adywan said:
Darth Stewie said:
Ady, my 11 year old son just made a keen observation. If you're going to go back and revisit the Prequel Trilogy, what are you going to do if the Sequel Trilogy also sucks? I mean, what's your overall goal here? To fix ALL Star Wars films or just the first 6? Hell, there's at least 5 coming out by 2019. That's a whole lot of roto work.
Let's look at it this way. The original plan was to fix the simple errors in the OT and hopefully fix the story, acting, and entire feel of the PT which would have fixed the entire Star Wars Saga. But now the reality of the Saga has changed, we're getting 5 movies in 5 years. It took almost 30 years to get that many films previously. My question, and it's one that's bothered me for years while following your work, is this: If the Sequel Trilogy only needs minimal work compared to the OT, would you consider working on those instead? I'm hypothesizing of course that they'll need work (lens flare overload perhaps). So that's my idea, either delay or abandon altogether your plans to fix the OT. I don't truly know if you have some impossibly good ideas that you feel could actually make the OT good movies or just movies that suck less than they do currently. If you can't truly make them into good movies, then what's the point? Seriously, how in the world can you make Hayden Christensen do anything but have a laughable performance? I've seen almost every fan-edit and he sucks ass no matter what .I have little doubt that VII, VIII, IX will be better than I, II, III and will need less work and I'm fairly confident they'll start out as good movies. You won't be working from a broken narrative.You started this, what?... almost 9 years ago? I've been around for 7 or 8 of those years and the whole time I've never once wanted to see you work on the PT and I'm a huge fan of your work. I instead always wanted a trilogy cut from TCW tv show with an entirely new narrative. I believe you'd be pretty good at something like that.
Just my 2 cents. I hope you at least think about it. We all care about the OT so much more than anything else and once you're finished with those, I just hope you and the ever-expanding crew of yours choose the best way to spend the time, effort, and resources.
I really hope you meant the PT ;)
But seriously, i won't be touching the new films. Revisited is only going to be a 6 film saga. They are not being made to fit in with the new films either. It would be pointless. I may change something in the PT that then is referenced in the ST, so i would have to wait until every new Star Wars film is completed before i worked on any of the other films and that includes ROTJ. ROTJ will round off the saga. Once thee final film in the Revisited saga is complete then that is it for me. There will be no more edits from me. Hell, by the time i get to finish this saga it will probably be time for me to retire anyway.
However, the new SW movies that aren't labeled as episodes, the spinoffs, could be a good source for your PT:R in case you need any more footage. I think that given the extense lapse until PT:R is out (let alone ROTJ:R), it would be convenient to keep an eye on those hypothetical movies.