"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF ASKING, SO THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME..."
The Mangler Bros. Psycho Dayv Armchaireviews Notes on Suicide
It's with great regret that I inform everyone that the Reborn project is officially DEAD.
After a three hour phone conversation with ID tonight we have decided that to finish this project up to the standards we expect is just not possible for us.
No one really has any idea how many hours we have poured into Reborn in the last year and have very little to show for it. We wanted to do more than just a “cut and paste” job but it kept coming back to that is really all we could accomplish.
The more we looked at the six films the more we realized that Jedi and Sith really are the only two that go together well. We were attempting to “shoe horn” AOTC into ANH with very little success.
It is time for us to move on. We either had to finish Reborn or put it to rest once and for all. After going through everything for the past two weeks we realized putting it to rest was our only option.
If there's anyone that would like to “pick up” the project I would be willing to discuss what we have done and/or tried to do.
I know the clip I posted this weekend wasn't well received , but it is available for anyone that wants it without the music mixed in.
To the few fans we still had. :) I do apologize for not completing this and hope someone picks up the project at some point so we can all see it finished.
This is a real shame, I was so looking forward to the project. Hopefully someone else will pick it up. Unfortunately I don't have the skills necessary to pull it off, and even if I did I can't afford the software or an appropriate computer.
If it is truly a dead project, I think it would be wonderful if you could post a file — even just a text file or something similarly basic — detailing the edits you had made or were planning to make. Not necessarily the minor details of every flipped shot, colour grade or sound effect, but perhaps some of the music you were hoping to use and dialogue you had cut and at least where different prequel scenes were planned to fit in with the OT.
Perhaps if and when Adywan completes his Revisited series, a project like this will become easier, with less worrying about making the trilogies fit together without jarring and more effort on the artistic editing that makes this project so fascinating.
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im sorry to hear that guys, but it takes alot of guts to say enough is enough. i agree with RR, if you could possibly post up scene for scene notes, and materials that would be awesome.
Would you consider possibly carrying this on with an expanded team?
Or would the project be more achievable in a smaller episodic cliffhanger series format?
The discussioins you have provided have been interesting and exciting, and the trailers alone are fantastic, and achieve to an extent what a full film could have.:)
this makes me sad guys. i was really looking forward to this project. but i understand your frustrations, and desire to make this the best project that you can. I truly hope that someday someone picks this up. You guys did fine work. i will go weep in the corner now :(
This is a sad day. This was the edit I was looking forward to. This was one of those cool big ideas that only come along once in a long while. And the trailers were the best ever made for a fan edit.
I hope the lack of enthusiastic responses didn't play too much into your decisions to stop. I hope everyone realizes that there are a lot of lurkers on this board that don't speak up even when they see something exceptionally cool. I enjoyed the clip that was posted, and should have spoke up about it. It feels so much more like a real star wars film with that soundtrack.
I think I speak for all of us when I say that if after you take a break for a month or a year you decide you want to give it another go, you'll have our support.
-T
Working on: Superman: Son of Jorel
A sad day indeed. Don't give up guys. maybe after having a break you'll feel different. this project got me so excited and it was so original that it would be such a shame to see it die. Pm me and i'll see if there is some way i could help
Thanks, Taolar and Ady and everyone else!
You know, better than anyone, these things take an awful lot of work. And when your efforts are met with a general sense of apathy...it's tough to want to try and continue. Makes you question why you're doing it in the first place.
We all have to accept that we're living in a post-Adywan world now. Meaning that it's extremely hard anymore to impress anyone with a Star Wars edit. Ady was the 9/11 of fanediting. I mean that in a good way, Ady. ;) There was the world of fanediting on this board before Revisited, and then the world after. And rightfully so!
The other thing to consider is that we're editing on what will soon be a dead format. Blu-Ray is growing fast and I'd predict in 5 years, DVD's will be on the way out. We may as well be editing on VHS.
That's fine when you're doing a weekend project like Indiana Jones...but when you're pouring hundreds and hundreds of hours into something...only for it to be obsolete sooner than later...it makes you rethink whether or not it's worth it. And more importantly, we're just ready to move on to something else other than Star Wars for a change.
We tried it, we gave it everything we had...and it didn't work. We appreciate all the support. We really do. It kept us going. But, it's just time to let it go.
Like I said on fanedited, at least we got three good trailers out of it, if nothing else.
The other thing I want to say, is that I think it's time for me to leave originaltrilogy and make my new home for any future projects over at fanedited. It gets tiresome posting the same stuff on two different boards and most of the people on here are there (or can be there) too. So, I'm migrating. I find it ironic that this fanediting community has sprung out of a site dedicated to protecting the original SW films from change. But, for me, OT has always been a board full of great, (mostly) mature people who were always friendly and willing to help. Unfortunately, I just feel it's time to move on. I'll still lurk from time to time...but probably won't be contributing here much anymore.
Take care, All! It was a fun ride here at OT.com. I wish you all the best. See you on FE.
--InfoDroid