Davnes007 said:
ChainsawAsh said:
Janskeet said:
I'm a little confused by this idea of having Luke return to Ben's home in ROTJ?

By the way, your digital compositing work looks great!

The idea is to restructure the beginning of ROTJ. The way I see it working best is like so:

- Opening crawl
- Vader visits Death Star
- Leia delivers Chewbacca to Jabba
- Luke (who has been training on Dagobah since the end of ESB) sees Yoda die
- Leia releases Han and is captured
- Luke lands on Tatooine that night and goes to Ben's hut - "I can't do it, Artoo" - Ben's conversation with Luke (I'm in favor of getting rid of Ben's conversation altogether)
- Artoo and Threepio visit Jabba and get captured (no message delivery, straight to dungeon)
- Luke arrives, film continues more or less like normal from here

Note that the Luke on Dagobah/Chewie's "bounty" scenes could be flipped, but I think this works best for pacing.

I'd be willing to give this idea a try, if that's okay with you?

Most of those ideas are taken from the ROTJ "Fan-O-Matic" thread (http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/ROTJ-Fan-O-Matic-3-new-clips/post/284748/#post284748) - SSWR did a rough "mock-up" edit of the beginning of the film that's on YouTube (he's up to part 5 at the moment, which is to say up until the Rebels land on Endor). Part 1 is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJOLKUR-420&feature=related, and parts 2-5 you can find on the links on the right-hand side of the screen.

I don't know if SSWR is planning on going any further than this - he's said that his thread is meant to give ideas to other faneditors, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind in the least if you use his ideas.

I myself am in the planning stages of an original trilogy edit (SW basically untouched, new ESB crawl, and ROTJ re-edited) using a lot of these ideas and this basic structure, but I almost want to wait until ROTJ:R comes out to see if I should even bother. My thread for that project is here http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-The-Trilogy-NEW-TEST-CLIP-AVAILABLE/topic/10122/ (shameless plug, I know - my apologies).

In short, I don't care in the slightest, go for it! I'd love to see someone tackle this - I have a lot more changes for ROTJ planned than I've let on, and ROTJ is the one movie I feel could benefit the most from a good fan edit, and it's a shame there are so few available.