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Clone Wars 2003 series - Quackula movie edit (* unfinished project *)

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I’m working on an edit to trim down and turn the 2003 clone wars cartoon series into a movie that hopefully has a presentation that matches stylistically with the rest of the series.

As my skills aren’t exactly exceptional or anything, this won’t be a terribly radical edit, so no color correcting or anything like that.

Here are my plans so far for it:

  • add opening crawl and pan down scene reminiscent of the other films.

  • remove the opening montage, as well as the scenes with Kit Fisto on Mon Kalamari, Yoda saving the two Jedi on Ilum, and Mace Windu fighting the droids on Dantooine. These all are completely self contained segments that don’t impact the overall story, and while they’re fun to watch in their own right, I feel they disrupt the story too much to leave in a “film” version.

  • remove the briefing scene, and everything leading up to the battle on Muunilist. After the opening crawl, the camera will simply pan down to the Republic Fleet coming out of hyperspace toward Muunilist. Will probably use some info from the briefing scene in the new crawl.

  • probably some other minor cuts here and there

  • My most radical idea: considering replacing Grievous’s voice with one that better matches his portrayal in ROTS. Perhaps using voice samples form video games or the CG cartoon?

I know it’s not much, and I know that people have attempted it before (seeing ADigitalMan’s version inspired me to make this one actually), but I just want something a little more streamlined and comfortable to watch in one sitting.

Any suggestions/comments are welcome, thanks.

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This sounds like a really fine idea for an edit to me. I totally agree with your choices to drop certain self contained episodes from the series in favour of a more filmic storyline. If you're going to present this on a dvd, you might consider including those stand alone segments as a bonus feature. it's been ages since I've watched the series, I'll give it a spin later today and then I'll chime in with some suggestions.

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Pagz said:

If you're going to present this on a dvd, you might consider including those stand alone segments as a bonus feature.

This is an excellent idea. I'll be sure to do that.

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"Clone Wars" cartoon is the greatest Prequel-related thing EVER!I love it so much I would...

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haraldo23 said:

I love it so much I would...

Yes?

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haraldo23 said:

... Buy it on DVD and then...

 Yes (anticipation rising)?

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To a dark place this line of thinking will take us. ;)

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In all seriousness, though, I wish you could luck with this edit, man. This might turn out to be something really interesting. :)

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I've now watched the first volume of Clone Wars. I figured I'd drop some ideas for you before I move on to Volume 2.

I think the first thing I would do is take the introduction of Asage Ventress and use it to open your film. It's required information for your climax, but it will slow the pacing of the film down if you try to intercut it with the battle for Munilist. I would open the film with Dooku attending the gladiatorial combat. If you did want to do some inter-cutting I would cut that segment at the point where Asage is being electrocuted. From there move to the battle. During the battle I'm sure you can find a good place to cut back to Asage waking up in Dooku's lair. That will aid in the feel that time has passed and also ad an air of mystery about her fate until we rejoin her, like a mini cliffhanger.

For the battle of munilist, I would do the following: First I would isolate the ground battle and the space battle. The ground battle can use some trimming as there's a lot of filler in there not necessary for a film. At that point I would begin putting the film together cutting between the ground and space battle. You want the audience to constantly remember that while things are happening on the ground they are also happening in space. With clever editing of the space battle it can easily be extended to match up better with the ground battle.

I'd drop Kit Fisto, Mace Windu and Yoda's rescue mission. They're all self contained stories which aren't necessary for the overall plot of the film.

 

Okay, those are just some initial thoughts. I'm going to go watch Volume 2 now and see what's happening there.

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Starting it out with Dooku attending the gladiatorial combat was actually one of my first ideas with this. I kinda experimented with it but didn't like how it was turning out. I might try it again though.

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A lot of this has already been covered in an edit I'm working on, You might like to take a look there for ideas and such.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/requiem-for-a-clone-war-dream/topic/7379

I think someone else here was also working on an edit but I don't know the state of that.

Mine has been on hold for a bit of a while as I tackle other things and I just don't know when it will be done. Maybe we could combine our ideas in a joint venture?

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I've just finished watching Volume 2. This one is a little more difficult in that it's already cut as one continuous story, unlike volume 1 which was individual episodes. Some judicious trimming throughout might be worthwhile. I think I would move the siege of Coruscant until later in the story. As it stands now the siege seems to start before Anakin has even left on his quest. I think I would cut the siege so that it starts immediately after Anakin's Vader vision. Cut from that directly to Yoda meditating. His abrupt "waking" from his meditation then has a dual impact as it can be perceived to be both because of Anakin and also the invasion. It also gives us a reasonable cause for Yoda not having felt the invasion until it was underway.

Just some thoughts.

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Johnny Ringo said:

A lot of this has already been covered in an edit I'm working on, You might like to take a look there for ideas and such.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/requiem-for-a-clone-war-dream/topic/7379

I think someone else here was also working on an edit but I don't know the state of that.

Mine has been on hold for a bit of a while as I tackle other things and I just don't know when it will be done. Maybe we could combine our ideas in a joint venture?

I actually stumbled onto yours while I was searching to see who else has tackled this. I really like what you were doing, though I don't think I'll personally end up going so far as to re-rotoscope lightsabers and whatnot.

And I appreciate the suggestions, Pagz. Thanks.

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The only so called fanedit into a film i know of is episode II.V by AdigitalMAN.

Which i don't have but read about on that fanedit site.

 

Also this series is purposely out of print in the USA while the new clone wars series is widely available.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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It's Star Wars. Being out of print doesn't at all mean that it's unavailable. The '97 SE VHS tapes are out of print too but that doesn't make them difficult to find.

Anyhow, yeah I sorta noticed that they've more or less replaced this series with the new one. That's a bit of a shame, really, because this series was really well received when it came out. Personally I kinda see the new one replacing the old one as almost a spit in the face to Tardakofsky. 

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Definitely interested in this. I still don't know why they've discontinued this series on dvd. Because the action was better than that of the prequel films?

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It made a nice set of vignettes but there wasn't much scope for serious story telling with that format.

The Jedi were much too powerful too.

The one where Mace pulls a droid army to pieces with the Force was a laugh but it does make the Clone Troopers seem largely redundant (if he can do that killing Grevious would be a doddle).

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Bingowings said:

It made a nice set of vignettes but there wasn't much scope for serious story telling with that format.

The Jedi were much too powerful too.

The one where Mace pulls a droid army to pieces with the Force was a laugh but it does make the Clone Troopers seem largely redundant (if he can do that killing Grevious would be a doddle).

i second that. i must admit though, because the old and new clone wars series are essentially a bunch of cartoons, there is much more flexibility for storytelling, and even the jarjar bits seem to have some ludicrous charm. which i prefer in this context.

perhaps if GL had concieved the animated series idea earlier he could have vented certain characters and topics there enstead of the films.

i was talking about a CG clone wars edit a while ago, but never saw it through.

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brash_stryker said:

ben_danger said:

i was talking about a CG clone wars edit a while ago, but never saw it through.

You got about as far as this guy then.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/STAR-WARS-EPISODE-III-THE-CLONE-WARS-RECLONED-EDITION/topic/10880/

Man that thread was funny!

that was a total massacre! i didn't even get that far though. just threw ideas out about combining episodes. what is interesting though, is that the episodes are not in chronological order, and you can resort them later on into small groups. for instance there are two episodes set before the hideous cinema release.