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A few years after my last two failed edit attempts have left to rot… I return bearing yet another wild idea!
Inspired by Luke Burrage’s “The Silent Menace”, I have decided to try my hand at… basically remaking The Phantom Menace from the ground up.
Alongside completely muting the audio of the film (to be replaced with pure soundtrack + subtitles whenever I have the ability to do so), I have radically restructured the entire film… mostly for the sole purpose of seeing how much I can fuck with it without completely breaking all logic.
This ain’t really a straightforward “fixed it for you <33” edit, since those are dime a dozen now, moreso just an experiment.
The edit itself is still in early stages, and is heavily subject to change.
Current changes in mind:
New Crawl:
"Star Wars
Episode I
Guardians of Peace
For thousands of generationns, the Republic has thrived under the protection of the JEDI KNIGHTS, having vanquished the evil LORDS OF THE SITH milennia ago.
Now it is a time of great terror, however. The greedy TRADE FEDERATION has been dealing in the shadows with a mysterious SITH LORD, promising them power and fortune for their compliance. To prove their devoution to the Sith’s nefarious cause, the FEDERATION has set sights on the planet of ALDERAAN, setting a blockade of deadly warships around the planet.
As moves are made to invade the peaceful planet, the Jedi Knight QUI-GON JINN and his young apprentice OBI-WAN KENOBI are wrapped up in scouting for a young, force sensitive child on the distant planet of TATOOINE…"
- Film starts with a pandown, showing the Trade Federation ships over the planet of Naboo (VFX work required). The Viceroy and Sidious discuss their invasion plans, with the only worry that Qui-Gon will arrive soon and ward of the invasion once he learns about it, as he is the Royal Family’s primary guardian. Sidious tries to quell their fears, saying he has sent an assassin to deal with the Jedi.
- Wipe to Maul’s ship approaching Tatooine, landing, and sending droids out.
- Another wipe leads to the scene where Anakin says goodbye to Shmi, then the deleted scene where they realize they’re being followed by a Probe Droid, and then, finally, the duel with Maul, and Qui-Gon escaping the planet.
- After the escape, we get another scene with the Trade Federation guys learning about Maul’s failure, but Sidious insists that things are still going to his plan.
(From here on things are a bit more muddy, still trying to work out how to do things) - Qui-Gon arrives at Coruscant, learning about the invasion, and he and Obi-Wan leave to investigate, Qui-Gon telling Anakin to stay behind.
- They arrive on Naboo (Working on new VFX to establish it), meet Jar Jar along their way towards the palace to rescue the Queen.
- After rescuing Padme, they try to leave, as pilots try to attack the Federation ship, both fail, so they have to fall back on the planet and think of a new approach, when they get the idea of using the Gungan army as a distraction while they try to capture the Viceroy.
- The rest of the movie plays out pretty much the same, minus any shots of Anakin, and the entire space battle. Instead, the droids get shut down at Padme’s command at blaster point.
- Obi-Wan, as Qui-Gon’s apprentice, is now the new guardian of Alderaan
- The Senate scene being moved to near the end, before the funeral. The issue at hand is the prosecution of Viceroy Gunray, and the Chancelor electing to not prosecute him is what leads to the Vote of No Confidence.
- Film ends on Qui-Gon’s funeral
Clips:
The Queen’s failed escape
https://streamable.com/hzxvn8
The Droid Army’s deactivation
https://streamable.com/4xdccd
