Star Wars Episode I Ultimate Edit (* unfinished project *)

I’ve been watching this forum for like two years now with very few commenting but now I’ve decided to start my own fanedit of Episode I.

I know that many of you may think that we have enough of those and what could I possibly do to make something differnet and fresh. Well this is for my personal enjoyment of the movie and in order for me to enjoy the movie I need something differnet and fresh. Of course I’m going to edit the usual stuff that almost every faneditor of this movie does and hopefully take things further.

So the things I’m planning are:

Remove cheesy or redundant dialog.

Improve the overall pacing of the film.

Trim bad acting especially from Jake Lloyd.

Less boring political dialog.

Make the queens dialog sound like an actual girl.

Remove CG cartoony characters as much as I can.

Darken Sidius face and lower voice to preserve the plot twist in later movies.

No CG two head announcers during the pod race.

Make Jar Jar much more tolerable and less cartoony

No virgin birth

No chosen one

No midichlorians

Trim the pod race to a tolerable running time withouth draging.

Make the Neimodians less coward as possible.

No “Oh, oh” from the droids.

No “Yipee” from Anakin.

Insert Anakin fighting deleted scene.

Insert Probe droid deleted scene.

Color Correction to keep it more consistent with the Original Trilogy.

Rescore a lot of parts with Original Trilogy themes.

No C-3PO.

Darken Darth Mauls neck on the Coruscant scene where you can see his neck without makeup.

Remove Darth as a name for every sith.

And more as I get ideas.

Things I might do if they work or I’m able to do them:

No Gungans vs. droid fight.

No spacebattle, perhaps move it to the part when they escape Naboo.

Redub Jar Jar in English or subtitle him with the soundtrack from another language.

Redub Neimodians in English or subtitle them with the soundtrack from another language.

No Gungans except Jar Jar.

Rotoscope out silly background characters especially from Tatoinne.

Color Correct Palpatines clothes that change of color during a scene in Coruscant and then change back.

I’m using the Bluray as the source and the NTSC DVD for the deleted scenes.

Please post ideas and opinions of what you think could make the movie better.

TV's Frink said:

Ultimate, you say?

Hopefully, at least I know it's going to be Ultimate for me. :D

I'm uploading the first clip on vimeo right now, so stay tuned.

Cutting out the Gungans completely is actually quite easy. Just remove every scene they are in. They are only mentioned in one other scene that they don't appear in - when Jar Jar and Padme talk. That scene can also be cut as it is no longer necessary. Jar Jar is simply left on Coruscant before the climax :D

nightstalkerpoet said:

Cutting out the Gungans completely is actually quite easy. Just remove every scene they are in. They are only mentioned in one other scene that they don't appear in - when Jar Jar and Padme talk. That scene can also be cut as it is no longer necessary. Jar Jar is simply left on Coruscant before the climax :D

Not actually because when the Jedi meet Jar Jar for the first time he tells them that he would take them to Gungan City and then it becomes inevitable to meet the Gungans. The only way to make it possible is by redubing Jar Jar to say Naboo City instead if Gungan City and that is the difficult thing.

Here is the first clip: https://vimeo.com/46191032

Sidius gets Anonymous

Vladius said:

Have you considered starting the movie during the escape, or on Coruscant or Tatooine, as some people have suggested? The current way the movie works, with long sequences of Naboo at the beginning and the end, is a little bit tiring. This way you can also combine some of the action.

I considered to start with Anakin on Tatoinne on a pod race and then loosing to Sebulba like he says he did later on the movie because I want to establish him as a character as early as possible because we don't see him until like 40 minutes into the movie. To do that I would have to take scenes from the original podrace and it is difficult to decide what goes on the first podrace and what goes on the original podrace. Also I believe it would take away from the second podrace because we've already seen a pod race before at the beginnig of the movie.

I might try to start on Naboo directly to the invasion and thenhave the Jedi go directly to the rescue.

Remember that the podrace seen in the film is the first time Anakin has used his own pod. You'd have to find a way to excise the scenes of preparing for the race, and the exposition of Anakin's pod. 

hmm having him lost the race as early as possible, how about after the opening crawl starting on Darth Maul landing and releasing the probes.That scene always struck me as a decent, heres-the-bad-guy-opening-scene, like in a new hope.

strangeland said:

hmm having him lost the race as early as possible, how about after the opening crawl starting on Darth Maul landing and releasing the probes.That scene always struck me as a decent, heres-the-bad-guy-opening-scene, like in a new hope.

But he wouldn't have anything to look for in Tatoinne at that time because the Jedi haven't arrived there yet.

New clip with the new voice of amidala https://vimeo.com/46912966 opinions please.

I like the missing frames effect. It gives a clay-animation feel. I would love to assume that the circle droids are stop motion. Good work.:-)

Titus said:

I like the missing frames effect. It gives a clay-animation feel. I would love to assume that the circle droids are stop motion. Good work.:-)

I'm sorry but that wasn't on purpose that is just a configuration mistake on the render. But thank you!

aalenfae said:

I love her changed voice! 
It really made her feel "young and naive" as Sidious says, but her dialogue is intelligent-sounding despite her childish voice, which really almost strengthens the character.
Great work! 

Thank you very much! That was the point of it, I don't want her to be so much the damsel in distress, I want her to be able to stand on her own, which is really shown when she gives the speech at the senate.

By the way, I love what you're doing with your ROTS edit.

I'm having a bit of a problem here. So I've moved the space battle to the part when the characters try to escape Naboo, I'm also eliminating the Gungan vs. droids battle because it's not needed. This way the ending is simplified to two endings instead of four.

Now here is the problem, Padme reveals that she is the queen while asking help to the Gungans, and since in this version they don't ask Gungans for help because there is no battle, I can't find a way to establish that Padme is the queen.

I don't want to leave any plotholes so please bring suggestions.

aalenfae said:

Just take out Padme's lines about previously being queen from AotC, and then you're fine. 
I think. 

That would work, but it will still not make too much sense why in the part when they are getting to the viceroy, Padme is leading everyone if she's supposed to be a simple servant. And also why is a servant choosen to be a senator in Episode II.

Another idea I had was to either have the queen ask for the Gungan's help and be turned down by Boss Nass which would require dubbing him, and I'm currently not dubbing anyone because I don't have a good microphone nor a good actor.

Wow, imagine how cool it would have been if George Lucas had the Gungan's turned down the queen and then make a surprise arrival to help the Naboo. If only...