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Post #150519

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Sluggo
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Idea: Revenge of the Sith: Extended Edition
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Date created
26-Oct-2005, 12:48 PM
Well, it's on a VHS right now. It's pretty poor stuff compared to what is out now. We (my friend Brad and I) just re-incorperated the Biggs scenes, the cantina rough cut, the Jabba footage from From Star Wars to Jedi, and the cut Chief Bast sequence from the Star Wars Holiday Special. I think we moved a few scenes around to match the revised 4th draft, like C-3PO's I think I'm melting scene to the Tantive IV. And we did some funky stuff on there as well. We re-dubbed the Chief Bast scene so his lines better fit the script and replaced the crappy music from the Special. And we added an introductory shot of TIE fighters flying (we used one from the opening of TROOPS). And, get this, we somehow thought it was a good idea to edit and synche up audio from the radio drama and stick it over the Luke/Treadwell scene which was released with only projector noise. Blasted thing took me hours to get it edited to match the video. Brad then put it into the video track and we stuck it in our film. We also sent a copy of this clip to T-Bone's Star Wars Universe, which he put up on line. Now I see my little clip up on all sorts of Bonus Discs. I feel like a proud pappy!

Where was I going with this? Oh, yeah. The tape is interesting as a rough guide as what the rough cut might have been a bit more like. And it has a few special edition shots in it as well. It is a bit of a mess, but it was way ahead of its time in 1998 or whenever we made the thing. I can make someone a copy of the tape if they want, but honestly Deleted Magic is a much better guide for producing 'rough cut' version. I do plan on re-visiting the project someday, I just have a few other (related) items to tackle first.