brash_stryker said:
Bingowings said:
brash_stryker said:
I agree, but is this doable?

It would depend on how much Palpatine after the Mace battle you want to use.

The declaration of the Empire scene should be a doddle (there is plenty of sequences of pre-change Palpatine on the Senate podium to adapt and you could keep his lips pretty much the way they are so lip sync shouldn't be a problem).

Some people would like to remove or truncate drastically the Yoda Vs Palpatine duel and even after his turn his cowl covers a multidude of latex sins.

It would be great to see what results would come from people attempting such a task.

So what about the scene where Anakin "turns" (and I use that term loosely) and Palpatine becomes his master? Would this be cut?

Once again that would be up to the individual editor.

Edits where the revelation of Darth Vader's identity is maintained might want to go down that route.

This thread is for ideas, solutions to the implication of those ideas are welcome too but really it's for putting out possibilities which editors can try to make work.

Undoing the hamfisted nature of Sidious/Palpatine is revealed in the theatrical cut would definately be one of the more difficult projects (because you can't get Ian McDiamid to reshoot everything in more subtle makeup).

I really thought that Lucas was going that way too when I saw the progression between Palpatine in TPM, AOTC and most of ROTS (then suddenly he has a Halloween mask on).

Another massive screw up by the Lucasfilm gang.