(RELEASE STATUS DETAILS, VIDEO CLIPS, AND PRIOR UPDATES AVAILABLE IN THE SECOND THREAD POST)

After being a SW fanedit follower for years and a lurker here on & off almost as long, I’ve decided to pull the trigger and make one of my own! And by one, I mean the entire 11-film Skywalker saga reworked as a cliffhanger adventure serial delivered very much in the vein of the 1930’s FLASH GORDON adventures George Lucas was aiming to evoke with his galaxy far, far away.

As folks who have followed this thread over the years(!) have already discovered, while that basic idea has never changed, the way that idea will be delivered has been a moving target for me. Episodic chapters, full-length edits, black & white, color, foreign language dubs… I’ve been very open to exploring different avenues when it comes to getting this idea out there in the best and most flexible way possible.

The TL;DR of this is that right now, I’m looking at releasing this material as roughly 35 black & white serialized chapters (each with their own intro/prologue/outro) grouped into 7 seasons, with each season also getting a companion feature-length combination edit of the material.

And I expect there will be multiple iterations of these releases as new/updated material becomes available. I will keep the second thread post updated with the latest version numbers available.

OVERALL GOALS

This project is trying to feed a few different birds with one scone:

Help me get more comfortable and fluent in Adobe Premiere.
See if I can solve some narrative challenges with making X amount of footage accomplish Y objective.
Make something as expansive yet self-contained as possible for my partner to watch & enjoy.
Put something out there that’s a little bit different.
Hopefully interact, collaborate, & learn from the super-talented folks on OT.com.
Not kill myself in the process!

STORY ORDER

I will be using material from all 11 films to craft a story roughly broken into the following sections:

I - Rebel Dawn
ANH with few changes.
II - Dark Lord’s Fury
ESB with few changes.
III - The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker
TPM/AOTC/ROTS heavily edited following Darth Lunar’s THE BLACKENED MANTLE.
IV - Prophecy and Destiny
ROTJ and SOLO heavily edited following Spence’s ROTJ.
V - A Case For Rebellion
ANDOR Season 1 lightly edited to fit new continuity.
VI / VII / VIII - The New Order / Forces and Counter Forces / The Last Battle
TFA/TLJ/TROS/RONE edited and reassembled into these three films.

RELEASES & SOURCES

Here’s what I am using so far to put these edits together, and what I’m projecting to be available as adjusted audio options when they come out.

I - Rebel Dawn
SERIALS
VIDEO: 4K77
AUDIO: ENG and JPN 2.0
SUBTITLES: Theatrical English, Theatrical English SDH, New English Edit, New English Edit SDH

FEATURE
VIDEO: 2019 Bluray (with ANH:R replacing it when ready)
AUDIO: 2019 ENG and JPN 5.1 (with ANH:R sound and synced JPN 5.1 replacing it when ready)
SUBTITLES: Original English / English SDH and Endited English / English SDH
II - Dark Lord’s Fury
SERIALS
VIDEO: 4K80 Beta 3
AUDIO: ENG and JPN 2.0
SUBTITLES: Original English / English SDH and Edited English / English SDH

FEATURE
VIDEO: Adywan’s ESB:R
AUDIO: Adywan’s ESB:R ENG 5.1 & synced JPN 5.1
SUBTITLES: Original English / English SDH and Edited English / English SDH
III - The Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker
SERIALS & FEATURE
VIDEO: 2019 Blurays
AUDIO: 2019 JPN 5.1
SUBTITLES: Edited English / English SDH
IV - Prophecy and Destiny
SERIALS
VIDEO: 4K83
AUDIO: 2.0 ENG and JPN
SUBTITLES: Original English / English SDH and Edited English / English SDH

FEATURE
VIDEO: 2019 ROTJ and SOLO Bluray (with ROTJ:R replacing 2019 ROTJ footage when ready)
AUDIO: 2019 ENG and JPN 5.1 (with ROTJ:R sound and synced JPN 5.1 replacing it when ready)
SUBTITLES: Original English / English SDH and Edited English / English SDH
V - The Case for Rebellion
SERIALS
VIDEO: ANDOR Season 1
AUDIO: 2.0 JPN
SUBTITLES: Edited English / English SDH

FEATURES
VIDEO: ANDOR Season 1
AUDIO: JPN 5.1
SUBTITLES: Edited English / English SDH
VI - Gambits
SERIALS & FEATURE
VIDEO: 2019 RONE, TFA, TLJ, TROS Blurays
AUDIO: 2019 JPN 5.1
SUBTITLES: Edited English / English SDH
VII - Forces & Counter Forces
SERIALS & FEATURE
VIDEO: 2019 RONE, TFA, TLJ, TROS Blurays
AUDIO: 2019 JPN 5.1
SUBTITLES: Edited English / English SDH
VIII - The Last Battle
SERIALS & FEATURE
VIDEO: 2019 RONE, TFA, TLJ, TROS Blurays
AUDIO: 2019 JPN 5.1
SUBTITLES: Edited English / English SDH

CONTINUITY

I’m approaching this whole endeavor (especially the later half) with a kind of ROBOTECH mindset: taking separate stories that share a lot of elements and rearranging them with some rewriting and changing context into something new.

I just ask that viewers take into account what I actually show or don’t show on screen when judging whether or not I’m making a continuity error. For example - I consider having Jimmy Smits from RONE interacting with Carrie Fisher from TLJ as fine, as long as I don’t specifically identify him onscreen as her adopted father Bail Organa and just have him as a fellow Senator or some random dude in a cape.

CHANGES

Without getting into specifics yet, I’ll throw out these random opinions I’m carrying into the start of this project as clues:

Building a nearly complete second Death Star in a few years when it took you almost 20 to build the first one makes no sense. Repairing a damaged Death Star, on the other hand…
Between Leia, Rey, Jyn, Holdo, and the rest, it seems to me that women have to do the heavy lifting fixing the galaxy after the Battle of Endor.
The galaxy is a BIG place. Lots of people and planets and infrastructure and material that don’t immediately disappear because something bad happened in one spot on one end of it.
It’s much easier to use old things already on hand while you slowly make and replace them with new things than wait until you have everything you need all shiny & new.
From a certain point of view, you could tell someone Kylo Ren betrayed & murdered Ben Solo, if you felt guilty about your part in Ben turning to the dark side.
Rey & Jyn could almost be sisters.
What the hell was that blue energy shooting out of the shaft Palpatine took a header down? The stuff that washed completely over Vader & Vader’s helmet that wasn’t vaporized in the Death Star explosion?
Being referenced on screen is almost as good as being seen on screen.
Greedo never gets to shoot, just like Jabba never goes to Mos Eisley.
The Executor is always ready for Vader’s arrival.
I really wish there was a scene of Leia in the Senate.

HELP WANTED

I’ve already incorporated a ton of ideas directly or indirectly from other fanedits, so you’ve all already been a huge help. (I’m thinking of having a text commentary track just to help point out in real-time where certain ideas or bits came from, in addition to listing names in the credits)

But I will more than likely be reaching out for feedback, tips, and possibly some FX/audio work as things progress. As much as I’m using this as a personal teaching opportunity, I’d be a Jabba-sized fool if I didn’t take advantage of the talent here!

Thanks for stopping by!