Updated the OP with the revised cutlist. And now I have some clips to show some of what you can expect to see in this edit.
https://vimeo.com/705233994
Here’s a clip of the first 6 minutes of the edit, featuring the following changes:
- A new crawl
- A different recording of the main title
- Color correction
- Trims to get the space battle down to the essentials
- Cutting the buzz droids but keeping the missiles and Rebel fanfare flourish (the only use of it in the PT!)
- Adding a classic track to make the daring landing on Grievous’s ship more adventurous
- Subtracting Obi-wan’s aerobatics out of his cockpit
https://vimeo.com/705250764
Here’s a clip of my favorite moment of remusic-ing the film, giving the climax of the opening adventure a classic OT track to give an OT vibe. Hopefully amping up the fun and, by proxy, making it seem like Anakin and Obi-wan are more buddy buddy. Other changes:
- Color correction
- No ray shields capture
- Grievous short joke reedited for better impact
- Trims to battle droid silliness
- Trims to the landing
- New music for when the Jedi fly back home to further the OT feel
- Minor edit to Anakin and Obi-wan’s dialogue to feel more genuine and jokey
https://vimeo.com/705447908
And here’s the edit’s most radical change, the removal of the interplanetary Order 66 montage. Instead we just focus on our main characters. Other changes:
- Color correction
- New OT tracks for Anakin entering the temple, and Cody firing on Obi-wan
- No killing younglings
- The Utapau battle has been moved earlier so as to not distract from this sequence
- Similarly the Kashyyyk battle footage during this sequence has been cut
- Chewbacca replaced with a differently colored wookiee
- We don’t see Yoda climb up onto the wookiees