The Mandalorian : a Radical Redux Fan Edit Ideas thread

Personally I think it’s been flawless so far, but by way of parodying criticism of the recent movies:

Too many self-serving winks to the audience that make the galaxy seem smaller, so:

• Remove background aliens we’ve seen elsewhere
• Remove jawas
• Remove baby yoda

Not enough links to existing content, so:

• Add more background aliens from other SW media
• Re-dub IG-11’s introduction so he claims to be IG-88
• Put yoda’s force ghost in the background when baby yoda uses the force
• Add dialogue to make it explicit that the Mandalorian is Boba’s son/clone and change his ship to the Slave I
• Replace the egg-rhino with the reek from Episode II

Mandalorian character needs tweaks:

• No dialogue
• All dialogue should be redubbed by someone with Temuera Morrison’s accent
• Also recolour armour to make him explicitly Boba Fett
• Mandalorians should be lone wolves and not accept help so don’t have him meet Kuiil (the Ugnaught)

Other necessary changes for my personal enjoyment:

• Werner Herzog’s character should be replaced by Thrawn
• Set it during the OT
• Set it during the PT
• Replace Carl Weathers’ dialogue with new dialogue cut from his appearances in Arrested Development. Baby, I got a stew goin’.
• Add John Williams score

EddieDean said:

Too many self-serving winks to the audience that make the galaxy seem smaller

And later…

• Add more background aliens from other SW media
• Re-dub IG-11’s introduction so he claims to be IG-88
• Put yoda’s force ghost in the background when baby yoda uses the force
• Add dialogue to make it explicit that the Mandalorian is Boba’s son/clone and change his ship to the Slave I
• Replace the egg-rhino with the reek from Episode II

😄

EddieDean, I appreciate your comments so much.

For the sake of future readers I’m gonna link Darth Muffy’s Noir-Style grade idea. Like he mentioned, it could be an interesting regrade could be a fun way to rewatch the series. I feel like a noir look in this universe could fit well with a synth rescore as well, like something from Bladerunner maybe.

Darth Muffy said:

Screenshots:

Wait… it’s season 1? I thought it was only gonna be a mini series…

It’s already been picked up for season 2. In fact I believe they’ve already started production.

I agree with you Hal, I don’t think many fan-edits will be majorly concerned with “fixing” things, but putting a twist on the experience.

If each episode is about 30 minutes, I’m guessing could you could turn the first 8-episode season into a 4-5 hr movie, but split into two parts, like the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. Having multiple films would add to the parallels between it and Lone Wolf and Cub, which had six films of its own.

My guess is you could potentially turn the first season into movie that’s around 2 hours long with aggressive editing. If the first couple chapters are anything to go off, with thirty minute episodes that sometimes tell a story of their own without greatly progressing the larger whole, it’d probably be easy to trim.

For instance, depending on what happens in the next few episodes concerning the baby Yoda, you could potentially cut episode 2 down to a single scene (leaving the planet).

I think it’s fine so far and doesn’t need tweaking.
Although watching ep2 I was trying to think of how I could move as much of the sandcrawler/Jawa stuff that I could into A New Hope.

regularjoe said:

I think it’s fine so far and doesn’t need tweaking.
Although watching ep2 I was trying to think of how I could move as much of the sandcrawler/Jawa stuff that I could into A New Hope.

There isn’t much that can be used in ANH. It’s a good idea in theory, but the sandcrawler is a bit different (especially all the stuff on the roof)

DominicCobb said:

My guess is you could potentially turn the first season into movie that’s around 2 hours long with aggressive editing. If the first couple chapters are anything to go off, with thirty minute episodes that sometimes tell a story of their own without greatly progressing the larger whole, it’d probably be easy to trim.

For instance, depending on what happens in the next few episodes concerning the baby Yoda, you could potentially cut episode 2 down to a single scene (leaving the planet).

I stand by this a potential (in fact you could be even more aggressive and cut out episode 2 entirely), but I also kinda like the idea of doing a series of movies. In that case, the first three episodes put together would make a fairly solid intro movie.

I’ve always found that a Tarantino style bounty hunter film would an interesting prospect.