The Prequel Radical Redux Ideas Thread — Page 374

Anakin Starkiller said:

As far as I can tell this is basically how it is in all three official continuities, with occasional exceptions like Dooku. Honestly, if you want him to look monstrous, giving him yellow Sith eyes would be a good start.

…yes… that was the point I was making… Dooku is an exception. There shouldn’t be exceptions. You don’t get to mess with the dark side without consequences.
And the Prequels made it so Palpatine’s face is because of the lightning. It should be dark side corruption.
Not only does Vader’s suit look monstrous, a result of his immolation, a cosmic consequence, but under the mask he’s pale and scarred because of the dark side. He’s canonically supposed to be 46 but looks far worse, a testament to how much the dark side corrupted him.
In my interpretation, Zabrak’s are naturally brown (like Eeth Koth and Agen Kolar), and Maul looks like that because of the dark side.

That just leaves Dooku, and I’ve already posted what I plan on doing with Dooku.

Anakin Starkiller said:

As far as I can tell this is basically how it is in all three official continuities,

… Wait what’s the third?

ildiem said:

… Wait what’s the third?

There’s technically 3 “official canons”.

G-Canon, or Lucas Canon, is exclusively Episodes 1-6 and Clone Wars Seasons 1-6
The old Expanded Universe
And Disney Canon

G-Canon and the old EU are often conflated, but the fact is Lucas hardly paid attention and cared about the EU, and it contradicts Lucas’ intent numerous times.
https://www.tumblr.com/david-talks-sw/704700336111304704/george-lucas-involvement-in-the-expanded-universe?source=share

Which canon is the best is up to you. Though at this point, everybody basically has their own headcanon, a mishmash of the stuff they like, including me 😃

Suggestions for ways to make it so Revenge of the Sith appears to occur over a matter of months rather then days?

There’s a few ideas I can think of, like removing Palpatine telling Anakin he discovered Grievous’ location, so there’s room to interpret the next scene takes place like a week later rather then the next day (how did Yoda arrive on Kashyyyk and set up that whole base in a single morning anyway?). But it’s difficult to come up with something that makes it more clear this is a longer span of time.

Maybe try to do a visual effect with Padme’s belly so it grows over the course of the film? I wouldn’t know how to do that.

In the OT (with the exception of ANH) it feels like the timeline is more ambiguous. ESB and ROTJ feel like they could’ve taken place over months rather then like a week.
The longer timeline would make Anakin’s turn into Vader feel more convincing. He wasn’t a swashbuckling heroic guy just 3 days before killing his friends.

Also, for TPM, turn the Trade Federation into the Federation of Neimodia (so just the government of the planet) and the Neimoidians are just colonists. Nothing about trade or taxes.

TiiN said:

In general a good idea!

A very simple solution: Text overlays

Rename the Titel in “The 100 Days of Revenge of the Sith” or something like this and start with
“DAY 1” with the battle of coruscant
“DAY 10” Nightmares
…

Padme deliberately hides her belly with loose-fitting clothes so as not to reveal her pregnancy.

The time spans in Star Wars movies are not defined. You also don’t fly to another planet within 20 minutes. Nevertheless, little time passes in Revenge of the Sith. It is said to be about 9 days.

Yeah, that’s my issue; Revenge of the Sith, the film that would benefit most from the timeline being more vague (so one could interpret Anakin’s psychological decline as far more gradual) has like, the most defined timeline. You can tell it’s supposed to be happened over the course of days, and it’s annoying.

My only issue is that text overlays are not in any of the other films, so it may feel like it’s too much of a stylistic deviation? Maybe?

Another idea, relating to AOTC: to completely remove Jango Fett’s connection to Boba Fett, he’s recontextualized as one of the multiple Mandalorian warriors used as DNA templates for the clones, and is named Jango Prax (idea came from a AOTC fan rewrite). His son is not Boba. This would likely require the Kaminoans to be dubbed in an alien language.

First attempt at Coruscant turned into a classic style matte painting

it looks good and natural

Maybe this has been posted in another thread but legitimately some good ideas in here. I even like how they incorporated Jar Jar into AOTC.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zxa0u5lOcmw

First two shots of Padme’s Ruminations with classic style matte paintings.

https://streamable.com/hrrw0u

It is regraded, as will be the entire movie. I want to give Padme’s scenes this angelic yellow color.

Certainly a fair sight better than the original.

Replace Jar Jar’s dialogue with Jar Jar as voiced by Daffy Duck as voiced by Eric Bauza in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ba36o4MSS4

My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.

Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.

This is not perfect but it’s pretty good:

https://streamable.com/etboqy

Mrebo said:

My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.

Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.

This is not perfect (link good for 2 days) but it’s pretty good:

https://streamable.com/xdrunx

Please spill your secrets, something like this would be so, soooooo useful for some of my ideas.

Thank you, Bingo!

I edit a still shot in photoshop - here to insert Max - and then upload to Kling where I gave it simple instructions (“blue creature gesticulates”).

Another use I’m exploring is simply to have a scene last a couple second longer (like reaction shots) because so many shots in Phantom Menace are cut tightly which makes makes it difficult to rearrange without it feeling choppy.

Basic advice on Kling is [describe what the subject is doing] + [camera motion].

Another scene I want to do is Anakin jumping through the window after Zam has taken at shot at Padme. Here is more of an idea of the promises and limitations. Once I get around to paying $ I can experiment more and not have the watermark.

https://streamable.com/yspz9f
https://streamable.com/kw3o3h

Tell the AI “make it look like top-shelf 2002 CGI effects.”

I wonder if I could use this to implement my idea of replacing some of the background rebel and imperial extras with aliens (talking OT, tho likely some Prequel stuff too).

Would probably require a different strategy since I have to implement it into footage and not just a still picture.

Mrebo said:

My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.

Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.

This is not perfect (link good for 2 days) but it’s pretty good:

https://streamable.com/pgy1og

“This video isn’t available.”

Spartacus01 said:

Mrebo said:

My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.

Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.

This is not perfect (link good for 2 days) but it’s pretty good:

https://streamable.com/pgy1og

“This video isn’t available.”

new permalink: https://streamable.com/etboqy

I like G&G’s idea, I wonder if inserting a background character could be done by having Kling animate against on a blank (green screen) background that could be layered over footage, easily removing the blank background? With Kling you can set the beginning and ending images to use so that you can generally control where the figure is moving through space. Would still have to do work in the video editor - more experienced people can think that through better…