Originally posted by: Trooperman
This is a great idea (although it's too bad you had to drop the Starkiller project to do it
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What about all the parts of the OT not related to Luke? For example, all of the Han Solo/Princess Leia stuff (including the asteroid field, space slug, and so on), Jawas, Ewoks, and so forth....
How much of the actual OT is retained?
This is a great idea (although it's too bad you had to drop the Starkiller project to do it
)What about all the parts of the OT not related to Luke? For example, all of the Han Solo/Princess Leia stuff (including the asteroid field, space slug, and so on), Jawas, Ewoks, and so forth....
How much of the actual OT is retained?
Well, TJ and I both had to drop out of Starkiller for personal reasons at the beginning of the year, and now someone else is running it. Our lives are now back to normal and we're both still itching to do an edit, so I suggested we do this. We are, however, jokingly referring to ourselves as "Revenge of the Ranch Productions".
While we're focusing primarily on the Skywalker family for this edit, that doesn't mean we're cutting out all other characters and storylines. However, There are some things in the OT that we feel are superfluous for this edit and will be condensed. Like, for instance, ROTJ will now open with the Emperor's shuttle arriving at the Death Star instead of Vader's. And the Jabba's Palace sequence, we believe, doesn't truly begin until Luke arrives, so we preamble it with Boushh unfreezing Han in the middle of the night. Ewoks will be subtitled and they'll already be part of the Rebel plan to free Endor. The Rebels will land at their village as expected guests. So, things will be explained but you won't be led from point A to point B. Like in the Godfather, there'll be some room to fill in the blanks.
ANH we're still deciding on. I want to cut and TJ wants to keep. But we've entertained the somewhat radical possibility of panning down to the Death Star after the crawl and opening it with Tarkin's Death Star roundtable, then cutting to the droids arriving at the moisture farm where Luke is introduced. From a story standpoint, it's VERY efficient. It sets up the villain, it sets up the hero, then takes you immediately onto business. You don't lose anything that's not explained later in the film. The downside is, you lose all the Tantive IV stuff which everyone loves, but...
Let me just stress that this is intended as an alternative way to watch the Trilogy, not the definitive way. So expect to lose some scenes which some may consider to be "sacred ground".
And thanks for the support ReverendBeastly and Darth Richard! You guys are always great.
--ID