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Mando EP3: A New Path (A Book of Boba Fett Edit) [RELEASED] — Page 3

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I don’t know how this plays out, but curious if this could end up a Mandalorian movie where he helps Boba Fett.

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Hello again, I don’t want to seem like I’m backseat editing or anything but I reckon we could get 2 movies from this.

The first could be a prologue, compiling and editing the flashbacks together. This could be THE boba fett film, doesent need to be a long one either. This probably would be fit for viewing between the 1st and 2nd Mando film.

The second could be the present plot from the BOBF. However, it is presented as a Mandolorian film (either Episode 3 or a spin off adventure). This could be done by weaving chapter 5 with a very condensed chapters 1-4 (followed by whatever happens next). This way, it would feel like Mandos isn’t stepping into Boba’s story, but the other way round.

Enjoying this season so far, but I feel that the apperance of Mando, and Boba’s story with the Tuskens are the highlight and the rest of the story is a bit bland.

Side note: If you keep alot of chapter 5 in, I beg for the line about dating jawas to be removed. I loath the fact that Jawas dating humans and being furry is now canon 😉

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The Mandalorian II (Season 2) - TBC
The Mandalorian Returns (TBOBF) - TBC

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Vladius said:

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.

When he was slowly creeping to the Sarlacc, I thought he was going to just start unloading on it à la Kylo at the end of TLJ. His face emotionless as he fires into the pit a comically long period of time. He stops and Fennec asks “You okay?”. Boba replies “Just business.” and flies away.

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Kanemedhurst said:

Hello again, I don’t want to seem like I’m backseat editing or anything but I reckon we could get 2 movies from this.

The first could be a prologue, compiling and editing the flashbacks together. This could be THE boba fett film, doesent need to be a long one either. This probably would be fit for viewing between the 1st and 2nd Mando film.

The second could be the present plot from the BOBF. However, it is presented as a Mandolorian film (either Episode 3 or a spin off adventure). This could be done by weaving chapter 5 with a very condensed chapters 1-4 (followed by whatever happens next). This way, it would feel like Mandos isn’t stepping into Boba’s story, but the other way round.

Enjoying this season so far, but I feel that the apperance of Mando, and Boba’s story with the Tuskens are the highlight and the rest of the story is a bit bland.

Side note: If you keep alot of chapter 5 in, I beg for the line about dating jawas to be removed. I loath the fact that Jawas dating humans and being furry is now canon 😉

Wow, I totally agree with this. We don’t know how the story is gonna be developed in episodes 6 and 7, but for now, this approach makes too much sense for me.

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Sirius said:

Kanemedhurst said:

Hello again, I don’t want to seem like I’m backseat editing or anything but I reckon we could get 2 movies from this.

The first could be a prologue, compiling and editing the flashbacks together. This could be THE boba fett film, doesent need to be a long one either. This probably would be fit for viewing between the 1st and 2nd Mando film.

The second could be the present plot from the BOBF. However, it is presented as a Mandolorian film (either Episode 3 or a spin off adventure). This could be done by weaving chapter 5 with a very condensed chapters 1-4 (followed by whatever happens next). This way, it would feel like Mandos isn’t stepping into Boba’s story, but the other way round.

Enjoying this season so far, but I feel that the apperance of Mando, and Boba’s story with the Tuskens are the highlight and the rest of the story is a bit bland.

Side note: If you keep alot of chapter 5 in, I beg for the line about dating jawas to be removed. I loath the fact that Jawas dating humans and being furry is now canon 😉

Wow, I totally agree with this. We don’t know how the story is gonna be developed in episodes 6 and 7, but for now, this approach makes too much sense for me.

This is currently how I’ve got it set up in my editing suite.

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That’s amazing, I cant wait!

Current Edits:
Obi-Wan Kenobi - TBC
The Mandalorian (Season 1) - V1 Complete
The Mandalorian II (Season 2) - TBC
The Mandalorian Returns (TBOBF) - TBC

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Well after the last episode it’s clear the best play is to make this Mandalorian 3. Maybe make the Boba flashbacks their own side movie.

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The unfortunate thing is that we got a very messy Boba Fett series, but the fortunate one is that we will get a new Mandalorian edit sooner than we expected. 😛

Another option would perhaps be to wait for Season 3 of The Mandalorian to see if you can fit all the Mando stuff of The Book of Boba Fett with whatever happens then.

Anyway, I am sure after the last episode everything will be much more clear.

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leftshoe18 said:

Well after the last episode it’s clear the best play is to make this Mandalorian 3. Maybe make the Boba flashbacks their own side movie.

Indeed. And TBH I can probably fit in enough edited flashbacks to support the narrative.

Yay! I was hoping there was a way to fit it in without needing to do a side movie/special with all the edited flashbacks together as a stand alone thing. I think the problem you may run into though is once Mando Season 3 comes out, you may end up having to make this 2 movies since you are now cutting into the runtime of what will be your Mando Season 3 movie without even beginning with Season 3’s material. Unless Mando Season 3 has enough filler to still get an edit around the 2h30m you’ve been shooting for, than it wouldn’t be any issue.

I recall you had plans at one time to go back through Mando Season 1&2 and make it 2 movies per season instead of 1 per each season. If you ever decide to go back through for that, I think you could easily fit the Boba Fett flashbacks into the earlier movies, instead of it cutting into the plotline here.

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Maybe it’s time to redesign those projects to rebrand them as Episodes VII, VIII and so on?

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Welp, these last two episodes have pretty much thrown a wrench into things, haven’t they? lmao.

Not to tell you how to edit your movie, Smudger. But personally speaking, I feel like there’s a couple of ways to approach the Mandoelephant in the room.

If you were to get right down to the brass tacks of the BOBF story, I would jettison most of the last episode and a lot of this episode of Mando on the Jedi World. In my mind, I would have Fennec say her line about hiring muscle and then immediately cut to the N1 coming to the Palace, making it be a big reveal that it’s Mando. OF course, you wouldn’t have an explanation of where he got this new ship from but honestly, why waste time explaining that? If you really need that sort of explanation, it could always be used in a Mando Season 3 edit. From there, you could take a lot of stuff left out and maybe put it into a Season 3 edit. It would honestly be up to your discretion but in my mind, I would maybe cut out the N1 acquiring all together, do the above for the Boba show and then put in the Mando Ring World and Jedi World scenes in a Season 3 edit (although I would personally cut down on the Robo Luke stuff from the Jedi World and just have Mando get there, be shunned, and then fly away until Grogu obviously reunites with him down the line).

Alternately, you could intermingle a lot of this stuff within the narrative of what’s going on Tatooine with Boba. However, I feel like a lot of the Tusken Raider stuff would have to be jettisoned out in order to make room for this Mando stuff. Honestly, it seems like it’s a choice between either keeping the Tusken flashbacks or fleshing out what’s going on with Mando (although if you were to cut out the Tusken stuff, you could always keep the scene of the Pyke train firing on them to establish how their gaining a foothold on the planet).

Of course, all this is up in the air with how the final episode will play out. Maybe another curveball will come our way. lmao.

But anyways, that’s just my two cents on this.

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CMMAP said:

Yet another outstanding „fan“edit of a character 😃
https://youtu.be/OHu5uYXYLFs

Agree. I didn’t see that much improvement with the Mando S2 deepfake Luke, but this is infinitely better and more true to the animated character. I would love to put this into my edit.

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I personally like the medium facial structure the best - it nails the balance between the TCW exaggerated structure and real life, in my opinion.

https://youtu.be/OpNr5CosahY

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CaptainFaraday said:

I personally like the medium facial structure the best - it nails the balance between the TCW exaggerated structure and real life, in my opinion.

https://youtu.be/OpNr5CosahY

Didn’t saw this until now. I have to agree, the medium looks good.

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I wrote with cinematic captures via instagram. It would be free to use, but he didn’t do the whole scene, just the part we see in his videos (well, it’s most of it^^).

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smudger9 said:

Well the finale was an unsatisfying mess. This is going to take a lot of work to sort it out! I honestly think an edit is the only way I’ll revisit the show. I start this evening……

Couldn’t agree more.

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I was hoping for an episode without Grogu. I wanted his and Mando’s recomposition to be an exclusive Mandalorian moment and a more emotional one. There were some cool moments in this episode, but, to be honest, I didn’t even care about the whole fight.

If I were to make an edit out of this season perhaps I would make a film about Boba’s past and his attempts to bring peace in Mos Espa until Episode 5. And then another film (maybe Mandalorian 3) with Episodes 5-6-7. Although it would be an underwhelming Mandalorian film.
Very intersted to see how you will handle such material. Wish you all the luck.

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ThanosM. said:

smudger9 said:

Well the finale was an unsatisfying mess. This is going to take a lot of work to sort it out! I honestly think an edit is the only way I’ll revisit the show. I start this evening……

Couldn’t agree more.

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I was hoping for an episode without Grogu. I wanted his and Mando’s recomposition to be an exclusive Mandalorian moment and a more emotional one. There were some cool moments in this episode, but, to be honest, I didn’t even care about the whole fight.

If I were to make an edit out of this season perhaps I would make a film about Boba’s past and his attempts to bring peace in Mos Espa until Episode 5. And then another film (maybe Mandalorian 3) with Episodes 5-6-7. Although it would be an underwhelming Mandalorian film.
Very intersted to see how you will handle such material. Wish you all the luck.

My current plan is to run the Mando and “present” Boba stories side by side with a heavily edited finale and 3 very brief flashbacks. My tactic will be to edit it in reverse, so my first task is to edit todays episode into something workable.

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In my opinion, the Tusken Raider stuff was all from the originally proposed Boba Fett Movie which starts with him crawling out of the Sarlacc. THAT feels like complete story. If not enough for a full movie, just make it a Book of Boba-Fett mini-series.

When they decided to turn it into a TV show, they chose to add elements of the shared universe and they then created the Pike Syndicate plot. The Pike Syndicate plot should be recut and edited into a Mando season 2.5

It feels like two different mediums, half movie, half a forced TV Show. Can’t wait to see the edits.

I did a rough pass on the Tusken Raider stuff and got about 1 hr and 36 minutes out of it.

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Smudger, please, save this mediocre show, you’re our only help 😄

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jrs81 said:

In my opinion, the Tusken Raider stuff was all from the originally proposed Boba Fett Movie which starts with him crawling out of the Sarlacc. THAT feels like complete story. If not enough for a full movie, just make it a Book of Boba-Fett mini-series.

When they decided to turn it into a TV show, they chose to add elements of the shared universe and they then created the Pike Syndicate plot. The Pike Syndicate plot should be recut and edited into a Mando season 2.5

It feels like two different mediums, half movie, half a forced TV Show. Can’t wait to see the edits.

I did a rough pass on the Tusken Raider stuff and got about 1 hr and 36 minutes out of it.

How did you handle the end of the Tusken stuff? It doesn’t really have a resolution in the show.

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leftshoe18 said:

How did you handle the end of the Tusken stuff? It doesn’t really have a resolution in the show.

My rough cut has the entire flashback and most of the present day from Episode 1, 2 as a movie. Episodes 5, 6, 7 I am cutting into Mando episodes. I used pieces of Episode 3,4 in both the movie and Mando episodes.

For the film, I still used the Bacta tank as the ‘in and out’ of the flashback segment. When he wakes up from the ENTIRE flashback, Fennic tells him that tributes are lined up. Playing with the idea of including the empty rancor pit, assassination attempt, and mayor subplot. Including the FIRST twins scene to setup a potential Boba Fett Season 2. I’m kinda surprised that there was no reference to the twins after episode 4, almost as if they were forgotten. I am completely cutting the following: the Mods introduction and chase, BK trying to kill Boba, and the second twins scene. We tease the empty Rancor pit earlier, and the final scene of the movie is Boba and his baby Rancor in the pit with the final line, “Don’t worry, he’ll be back” before credits.

For the series, I split Episode 5 into two episodes and included some of the Boba stuff including the completely healed bacta scene. I split the episode right after Peli telling Mando it will go faster if he helps. Then added some Boba, Pike and Cobb stuff. I moved the building and testing of the Naboo fighter to the next episode, and right after Fennic recruits Mando, Boba recruits BK. We also get introduced to the Mods already working for Boba, when the Pikes Land, they are working as scouts and report to Boba.

The goal was to make the Mando episodes completely independent of the Boba backstory, thus making the the Movie a non-required back story. If you want to watch it for the background and setups fine, but not required to watch the Mando episodes.

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This is going to take a lot of work…what a disjointed mess this series was. This literally made to be rescued by a fan edit and I believe that is the only way I would view it again beyond Epidodes 5 and 6 and maybe 7. I cannot wait to see what you come up with Smudger!