Since I'm on that topic I've started doing a VERY rough cut of the Migraine Maker, using bootleg ROTS footage of the Obi-Wan/Anakin vs. Dooku battle as the basis. The actual cut will, of course, be done using the actual DVD release as source material instead. This will be the longest flashback of Act I, and possibly the longest of the whole project. I can definitely say it will take the longest to complete.
So far I've taken footage from ESB and ROTJ to splice into the existing fight from ROTS, removing Dooku of course. There are a few shots where Dooku is completely in shadow, except for the silhouette of his body with cape and the glow of his red lightsaber. These shots will be used as well. I'm trying to avoid any need to recolor sabers, so I won't be using as much from the ROTJ battle as I might otherwise consider. All of Dooku's dialogue will of course be swapped out for Vader's voice. The nice thing about using Vader is that I have no lips to match up the new lines to! I can pretty much take his lines from any source as a result.
Here are some quick and dirty screenshots from just some of the footage I've chosen to use.
Finding the Chancellor
"Are you alright?"
Vader appears
"You're no match for him; he's a Sith Lord!"
Vader descends
Vader prepares to move in
Vader locked in with Anakin
Reverse viewpoint of the above
These pics aren't an example of final image quality, or even anything remotely complete as a storyboard. There will be a few minutes to this fight, with Vader taunting Anakin and Obi-Wan, as we've come to expect in OT saber battles. The parallels between that ROTS fight for Anakin and Obi-Wan vs. Dooku and the final battle of Luke vs. Vader and Palpatine make using some of the ROTJ footage a natural. I just have to be mindful of the lightsaber colors -- Luke's green saber prevents me from using some footage that I'd like.
Meanwhile, I've inserted brief flashes into Obi-Wan's first meeting with Luke from ANH. When Obi-Wan keeps repeating his name over and over, as though lost in thought as he looks back to when he last went by that name, there will be flashes to his appearance in TPM, then AOTC, and then ROTS, fading back to the present as he says "a long time." This should help establish the evolution of Obi-Wan from Padawan to Jedi Master. The whole sequence has been radically chopped however, just like everything else I have going for this project.
There will be a VERY abbreviated version of the opening space battle scene from ROTS (already layed out in rough form using the aforementioned bootleg footage), which will be inserted when Obi-Wan reminisces about Anakin being "the greatest star pilot in the galaxy and a cunning warrior." I've tried to remove R2 from the scene as much as possible, to help provide a little mystery about things Luke doesn't know. The footage will end during the battle against the battle droids in the hangar on Grievous's ship. No buzz droids... no conversations with clone pilots.... just the rush to Grievous' ship. I think I have the whole thing cut down to a little over a minute. Shows off Anakin's piloting and shooting, as well as his lightsaber skills at Obi-Wan's side, which is what is needed.
Well that's my update for now. Back to work I go...