-I think the first thing to do would be to re-establish han solo as the character he is in 4 and 5 which is, a badass. This may be a little tough, ole harrison ford supplied us with a lot of goofy faces and silly deliveries. But I think that the proper editting could sharpen him into the han that doesn't talk his head off.
-Perhaps some of jabbas palace could be clipped (although it is a real favorite star wars adventure of mine).
-I think one element that could use an overhaul would be the ewoks. How would we make them more serious? Perhaps if we took away the little chirps and woots and added some growls or creepy sounds would be a nice replacement. Although I love the music of the old trilogy, I could be up for giving the ewoks a different theme. THe original , like the ewoks themselves, is just kind of playful sounding and circus-y. Give them a warrior theme like Connan the barbarian or perhaps a cool track off of the Shadows of the Empire soundtrack. I mentioned in another thread that if you had the effects to add blinking eyelids to them it would flesh out those costumes a little more. But there is potential to make the ewoks redeemable in my book with some "changes" here and there. Another neat idea would be to add some clips from the ewok movies and throw some widescreen bars on them to add more action scenes with the ewoks. I think it was the Battle for endor movie that showed ewoks fighting with blasters, Thats what we need!
So anyway, thought we could have some discussion on how to fix ROTJ, i've actually been thinking of this before the prequels came out. Oh and of course there's the idea that Magnolia fan had about adding the "birth of vader" scene from episode 3 as a flashback while vader and luke are talking on the walkway on endor. Superb idea. Any thoughts, suggestions?
I know this thread is suppose to be about a different ANH version, but since we're trying to catalouge ideas for a "saga" I thought this would be appropriate.