Acbagel

g00b said:
Great to hear! 😄

I’m close to finishing off the Book 4 subs for the older ones to keep enjoying 😉

And by “close” he meant REALLY close. Book 4 subtitled is completed, and I have uploaded it on my end. Again, no need for new links. If you have them already you have it where Book 4 is located.

Bored at 3AM said:

Awesome to hear. My younger students have been loving your Rebels Recut by the way.

This is so cool! Learning through Star Wars is the best learning haha

I am ~75% through my first technical pass on Book 6, working a little bit as I go, but mostly making notes and figuring out what’s causing what, evaluating scene placements/pacing. All pretty stable so far, I have about 40 changes to make still so far from my notes and I expect that to get around 60 by the time I’m done. Nothing that should take too long, these range as simple as “do a -3 audio gain on Din’s line” to “color grade overlap on frame X” to “Add new hyperloop pod sfx on way to fleet”. Some tasks are like 1 minute tasks, some are like 10 minute tasks. All is progressing well and I should have it finished review by the end of tomorrow, then will probably do a livestream or two cleaning up this final changelist, then will send out previews for editor review. Working hard!

Hey all, just wanted to announce that Darthg00b has completed the subtitles for Book 3! Give him a big round of applause and check out his Rebels project. The new subtitled/chaptered version of Book is now uploaded into your previously linked folders, you don’t need a new one.

Book 6 review continues! Adding a little bit more Mando’a (mostly like background/side lines) and testing some things for Luke’s academy.

Oh yeah! 😉

Once this project is all done I definitely want to do an Andor rewatch interweaving these episodes where they’re placed chronologically!

Lots of good points being made her, interesting disucssion!

Darth Sadifous said:

Enjoy your time with your family over the holidays and release it once you feel it is 100%. Grateful for you undertaking this project, especially attempting to salvage a lackluster Boba Fett mini series and a phoned in third season of The Mandalorian. The hype is real though! Happy Holidays and may the force be with you!

Thank you, Darth, I really appreciate your patience and hope my Boba Fett will feel far less lackluster than the one you remember from the show (and don’t remember from S3 because he wasn’t there…)

Bored at 3AM said:

I watched the first two movies over the weekend and this is most certainly going to be my go-to versions from now on. Excellent work. Looking forward to seeing how you wrap it all up.

Wow, very cool! I am glad to hear that, definitely post again once you’ve made it through the other films!

aGreatHumanBeing said:

Out of curiosity: I guess you, as me, saw the original show. And hopefully I will be es excited as you when I finally sees this version.

But how you (and others in this thread, please share your thought also) think this edit will be for a first time viewer?

I’ve been planning to introduce my girlfriend to Star Wars in the (hopefully near) future. Will it be better to show her this then the TV show, or should we see the full show first and use these edits for rewatches?

I can say that I showed my edits (though, much earlier versions) to my wife who had never seen the show before and she had a great time with them and has no interest in watching the show, but does want to rewatch the edits (when I finish lol, got pressure from all sides ;P).

I have made the edits to be very first timer friendly, that was a primary goal, to make it a great experience for a first time viewer. So I would recommend it if you think my edit is preferrable to the D+ version.

vranir said:

To me, the single biggest downside of this edit vs the original series is the movie vs episode length. All the changes here are excellent, but the longer format makes it a harder sell, especially for new viewers who might be more open to a series of 30-40 minute commitments until they get hooked.

My ideal plan is to recut these edits back into episodes for my own use, but I have no idea about when or how well that would work.

This would be a cool project! I definitely made them to fit into movie arcs, so I’m not sure you’d find a consistent episode length time, but you could just make episodes of the “Acts” in my films. Feel free to do that if you wish!

EddieDean said:

That’s an interesting take Vranir, but I can see the value, since Acbagel’s done so much great work within the episodes themselves.

I’m a fan of the movie format since the existing Acbagel movies work so well combined into arcs, but I balk a little at the 3.5 hour runtime of the final movie. I had been thinking of chopping it into two for personal use (the first half ending on the pirate fight over the planet), and reinserting the Dr Pershing content which I believe was planned to be cut, but we’ll have to see what Acbagel puts out!

The Way of Mandalore Book 6… Inspired by the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions 😉

beachedwhale said:

…You have no idea how excited I have been to get to Acbagel’s movies and I showed her the first one, somehow she only knew about “baby yoda” from toys etc thinking it was literally just a silly version of yoda. It was a crazy twist when she actually saw him and was worried when Mando just left him (going on that prison mission just works so well for the pacing)

Long story short I would happily recommend these films to anybody instead of the series, higher quality story telling and the Boba back and forth is incredible. I’d happily never have further adventures with Mando if it meant these edits could remain

Wow that’s a cool experience! Thanks for sharing, I love hearing how first timers feel as they watch it with the various changes. Book 6 reignites that Book 2 feeling again with the back and forth with Boba, and some mixing in of Bo-Katan too. Excited to share it ASAP!

Patali said:

I would 100% recommend showing her this cut for the first watch through. It makes the content much more digestible. And honestly, when you watch Way of Mandalore, it just makes more SENSE than the original version. THe plot elements he fixes, and to me, the best part is how the Boba Fett plot from that show is sprinkles throughout. it is sort of becomes the main B plot of the show. Like the way GOT switches over to Khaleesi in the early seasons. And then finally midway through, Mando and Boba finally meet. That moment was well done in the original show, but it’s even MORE epic having spent time with Boba up until then. It feels like a big event.

I haven’t even watched Mando season 3, but from what I understand, this series is a major improvement. I didn’t want to watch Season 3 after Boba Fett shoehorned Grogu back into the story so fast. But Bagel salvages it wonderfully, removing him from the first part of season 3, Bagel’s Book 5, and therefore increasing the separation time between Din and Grogu.

For me who has never seen Season 3, and my wife who had never seen the Mandalorian (or BF) at all, we have had a wonderful experience. I think she would have become bored with the regular series.

Thanks for the recommendatio, Patali! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Book 6 as a first timer viewer too. Hope you are doing well, friend!

Bored at 3AM said:

I’ll be using it for my ESL students in movie form, because I can cut it up however I’d like in 10 to 20 minute chunks with the readers I’ve made for it. So, yeah, that would presumably be their first exposure to it.

This is really cool as well, I can’t believe that haha! Well, make sure you give them review templates to fill out after they watch 😉 And another big thanks to g00b for the subtitling effort. I know he’s going through some big life changing (good) things as well that’s taking up his time, but it will be very nice to have them subtitled for people who need it. And when I finish Book 6, I can join in on helping

beachedwhale said:

Great to hear on how it’s going and appreciate the difficulties you’ve had! The excitement for this has never stopped but it is important to take your time on this and spend time with family, just remember once you post it you’ll have an armada waiting for you!

Thank you very much!

I am very curious on how much Boba we can expect, as Disney haven’t given you a lot to work with but this will be the only film we see him kitted up from the get go

You will definitely get your fill of Boba here! I think he is very well integrated into this final arc, it feels quite satisfying 😃

Hey, all! Apologies again for the delay, I was really trying to get this out before December, yet here we are. So here’s what’s been going on:

I think I have finally fixed all of the techinical difficulties with my computers that was making editing so difficult, the upgraded laptop helps on the road, though even with that I was still having major issues with read/write speeds from my external drive, and the Disk usage was constantly at 100% and I began getting warnings about a corrupted drive… So, I stopped using that drive until I could order another one. The new drive arrived a couple nights ago and I did a full backup of the entire project, it took 13 HOURS to transfer everything, so something was definitely failing in that other drive, but it’s all safely on a new one. Through that I was able to do a partial review of the full film, but had some major audio bugs I missed that was making watching the draft render impossible to focus (nothing serious, just stupid errors like leftover soundtracks from other scenes that I accidentally left in the timeline that began playing over character dialogue, lots of floating unintended audio placements). So I cleaned all those up and made another draft render to complete final edits from (it’s such a massive project with thousands of extra files, so it takes 3-4 hours to render out each time).

I spent a couple hours watching it last night (the full film including credits is currently ~3 hours 45 minutes, this is before pacing cuts, but this long of a film takes a lot of time to review) and to be honest I was actually expecting it to be in rougher shape than it was. There are certainly still some glaring issues to fix, but it’s mostly very easy fixes to make (color grade overlaps, subtitle grammar/formatting, still some floating audio). Overall I was encouraged by the state of things. I have maybe ~5 AI VFX shots in here (mostly just extensions to scenes, there are SO many fast jump cuts on Mandalore, having a few extra seconds of an explosion playing out really helps the chaotic pacing), and a few of those I want to redo because the video models have developed SO much over the year+ that I have been working on this, so I’ll replace some of that. I have access to Adobe’s generative extension function now too which is really cool for holding on a character’s face for another second or two.

I can say, the part that I reviewed, I was having a LOT of fun with. The Mando’a, the alien voices, the new story direction… I am very proud of it all, and even more excited to share it with you. The film feels like old school Star Wars. It really does. I know some of you are waiting on this daily, and this is something you’re looking forward to as much as some of the upcoming Disney projects, so I want to thank you for your patience and apologise again for the delays. I want to promise a Christmas present for you guys, but I have so much family holiday travel I don’t think I can make that promise, though I will try as hard as I can to get it out ASAP. Let me know if you have any questions!

New laptop arrived this morning! Should be able to get back to wrapping this up right after Thanksgiving!

Hey! I appreciate everyone’s patience, I had 3 commercial shoots to travel for in the last 3 weeks and then editing and publishing those had to take priority, and as I mentioned I couldn’t work on the road with that laptop freezing up every 5 seconds. Good news, I bought a new one on a black friday deal and it will be here on Monday. Will have to travel again for the holiday but hopefully the release won’t be too much longer after that

Project Update:

Been a hectic few weeks in RL unfortunately, lots of extra travel for work, which isn’t normally a problem because I usually just work from my laptop on the go. However, after assembling the entire film into one sequence for export, it’s simply too much for the laptop to handle now. It takes 20+ seconds to even start playing in the timeline after hitting the play button, so any editing is almost impossible. Still works just fine on my uber-PC at home, just having trouble getting the time there to sit down for the hours needed to wrap this up. Working on it as much as I can though!

Darth Sadifous said:

Do I need to download all the versions of Books 1-5 over again if I have not updated my downloads since April of this year? Thanks for all you do for this community and may the force be with you!

If the last download was in April, yes, there will be a few new downloads you’ll want!

Blueknight said:

I finally had the time to finish watching these and I got to say, this was an improvement. It’s also made me realize how great each season was when you focus on the main cast or main quests. Book 5 was my favorite in terms of content shown and just for being a great story about the Mandalorians. I’m looking forward to Book 6.

Thanks for sharing! So glad you’ve enjoyed it, and if 5 was your favorite I think you’ll like 6 even more!

Patali said:

I am on paternal leave, just had our first baby!

We are very excited for this movie. We loved Book 5. Having never watched Season 3, we were really happy to have Book 5 be a true deep dive into Mandalorian culture. But for Book 6, I am ready to see Boba Fett again.

Whoa, congrats!!! I have #4 coming in March, most exhausting thing I have ever experienced, even moreso than being in the army, but definitely worth it! Make sure this film is the first one your baby watches 😉

ANNOUNCEMENT: THE WAY OF MANDALORE – Book 6 | THEATRICAL TRAILER

Vode an… the wait is nearly over.

Years of work, edits, and countless late nights in the Great Forge have culminated in this moment.

The official trailer for THE WAY OF MANDALORE - Book 6 is here.

This is the legacy of everything I have built toward, Grogu’s training with Luke, Din’s restoration, Boba’s place in the universe, Bo-Katan’s rise to Mand’alor, the Homecoming to Mandalore itself.

No spoilers, no cheap reveals or click-bait teasers, but a proper trailer as it should be.

This is the Way.

Watch the trailer now: https://youtu.be/Y4LZnYbBG0o

Announcement and Book 6 previews:

Our treasured editor g00b has completed subtitling and chapter titling The Way of Mandalore Book 2, and I now have it in the drive. Like Book 1, this one will require new links as I moved everything over to a larger paid drive. If you want this .mkv version, please post here or DM me. Going forward when g00b eventually gets around to Book 3 it will no longer require new links. The last time you’ll need new links is when I put the entire saga on the new drive into one folder, with Book 6 included 😃 (coming soon ^tm)

TheDimitrios said:

Very excited!

Me too! Probably will be done color grading tonight or tomorrow, then I’ll do the first passthrough review watch on the whole film. Here’s some previews on the color philosophy:

“Rock World” is Ravaraan, a moon in the Mandalore system closer to the sun, so I wanted a hot, dry, red rock vibrant look that also brought out the colors of the Mandalorian armor a bit more.

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I thought Kamino looks waaaay too dark and blue in BoBF, so for Boba’s dream sequence I have matched the Kamino apperance in AotC.

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AotC reference:

Tatooine has got this really weird thing going on where they go very red and saturated at night, then very cool blue in the day… To me, that is completely backwards for Tatooine. I keep night dark and the day looking hot (went for a TPM inspired Tatooine color).

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Plazir underground looked a bit bland, and the purple lighting tint meshes well with the purple plants above ground.

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Finally, in the show this scene is set during the day on Mandalore, whereas in mine it’s set on Nevarro at night.

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Mandalore and Yavin will look akin to how they did in Book 5.

losthead said:

This is looking incredible!! I love that you’ve incorporated Boba so much here, his inclusion in the final battle seems like such a natural fit. I can’t wait to watch it in all its glory!

Absolutely, and I’ll tell you it works even better when you have his BoBF Battle of Tatooine plotline playing out leading up to his decision to join his vode on Mandalore.

VERsingthegamez said:

Hype train is real. Haven’t been this excited since Film X for Anjohan’s GOT Edits.

That’s a lot of hype then haha, thanks for dropping by the stream the other day.

vranir said:

I’m floored by these new sequences. Can’t wait, and primarily because of your work, I also can’t wait for The Mandalorian and Grogu. More raw content!

I’m also excited to get my hands on new content and imagine what to do with it, but also slightly nervous it’s going to contradict something I’ve already done a lot of work on lol

Rors said:

Holy shit!This is looking fucking awesome!Acbagel, you’re doing magic with Mando(Season 3) and TBOBF!FUCK YEAH, I’M EXCITED!

LOL I can tell! Can’t wait to get it into your hands!

One last preview… Can anyone guess what these new scenes are about?

8.7 million views on the trailer in 4 days… That’s ROUGH.

vranir said:

Man, I am so looking forward to this edit! I love the additions you’re making.

EddieDean said:

Extremely impressive and exciting, Acbagel!

beachedwhale said:

Looking impressive! Really looking forward to this edit and additional cameos to the ending is a nice touch, never would have considered a Sabine one!

Thanks you three! I appreciate the support and the patience through everything. With that said… You won’t have to be patient much longer.

I can hardly believe it… But after 3+ years this project is entering its final stage (well… at least until Fall 2026 when Mando and Grogu releases out of theaters). The Way of Mandalore Book 6, at LONG last, has a full first draft cut completed.

This has been an incredibly long journey of editing, re-editing, refining, and reimagining, and now the final film exists as a complete draft from start to finish (and a pretty completed draft at that, save some transitions/sound blending). There’s still technical polishing to do, and color grading, but for the first time I can sit back and actually watch it all the way through as one story.

Thank you to everyone who has followed along with this saga, your support and excitement has been the fuel that kept me going. The finish line is in sight! You have a very realistic chance of seeing this thing in the month of October.

I will share some new preview images to tie you over until then!

I know I just shared the Sabine photo in the last one, but wanted to show an update of how it’s looking after more work and integrated into the film rather than just a still.

And another guest appearance at the ceremony! (the subtitles for these two are from a Mandalorian chant being sung in Mando’a in the background)

Did you also hate seeing Moff Gideon in Season 3 and have his final scene be him mysteriously vanishing? Well, now you can see him explode into a million pieces.

Working on finishing some Republic Commando inspired Mando-esque HUD on the screen for when we see through Din’s mask. Always hated how it’s just blank black outlines.

The “Boba has no rancor” gag is gone, replaced by the assassin getting violently grabbed and devoured by a real rancor. (Shoutout to JediZorro for helping me with this VFX)

Utilized some Slave 1 footage and did a lot of roto’s to get a good looking brief space combat around Mandalore. Part of that entailed needing to replace Boba’s targeting computer image from a shuttle to a Destroyer.

And here is one such Destroyer with a new shot of it bombarding Axe Woves’ cruiser.

And from Woves’ perspective of getting bombarded in his cruiser… All new laser and explosion VFX reflecting off the viewport as his ship goes down.

But Boba isn’t going to let his vod jump out of the bridge without a rescue plan… Which is why he follows him down through orbit into atmopsphere.

And our dear friend Woves is successfully saved from plummeting to his doom in a mid air jetpack to boarding ramp maneuver.

Finally, for now, a sweet picture of a father and son reuniting on the beautiful planet of Yavin IV outside of Luke’s academy temple. (Shoutout to Dazman for the initial foundation of rotoscoping I built from)

Also, huge shoutouts to Shoya for ALL of the Mando’a translations, and g00b for constant review and feedback and support, and to many others who participated in this thread and my chats during my 80+ hours of livestream editing TWoM.

So excited to share this soon, but don’t want to rush any of the final touches that make a project go from good to great. We are so close!

Everything about this film has come across as exceptionally underwhelming… I feel like we are headed towards another Solo-esque release. The IP is in a terrible place in general public opinion and you are releasing a film intentionally with no overall plot significance with a 50s “pulpy” cheesey/cute adventure story in a way that looks blatantly like a TV to movie low budget production. Just not sure what they expect to happen here… Do they really expect this to bring the masses back? They are 5 years late for the Mando hype and Star Wars hype/interest is extremely low right now compared to just about any other time in the IPs history. This whole “throwback” marketing strategy has been tried time and time by Disney again with other IPs and it NEVER works. I don’t think this movie will crash as hard as Solo did because the budget is WAY lower, but it’s not going to get a huge reception by fans or the general public. At best, I would predict it’s trending like a Skeleton Crew type of thing where most people don’t hate it and it’s good for what it is but most people don’t even give it a chance.

On the positive, hell yeah to the Amani at 0:41, thrilled Ludwig Göransson is back, and Zeb will be cool to see in a live action movie too.

Also, the official announcement page is full of weird phrasing and errors “The Mandalorian’s Zeb Orrelios is back” wut.

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-trailer-key-art-1

They absolutely just fed the trailer to an AI and told it to write an announcement lol. There are so many markers of AI text here.

beachedwhale said:

Hey Acbagel, have you got any updates? Looking forward to see where you’re at with it all!

Hey! Thanks for checking in. To be honest, I have made only a little bit of progress over the last 4 weeks. A few real life things, combined with me getting distracted by Lord of the Rings (finally going through that whole universe for the first time, finshed all of The Silmarillion and the other side works, now into The Hobbit!) have slowed down the editing hours. However, I am also in the most technically heavy part of the entire film, so the work I have been doing has just been extremely dense and slow with VFX/SFX.

I will share some previews of what I’ve been cooking though 😃

New Imperial forces arrive at Mandalore!

And someone arrives to combat them…

More of a bug fix from the original show… But look at the D+ scene where Din enters Gideon’s HQ. The room revealed in the door that opens is complete and utter nonsense. The whole geography of the base is a crapshoot and I have gone through PAINSTAKING efforts to make it make sense! Here’s an early previz of adding the correct room as well as Gideon into the scene.

And work has begun on adding important and relevant characters to the final ceremony on Mandalore. Had to take some clips from Ahsoka, re-add Sabine’s hair (it shouldn’t be cut yet, and there are actually no shots of her with long hair wearing her armor in the show), and get her placed. There will be a couple other cameos in this ceremony that I’m still working through!

Hope that whets the appetite for now! Most of those screenshots are still without color correction or lighting adjustments, but it’s coming along well! I’ll get back to more editing hours soon.

Nalier said:

So, this might sound a bit strange (please don’t judge me xddd), but I wanted to ask if it would be possible to make a version of the Mandalore movies with the traditional “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” and a text crawl?
While I was watching Patterson’s Ahsoka, it hit me how awesome it would be to have it feel like a seamless part of the main saga. I’m imagining something like:
• Prequel Trilogy (my preference is Hal’s edits)
• PixelJoker95’s Kenobi
• DigModiFicaTion’s Coaxium Heist
• Rogue One
• Original Trilogy (Adywan all the way)
• The Way of Mandalore
• Patterson’s Ahsoka
• Smudger’s Lost Planet
• Neverar’s / Poppasketti’s / Hal’s Sequel Trilogy
(Except no Andor. Andor is too perfect for an edit. I’d honestly rather just watch NFBisms’ Rogue One re-cut as three Andor episodes xddd)

That’s a great list! I appreciate the suggestion, but I probably will not be adding in opening crawls to my films. If anything, in the future I may animate a new logo for each with the movie title, but I kind of already have my own signature opening style that is already consistent between all 6 TWoM films. I’m a proponent of only having main Saga films have a crawl, and this TWoM saga is a side story.

Film update for everyone:

Book 6 production continues to progress very well! The final 20 minutes of the film are VERY technically heavy to edit, so it’s just taking a long time to get everything built. On my YT you’ll see a couple dozen hours of AE VFX work… The sound mixing in the last 2 episodes is atrocious, so doing a ton of audio work to give every single scene more punch and drama. I am quite close to having the entire film visually completed aside from color grading, and I just have to get a few more Slave 1 rotoscopes, and then add some new characters to the Mandalore ceremony at the end 😉 Then it’s a full audio work pass on the entire movie, then a final bug fix watch on the big screen after a render, send out for a couple previews to other editors for final touch up suggestions, and then release! So still a couple months away from that last part.

I am very happy with what I’ve been able to accomplish on Mandalore. I have written extensively in this thread and spoken on stream about how messy the last 2 episodes are in Season 3, and I’m very proud of what I was able to turn it into and am super excited to share with you all. There are some things that simply aren’t fixable, such as the battle coming to a pretty abrupt ending as it does in the show, there’s just nothing for me to build upon, but specifically the leadup I think has so much more weight now.

Really hope you can recover everything, this project is too good to lose! May the force be with you

EddieDean said:

Sorry to ask you to repeat yourself - I dug back through the history of this thread but couldn’t find a clear answer - which of your plans did you end up going for for your new Books 5 and 6? What’re the rough plot beats of both? If I remember correctly you’re pulling the BoBF content into Book 6, making Book 5 the start of Mando season 3?

Book 5 is apostate journey through Nevarro pirates. Book 6 is Tatooine with Boba + Grogu training through new Plazir and Mandalore. Book 6 is a 3-3.5 hour film ala “Endgame” to conclude TWoM saga.

godbilla said:

I just spent the last two weeks bingeing book 1 to 5 and I really liked what I saw. I haven’t watched both series since release and this was a great way to kill two birds with one stone.
Super excited to hear that book 6 is well on its way, and truth be told I almost didn’t continue on my watch simply because I heard you were in the process of making subtitle versions. But I caved and I loved every minute of it.

Awesome, glad you had a good time! Book 6 is indeed going well, we’re working through the battle of Mandalore right now, it’s pretty fun since it’s the part of the show i’ve watched through the least amount of times. I am literally writing out scene beats on flashcards and reorganizing everything to make something a bit more watchable, the geography of this base in the show is nonexistent so I’m trying to make something sensible.

Yes, speaking of Subtitles! Thanks to g00b…

The Way of Mandalore Book 1 is now released WITH subtitles and metadata/chapters as an MKV file. So anyone who needs that is welcome to DM me for access. Unfortunately, I got locked out of the account that had the first 2 films on it so I have new links for that version of Book 1 that you’ll need. No promises on timing of subtitles for the other films, but the first one is done!

beachedwhale said:

Great to hear, always a surprise to be sure but a welcome one with these updates. I’m still looking forward to this more than anything out or upcoming at cinemas, especially with you salvaging the modern day Boba bits

Wow, thanks! Super excited to share this one. Production is going very well! Into the last hour of the film, working through Mandalore right now. Still on pace for a late summer/early fall release.

Nalier said:

Hey, Acbagel! Will Book 6 be the last of your movies? I feel like the rest of Boba Fett’s story and the fight for Mandalore could be hard to compile into one two-hour film. And one plot line could take away from the other.

Btw - I hope you’re planning on editing the upcoming Mandalorian and Grogu film to fit with your storyline ^^

Hello, Nailer! Good question. Yes, Book 6 will be the last film (until The Mandalorian and Grogu movie comes out). You are correct that there’s no way to shove all of the needed main events into a 2 hour film, but there’s also not enough footage to make two 2-hour films, so this is going to be a 3-3.5 hour epic conclusion film à la Avengers Endgame.

LeviathanTDS said:

Acbagel said:

Hacai said:

Hi Acbagel, great project!

I have a question, if it has come up before then I apologize 😃 Are you planning to release this project in native 4K?

Almost all the source material has already appeared on Blu-ray (From what I recall, The Book of Boba Fett is due for release sometime this year). Somewhere I saw a comparison of the D+ version with the one on Blu-ray for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, and gee, there’s a difference 😉

Thanks! Books 1-4 will not be re-released in native 4k, Books 5-6 are in native 4k.

zebweasel said:

Just wanted to say I’ve watched the first two books so far and think it’s fantastic! You did a great job. I was wondering if I could also get your Bad Batch episode 0? I’ve heard good things.

Thanks Zeb, glad you’re having a good time with it! Sure, I’ll DM you about TBB.

I thought your Bad Batch 0 was sheleved. Is it complete?

BB Ep. 0 has been released for a while, it’s just a touch up edit of the Clone Wars episodes to focus on TBB characters as the main characters and to get their personalities/tone of the story more in line with how I was planning to do for TBB show. But the whole TBB is indeed on hiatus, but any further conversation about that can go here: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-Bad-Batch-Cinematic-Version-A-More-Mature-Edit-WIP/id/90466/page/1#1460152

TWoM update! I’m like 95% done the Yavin Grogu reunion scene now, moving onto getting the final Nevarro prep scenes made now and fixing Greef’s non-reactions to Grogu. Then it’s onto Mandalore for the final Act of the film!

Thanks for the continued interest! I would indeed like to revisit these one day, can’t promise it’ll be anytime this year now, but perhaps it’s a project for next year. There is a LOT I could do to change things with all the new skills and tools I’ve picked up since I first started making these in 2020.

Hacai said:

Hi Acbagel, great project!

I have a question, if it has come up before then I apologize 😃 Are you planning to release this project in native 4K?

Almost all the source material has already appeared on Blu-ray (From what I recall, The Book of Boba Fett is due for release sometime this year). Somewhere I saw a comparison of the D+ version with the one on Blu-ray for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, and gee, there’s a difference 😉

Thanks! Books 1-4 will not be re-released in native 4k, Books 5-6 are in native 4k.

zebweasel said:

Just wanted to say I’ve watched the first two books so far and think it’s fantastic! You did a great job. I was wondering if I could also get your Bad Batch episode 0? I’ve heard good things.

Thanks Zeb, glad you’re having a good time with it! Sure, I’ll DM you about TBB.

Purple Plazir is complete! Check out the video preview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApCyPaSKEZ0

Thanks for the continued interest everyone! Like oojason said, I don’t personally mind requests in here but also just feel free to DM me for link requests so we can keep this thread focused on discussion and feedback for the edit! If you have something specific you want to share about your thoughts regarding the edit that contributes to discussion in addition to asking for a link though don’t hesitate to share though!

Speaking of updates… I haven’t been as active updating you good folks on here, simply because I’m doing a TON of updates on my youtube channel, but I want to bring you OT folks up to speed on progress. First gotta give huge shoutouts to darthg00b (been helping me with dialogue writing and VFX) and Shoya Haa’runi (does EXCELLENT with all my Mando’a translation scripts I send him).

So I’m about at the 1 hour 50 minute mark out of the 3 hour film, and we’re making amazing progress. I am starting Round 2 of work on the Darksaber transition scene now redoing some of the conversation and Mando’a and finishing the rotoscoping Grogu out. Once I’m through that, it’s onto the Grogu reunion scene as the next big task then the final battle of Mandalore deep diving for first time. I’d say I’m on pace for an early-mid summer release!

Couple of specifics:

If you want to see how Boba Fett ACTUALLY feeds his would-be Hutt assassin to his rancor rather than the “There’s no rancor” gag, check this out (Thank you darthg00b for Rancor rotoscope work!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT1s6jDzwcc

Also to keep bragging on g00b… After my last stream where we were critiquing some of the set pieces on Plazir for being overly earth-like with regular earth trees and regular earth grass all over the place (especially bad in the Darksaber set), he made some mockups for how we could transform Plazir into something much more… Majestic.

Again, like the Cad Bane rework (which I am still toying with), it CAN be done it’s just all down to a cost benefit analysis… Every feature we add makes the end product better, but I WOULD like to actually release this before the Mando movie in 2026 lol

Final g00b brag before my own updates… He’s also helping with color and reflections on the rotoscope work for the Grogu reunion demo I shared a while back. Notice the red/brown sand reflections on the armor changed to green Yavin tree reflections:

So what have I been doing as g00b is trucking away? Shoooot… There’s too much to type haha, but I have dozens of hours of livestreams over at https://www.youtube.com/@acbagel/streams detailing the hundreds of changes. From frame-by-frame combat analysis to writing and plugging in the alien dialgoue SFX to overarching storyline structuring to pacing out my 4-Act A/B/C plot structure and so on… It’s becoming a real team effort! But overall, everything I’ve previously said in this thread is truly coming to life! Building my dream here with this movie, and I’m VERY happy with everything so far. The justice that is being done to Boba Fett by giving him a REAL character arc in Book 6 instead of being written out of the series is warming my heart. Thanks to everyone who is following this project. I hope the final release brings you joy! Please share any thoughts or desires you have for this film and we can try to make them happen.

Back to work.