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Star Wars prequel film noir (* unfinished project *) — Page 3

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I just got around to watching the sample. It was GREAT. Like OCP said, edit the narration down a bit and bring in more of the actual sound of the movie into it (should be louder), but damn, very nice.

Only other thing was the picture seemed noisy (due to quick and dirty compression?), and the picture should be a little darker. But for a proof of concept, that was great. I'm not a Star Wars fan, but I really like what you did. I would watch more than one of these. Think you could find enough material in the first two movies to come up with one more decent film? Amidala's ship does look pretty damn retro.
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i think itd be cool to do a prequel film and an original trilogy film (so one movie per trilogy). I bet Luke Skywalker's storyline could be condensed into one film as well, especially if you take out most of the side characters.
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Only other thing was the picture seemed noisy (due to quick and dirty compression?),

I think it was noisy on purpose; Spence threw in a quick "old movie" effect before rendering.

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it's actually both the effect and the bad compression. good guesses all around!
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Troop? Spence? Anything new?

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I don't think anything new will come until SOTDS is done.
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i'm actually working on script stuff right now, but it's been a hectic couple of weeks for me and have had no time for "hobbies" (ergo, fun.) next week should give me a lot more free time and i'll really get working on some stuff! Everyone please keep generating ideas in here though, a lot of them will probably get used!
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I'm thinking i'm going to revive this idea in a pretty big way. I've got some cool concepts, but itd be a big undertaking.

It would involve making all 6 movies into two film noir sci-fi flicks. Darth Vader's narration would continue throughout. Episode 1 will be more or less totally excised. Many classic sequences will be cut. It will use footage from other films. In general, it'll be a completely different experience than lucas' versions.

I'll keep everyone up to date as i continue work. If you have any good suggestions of old sci-fi movies i could pull footage from or good noir-esque scores that i can use, please give me the recommendation!
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Score! You know you're in for a treat when Spence is on the job.

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lol thanks beastly.

i feel like one of the only editors on the boards that hasnt done anything with star wars, so i may as well try and do an interesting version.
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This one looks like it could be good.

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Great to hear you are back on it Spence. I was just wondering about this the other day.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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This sounds interesting. Keep us posted.


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Ive got my rough concepts and basic ideas sort of in place. here's some info, none of which is finalized.

*the story will be about Darth Vader. He is the main character, Luke is also very important but not as much as Vader.
*it will probably end up being two movies. The majority of Phantom and Clones will not be present, and huge chunks of the other films will be removed.
*like the test clip, it will be in black and white with new music. we get to see how the images hold up without John Williams' score.
*the films will cut between present day and the prequel series, in a Godfather II-esque sort of way. Luke's father being Vader will not be made clear till the end of the first film.
*there is one death star.
*ewoks are gone. completely.
*Luke and Leia are not related. Leia posseses no force power.
*Vader will have noir narration. Luke could, depending on if i think it's necessary.
*the prequel films especially will use clips from older films of this kind (such as Metropolis, or perhaps Blade Runner) to feel older and less technologically advanced.

I have many more ideas floating around, but those are the ones im pretty sure are going to happen.
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Has this project progressed anything since march?
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Originally posted by: Trooperman

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hmm, 'noir wars'. I've only just got up to speed on this now. At first I wasn't too sure but it seems like a great idea. Unlike the fanedits that try to improve the existing films this could be something completely different. I've only skimmed over a lot of the comments but it seems that you guys should be able to work around just about any issues given there aren't really any constraints on the storyline.

I'd be tempted to think of it in terms of Palpy as the corupt mayor and the Jedi as Coruscant/galaxy police force. some of them are crooked and some aren't. It'd also be interesting to see anakin actually slide a little rather than simply decide to be the bad guy at the drop of the hat. It'll be interesting to see things from his POV especially during moments where he seems to do morally wrong things without even a thought. Although i guess that even in ROTS rather than justify his actions he changes the subject so things like that could carry over.

What time period would be present day? I would think it'd be more interesting being close to the actual events and have him reflecting a lot on what had happened. You could even have him thinking back from some point in rots, say just before he leaves for mustafar. The narration post this could be picked up by someoune else, say maybe Palpy?

I'll read it all over more in depth later on but it sounds good so far...
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What happened to this project?