Hi all,
This has been an awful long time coming, but I’ve decided to dip back into the Clone Wars.
I’ve always wanted to do something with the last 3 seasons because they had some fantastic stories and the animation really improved, particularly with the final season.
I still have my live action and Bad Batch projects to continue, so the Clone Wars project will have to fit in around them and I’m not going to do things chronologically. I’m going to start with the final season, largely because the thing that actually triggered me to dive back in was the Tales of… series, which have arcs that fit in and around the final season. So here we are:
Episode IX [The Siege of Mangalore]
Includes:
Clone Wars: S7E2 and S7E5 to S7E12
Tales of the Jedi: E5 & E6
Tales of the Empire: E4
I have completed my second cut and the audio editing is about 80% complete so I should have this released by the end of the month.
Brief Outline: (Runtime 2h34)
Act 1 (53 mins)
The movie opens on Coruscant with the first 2 scenes of Tales of the Jedi: Practice Makes Perfect as a flashback prologue. This shows Ahsoka’s test at the Jedi Temple and the first part of her training with Anakin and the 501st. This serves 2 purposes, firstly as a way of having Anakin and the 501st present in the first act and secondly to open on a scene that is relevant to the finale.
We then cut to Ahsoka on her speeder and she meets the Martez sisters.
The Martez arc is included and essentially becomes the first act. It’s not my favourite arc by any means, but its essential as it shows us how Ahsoka is surviving following her expulsion from the Jedi order and it provides the inciting incident for the movie - Ahsoka discovering the location of Maul and Bo Katan asking for her help.
The plot for the arc has been heavily condensed so that it totals just 45mins.
This act also includes the Anakin/Padme holo chat from the Bad Batch arc. This acts as a spacer scene to replace cut elements from the Martez arc, it maintains Anakin and Rex’s presence in act 1 and its just a great scene with relevance to ROTS.
Act 2 (52 mins)
The Siege of Mandalore and Maul’s capture play out as the second act with minor trimming and the addition of the next training segment of Practice Makes Perfect as a brief flashback for Ahsoka as she is reunited with the 501st.
Act 3 (49 mins)
Order 66 and Ashoka’s escape with Rex play out with minor trimming as the base of act 3.
There are 2 further flashback scenes using footage from Practice Makes Perfect. One just before order 66 and one as Ahsoka and Rex are walking to the hangar bay.
During the order 66 sequence I have inserted the first scene from Tales of the Empire: Devoted where Bariss is looking at the Jedi Temple from her cell.
After Rex and Ahsoka escape in the Y-wing the rest of Bariss’ recruitment to the Inqusitorius from Resolve is intercut with the final 2 scenes of the Mandalore arc and the Naboo scenes from Tales of the Jedi: Devoted.
If anyone is keen to see what I’ve done so far here is a completed 20minute segment. This is the Order 66 segment which includes one of the flashbacks and the first Bariss scene. I’d be grateful for any feedback.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fj9nDM14p-L4YtVsL0aH8I8_Fnlnzsck