I would agree with the people warning against “de-aging” these movies. If it were me, I would use as much footage from the original as possible (the original establishing shot of Ben’s hut, no stupid looking Star Trek explosions, the original aliens in the cantina, no “funny” droid antics in Mos Eisley, no rontos, no little droids hovering around the stormtroopers and distracting you from the dialogue…the list goes on and on).
InfoDroid- we also need to figure out what we’re doing for subtitles so that we are consistent.
And finally, Commander Courage, those ideas for ROTJ are incredible! If MTH wants to have a go at it, great, but otherwise I’d really like this project to do myself, in full knowledge that I could go back and watch the original if I wanted. If this was done properly with a good style to it, this could be phenomenal. I LOVE how Luke has been continuing his training with Yoda- I never liked the way that Luke suddenly “became” a Jedi in between TESB and ROTJ with no training. Also, this covers Yoda’s extremely implausible death just as Luke shows up. I suppose it would be assumed that Yoda never told Luke the truth when he returned, and that he was just now telling him because of his death. And Luke is confronted with the knowledge that Vader is his father at the beginning of the movie, giving him more time to stew over it and think about his father. The crawl could use a little work, though. I also like the Emperor’s arrival pushed ahead in the movie. It does work well with Ben’s last line. I’m LOVING this, honestly. And another thing to remember is that if I did this, it would come out a LOT quicker than SOTDS. No manipulating the colors, no dubbing, no rethinking of the story, etc. etc.
But I still won’t touch Star Wars and Empire.
I’m not going to give many suggestions on that, as they would mostly be “Don’t do that” and “Leave that the way it is” and so on, and then I probably wouldn’t even watch them. One thing I will say, though, is that I really hope you don’t tamper with the “I am your father” scene in Empire, and the Obi-Wan stuff. I really don’t have a problem with it, and I can sympathize with Obi-Wan. The line change, “I wanted you to have this when you were old enough” I would encourage, though. Then, I would try to work in some Yoda dialogue at the end of Episode III (as CC suggested) that would rationalize Obi-Wan’s holding back the truth from Luke. But making Ben tell Luke on Tatooine or on Dagobah could not be edited naturally, and I think it would create too many fundamental problems. More later on why it won’t work… (not to sound pessimistic
) But I wish you all luck creating a timeline and a story flow. Perhaps we’ll eventually get to a backstory for the Jedi/Sith relationship (before Episode I).