SUPERMAN THE MOVIE (released 1978/directed by Richard Donner)
Teaser Trailer 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAe1uwjoJg NOW GONE! Will look for replacement soon.
Teaser Trailer 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNjnUwWSxIc NOW GONE! Will look for replacement soon.
Theatrical Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HqL3TQ775w NOW GONE! Will look for replacement soon.
Special Edition Re-release Trailer 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhNdBesiKbQ
Special Edition Re-release Trailer 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7EwOUvpXw
SUPERMAN II (released 1980/directed by Richard Lester/alternative cut directed by Richard Donner)
Teaser Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvFdCdHd7o
Theatrical Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB7u3kj6U-c
But then things went downhill, unfortunately…
SUPERMAN III (released 1983/directed by Richard Lester)
Teaser Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saPg9QH0cT4
Theatrical Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTk17O2fCw
SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (released 1987/directed by Sidney J. Furie)
Theatrical Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQvnHZ1rB2g
DVD Collection Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdkrNEqDab0
SUPERMAN RETURNS (released 2006/directed by Bryan Singer)
Teaser Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRscmFYefwQ
Theatrical Trailer 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ncjgC11yHY
Theatrical Trailer 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQqhdcHbvA0
Theatrical Trailer 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKuCJo-4aAc
**Coming Soon… ** Zack Snyder’s SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL is due for release in 2012…
LATEST NOTE TO MYSELF - REGARDLESS OF SOME OF WHAT’S WRITTEN BELOW, I COULD MAKE A JOINT SOLO/OBI-WAN KENOBI ‘PREQUEL MINI-FEATURE’ AS A SORT OF POST-ROTS ‘CATCH-UP’ ON HOW THE ‘SKYWALKER TWINS’ ARE PROGRESSING…WHICH FEATURES MY PREFERRED SOLO SCENES FOLLOWED BY MY IDEAL OBI-WAN KENOBI SCENES, AS THE EVENTS OF THE SOLO MOVIE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN APPROX. ONE YEAR BEFORE THE EVENTS OF THE OBI-WAN KENOBI SHOW - HOWEVER, IT COULD JUST AS EASILY BE IMAGINED THAT MY VERY CUT-DOWN MONTAGE OF SOLO SCENES MIGHT BE HAPPENENING AT AROUND THE SAME TIME AS THE OBI-WAN KENOBI SCENES I’M INCLUDING, AS THERE’S NOTHING TO CONTRADICT THIS NOTION.
AS WELL AS SOME CHEAP-LOOKING ASPECTS TO THE SHOW’S EPISODES, I ENDED UP HATING THE OVERALL’OBI-WAN KENOBI’ STORYLINE AND THE WAY IT INTRODUCED CERTAIN ‘BACKSTORY EVENTS’ WHICH SEEMED TO BLATANTLY DISREGARD AND CONTRADICT DIALOGUE ESTABLISHED IN THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY MOVIES…SO DEFINITELY AGREE WITH A LOT OF THE POINTS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS THREAD ON THE SHOW’S INCONSISTENCIES WHICH FEATURED IN THE ‘Beyond the Original Trilogy’ SECTION OF THE FORUM -
…SO I INITIALLY THOUGHT I WOULD END UP LOOKING ON THIS LATEST ENTRY IN THE FRANCHISE AS A DISAPPOINTING ‘FAN FICTION’ MISFIRE WHICH I’D NEVER REWATCH…WHICH WAS A PITY, AS I REALLY LIKED SOME OF THE ACTORS INVOLVED ALONG WITH THE EXCELLENTLY CAST ‘YOUNG LEIA’…until I realised that I could instead just restructure some of the scenes I liked into an alternate short MINI-FEATURE which WOULDN’T contradict the Original Trilogy, for a bit of additional ‘Star Warsy’ fun for myself (in the same way I’d cannibalise a few select moments of the SOLO movie into a MINI-FEATURE for myself) …which would involve NO ‘Inquisitor’ antics…NO Darth Vader shenanigans…NO mentions of the name ‘Obi-wan’ apart from the show’s title…NO ‘Young Leia’ or ‘Bail’ involvement with Obi-wan whatsever…and NO bloody ‘Disney’-fied, ‘Batteries Not Included’-like LOLA droid either!
HERE’S HOW -
silent LUCASFILM logo fades to black (use ‘coppery’ one with brief music cue?) -
NOTE - CAME ACROSS THIS FAN-MADE LOGO WHICH SOUNDS GOOD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mIJ8BVuhQ
(I MIGHT then CUT to the STAR WARS title receeding silently)
CUT to the ‘A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ wording, as we see a ‘prequels storyline’ RECAP which begins over Coruscant - which I’d prefer to include as little bit of ‘context’ before we see what ‘happened next’ -
(NOTE - I’d DISCARD certain dialogue/shots which I wouldn’t want in my own ideal versions of the ‘prequels’ - Obi-saying “The boy is dangerous, they all sense it, why can’t you?” beside Anakin/Obi-wan falling down towards Anakin’s skyspeeder/“You are the most gifted jedi I have ever met” over fighting insect aliens and wedding shots/“This is the end for you my master”, “I have failed you Anakin, I have failed you”, “It’s over Anakin, I have the high ground”, “You underestimate my power” during lava fight/“You shall be known as Darth Vader” (NOTE - I MIGHT replace this with actual side-on close-up of Helmet shutting and breathing)/“Obi-wan, there’s good in him”/“Rise”/“Leia!”/“Luke!”) -
…which ends on this shot of Obi-wan turning away, as we fade to black -
CUT to OBI-WAN KENOBI main title at this point? (or do I keep it for IN-BETWEEN ‘feisty young Leia with parents’ sequence and ‘Obi-wan’ sequences? -
IMPORTANT - NOT 100% SURE YET, BUT I THINK I MIGHT START OFF WITH AN OBI-WAN SEQUENCE (BEGINNING WITH THE SAND CRITTER) WHERE HE EVENTUALLY SPIES ON LUKE FROM A NEARBY CAVE, AND THEN CUT TO MY PREFERRED RE-EDIT OF A ‘FEISTY YOUNG LEIA’ SEQUENCE I FIND UTTERLY CHARMING, AS A JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN THE HARSH TATOOINE CONDITIONS LUKE LIVES IN COMPARED TO THE LUSH BEAUTY OF ALDERAAN THAT LEIA LIVES IN, AND A WAY OF INDICATING THAT OBI-WAN IS THINKING ABOUT HER TOO AT THIS POINT -
CUT to re-edited ‘feisty young Leia with parents’ sequence, as Leia eventually scolds her cousin for being rude about droids -
…eventually we come to Leia’s cousin mocking her for thanking her droids, saying “You don’t need manners when you’re talking to a lower life form”
as Leia responds “Then I guess I don’t need manners when I’m talking to YOU!”
as her cousin is momentarily taken aback, then says “You know the difference between you and me, cousin?..”
as he then says “…I know things…”
as we end on this shot -
DISCARD the dialogue of Leia’s cousin saying “You know, my father says they never let you leave this planet…they don’t want anybody to know about you because…”
CUT to this shot below as Leia’s cousin says “You’re not one of us…”
…as he continues saying “…you’re not even a real Organa”
…and we end on him smirking -
CUT to Bail looking over -
as things continue as normal, as Leia protests “He was being horrible to everyone” -
as things continue as normal with Bail’s conversation with Leia, as we end on this shot of her looking out of the window as Bail walks away -
CUT BACK TO SEEING THE BACK OF OBI-WAN WHICH WAS SHOT THAT FOLLOWED ON FROM HIS CLOSE-UP BEFORE I CUT TO LEIA’S SEQUENCE?? -
as things continue as normal as Obi-wan drops off the toy at night (NOT SURE IF I’M DOING IT THIS WAY YET! - OR SHOULD I THEN CUT TO THE OBI-WAN KENOBI TITLE HERE, INSTEAD OF EARLIER, AND THEN CUT TO MY ‘YOUNG LEIA’ SEQUENCE??) -
NOTE - WRITE DOWN THE CURRENT ORDER OF ALL THE OBI-WAN SEQUENCES THROUGHOUT EPISODE ONE AND EPISODE 6
CUT to re-edited OBI-WAN sequences which culminates in him seeing Qui-gon at the end eventually -
We see Obi-wan digging up 2 lightsabers -
ADD MORE PICS HERE
as things continue as normal as we end on this close-up of Obi-wan looking around then down again (OR DO I KEEP THIS BIT FOR AFTER THE ‘TRAINING DUEL’ FLASHBACK?? -
CUT to the ENTIRE ‘flashback’ of Obi-wan’s training duel with Anakin on Curascant -
and things continue on as normal, as we see Obi-wan smiling at a defeated Anakin -
(NOTE - SHOULD I CUT TO SHOTS OF OBI-WAN APPROACHING AND ENTERING CAVE HERE FIRST?, WHICH COME AFTER THE SCENE OF THE JEDI DANGLING AS OBI-WAN LOOKS ON)
CUT to Obi-wan packing up to leave his cave dwelling with the ‘Skyhopper’ toy -
MORE PICS NEEDED HERE
and continue on as we eventually see his interaction with Owen and young Luke -
as things continue as normal, and the ‘Force’-ghost of Qui-gon appears -
as things continue as normal, and Obi-wan pulls up and says “Master Qui-gon…” -
as things continue as normal, and Qui-gon turns around -
DISCARD Qui-gon saying Well, took you long enough" and Obi-wan saying “Beginning to think you’d never come” (his hairstyle looks a bit different in this shot)
CUT to silent Obi-wan shot -
CUT to close-up of Qui-gon saying “Come on, we’ve got a ways to go” (so that he DOESN’T call him ‘Obi-wan’!) -
as things continue as normal, as Obi-wan smiles and continues on his way -
as we end on this final shot as music concludes -
CUT to silent LUCASFILM logo to finish things off?? -
NOTE - having the toy ‘Skyhopper’ seen in A NEW HOPE turned into something ‘Ben’ gave Luke in his childhood is a small ‘retcon’ I’m content to go along with as a way to utilise the footage into a nice little feature for myself overall.
A FEW ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS - I MIGHT consider CUTTING from Leia saying “Then I guess I don’t need manners when I’m talking to YOU!” directly to Bail looking over and frowning, thus removing Leia’s cousin talking about her not being a real Organa. ALSO - I MIGHT consider SPLITTING UP MY OBI-WAN KENOBI footage so that it ‘bookends’ the particular SOLO footage I’m using, so that it feels like one continuous feature instead of two separate storyline. This would require NOT including the OBI-WAN KENOBI and SOLO main titles, and just starting things off after the usual blue wording. IN FACT, I MIGHT split things up so that we begin with some OBI-WAN KENOBI footage…then CUT to the SOLO footage where we’re introduced to Han and Qui’ra escaping from Corellia…then CUT to more OBI-WAN KENOBI footage…then CUT to more SOLO footage as we see Han and co. planning a heist on the train/winning the Falcon off Lando/the Falcon crash-landing with Han, Chewie, Lando, and Beckett - DO I SPLIT UP ANY OF THESE SCENES WITH OBI-WAN KENOBI SCENES TOO?? ALSO - I MIGHT consider NOT including the ‘flashback’ of long-haired Obi-wan dueling with short-haired Anakin, as I reckon they look a bit too old to smoothly fit in with how they looked before the short-haired Obi-wan and long-haired Anakin of REVENGE OF THE SITH - however, I’m still not 100% sure whether I’d miss this out or not.
UPDATED THOUGHTS - The above idea wouldn’t work, as it would seem that the KENOBI and SOLO footage was occurring at the same time period…making Han seem MUCH, MUCH older than Princess Leia which he eventually has a romance with! So SOLO must be set quite a few years AFTER the KENOBI show to make Han much nearer Leia’s age, or things will seem creepy! - So I need to put my SOLO footage AFTER my OBI-WAN KENOBI/LEIA footage, no-matter-what!