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Mando EP3: A New Path (A Book of Boba Fett Edit) [RELEASED] — Page 2

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STF78 said:

The key to this edit might be reducing boba fett’s dialogue as it seems out of character for him to be as verbose as he is in the show. I just read an interview with Temuera Morrison who said himself that he didn’t think it was consistent with previous appearances and had asked Jon Favreau to cut his dialogue down

I’m all over that already 😁

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The flashbacks should be presented straight in chronological order and a little bit faster, then episode 4 should be the first episode. Other than getting out of the sarlacc and the tusken stuff, absolutely nothing happens in episodes 1-3. Episode 4 actually gives Boba a motivation, shows a meeting with the crime bosses, and gives an antagonist. The episode seems to understand this about itself because it even introduces the wookiee like he’s a brand new character we’ve never seen before.

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Since he doesn’t remember getting out of the sarlac in his armor, maybe don’t show that part? You could cut away after he uses his flame thrower inside the sarlac or start with him disoriented, being found by the Sand People.

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vranir said:

Since he doesn’t remember getting out of the sarlac in his armor, maybe don’t show that part? You could cut away after he uses his flame thrower inside the sarlac or start with him disoriented, being found by the Sand People.

I thought the same thing. The full Sarlacc escape could be placed somewhere later or as a post credit scene. We could follow the journey of the armor. If I remember correctly, Cobb Vanth tells the story of how he got the armor in his own flashback. I wonder if there will be a flashback where Boba Fett learns that Cobb has his armor, which would help.

EDIT: This is a bit off topic, but Boba Fett wanted to stay undercover and pretend he was still dead. I wonder if he ended up hearing about Boba Fett killing a krayt dragon, which is actually Cobb Vanth in his armor.

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I know this isn’t quite the place for it since Smudger’s goal is to turn the TV show into a movie, but insofar as this is the main place for discussing Boba Fett right now-

One thing I thought as I was watching Boba Fett was that those earlier episodes (especially 4) might fit best placed chronologically within the Mandalorian, especially as there’s some overlap.

Something like:
Episode zero: The Boba flashbacks
After the episode where mystery feet appear by Fennec: The Boba/Fennec flashbacks
Mando episodes with Boba/Mando together, concluding with Boba taking the throne
After season two: The present day content

Maybe the show would be called “The Mandalorians”…

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vranir said:

Since he doesn’t remember getting out of the sarlac in his armor, maybe don’t show that part? You could cut away after he uses his flame thrower inside the sarlac or start with him disoriented, being found by the Sand People.

This is honestly one thing that bothers me about the series logically. Because he sees these Jawas come up to him and start taking his armor before he gets knocked out. And then when he gets better, he thinks the armor is still in the Sarlacc Pit? HUH?!?

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BrotherOfSasquatch said:

vranir said:

Since he doesn’t remember getting out of the sarlac in his armor, maybe don’t show that part? You could cut away after he uses his flame thrower inside the sarlac or start with him disoriented, being found by the Sand People.

This is honestly one thing that bothers me about the series logically. Because he sees these Jawas come up to him and start taking his armor before he gets knocked out. And then when he gets better, he thinks the armor is still in the Sarlacc Pit? HUH?!?

Yes, after all these years!

As someone said in the BOBF discussion topic, the producers probably made Boba go to the Sarlacc pit for a “settling of accounts” of sorts, killing the creature that digested him, and they used the search for the armor as an excuse for it. But neither the “quest for the armor” nor the “revenge” aspect makes sense (Han is the one that throw Boba in the Sarlacc to begin with, the monster was just there, taking care of his life).

For me the scene just doesn’t makes sense at all, whatever angle I try to look at it.

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Revisiting the Sarlacc seems like a pretty natural scene to cut. We understand that Boba wants and/or gets his armor back from Mando just fine without that as setup (or retroactive setup).

The Slave I looked kinda silly smashed up against the opening to the Sarlacc, and that sonic charge nearly killed them.

My stance on revising fan edits.

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Hal, I agree. It did not seem to make a lot of logical sense why Boba would be looking for his armor down in the belly of the Sarlacc. He escaped and was knocked out by the Jawas. Even if he didn’t remember that due to being delirious or some form of amnesia, you would think that he would know he could not have emerged from there unscathed or even alive without having had his armor on. As much as I liked seeing the Sarlacc destroyed by a seismic charge, it was unnecessary and could be cut for this edit in my opinion.

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It could be funny to just have him drop a seismic charge in it as he’s flying by. That seems like the whole reason they came up with the scene and they just came up with a convoluted reason for it to happen.

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Smudge -

Just my input -
Since Mando 1 and 2 were really about Mando and the Grogu story - and though while Fett was introduced in that series - I’m not so sure these flashbacks about Fett in the new series should be ADDED to your previous 2 movies. Fett is a supporting character in those seasons - his past is not included for a reason…

Sort of like growing up watching episodes 4,5,6…with episodes 1,2,3 released, I still refuse to recommend people watch the movies in true number order. Episode 4 loses effect when you already know who Vader is when he first appears, etc for 5 and 6…

So, watching the new series about Fett, I love the flashbacks as they are shown in stages relevant to the present story— if that makes sense. Questions are being answered about Fett in pieces at the right time and would not be beneficial being answered earlier in the previous season movies as then watching Fett’s season, you already know the past story.

sorry if folks disagree - I guess I’m a Pulp Fiction fan, too and though I still have friends that hate the time jumping, I know these items are mixed for the purpose of using the chapter storytelling format presented. I have watched the fanedit of Pulp presenting everything in order…and it’s just not the same…and lacks the suspense and depth you feel otherwise…

thanks!

steve

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millerTEK said:

Smudge -

Just my input -
Since Mando 1 and 2 were really about Mando and the Grogu story - and though while Fett was introduced in that series - I’m not so sure these flashbacks about Fett in the new series should be ADDED to your previous 2 movies. Fett is a supporting character in those seasons - his past is not included for a reason…

Sort of like growing up watching episodes 4,5,6…with episodes 1,2,3 released, I still refuse to recommend people watch the movies in true number order. Episode 4 loses effect when you already know who Vader is when he first appears, etc for 5 and 6…

So, watching the new series about Fett, I love the flashbacks as they are shown in stages relevant to the present story— if that makes sense. Questions are being answered about Fett in pieces at the right time and would not be beneficial being answered earlier in the previous season movies as then watching Fett’s season, you already know the past story.

sorry if folks disagree - I guess I’m a Pulp Fiction fan, too and though I still have friends that hate the time jumping, I know these items are mixed for the purpose of using the chapter storytelling format presented. I have watched the fanedit of Pulp presenting everything in order…and it’s just not the same…and lacks the suspense and depth you feel otherwise…

thanks!

steve

I was never intending to add a huge amount of this series into the Mando movies. I’m only going to insert scenes if they add to the Mando movies themselves.

So far the only thing I’m definitely adding is the scene where Boba approaches Fennec’s body because the scene from Gunslinger feels way too short.

It’ll be interesting to see if we get any further flashbacks as we’re almost up to Mando season 2 in terms of the timeline. I’d love to get a few flashback scenes of Boba tracking Mando. That would fit nicely into the second Mando movie.

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Sounds awesome, Smudge - can’t wait to check it all out. Loved the 1st 2 movies and the edits -
Thank you for reading my post, it was mainly my 2 cents for what it’s worth. I know your 3rd movie will be awesome in any case!

steve

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Much better episode today I thought, should prove very useful for the edit, although it is a significant detour

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smudger9 said:

Wow. Today was totally not what I was expecting. Initial thoughts are that I interweave today’s episode with the present day story from the first 4 episodes, with them converging for the presumed 2 episode finale.

Definitely sounds like a good way to go! That would help inject a bit of life into Boba’s storyline

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You could have the prologue be the post credit scene from MS2 and open straight with this episode and flash back to the present day segment after fennec shows up. Or you could continue straight with what happens in 6-7…
Either way, this makes for a less fluffy - more action packed story.

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idir_hh said:

You could have the prologue be the post credit scene from MS2 and open straight with this episode and flash back to the present day segment after fennec shows up. Or you could continue straight with what happens in 6-7…
Either way, this makes for a less fluffy - more action packed story.

It certainly adds a huge amount of Mandalorian lore and ties up the main loose end from Mando S2. My tactic here will probably to edit it in reverse. Start with the (presumably) 2 episode finale, then weave together this episode and the present day story from Boba and then add in sufficient Boba flashback scenes to serve the story.

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Yeah having these stories run concurrently would go a long way towards making it feel so disconnected from everything that’s happened so far.

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You could use some of the flashback of Mandalore being destroyed for an expanded Alderaan explosion in a custom SE.

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You should incorporate all the Fett flashbacks (trimmed up as much as you can) into your previous Mando movies. Having the Fett flashback scenes could also help with the passage of time going on in the Mando edits. Every time Mando jumps to a new planet, flip over to what Fett is doing with the Tusken’s etc. Then start the third movie with all the current Fett timeline scenes from BoBF.

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Honestly, given how Mando-focused the latest episode was, I’m not even sure we need to do a BoBF edit. Just have the Mando season 3 edit start with BoBF episode 5, then cut from Mando testing his new ship to the scene of him visiting Grogu next episode, and then have the actual season 3 of Mando begin. We get all the Mando backstory we need, without ever needing to show Boba at all.

My preferred Skywalker Saga experience:
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If we want to stick to the Boba story with this:

  • Have Boba and Fennec have their chat about hiring muscle at the end of Chapter 4
  • Cut to Mando doing his bounty from the beginning of Chapter 5. Maybe edit out him slicing his leg?
  • Cut the majority of the rest of the episode. We’ll have to see how Chapter 6 plays out to know exactly what needs to stay from the rest.

I wonder if it would be possible to construct a scene with Mando in the cockpit of his new hot rod getting a communication from Fennec using some dialog from their scene together at the end of Chapter 5 (and maybe some other sources). If there’s scenes of them recruiting others to their cause in the next episode it could even kick off some sort of “recruitment montage” of sorts.