STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED ** — Page 96

The donation drive is going well. Thanks again to all who have contributed so far. We’re just over £1700 away from reaching the target. If we can hit the target by the end of this month, as a small thanks you, i will upload a clip of the redone Obi-Wan/ Vader duel from ANH:RHD

Now onto the first part in a short series of posts where i explain some of the changes i will be making for ROTJ:R.

In the scene in which the images below were taken, their dialogue , for one, doesn’t make much sense with what we see on screen. Leia says" The main entrance to the control bunker is the far side of that landing platform" This isn’t going to be easy". To which Han replies" Hey, don’t worry. Chewie and me got into a lot of places more heavily guarded than that". Well that wouldn’t be difficult because there is nothing or no one down there apart from the landing platform. And the only activity is the shuttle leaving. Which comes to the other problem. The scene directly before this is the scene at night when Luke faces Vader on the landing platform and is taken away to the shuttle. It’s the same landing platform and it makes it look like they were just sitting around in the shuttle for hours waiting for daylight.

It’s interesting though when you read this scene in the original novel (see picture below) .

"The Strike squad crouched down behind a woodsy ridge overlooking the Imperial outpost. Leia viewed the area through a small electronic scanner.

Two shuttles were being off-loaded on the landing platform. Several Walkers were parked nearby. Troops stood around, helped with construction, took watch, carried supplies. …"

Now that fits in perfectly with what they are saying on screen. Even though Han’s dialogue is slightly different, it’s still basically the same as in the film. This is the type of thing we should be seeing on screen at that point, so that is what i will be doing, using a mixture of physical models , miniature sets and digital FX. It’s going to be a heavily guarded place 😉

But Adywan, obviously the troopers are wearing perfect camouflage so you can’t see them!

Jokes aside adding some trooper and/or vehicles would be a great addition since it clearly isn’t heavily guarded per the conversation.

I am glad that the drive is going pretty well, I was very happy to contribute towards it and hope for some more to get this show on the road!

Are you still making a new Cargo Shuttle so Vader and the Emperor aren’t using the same ship as the “Parts and Technical Group”? I imagine if Vader lands in his fancy shuttle then the next shot is a Cargo Shuttle we won’t habe the “did they wait till morning to take off?” confusion.

doubleofive said:

Are you still making a new Cargo Shuttle so Vader and the Emperor aren’t using the same ship as the “Parts and Technical Group”? I imagine if Vader lands in his fancy shuttle then the next shot is a Cargo Shuttle we won’t habe the “did they wait till morning to take off?” confusion.

Yes, i’m still making a new shuttle.

This is great news!
I’ve always wished it was more clear that the AT-AT is docking with the landing platform. There’s some wrong perspectives out the corridor windows making it so that the ‘head’ is detached from the body.
I’ve pointed out how this all works to many people. Everyone always seems to think it’s cool when they realize you can see the inside of the AT-AT behind Luke and the guards.

Hey Adywan, I’m new to the website but have been a huge fan of Star Wars Revisited for a while now.
I was just wondering if your new shuttle design to replace the Tydirium (which is a great idea!) will be your own unique design or one directly taken from some other kind of Star Wars content?

Over a year ago I think he said it’d be all new, rather than the cargo shuttle from Rogue One. Though I’d certainly vote for the latter.

Yes, he’s planning an all-new design, not the Zeta from Rogue or the Sentinal from ANHSE. My vote would be for the Sentinal as it already has a cockpit that could more easily match the on-set Lambda one.

doubleofive said:

Yes, he’s planning an all-new design, not the Zeta from Rogue or the Sentinal from ANHSE. My vote would be for the Sentinal as it already has a cockpit that could more easily match the on-set Lambda one.

Actually, now that you mention it, I would be very happy with a Zeta or a Sentinal, I don’t think I have a preference!

(sorry to derail) I think it all kind of cements Luke as being the fulfilled hope to the Jedi. Yoda has insight, and can see the possibilities that Luke will turn like Vader did. But Yoda also said it’s hard to determine if the visions are showing what is going to happen or could happen. Even when Luke rushed to save his friends, Yoda thought he was vulnerable and wouldn’t be able to resist that temptation. Luke seemed to despise the evil, instead of being tempted by it. To see this evil man, claim that he was his father, just pushed Luke over the edge (pun intended). Luke would’ve rather dropped to his death than face that truth.

I always considered his letting go, and falling as a suicide attempt. Might’ve been the will of the force that caused him to be pulled into the ventilation system, or pure luck. I don’t think Luke had anything to do with it. That moment where he was rescued by the crew of the falcon, he seems to have slowly accepted the truth. Even speaking to Vader, and then Ben through the force. This was a major turning point for Luke.

He’s wiser by ROTJ, but still has his final test ahead of him, with Vader and the Emperor. Luke might’ve came close during the Jedi duel, but I think he realized what his rage was turning him to. The symbolism between his mechanical hand, and Vader’s now severed mechanical hand.

I was watching Plinketts TLJ review and he mentioned ROTJ being the first (and only?) movie where xwings and small spacecraft go into hyperspace on their own. Adywan, is this something you’ve considered altering in your version? I do like the idea of altering it so the smaller craft stay inside the cruisers while at lightspeed but don’t like the idea of having to alter John Williams score to make it work. This alteration would of course alter the arrival of the rebels at the death star too. At the very least, it’s an interesting topic.

I guess I always assumed bespin was closer to dagobah than hoth was.

Obi-Wan’s external hyperdrive ring was introduced in the prequels to give at least one example of technological progression between the eras. By the time of the OT, hyperdrives are small enough to fit in single-man ships.

I mean I guess…but was that Lucas retconning a bit? I mean, before ROTJ, I assumed it took quite a bit of time for Luke to get anywhere in his xwing. Even with the falcon using lightspeed it’s still portrayed as taking some time to get bespin…imo.

I think it’s safe to assume that any planet not in the Hoth ‘solar system’ would take years to reach on sublight engines, so unless Hoth, Bespin, and Dagobah were all in the same solar system Luke would have to have had hyperdrive on his X-wing. My headcanon is that Bespin is in the same solar system as the planet with the rebel base, and this is actually referred to as the ‘6th planet of the Hoth system’ in the movie so both the rebel base and Bespin are technically in Hoth.

NeverarGreat’s headcanon is reasonable. I think the official explanation is that the Falcon (and most ships) had a backup hyperdrive, designed only to get you (slowly) to an inhabited system for repairs.

My preferred explanation is that it’s a fairly dense area of space, such that systems are closer together than in our region, and that it still probably took several months to get to Bespin. This, of course, aligns with Luke needing more than a few days’ training with Yoda.