Anakin Starkiller

What is says on the tin.

That sounds totally doable. Every time people are about to have a lightsaber fight, cut to a G5 style battle with custom sprites for our Force-wielding trainers.

I like… a few seasons here and there… of the anime!

I’m more into the game accurate stuff like Origins, but to each their own.

I didn’t even think of Luke on Ahch-To being Red in Mount Silver

That was what I was going for. I’m sorry if it wasn’t obvious.

Someone once suggested rescoring the SW movies with the Pokémon soundtrack. Are we inching towards that? Because, good.

It was the Pokemon anime, which I’d rather keep at a safe distance from.

I know, I just associate Red with Charizard, Blue with Blastoise, and Green with Venusaur.

Feraligatr works well for Rey, but Luke always struck me as more of a Bulbasaur guy.

Oh shit you’re right! I was just automatically giving him Charizard due to being the Red equivalent.

Add snow and wild onixes and golbats to Ach-To. When Rey makes it to the top and Luke turns around, the music changes to this. Luke sends out Charizard and Rey her Feraligatr.

Nice! Can I has link?

It doesn’t fit in a Discord message. I wanted to use it as a copypasta. Mimcspaghetti, repeatfetuccini, reproducelinguini, imitatetortellini.

Honestly, the slow burn of getting new frame comparisons is more fun. 😆

Eyepainter said:

Digitally replace all of Hayden Christensen with Jake Lloyd, and get a Jake Lloyd soundalike to redub all of Anakin’s lines from II and III.

I know this is the reverse, but be careful what you wish for.

Anyway, I think we need to make this a reality:

After every opening title crawl, there’s a character who borrows the first joke from ‘Viva Rock Vegas’ by saying,

“Did anyone else see those big letters flying by?”

I legit shot that gag with my friend when we were in elementary school. Still have the footage.

That is one long ass sentence.

That would require cleaning it up, which I had started at some point but never finished.

Regardless, I think it’s best to leave IlFanEditore alone to make these decisions rather than suggestion scenes to add, as they seem to have a pretty clear idea of what they’re making, though I could be mistaken.

Well yes, that goes without saying but more specifically?

Much of the broad strokes would be the same but the execution would be far more…indulgent in my style.

There’d be no nostalgic iconography everywhere. The First Order would likely use the Guavian design for its troopers. Hell, Sidon Ithano could be Phasma. The Resistance also gain a more iconic trooper design, and would also ditch the orange jumpsuits for pilots. X-wings and TIE fighters are nowhere to be seen. Jakku is Tatooine, while other planets are given more iconic designs. Some might even be swapped out with worlds from other material like Christophsis, Lothal, Scarif, or Teth. The only planet left exactly as is is Crait. The music could use some work too. More original themes and less Binary Sunset over and over again.

There’d be no Snoke. Just use Palpatine, or if we need someone else then Darth Krayt. The last film would end with the Battle of Coruscant and Ben and Rey fighting zombie mecha Palpatine in the Sith Temple deep below Coruscant’s Jedi Temple. To me Palpatine being the villain is non-negotiable as he’s what ties the Saga together. People can say that ruins the originals but to me it’s seeing the bigger picture. I don’t care about altering earlier installments if it means the cohesion of the whole of the story. The finality of RotJ doesn’t make sense in my nine film paradigm. It’s a trilogy of trilogies, so we need the villain alive 'til the end.

Probably the biggest change would be the number of Force users. The insistence on sticking to only two lightsaber wielders to mimic the OT is insulting. Rather than a Second Jedi Purge, there is a sort of Jedi civil war. On one side are Luke’s light side loyalists and on the other the Knights of Ren. Thus we end up with about a dozen different lightsaber users. It’s a small enough amount for us to become somewhat familiar with them without making them all important characters. They’d have roles akin to the Dwarves in The Hobbit. Darth Talon would be one of the Knights of Ren. There’d be a big battle between the two groups on Ach-To during the second film.

The politics would be clarified within the first film. The Republic is in a proxy war between the Resistance and the First Order. Poe never fake dies in TFA. He’s on Jakku with Finn and Rey. The last film is far more mystical and esoteric. It deals with stuff like the Whills and Mortis. Oh and stormtrooper rebellion, Starkiller Base is swapped out for a dreadnought and Rey Nobody. That goes without saying.

The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker have the same titles, but The Last Jedi is swapped out for something that doesn’t reuse a non-negligible word from a previous title. It should be something that “rhymes” with Attack of the Clones and The Empire Strikes Back. I guess March of the First Order or something but idk, that sounds kinda weak. I’m sure there’s a better alternative.

Kylo as supreme leader is unhinged, and Hux - instead of staying a joke character after TLJ - would be so dissatisfied with his leadership that he contacts the Sith Eternal to resurrect Palpatine through a clone body. When this is revealed, the First Order splits into two factions, Hux’s faction being led by Palpatine and the smaller group loyal to Kylo Ren

Lol, this is the spitting image of my TRoS rewrite pitch.

-Feel free to ditch the trilogy format if necessary. If the plot makes more sense with only an Episode 7 and 8, go with it. If the plot needs 4 or 5 movies to tell, go with it.

-The conflict of the entire Star Wars saga ends here. There can more sagas, other sagas, but this saga ends here. And with good finality.

Those to me are contradictory.

Instead of striving for a shared universe like Marvel and DC, just let various series and movies be independent of each other.

That pretty much is what DC’s doing now.

Link to the Voldemort face replacement?

Add Two-Face to one of the Burton Batman films using footage of Billy Dee Williams from Lady Sings the Blues.

Someone started another thread for that topic so let’s drop it here and get back on track.

in my opinion Star Wars is at its best the more other people are allowed to play in his sandbox.

As a universe perhaps but as a Saga, I can’t help but wonder what it would have been like to have single writer-director from start to finish. Not necessarily Lucas, just anyone. Hell, what if they’d been shot back-to-back?

I’d argue the name Darth Sidious in TLJ and the clone army line in TFA are the only true references to the Prequels. If no one told you who the Jedi voices were you wouldn’t question it. They’re just past Jedi, doesn’t matter who they are, and that includes Obi-Wan. Granted, Anakin does mention bringing balance to the Force, so I guess that’s one for TRoS. Oh and the RotS quote from Palps.

I think some of it had to be intentional. The Jedi are far too arrogant and flawed in the Prequels for them to have been intended to be the moral high ground. Obviously, they’re still good guys you’re supposed to root for, but even heroes have flaws. Remember the Prequels are about the decay of democracy.

But that’s getting a little off-track, since this is the OT edits to fit the PT and ST thread, not the PT and ST edits to fit the OT thread.

I feel like fitting any trilogy with any other ought to be allowed here, no? Then again, that might end overshadowing the OT edit ideas.

That would be awesome, along with changing the ESB crawl to “Sith Lord” where it currently reads “evil lord”.

I never noticed it said that! That’s such an obvious change to make, how come this is the first I’ve heard of anyone suggesting it?

I’d hope that single word could be tracked, masked out, and replaced seamlessly rather than recreating the entire crawl. Each of the OT’s crawls feel unique, especially ESB.

Call me a revisionist, but I prefer consistency, i.e. all crawls being formatted identically.

I just finished color correcting the last (half) of my photos from my family trip to France.

I also cooked yesterday. Made Mongolian beef and broccoli. Took me 4 hours and we ate dinner at midnight but it turned out really good!

It makes me think of Pop Culture Detective’s video on the flaws of the Jedi Order.

You mean he made a video that wasn’t about characters’ sexual misconduct?

Aside from that, if the Jedi Order is a failure and all the Jedi are dicks from the very beginning of the saga, then how could their complete destruction at the hands of the Empire and Vader have any sort of impact or significance?

It’s about the Sith striking after the Jedi had fallen into decadence. The idea here is that the Jedi aren’t fundamentally bad, but that they had become bad over centuries.

It’s a relic of the pre-digital age.