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Post #1429146

Author
CaptainFaraday
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The Rise of Skywalker Expanded Edition by Rae Carson: The Faraday Edit (WIP)
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Date created
11-May-2021, 11:39 PM

Here’s a bit of a “feeler” post, to get people’s opinions: I’m currently taking maybe a month away from all my hobbies etc. as I settle into a new job, but when I come back, I’m going to finish this novel edit. After that’s done, however, I’ve got a few other ideas for fanediting projects. I like to always have my next idea percolating on the backburner, so, I’m curious which of these ideas people would be more interested to see:

  • STAR WARS II. Back in 1978, everyone was expecting Star Wars II to be released soon. If they’d made a part two instead of turning it into a trilogy, what might that part two have looked like? Using footage from ESB and ROTJ, I’ll edit together a direct sequel to the Despecialised theatrical release of the original movie Star Wars, that could have plausibly been released in 1979.
  • The Last Jedi: Stoic Edition. I like everything TLJ says thematically, but I think it muddles the execution of those themes so much that a lot of people think it’s saying the opposite of what it is (eg, Luke learns that he was wrong to want the Jedi to end, Kylo is wrong when he says to kill the past, etc). I think the biggest culprit of this is its overwritten dialogue; characters overexplain everything and the actual subtext gets lost in the cracks. I want to take a scalpel to the conversations and chop out a lot of the dialogue, removing extraneous sentences and making the thematic implications of characters’ conversations clearer to follow, without trying to tell the audience directly through dialogue. This is actually the edit I originally started fanediting to eventually make.
  • A New Hope: The Faraday Nudge. Like how I “nudged” my go-to version of ROTS (Hal’s) into the exact movie I personally want to watch, I’ll nudge my go-to version of ANH (the Despecialised Edition) into the exact movie I personally want to watch.
  • Sinister: Recut. I remake the fantastic fanedit of the movie Sinister by AgentSamStanley, who has vanished off the face of the internet along with this edit. I have his changelog, I saw the edit but stupidly didn’t save a copy, and I would just recreate all of his changes to turn this 6.5/10 horror movie into the 9.5/10 horror movie it can be.
  • Pokémon: The Last Jedi. I make this edit as discussed.