The Original Trilogy Radical Redux Ideas Thread — Page 10

DominicCobb said:

That’s an interesting idea, though I wonder if it’s pushing the Jabba’s palace stuff too far back. My gut in this scenario would be to really trim down the palace stuff so you get back to what you’re setting up as the main storyline of Luke and Vader.

My problem with the default order is that Luke is inconsistent. On the palace he is already disillusioned and not nice. He lies about being a Jedi master. So something must have happened to him before.
The Dagobha stuff coming first sets this up perfectly, specially the “certain POV” scene. From that point on, Luke becomes a bit darker, and we see that in the Palace and latter on with the Ewok mind control.

DominicCobb said:

I’m not sure I understand where that scene would come into play, or how it would relate to finding Luke.

Both the Emperor and Vader are after Luke. That’s the only reason I can think off for Vader to go to the Emperor unannounced. But the Emperor has his own plans, so he denies entry to the throne room.
I feel that this would give more substance to Vader’s actions (for example letting Luke land on Endor).
But I agree that it’s hard to show all this from a short scene. It’s there, but not obvious 😉

I feel like the Jabba stuff only works as a relatively quick blockbuster opener before we get to more important stuff. It starts things off with a bang, but doesn’t really relate to the plot.

As for the shuttle, I don’t see any need to change it, but that red e-sign looks very nice.

Playing a bit with the Jerjerod & throne room sequence.
Dialog was edited to make Vader more active and worried about the rebel fleet.
(disregard Vader’s voice on the deleted scene of course, I’d need to replace it by some close up with just his breathing sound)
https://streamable.com/g8i6d

As always, just an idea to see how it flows.

And here’s an attempt to integrate another Vader deleted scene with Luke going to Dagobah first.
So the first time we see him he’s basically the same character as on ESB.
https://streamable.com/5vc2k

Again, it needs some more audio work, etc, etc.

I think it’s a bit rushed for an introduction, but makes more sense character wise. Really depends on personal preference (spectacle vs substance).

The concept art for Bespin had windows (see http://filmsketchr.blogspot.com/2014/12/freeze-your-at-at-off-with-star-wars.html ):

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QwCX6z88f_g/VIH151hoH8I/AAAAAAAAxGo/3E7DSPtWOIo/s1600/besp07.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rQM2ot1J2Ks/VIH18Qkps1I/AAAAAAAAxHk/zWa9O5AbOOA/s1600/besp18.jpg

So on this regard the SE is not adding anything 😉

FreezingTNT2 said:

If I ever make my own edit of the original trilogy (which will use elements from Adywan’s and JSteven’s edits, clean up the audio to make it sound less like a microphone, clean up the grain so it wouldn’t be distracting, and improve the overall look of the film), I will not use the Special Edition version of the windows on Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back. Why? The fact that they were originally walls informed us that the Empire was closing in onto the Rebels, and now they took that symbolism away.

Thank you for posting this. I’ve never been sure why the Special Edition versions of ESB have never hit me like the theatrical version, but that seem like a very good point.

Has anyone given any thought to making the space battles in the movies three-dimensional? It would require extensive re-editing/reshooting, but it would make for an interesting approach, IMO.

The portion that’s “under construction” in RotJ would be the part that blows up in ANH.

Why?

FreezingTNT2 said:

Has anyone tried deepfaking Billie Lourd (Carrie Fisher’s daughter) onto Leia’s face?

That’s stupid.

That sounds dumb. Besides, she’s already a SW character.

How 'bout go all the way, in that case? Nic Cage as Han, Peter Capaldi as Yoda, Joe Pesci as Mon Mothma, etc…

Anakin Starkiller said:

How 'bout go all the way, in that case? Nic Cage as Han, Peter Capaldi as Yoda, Joe Pesci as Mon Mothma, etc…

That’s actually something I would watch, well done.

The way I see it, either the Death Star isn’t fully destroyed in ANH, or you scrap it entirely from RotJ. Given how iconic the incomplete Death Star is, I’m leaning towards the former. Plus, all you’d need to do is edit a single shot (the explosion) and some of the crawls. It’d be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

For a 3-in-1 edit, I suppose that works best. I don’t do 3-in-1s, though.