Hey, your work sounds amazing. Just wow how much time you spent for this project. Would be honored to get a link to watch it.
Greetings from Germany.
Greetings! Thanks for watching, I sent you this project and the Sequel Trilogy that you requested. Hope you enjoy!
Su’cuy vode! Can’t believe I missed mando’a being added, kandosii! On that topic however, in the original folders I received I checked in book 1 but it hadn’t updated to include the special edition. Do I have outdated folders? And to mirror everyone else here, can’t wait for the final updates!
Su’cuy tug’yc! If your link leads to a folder with a poster and trailer, that should be the special edition version. You can check around 18 minutes into the film to make sure they’re speaking mando’a there. But I’ll DM you again just to make sure.
Hey Acbagel, just checking in to see how things are progressing. I know last time you posted that Book 6 was in an almost pre-alpha phase. Have you been able to problem solve some of the issues you were running into with the sequence of events, etc. Has a revised Book 5 been locked in or are things still shifting due to you tinkering with Book 6? Don’t mind viewing clips if you need an extra set of eyes/ feedback. Eagerly looking forward to this cut. Also, do you think you would even attempt an edit of The Acolyte? I wish you the best and may the force be with you!
Hello, Darth! Progress went a little slower than anticipated, my company had to move offices and that took me out of production for a whole week, but I got some good time in the last few days and I’d say I’m right on the edge of having a full alpha cut completed. I watched the first 1.5 hours of the film last night and made some additional cuts and touch-ups. The pre-alpha was still sitting at over 3.5 hours, so I have a good portion I’m forced to cut out. It’s a little bit painful making cuts on things I worked a long time on, but sometimes it’s simply necessary. My Plazir-15 storyline dragged on far too long and I had to trim it down quite a bit. Some of Boba’s sequences needed cut down a bit too for better balance with Din’s scenes. There is just a lot of story to work with and I need to find the right flow for it all, trying to keep it focused on the main theme of gathering the clans to retake Mandalore but having some side adventures along the way. We’re getting closer! I could release some small clips from the Mandalore base battle soon, I’m really loving how I’ve paced some of the segments.
The main hold-up with releasing Book 5 is that my Din and Grogu reunion in Book 6 uses parts of the travel scenes to Ossus. So since I haven’t 100% finished the sequence in Book 6, I don’t have an exact split of the scenes worked out yet to avoid repeats. Once I get through that, I’ll be ready to re-release 5. I just received the first draft of my final release poster yesterday and it’s looking amazing! Exactly as I sketched it out. The artist is very talented. It’ll look like a very high-quality rendition of one of my other posters… Really excited about it!
Regarding The Acolyte… I don’t know. I won’t say never, but I’d be more motivated to work on Ahsoka, Kenobi, redo my Sequel Trilogy films, etc. I do think it would be vastly improved by an edit and I certainly have ideas, but I don’t think it adds much to the Star Wars mythos. I’d have to entirely recontextualize the events to feel good about releasing that story, and it sounds like a fun challenge, but I don’t have the passion for deep diving into that show right now. It took me ~3 years after The Last Jedi before I could stomach watching it enough to start doing an edit haha. I’m friends with Movies Remastered and have helped him on a couple of his edits, so I’m currently doing some Sith eyes tracking on Qimir for him, but that’s as much as I can handle right now! Maybe one day…