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Sharing a few new clips I’ve been uploading lately.

Episode III Deleted Scenes - Showing you how I’ve incorporated the 5 deleted scenes into the ROTS Cut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZzr7AgQ7wM
Clone Wars Movie - Extended Edition, The first 5 minutes - A longer version of the previous preview I had uploaded in 4K.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1lbXAXA0o
Darth Maul vs Pre-Vizsla 4K HDR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g936BjnRhk
The Battle of Umbara Opening Scene 4K HDR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlQ5MhDhRcc
The Trial of Ahsoka Tano 4K HDR: - An edit of only the trial scenes in 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6011UzqrNKw
Ahsoka Tano Leaves the Order 4K HDR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8dybEETdeQ
The Death of Fives 4K HDR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTrxaGWyo9s

There will be more clips either being uploaded or re-uploaded in the coming days/weeks.

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The Mandalorian - Cinematic TV Film Cuts Trailer [4K HDR]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msstj5gcvM

I’m doing seamless full feature cuts for both seasons of The Mandalorian as the next project. I originally didn’t intend to do this, but I’ve been informed that long form edits for The Mandalorian Season 2 hadn’t really been done yet in full 4K HDR, so at the request of the community elsewhere, I was convinced to do some simple straightforward edits for the first 2 seasons.

The films do indeed put all 8 episodes from each season into a single feature, making them roughly 4 hours and 40 minutes each. Seems excessive? Sure. But a test run of these cuts at a stream yielded some very successful results that people praised, so here we are.

The full files and a few more sample clips will be available soon. There’s nothing too elaborate about this project compared to my other work. Just some classic Lucas wipes for seamless transitions between episodes, the removal of timecards, a slight restructuring of the Opening Star Wars CGI title montage, and restructured credits with a new score using a few appropriately chosen remastered soundtrack pieces.

The Post Credits Boba Fett Scene still remains intact, though I have removed the Book of Boba teaser card so viewers don’t have to be taken out of the moment by a soon to be out of date “December 2021” tease at the end. The second film just ends with Boba on the throne and viewers can move on to new content at a future date.

I’ll post more soon to let people know when the clips are live. After this, I wouldn’t really expect any new edits from myself until sometime after the current Bad Batch season finishes. We’ll see.

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Very cool. Wonder how it will feel as a movie since the show is so episodic

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The clips are now live, with 3 more 4K clips from the transfer to celebrate their release (Nothing really new in them, just some slight edits for the youtube versions to make the clips more interesting).

The Mandalorian & IG-11 [4K HDR]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3A1Gn9xpkU
Ahsoka Tano vs The Magistrate [4K HDR]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6dFnra0Scc
Luke Skywalker saves Star Wars [4K HDR]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyp47mL5JYI

The cuts are live in the usual place. Enjoy, and until next time, one and all. I’ll update the main thread to add the project later.

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I’ve been busy this week. Several new videos are now up showing more of the deleted scenes/alterations I’ve made in each film cut directly, including a full 15 minute one of every change in the TCW 2008 film cut, a 15 minute video showing all changes for the R1/ANH cut, and a 27 minute video showing every change in the ROTS supercut (with text commentary). Each of these are 4K uploads as well (and hopefully native HDR if youtube processes them all correctly!)

I should also have samples up for every single Clone Wars and Rebels edit in 4K HDR soon. I’m encoding clips from the original source files and restoring some that were taken down earlier, while also creating a few new ones. Beware, youtube is having trouble with 4K HDR processing lately, and some clips may only show up in 4K SDR. I may attempt to correct this by reuploading them later, but it’s completely random which ones will and won’t process correctly. This should lead to a large catalogue of 4K samples for you to see for yourself before you even obtain/download any of the files yourself, as well as a way to pass on word of this project to others.

Episode I Expanded Podrace Scene with all restored bits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwQEqxm9PoI
Episode II Extended - 10 Minute Sample (with 5 Deleted Scenes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRzjyqh-akY
Clone Wars 2008 Film - Every Change, Transition, and Restored Deleted Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebVlcI8EWys
Episode III ROTS Supercut - (almost) Every Change and Transition (Including full deleted scenes with text commentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLByflZXue8
Episode III ROTS Supercut - Restored Deleted Scenes Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZzr7AgQ7wM
Solo Extended Edition - 4 Restored Deleted Scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ86RgRs2OM
Rogue One/ANH Supercut - All Changes and transitions (including full deleted scenes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJmYAEM3u-s

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Wow. I’m going to have to put aside some time to watch all these.

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I would have preferred an HDR version of 4K77 and 4K83, but what you have done is nice.

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CourtlyHades296 said:

I would have preferred an HDR version of 4K77 and 4K83, but what you have done is nice.

Technically, converting the whole 4K77-83 trilogy to HDR is possible with my current method, but I’d have to experiment with it to see what looks best considering the very different nature of those canisters, and I would not want to edit them, but rather do them as their own individual projects.

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Just giving a slight bump to confirm that Bad Batch film edits are indeed in the works (4K HDR and 1080p SDR), since the episodes lend to the format fairly well and have a few arcs I can use. I’m leaning heavily towards a film trilogy format as of now.

https://imgur.com/RxVFNcb

I’ll have clips, previews, and a teaser worked on in the coming weeks just in time for the finale.

To summarize it quickly, I’m planning a film trilogy format for the season.

Aftermath (Episodes 1-3)
Hunted and Cornered (Episodes 4-9)
War-Mantle (Title Subject to Change) (Episodes 10-16)

So far, the first 2 films flow extremely well and remain approximately 2 hours of run time. The final film will likely be a good chunk longer (due to credible rumors of the last episode being either double or triple length).

Despite parts of the season having “filler” episodes, I feel confident that the story arcs still naturally flow into each other and this will create the most reasonably satisfying viewing experience.
These will be relatively simple cuts since the show already is primed for cinematic viewing and there’s barely even an intro outside of the first episode. Early test viewings of the first 2 “films” so far have gotten good receptions.

To repeat an answer to a commonly asked question, I do not plan to incorporate the Order 66 material of Aftermath into the Episode III Revenge of the Sith Supercut edit at this time, since I feel the first 20 minutes of Aftermath work best narratively as their own arc purely from the Squad’s POV and do not add much to the film itself, unlike Siege of Mandalore episodes, the deleted scenes, or the battle of Coruscant footage.

I do, however, strongly feel that a viewing order of the S7 Bad Batch Arc (which is chronologically the latest arc in the show), the Episode III Supercut, and The Aftermath film cut create a very satisfying experience when all watched back to back. I know many of you want the ROTS cut to be further extended, but I please ask you to trust me on this. This was the same reason why I left the Jedi Fallen Order material out of the cut and within the game. I myself watched the S7 arc, ROTS cut, and Aftermath (Episode 1) the night Bad Batch premiered all in one sitting and immensely enjoyed it this way. It was 7 hours of pure Star Wars bliss.
I look forward to sharing this project with you all soon.

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Star Wars Episodes I & II Extended Edition (v2.0) Teaser Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFLVHhxsOY

Using newly upscaled deleted scenes for the PT (with help from forum user bryantmh), I have revised my existing 4K HDR (and 1080p) Extended Episode I and II edits to newer versions with several small tweaks and refinements.

The scene order of the cuts is identical to their previous releases, and the run time is very close (1 frame shorter in Episode I, 18 frames shorter in Episode II), but several quality of life improvements were made.

  1. New color timing in Episode I that handles the overly bright official HDR transfer and tweaks it to be more in line with what’s seen in the Episode III Supercut. All levels have been tweaked, but Tatooine has the most changes, being revised on a shot by shot basis for the best balance overall. Highlights will still pop and be vibrant, but overly bright desert scenes are much better balanced now. Episode I receives a much more subtle treatment, with most of the changes being in deleted scene lighting levels.

  2. Most of the DVD deleted scenes were replaced with the upgraded AI Upscales. The cropping is slightly different from these and I still have minor niggling issues with the artificial detail that’s produced in some shots, but I can’t deny the clear benefits in all of the Episode II scenes and some of the Episode I scenes. (I don’t think they are actually necessary in the Episode III edit, for example). AI upscales were already used in my previous v1.0 cuts (for all but the Waterfall Scene and some shots of the second Podrace Lap where only an inferior source was available for use), but I think most people will find the new ones to be a nice improvement.

  3. Like the v2.0 and 3.0 revisions for the Episodes III and IV cuts, each transition and audio bridge was manually reviewed and tweaked by a few frames where necessary. The changes will be subtle and unnoticeable to some, but they are there, and they make the final product feel just a tad more authentic.

The google drive releases for Eps I and II are already out now, and the torrents/other releases will show up in later days. Please replace and use the new versions wherever possible, as there is virtually no reason to keep the old ones over these.

I’ll be uploading new video versions of all the deleted scenes in both films over the weekend, replacing the older videos I had up so people can see the new updates for themselves.

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Star Wars Episodes I & II Extended Edition (v2.0) Teaser Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFLVHhxsOY

Using newly upscaled deleted scenes for the PT (with help from forum user bryantmh), I have revised my existing 4K HDR (and 1080p) Extended Episode I and II edits to newer versions with several small tweaks and refinements.

The scene order of the cuts is identical to their previous releases, and the run time is very close (1 frame shorter in Episode I, 18 frames shorter in Episode II), but several quality of life improvements were made.

  1. New color timing in Episode I that handles the overly bright official HDR transfer and tweaks it to be more in line with what’s seen in the Episode III Supercut. All levels have been tweaked, but Tatooine has the most changes, being revised on a shot by shot basis for the best balance overall. Highlights will still pop and be vibrant, but overly bright desert scenes are much better balanced now. Episode I receives a much more subtle treatment, with most of the changes being in deleted scene lighting levels.

  2. Most of the DVD deleted scenes were replaced with the upgraded AI Upscales. The cropping is slightly different from these and I still have minor niggling issues with the artificial detail that’s produced in some shots, but I can’t deny the clear benefits in all of the Episode II scenes and some of the Episode I scenes. (I don’t think they are actually necessary in the Episode III edit, for example). AI upscales were already used in my previous v1.0 cuts (for all but the Waterfall Scene and some shots of the second Podrace Lap where only an inferior source was available for use), but I think most people will find the new ones to be a nice improvement.

  3. Like the v2.0 and 3.0 revisions for the Episodes III and IV cuts, each transition and audio bridge was manually reviewed and tweaked by a few frames where necessary. The changes will be subtle and unnoticeable to some, but they are there, and they make the final product feel just a tad more authentic.

The google drive releases for Eps I and II are already out now, and the torrents/other releases will show up in later days. Please replace and use the new versions wherever possible, as there is virtually no reason to keep the old ones over these.

I’ll be uploading new video versions of all the deleted scenes in both films over the weekend, replacing the older videos I had up so people can see the new updates for themselves.

Thank you for doing these updates. The new color corrections on Episode 1 are so good, the previous version was too bright for my liking. You really hit the right balance.

I have one comment about your Episode III cut, i agree the deleted scenes are fine currently but i would summit one exception if you ever do a update one day. The extended Palpatine/Anakin conversation about anakin becoming his representative is very grainy/blocky. I wonder if another source (the upscale source maybe) could help.

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Guiguioh said:

hedgesmfg said:

Star Wars Episodes I & II Extended Edition (v2.0) Teaser Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGFLVHhxsOY

Using newly upscaled deleted scenes for the PT (with help from forum user bryantmh), I have revised my existing 4K HDR (and 1080p) Extended Episode I and II edits to newer versions with several small tweaks and refinements.

The scene order of the cuts is identical to their previous releases, and the run time is very close (1 frame shorter in Episode I, 18 frames shorter in Episode II), but several quality of life improvements were made.

  1. New color timing in Episode I that handles the overly bright official HDR transfer and tweaks it to be more in line with what’s seen in the Episode III Supercut. All levels have been tweaked, but Tatooine has the most changes, being revised on a shot by shot basis for the best balance overall. Highlights will still pop and be vibrant, but overly bright desert scenes are much better balanced now. Episode I receives a much more subtle treatment, with most of the changes being in deleted scene lighting levels.

  2. Most of the DVD deleted scenes were replaced with the upgraded AI Upscales. The cropping is slightly different from these and I still have minor niggling issues with the artificial detail that’s produced in some shots, but I can’t deny the clear benefits in all of the Episode II scenes and some of the Episode I scenes. (I don’t think they are actually necessary in the Episode III edit, for example). AI upscales were already used in my previous v1.0 cuts (for all but the Waterfall Scene and some shots of the second Podrace Lap where only an inferior source was available for use), but I think most people will find the new ones to be a nice improvement.

  3. Like the v2.0 and 3.0 revisions for the Episodes III and IV cuts, each transition and audio bridge was manually reviewed and tweaked by a few frames where necessary. The changes will be subtle and unnoticeable to some, but they are there, and they make the final product feel just a tad more authentic.

The google drive releases for Eps I and II are already out now, and the torrents/other releases will show up in later days. Please replace and use the new versions wherever possible, as there is virtually no reason to keep the old ones over these.

I’ll be uploading new video versions of all the deleted scenes in both films over the weekend, replacing the older videos I had up so people can see the new updates for themselves.

Thank you for doing these updates. The new color corrections on Episode 1 are so good, the previous version was too bright for my liking. You really hit the right balance.

I have one comment about your Episode III cut, i agree the deleted scenes are fine currently but i would summit one exception if you ever do a update one day. The extended Palpatine/Anakin conversation about anakin becoming his representative is very grainy/blocky. I wonder if another source (the upscale source maybe) could help.

There is far less that can be done with this scene, as the original resolution of the source is already Full HD, but the effects themselves are vastly incomplete, and the type of DNR that could be used to reduce the grain is more likely to damage the detail in the image. Color correction also can’t do much since the original film negatives were never fully processed. This is also the same reason the Bail Antilles shots from Ep I will never look quite as good as the rest.

For now, this is pretty much the best we can get. If/when better video sources become available, that’s when I’ll finally do the next major revision for that cut, but as of now I’m still happy with it as it is. I have the files saved in the timeline until further notice just in case, though.

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Another update to the ROTS Supercut, bringing it up to a v4.0 version. Far as I can tell, this is the last time I want to revise it unless there is a major change in the quality of video sources available in the future (8K, ect. ect.)

New Feature Length Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4zftN2j3oE

New Video showcasing some v4.0 updates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4syQwuSMSqI

For the list of updates…

-The 20th Century Fox theme and intro has been restored, like in my Episode I, II, and R1/ANH Cuts.

-New AI Upscales have been used for the 5 restored deleted scenes, using the same sources as provided for the Episode I and II updated deleted scenes in those Extended Cuts.

-Another deleted scene has been partially restored by reincorporating Qui-Gon Jinn’s voice into the film near the end during Yoda’s meditation. This better helps to explain why he ends up on Degobah in a separate deleted scene and restores Liam Neeson into the film, as I felt he always should have been.

-Mat Lucas’ 2D Clone Wars voice clips have been updated to use Matt Lanter voice clips for better consistency with Anakin across the cut. Now you only hear Lanter and Hayden.

-All transitions, both audio and video, have been given one final revision, with numerous tweaks to make them as seamless as I can with current tech. As things are now, they all sound the way I intend them too and I’m happy with these results.

-All Clone Wars Season 7 footage has new updated color timings, showing better black levels and contrast while still being a bit brighter and more vibrant than the D+ version. This will look very similar to my Bad Batch S1 Trilogy Cuts releases.

-The subtitles have been tweaked a bit to tighten/refine timing for the English track, while a new updated Spanish subtitle track has also been included.

Thanks again for your continued support. You can see this updated v4.0 Supercut at the same place you’ve seen the previous versions, once again available in both 4K HDR and 1080p SDR.

Feel free to check out the main reddit release post for a large list of 4K Screencaps as well:
https://www.reddit.com/user/NumeralJoker/comments/qlaqwj/i_have_made_one_final_revision_v40_to_my_45_hour/

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Thank you for doing this update. The jump in quality is very noticeable for the deleted scenes.

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Hi, I just wanted to post in here and say this is incredible work! Your Clone Wars (Batch 1 and 2 particularly)/ROTS edits will particularly come in handy when my husband and I do a chronological watch-through this spring/summer, but I’m going to include the extended cuts and the Rogue One/ANH edits as well to really make it an in-depth experience. 😃

Just out of curiosity - what was the decision to not include your EP3 of the micro series with the ROTS edit? It seems like it could work as a prologue of sorts since it leads into the events.

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Have you ever thought about doing just an extended edit of Revenge of the Sith and its deleted scenes without adding in the Clone Wars material? I think that would be a popular edit too, mainly for people who would want a consistent live-action look throughout the edit.

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inmyslumber said:

Hi, I just wanted to post in here and say this is incredible work! Your Clone Wars (Batch 1 and 2 particularly)/ROTS edits will particularly come in handy when my husband and I do a chronological watch-through this spring/summer, but I’m going to include the extended cuts and the Rogue One/ANH edits as well to really make it an in-depth experience. 😃

Just out of curiosity - what was the decision to not include your EP3 of the micro series with the ROTS edit? It seems like it could work as a prologue of sorts since it leads into the events.

The chronology and order of events was the main reasons. If you looked up the old EU material around this time period, it was eventually determined that the Battle of Nelvaan happened a few days before the Battle of Coruscant, so was therefor better cut as a separate “Episode” event for the 2D Clone Wars cuts, despite appearing in the original show as happening concurrently.

This meant I had room to fit the beginnings of the Battle of Coruscant and intermix that with the 3D Clone Wars Battle of Yerbana, since Kenobi references the events seen on Coruscant during the end of the Yerbana campaign. All of this was decided after years and years worth of debates on how the old EU Clone Wars timeline actually worked and how it could be at least partially integrated into the current canon. We’ve been arguing about this for a decade elsewhere and this was my final answer. The novel Labryinth of Evil was already causing timeline confusion back then, so sorting through all this to find the best solution was nothing new. Finally, since so many people tend to still reject the 2D series, I wanted to include the events from it that’d been most directly endorsed by other canon source books (kidnapping of Palpatine, Shaak Ti’s chase, Grievous killing Roron Corobb, ect. ect.) within the Episode III cut. The fact that they chose not to reanimate the Battle of Coruscant for the show’s finale, but instead verbally reference its events without many changes gave me room to recut the 2D material in a way that was more canon friendly without altering it too much. It not being “canon” meant I was more free to make changes to it as I pleased, but I still wanted to salvage as much of it as reasonably possible. All things considered, I’m very happy with the end result. It’s all my final personal solution to a 15+ year old set of canon issues.

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Have you ever thought about doing just an extended edit of Revenge of the Sith and its deleted scenes without adding in the Clone Wars material? I think that would be a popular edit too, mainly for people who would want a consistent live-action look throughout the edit.

I prefer to try and avoid the chaos and confusion that gets caused by hosting multiple versions (aside from resolution) of the same film, especially since so many other editors have already tackled the material of just restoring deleted scenes back into Episode III alone. Having said that, it seems no one else has done pure “Extended” cuts like I have for Episodes I and II without any removals of other material, so maybe at some point. We’ll see.

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Ah, I see. I’ve never really branched out into any print media, so I was unaware that books took place between the events. Thanks for such an in-depth response!

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inmyslumber said:

Ah, I see. I’ve never really branched out into any print media, so I was unaware that books took place between the events. Thanks for such an in-depth response!

Don’t feel bad. I had to do some pretty indepth research to even find this info. Luckily, it’d been a topic some of us on Force.net had already been debating for some time, so I was ready to find a solution to these problems when the chance came.

But to make it clear, there are multiple sources outside of the films/cartoons themselves that helped me decide the order of events for the entire cut…

  1. Labyrinth of Evil, the EU Novel.

  2. The Revenge of the Sith Script.

  3. The Revenge of the Sith Novelization.

  4. Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (occurs after the film, but still ties into events and characters seen in the deleted scenes, giving them some extra context)

  5. Numerous Documentaries and Interviews

  6. A handful of NuCanon Sourcebooks to validate old EU info (Star Wars Lightsabers and Star Wars Women of the Galaxy both recanonize much of the Battle of Coruscant’s onscreen events)

  7. The Revenge of the Sith PS2 Game’s Timeline of Events

  8. A rather in-depth study of the directing and editing styles of both Dave Filoni and George himself. Comparing their similarities, and differences, and blending their two styles together where possible. Some transitions are based on the types Dave would use, while others are classic George wipes. 3D to 2D scene switches tend to use deliberately harder edged wipe effects, and the opposite for switching between Live Action and 3D (softer, more feathered transitions are used). This helps the viewer more naturally adjust to the different visual styles. While some transitions have technical limitations (not enough frames between shots, software glitches with certain transitions in the specific version of Adobe needed to make this cut work), most should follow the above rules. As another example, emotional scenes in 3D Clone Wars would sometimes use slow cross fades (something the films almost never did), and so I was willing to use them a few more times here, as that was part of Dave’s own unique editing style that was different from George’s.

  9. George often broke down the prequels into multiple subplots happening simultaneously and would switch between them every few minutes to keep the pacing/flow of the story interesting, even if it wasn’t perfectly taking “real time” into account. He especially liked to break down the finales of these films into A-B-C plots which the viewer switches between rapidly to keep from getting too bored. I tried to keep this style intact when adding the Clone Wars footage, while still keeping events relatively close to real time. It was always a balancing act between these 2 ideas, but I’m pretty happy with the overall choices. I also broke down the events of the film into a roughly 6 day timeline, and kept track of each day’s rough chronology (even if time didn’t flow exactly the same on one world vs another) and edited according to that too.

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Are you also going to make a chronological Kanan/Thrawn
comic cut. I tried to download it on a website that was safe and it said that unregistered users can only download up to 30 minutes and then when I tried to close out of it it said that scam message popped up saying that there was 13 viruses that infected it. When it wasn’t

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Could I get a link to your AOTC edit, please?

“Vader! Hologram, now!”

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you don´t like make only a extended version of REVENGE OF THE SITH?
by the way… please send me a link from:
STAR WARS EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE - EXTENDED EDITION
STAR WARS EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES - EXTENDED EDITION
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS FILM - EXTENDED EDITION CUT
they are only in english?
please only hd.
thanks