Yes- I'm sorry for neglecting this thread. Work has definitely been cruising along behind the scenes here- I have cut many sequences, done the majority of the dubbing, and have actually completed a few scenes (like the Jedi Council scene and the Anakin/Palpatine scene).
Right now I'm working on noise reduction and mixing for my dubs, and also on choosing the best takes for each scene. Sometimes I need to do pickups, but in that case I need to take care that my voice sounds consistent. At this point, I've made several (minor) changes to the original plans with the scenes, which wouldn't have occurred to me without seeing it play in front of me.
I also have to say that I can't quit watching and rewatching the new Coruscant sequence, from the threatening bugs to the nightclub/interrogation. This is all pretty much completed (new sound effects, music, and everything- the whole mix) and it looks and sounds spectacular to me. I can't wait for you to see it.
A couple big character voices that I still need to do are Lama-Su and Jar-Jar Binks. Lama-Su is my fault; I've got to finalize his lines this weekend. Jar-Jar, however, is something that I'm not sure how we're handling. It depends completely on how it's handled in Ep. I. This also goes for the Nemoidians.
Oh, and here's a very rough example of what a clone war taken from Dune could look like. I like this a lot because it feels a lot more human and "hand to hand combat" style. Of course, these new soldiers with the black and red armor will need to be set up by Gunray either in the conference on Geonsis (when Kenobi spies), or in the first war room sequence.
The "Dune" clone war
There's one shot in here where someone beheads one of the bad guys. Trouble is, he uses a little dagger. That shot (and others like it) would benefit from some rotoscoping of new lightsabers (like they did in the Braveheart shot of that fan trailer).
Also, I've not only incorporated 1138, I went a step further and actually used the audio from "THX-1138". In an establishing street shot (right before Zam runs into the nightclub), a woman's voice rings out on some kind of loudspeaker: "TXH 1138, please return to your craft. You are parked in a no-parking zone." It continues to drift on in the distance during the Anakin/Obi-Wan exchange ("You are parked in a no-parking zone. You are parked in a no-parking zone."). I thought that was a neat little detail.
Also, I recorded the background chatter of all of the patrons of the nightclub, one by one, by myself (I can't afford all of the expensive sound effects!). It's probably inaudible, but you might hear patrons talking about galaxy politics, going to a Jar-Jar concert of traditional Gungan music (now we know what Jar-Jar does in his free time), being drunk, and there's even a patron talking about how he won't buy Star Wars on DVD until the original versions are released. Obviously this is a mass jumble (and many of the tracks have been pitch-altered/reversed), but I had some fun with their dialogue.
I've also recorded the Jedi Analysis robot scene. I don't really like the CG robots, though; if I have time, I"m almost tempted to just matte in a bunch of blinking lights, or a console with a speaker (like HAL 9000 in "2001"), and use that instead, as this scene does not fit in the style I'm trying to get.
Anyway, I believe things are going very well, and there are no problems that I can see besides just getting all of these dubs together.
-TM