Star Wars Live Action Series Edits

So this may or may not be a side project to a much larger Filoni-verse idea I have in mind. I wanted to take on the challenge of editing each Star Wars live-action show in respective 2 hour movies. The plan is to cut each show down to its very core plot, leaving a lot of side-plots and characters behind.

This is done by only using 3 or 4 of the most relevant episodes from each series and piecing them togehter with various scenes from other episodes. The way the films are presented will match the style of show, the only thing I will add to each movie is the ‘a long time ago’ card.

Of course, this project is heavily inspired by Smudger9’s Mandalorian edits. A lot of my choices were directly effected by how they did their edits, however none of the footage was taken from their edits itself. But a big thanks for all the work done.

These films may not be perfect, a lot of good content will be removed and alot of supporting characters won’t get a massive arc, but it’s all done to create a set of movies that could be used for marathons or recapping. Overall, this is more of an experementation, instead of a definitive cut of the live-action shows.
These are the current edits in the works. This post will be updated over time. Any completed edits can be requested via PM.

OBI-WAN KENOBI - TBC
A Fan Edit of the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries

THE MANDALORIAN - V1 Complete
A Fan Edit of Mandalorian Season 1
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1485469/action/topic#1485469

THE MANDALORIAN II - TBC
A Fan Edit of Mandalorian Season 2

THE MANDALORIAN RETURNS - TBC
A Mandalorian-focused Fan Edit of The Book of Boba Fett

THE MANDALORIAN

So we are starting with our Season 1 edit . The main episodes used are Chapters 1, 3, 7 & 8. Footage from Chapters 2 & 4 are also used to tie things together. This movie currently sits at 2 hours and 8 minutes long (credits included).

The Story:
⦁ The first act is The Mandalorian tracking down the child, handing him to the Empire and inevitably rescuing him (Chapters 1 & 3).
⦁ The second act is Grief reaching out to Mando for help, followed by Mando gathering his gang to free Nevareu (Chapter 7).
⦁ The final act is the big confrontation as the end of the movie (Chapter 8).

Changes:
⦁ The movie opens will Grief assigning Mando with the bounty on the Child before cutting to the opening card
⦁ From their we cut straight to Mando landing on the next planet.
⦁ The ship never gets damaged by the Jawas.
⦁ Mando never confronts the Rhino thing, moving Grogu’s first use of the force to later in the film.
⦁ Grief and the Guild never confront Mando, they leave unharmed. However the Mandalorians still reveal themselves in this timeline, but off screen and the viewer assumes it because they are tired off living in hiding.
⦁ With Chapter 4 being cut, Gina’s character becomes one of the many ‘old friends’ Mando has
⦁ With Chapter 5 being cut, the crazy pit droid lady also becomes one of the many ‘old friends’ Mando meets with in Mando II.
⦁ Fennec Shand subsequently never gets shot and doesent get a new robo-stomach. Mando will now meet Fennec Shand in Mando II.
⦁ Griefs message to Mando from Chapter 7 has been reworked to remove references to gap in time their orginally was. The scene now works as Grief revealing his cards out of desperation, since the Empire is having a negative impact on Neverau.
⦁ Footage from Chapter 4 is used to better introduce the forrest planet. It also gives us the famously funny shot of the Child sneaking up on Mando as the Crest door opens. Credit to Smudger for the idea.
⦁ In Mando and Cara’s breifing, mentions of chapter 4 events have been removed and the hunters being sent by the Empire is now only reffered to in future tense.
⦁ The credits have been built from the ground up, using a combined list from all the used episodes. This prevents the credits from lasting over 20 minutes. The presentation style is recreated as accuratley as possible.

I hope you guys enjoy what I’ve thrown together. I will be happy to make a version 2 if there are some lines no longer fit the film, any shots that stick out or there are any edits that can better fit the films structure.

V1: This was essentailly a blind edit; cutting the series using my knowledge of what needs to be cut and what scenes need to be used.

Just an update:
The Mandalorian has now been completed and uploaded. I spent a good while trying to get a good middle ground when rendering the project. I’ve managed to get the mp4 to a nice 12GB with only some of the darker backgrounds showing some small visual compression. I have created a link sheet to all the edits that will be uploaded onto my Google Drive. To anyone who views them, the video will look better if you download the video, since I believe when the videos are processed on there, it compresses them further.

I’m now starting Mandalorian II which will be a little harder to construct since there are a lot more relevant episodes in the season the will need splicing up. So this edit could do a bit of 'Rise of Skywalker’ing (jumping to a planet for 10 minutes to chat with someone before moving on).

My plan is to make S02E01 the first act of the film, requiring it to be cut to about 40 minutes. The Second act will a little longer, splicing E03, E05 and E06 togther, giving us our journey to the seeing stone. E08 will be our final act which I think runs slightly short of 40 minutes.

Side note:
Looking forward to seeing how the Obi-Wan series will shape up since I am planning an edit of that too. As a bit of fun I checked them into Vegas and managed to get both E01 & E02 down to 50 minutes, assuming certain plot points will prove relevant throughout the rest of the series. I’m very conflicted on Obi-Wan so far, it feels like it’s trying to appeal to the prequel era kids like myself, but it’s coming off like a fan serivce reunion show (just me?)