Luke Skywalker.”

We could literally modify the whole reason’detre of Kylo turning to the dark side. Rather than it being because there was darkness in Ben, we could imply that it was because there was actually a kind of balance in ben, and yet both masters, Luke and Snoke want to pull him to one side, their side. IE Overconfidence is Soke’s weakness, Luke’s faith in his friends is his.

IE Luke’s failure is not in wanting to kill Ben, but in underestimating the turbulence of the darkness as combined with light, and in thinking that he could control it.

Your cutlist above darthrush seems very interesting. I’d definitely watch that!

Curious to see if it works

Handman said:

So, what Last Jedi fan edits do we have proposed so far?

darthrush’s Dark Cut
Hal9000’s Legendary Fanedit
My Light Edit
EvenSteven’s Firestorm Fanedit

http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Episode-VIII-The-Ridiculest-Jedi/id/58051

oojason said:

TV Frink’s Ep VIII: The Last Ridiculous Jedi

I changed the title. 😉