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IlFanEditore
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THE CHOSEN ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (V2 in development) (Released)
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13-May-2018, 10:58 AM

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After finishing “Chronological Revenge of the Sith” I found out that it obviously didn’t fix everything.
Then I re-watched Rogue One (which I really liked) and I realized that maybe the PT trilogy could be treated like a spinoff, a single movie to be watched AFTER the Original Trilogy and with a different style from those same movies.

This is the purpose of the edit.
I don’t think it can be considered a real PT mashup, because the vast majority of the edit is based on Revenge of the Sith, but there are some added scenes from Episodes I and II that show the main plot points (Anakin being special, the Council being skeptic about him, Anakin getting angry because of his mother, Anakin meeting Owen and Beru so that they don’t come out from nowhere at the end of the movie, etc).

OVERALL CHANGES.

  1. Complete Color Correction. Similarly to Chronological ROTS, I desaturated all colors but reds. I think it all gives a more Original Trilogy feel. Lightsabers are more in line with OT, Venator SDs are grey and red, not yellowish, the Senate is pretty dark, Grievous has a whole new tonality, etc.
    Yoda and Kashyyyk are left untouched.

  2. Removed too childish scenes (like the separatist droid kicking R2).

  3. Obi Wan and Anakin are friends, NOT explicitly Master/Apprentice. Anakin does not call Obi Wan “master”, not even once. I changed audio in different scenes. It is CLEAR that Obi Wan is like an older brother and a mentor to him, but there is no clear formal relationship between them. Show, don’t tell.

  4. Added music tracks.

COMPLETE CHANGELIST.

  1. Opening Lucasfilm logo and “A Long time ago…” taken from Rogue One.

  2. Text intro to explain that the Jedi serve the Republic, that the Republic and the Separatists are fighting the Clone Wars and that Darth Sidious secretly controls the Separatists. Plus, I added the fact that Jedi Knights are sent throughout the galaxy to find and recruit new Jedi.

  3. The movie begins on Tatooine. Scenes from Episode I. Darth Maul arrives and sends probe droids. We don’t know who he is… maybe he is a Jedi? Then we cut to Qui Gon talking to Anakin and analysing his blood with young Obi Wan. No unbearable Ani’s chatting about him visiting all the planets in the galaxy.

  4. No midichlorians. Just before Obi Wan mentions them he is interrupted by Qui Gon. Still, we have to understand that Anakin is special, so it can be somehow showed by something in his blood. Plus, even in episode VIII Luke says that Skywalker blood is strong with the Force.

  5. Then we have Qui Gon telling Anakin that he is being freed (no “I’m going with you on your starship!”, no “Yuppie!”), Anakin hugging his mother. Then we go to the first short duel between Qui Gon and Maul. Plot twist: Maul is a Sith! So the scene sets the tone and the threat.

  6. I chose to keep Padme on the starship and Qui Gon speaking about the queen, so that we assume that the two Jedi were facing multiple missions (recruiting Anakin AND doing something with the queen). After Qui Gon introduces Anakin and Obi Wan we cut to the title: “The Chosen One”.

  7. Episode III starts. Battle of Coruscant (with a text showing where and when we are). As I said, Anakin calls Obi Wan by his name. Plus, some new short music tracks.

  8. Shortened buzz droid scene. No R4 losing his head, and Anakin gets rid of them just by shooting at them. Plus, no “Sorry master…”.

  9. No separatist droids taking R2, because in the edit R2 does not fly.

  10. Removed “My powers have doubled…”, “Twice the pride, double the fall…”. Now… we see that there are many enemies: first Maul, then Dooku, then Grievous, but I think it stil fits pretty well. They look like many different separatist leaders, stop. And then, when they are all killed, we find out the REAL enemy.

  11. When Anakin is thinking about killing Dooku, we see some scenes from Episode II, when he kills the sand people on Tatooine. We still don’t know what happened or what he did, we just see that in the past he has been very angry and inclined to the dark side. Eventually, he kills Dooku (with an epic music track), and then Palpy says that it wasn’t the first time. “Remember… about your mother and the sand people?”. Of course we wonder what actually happened. Anakin’s mother is dead!? And Anakin fell to the dark side in the past!?

  12. Some cuts here and there (separatist droid not kicking R2). Two new music tracks, when the ship breaks itself and when they land on Coruscant.

  13. When they return to Coruscant, shortened dialogue between Anakin and Kenobi. No “Are you coming, master?”, “All because of your training”, etc.

  14. The first part of the balcony scene between Anakin and Padme is gone. Too ridiculous. After the panoramic Coruscant view, we cut to Anakin’s dream.

  15. The dream shows Shmi’s death (so we start linking the dots… that Anakin killed the sand people because of his mother’s death) and also Qui Gon being killed by Darth Maul. We don’t know when it happened, but of course it serves as an explanation on why Qui Gon is no more around and why Obi Wan and Anakin are so close. Then we cut to the actual “dream implant” of Padme dying.
    I added audio from one of the most famous scenes in the Clone Wars series, that is, Anakin’s vision of the future. I think it fits pretty well. We hear Palpatine, Obi Wan, Padme, Anakin, etc.

  16. No Anakin looking at the little jewel he gave to Padme.

  17. After the balcony scene I added the full Tatooine scene from Episode II (with some cuts): Anakin knowing Owen, Beru and Cliegg, knowing about his mother and seeing her death. I wanted this to be an important flashback scene, so we dont have the traditional transitions, but we get a dissolve effect both at the beginning and ending. Voices have the echo effect, and there is a constant light effect to show you that this scene is different. If you look at Anakin you understand that it is in the past (different hair). Cliegg explains the situation, then we cut to Anakin speaking to his mother, her death and Anakin falling to the Dark Side.

  18. Then we cut to the Yoda-Anakin temple scene. I think their dialogue, put after the flashback, clearly shows that Anakin is afraid that what happened to his mother could happen to Padme… One thing about Color Correction. There is no CC during Yoda’s scenes, because I wanted to keep him with his own green color. Plus, Kashyyyk is left untouched.

  19. No Palpating talking about midichlorians in the theatre. He simply says that Plagueis could keep people from dying.

  20. Edited dialogue between Anakin and Obi Wan, again to show them as friends and not master/apprentice.

  21. The second dream scene is similar to Chronological Revenge of the Sith. We hear Palpatine’s voice, but I added the Alderaan’s explosion in Ep. IV and Palpatine speaking from the hologram scene in Ep. V.

  22. Shortened scenes with Obi Wan’s mount on Utapau. It is really annoying to me.

  23. New music during Obi Wan - Grievous duel. It is the music from Rebels, from Kenobi and Maul’s last duel.

  24. Shortened chase sequence between Obi Wan and Grievous. No “Spaghetti Western” eyes’ shot. I’m italian, Sergio Leone’s movies are like a religion. That kind of shot does not fit at all with Star Wars, especially with a forgettable character like Grievous.

  25. During the scene when Anakin and Padme “look” at each other from a long distance we hear voices from Anakin (“Why did she have to die? Why couldn’t I save here? I will even learn to stop people from dying. They are like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals”…), Windu, Palpatine. Plus, some very short scenes showing Anakin and Padme on Naboo in Episode II.
    Fun fact: I also added a short Yoda audio, taken from… Robot Chicken, lol. During “Yarael” scene, Yoda says that Anakin should not be trained as a Jedi. It sounds really good, it seems Yoda, so I added it.

  26. No Palpatine talking to Anakin about the Jedi plot (after Windu’s death). It sounds like an excuse for Anakin. NO! Anakin has fallen to the dark side. Stop. No more explanation, we already know why he did it. I kept Anakin slaughtering children. One problem with my previous edit is that Anakin does not do anything terrific to show that he’s fallen to the Dark Side. We HAVE to see that he is a bad guy now…

  27. Darkened Senate scene. It’s all black and white, only Palpatine’s robes (and the faces) emerge. Plus, removed “The boy you trained…” by Yoda.

  28. Darkened the very important and emotional Obi Wan and Padme’s scene. It looks like it’s cloudy, or set just before sunrise or just after sunset.

  29. Removed Anakin’s creepy “Because of Obi Wan?” and “YOUWILLNOTTAKHERFROMMMMME!”. We don’t see Anakin removing his cloak-robe, but I noticed that it disappeared from the ground even in the original, so…

  30. Both duels are almost left untouched (only Color Correction). Say what you want, but I like them. I removed the “Not if anything to say about it I have!”, replaced by force sound effect.

  31. No “This is the end for you my master”, and no high ground.

  32. After Palpatins saves Anakin on Mustafar, we cut to the Tantive IV landing on ALDERAAN, where Padme gives birth to Luke and Leia. So no useless asteroid. Alderaan becomes important for Episode IV.

  33. Padme does not die. This is obviously meant to fix continuity with Episode VI’s Leia scene. Leia will stay with Padme for some time (maybe some months before Padme dies for depression) on Alderaan, then she will be fully raised by Organa.
    The medical droid does not say that she is going to die, and after Leia is born, we cut to Darth Vader rising. So when we hear Kenobi/Yoda/Bail talking, se suppose that’s because Padme is too weak and depressed to raise two children.

  34. With a whole new music track, Palpatine says “Anakin… can you hear me?”. After some seconds, Vader says: “Anakin Skywalker was weak. I destroyed him”, and Palpatine steps back a little bit. Then Vader unleashes his power and Palpatine laughs.

  35. With no funeral scene, we cut to the imperial Venator scene, with the “Hope” track from Rogue One.

  36. After that, Tantive IV with Yoda, Bail and Kenobi. Bail says that he will keep Leia (so it is plausible that she will remember Padme, because she was BORN on Alderaan) and Luke is brought to Tatooine.

I’m quite satisfied with the results. Again, I’m not a professional editor, I only made some tributes and trailers with Sony Vegas, and that’s all. But I think it is at least watchable and with some little nice changes that give a spinoff feel.