STAR WARS - A New Hope [Modernized] [Prequel-OT Bridge] — Page 3

I’m a prequel hater, but even I am excited about some small updates (cut sc81 and Adywan’s)

That is a very nice poster 😃 Good to know you’d enjoy both a remake and a remaster of the OT - if they were done well, of course.

I found a good concept video showing the destruction of Alderaan in a more detailed way. I know that you don’t plan to reuse Rogue One footage, but that shot showing a landscape of Alderaan and the one showing Bail in the moment of the explosion are good ones from the games. You plan to make something like that in your edit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrCsngHZDM

Sirius said:

I found a good concept video showing the destruction of Alderaan in a more detailed way. I know that you don’t plan to reuse Rogue One footage, but that shot showing a landscape of Alderaan and the one showing Bail in the moment of the explosion are good ones from the games. You plan to make something like that in your edit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrCsngHZDM

This is pretty interesting concept. Though, some of the shots were of low quality. But for the most part it works.

I have Topaz if anyone needs me to try and upscale

I really liked what I saw. The new shots seemed original, and not a compilation of pre-existing footage. I just missed a real explosion at the end, and in my opinion Vader’s new shot doesn’t look like it came from A New Hope. Looking forward to the finished scene!

That WIP looks pretty great! Really interested seeing how it’d look in a more complete state. The only thing really missing (minus the obvious cleanup some shots need) would probably be the planet, y’know, actually exploding. Honestly probably the best modernized Alderaan explosion I’ve seen. The scoring is also phenomenal, and intercutting Ben’s reaction with a more slow, built up explosion is a really interesting approach.

Anjohan said:

Fullmetaled said:

@Anjohan why not wait and base your project on the hd version of adywan’s revisited version of a new hope when it comes out?

Shouldn’t be too much of a hustle to replace some video files with whatever upgraded version Adywan releases, but I don’t really think it will be necessary. Adywan’s ANH is “Prequel-supported” and have many great additions to the score and new scenes (that will not be in ANH Revisited HD), so this upscaled version combined with 4k regrade I think will do the trick.

Yeah but upscaling hd to 4k would look better than doing it with sd right or am I wrong?

Any thoughts on making the old lightsabers kind of like the knew ones? Adding a bit more light to their surrounding areas?

I found two videos that could help to enhance the opening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seJxxjyb2MY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYdTJhHepnU

I posted the second one because I think the Tantive IV explosion still looks dated, even in the remake of the scene in the first clip. So, if you can produce some explosion in the ship in some excerpt of the 2nd clip’s footage, from the 25sec-32sec, maybe you can archieve a more modern sequence.

So, how is this edit going? I’m really excited for it, specially after seeing the Alderaan explosion. It looks awesome.

WOW! Glad to see this revived as well! This was an edit I was really looking forward to!

This is great news that this project is revived along with your reinvigorated passion for Star Wars. In light of this edit meant to be as a prequel bridge, will there be any changes in that regard?

I have some suggestions that may or may not assist.

Some minor ideas:

• Remove the Kenobi line about not owning a droid.
• Remove the word “ancient” in the line to Vader about him practicing an “ancient” religion.
• Remove the hints of incest romance between Luke and Leia:
  .Remove Luke referring to Leia as beautiful when he sees her hologram.
  . Possibly remove her kiss on his cheek in the Death Star.
  . Remove Luke asking Han about what he thinks of Leia.

Other ideas:

• Some edits remove 3P0’s reference to a “princess” when stating there is no escape.
• For better pacing, remove the cheesy situation where 3P0 and R2 magically dodge the blasters.
• Remove the cheesy shot of Chewbacca growling at the mouse droid. This also helps with pacing.

Vader:

To boost Vader’s character in the movie, I liked an idea G&Gfan will be incorporating into his own edit. He plans to remove any suggestion of Vader’s inferiority to Tarkin. I believe the first moment is when Tarkin orders Vader to stop the force choke. The next instance would be Leia’s insult when she says Tarkin is holding Vader’s leash.

The editor G&GFan plans to add a new scene with Vader and Sidious discussing the death of Kenobi, but as of now I do not know how that looks like or if it really fits into the movie.

One way or another, I appreciate the hard work you and other editors put into this. Great work is being done here.

Remove the word “ancient” in the line to Vader about him practicing an “ancient” religion.

The Jedi and Sith are unquestionably ancient religions though.

Glad this is still being worked on. Looking forward to seeing more of the edit.