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And of course also at my blog and message board at http://ffrevolution.com/InvisionBoard, which is updated almost daily. This week I'm ranting about X3: The Last Stand and David Tennant in Secret Smile. Do women write better crime drama than men? Has Wolverine turned into Cyclops? How heterosexual should comic movies be?
Anyway.
Over in The Thief thread, we've been talking about the original Thief script that's up at Ebay.
Arnaud Hilmarcher has offered to buy the Thief script! I will be sending him lots of DVDs in return. So nobody else bid I guess.
I am considering doing a few new fan edit projects. One idea I have is going to be a little comedy short along the lines of the Doctor Who Ten Doctors trailer - it combines a comedy show we all watch with a superhero we all know. We'll see if I actually go through with that.
And I have to get around to doing The Bonzo Dog Band: Talking Pictures 2 eventually. People have been asking for the Jazz Bilden footage from it, which you can see at Youtube.
But the big news is that I'm seriously considering doing a new edit of the first Star Wars ... and I've spoken about this before, probably as much as a year ago.
I'm very proud of all my Classic Edition edits, which restored the original versions of the Star Wars films in DVD quality, with new sound mixes combining "the best of all versions."
But I must admit that Empire and Jedi Classic came out better than Star Wars did. I learned a lot doing Star Wars Classic, about how to edit material while maintaining the quality of the original DVD, and so I was able to improve my methods a LOT for Empire and Jedi, and even more for The Thief and the Cobbler.
I'm still proud of Star Wars Classic, but I've always felt I could do it better if I tried again. And with all the hoo-hah about these crappy new Lucasfilm 2006 DVDs, people have been bugging me via email to actually do it, and you know who you are.
I'd like to try to color correct the 2004 DVD a bit, make it look more like the original - as much as I can working in Final Cut Pro, and with Mac programs. Other people working on PC have done verrry nice things with the color correction on these DVDs, though none of them have done the whole movie for DVD release sadly. Yet.
I'd like to do it. I'm busy these days, but I'd like to do it. And if I did it, I could do it in a matter of days. You know how fast I work.
I don't know if anyone would be interested, though. With the work that other people are doing, maybe my style of restoration isn't needed on Star Wars in particular.
If you want me to do this edit, just post here, let me know.
I actually have an idea I thought would be cool.
I have all these extra DVDs lying around, things I burned and then forgot why I'd burned them. A lot of them are Star Wars, a lot are Monty Python or Bonzo Dog or Muppets or Thief and the Cobbler, a lot are just random things. Nothing commercially available, you know, the usual weird preservations you get round here.
I was thinking I could take pre-orders for a new Star Wars Classic Edition, before I'm even done with it (because it's easier to mail out lots of discs in one go and that would be damn good incentive for me to finish the edit quick) .... and anyone who pre-orders would get a free random disc with it, what I used to call the Mystery Disc. There is a risk that you might get something you already have, but I bet for most people it would be a nice surprise.
Whaddaya think? Am I a fool, or does this sound fun?
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