Anakin Starkiller

You can always use it as Kylo’s training in TLJ.

Well if you smurf the gablôjian and adjust kr’zatz, an average punga-lunga should be able to falumpha it. It’s just like Gibraltar.

Hey if we’re serving up scenes, I’ll take a PM of the end celebration. I can’t seem to find it anywhere.

So you’ve been hired by George Lucas to close out the trilogy after the hit sequel The Empire Strikes Back. What’s the emperor like? What happens to Vader now that he’s Luke’s father? Do they rescue Han?

Try do like a DotF/TRoS deal where it’s a completely different story with different strengths and weaknesses. Don’t just rewrite the film we have.

What’s it a draft of?

Hal 9000 said:

Kylo Ren throwing that guy up onto the ceiling is JJ throwing us up onto the ceiling for asking reasonable questions.

Relevant

A real small thing here, but I think it would be best to remove discount Motti from the conference scene, or at least trim his lines to not mention a lack of faith in a cult. It reeks of TFA’s requelitis, copying a scene from ANH beat for beat.

I haven’t. Have you? I didn’t know such a thing existed, but I guess it makes sense.

I tend to see different aspects of myself in my characters. While we’re on the topic, let’s go over the core cast of Chrono Club.

Alex: Quiet, aloof, and awkward, but very brave and emotional. Slightly strange fashion sense. His element is fire.

Emily: Calm and compassionate. The real heart of the group. Sees the good in everyone. Her element is nature.

Joey: Very relaxed and at ease, but proactive when the time calls for it. His element is water.

Clara: Just bursting with energy 24/7. A bundle of joy. Her element is earth.

Lucas: Nerd. His element is tech (lightning/metal).

Heather: Chinese girl from 2142 stranded in this 2011 Canada with her new friends. Doesn’t initially speak any English. Her element is wind.

Eredan: “Good evening children. Allow me to introduce myself.” triple flips “I am Eredan. Bringer of death, lord of chaos, agent of destruction. I will be your host tonight.” Our villain everybody.

Anyway, enough about my stories, what are you lurkers writing about? And by lurkers I mean members who lurk here, not actual lurkers (although they’re welcome to join too). I’ve been carrying this thread on my back. Now it’s your turn. I can do this all day but I’d like this be a truly interactive exercise, not me talking to a wall.

Thanks.

drakesepi0l said:

Then why bother making a fan edit if you’re locking yourself out of ideas because it’s “established in canon?” This is a bad reason for not trying something unless you’re explicitly making a “canon edit.”

I understand that. I see that most agree on making big changes. I meant that i personally prefer when an edit improves the narrative, tone and pacing of the story, but doesn’t contratict it.
I’m really enjoyin these ideas here, don’t get me wrong. They could be much better than the original.

So basically a HAL edit.

Can we just remove Jannah? Like she can be there with the Resistance, but we don’t really need deserters on Kef Bir, do we?

This post has given me the brilliant idea of adding the sound of a vacuum cleaner to the end scene in the council chamber, thus explaining the absence of seats.

I find the title of these edits cringey. Like, the original Prequels are fine. They’re not horrible movies. Sure, you can argue there’s room for improvement (and there most certainly is), but they’re not as bad as, idk…The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos (just the title right there tells you how many rewrites this had)?

It’s strange how despite RoS doing the two must-have things for me for Episode IX (Palpatine and Reylo, ready your pitchforks) and DotF doing neither, I still hold them equally in terms of quality, if not preferring DotF.

So today I’m feeling pretty down, and you know what I like to do when something is troubling me in life? Make a story about it. So that’s what this is. Granted, I didn’t just create it today, but it arose from moments like this. I present you The Life and Times of Hickary Finch.

If Chrono Club is the life I wish I had, Hickary Finch is the life I’m stuck with. Hence it’s rather depressing. Hickary is not a total self-insert, but I put him through a lot of the same stuff I’ve been through. A pseudobiography if you will. Characters aren’t people I’ve met so much as archetypes of people I’ve met (god I love working with archetypes). Basically, if you squint and assume artistic license you can sorta see my life story. Except the suicide attempt. That’s an idea I just had today because I think it would serve as a properly satisfying climax. That said, there are a couple of parts that are taken practically word for word from experience, but they’re few and far between.

So basically it’s about this kid growing up realizing how lonely he is as friends are only around as long as their lives happen to follow his, drifting apart sooner or later. All the while his creative ambitions aren’t paying off financially and he’s still never had a girlfriend. His outlook on life becomes bleak but just when he’s given up a stranger reminds him that “Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” (quoting Dumbledore here, but might not in the actual script) Here’s some notes I just wrote.

Theme: Holding out in the darkest of times.

Music: Folk/Indie, very calm. Think Miss This. In fact, get them if they’re willing and affordable.

Aesthetic: Chalkboard drawings to represent Hickary’s imagination.

Plot:

First love: Lucy (rejected but remain friends)

New friend: Charlie

Second Love: ??? (rejected)

High School Graduation: Lucy’s departure

Third Love: ??? (rejected)

College Graduation: Charlie’s departure

Hickary thinks he has no future.

Suicide (jumping off a bridge) prevented by friendly stranger

Back to my earlier topic, what are my odds of getting a date loitering in a cafe? There’s no speed dating AFAICT for anyone under 25 and dating apps have done fuck all. You know the next time brother goes to a party, I think I should tag along with him to see if I can meet anyone there. Besides, I’ve never been to a college party, so it’d be something and interesting, and there’d be familiar faces so I’m not too alienated.

Every time I think about this it just makes me so sad. I feel so alone. This really does not mix well with my current overall stagnancy. I feel like my life is going nowhere. I’m almost done CEGEP and I don’t even have any decent film material to get into a university film program, so I have no clue what I’m gonna do. I also don’t even know where to begin to write something I can actually produce on my non-existent budget. So far the best I have is adapting Stubagful’s Class (which if I’m being honest I only kinda like).

I haven’t felt this low perhaps since the end of high school, but by that logic, university should shake things up and make it all good again. Not sure how I’ll last 'til then, though. School is out cuz of coronavirus and I’m just wasting away in front of my computer all day doing nothing productive. I’m not advancing my creative endeavors/career, and I’m certainly not getting a girlfriend (although soft quarantine is putting a bit of a damper on that for the moment).

You know those SW anime openings people make using clips from Galaxy of Heroes? Replace the crawls with those.

I think TLJ should end with Kylo finding Palpatine, revealing him to the audience, and maybe broom boy, order undetermined. You could even end with that shot of the Falcon interior that feels like an ending fakeout. But this is a RoS thread, so let’s get back on topic. We can discuss this in Sequel Radical Redux.

Here’s proof of concept for my quiet credits idea.

What if we added Shmi’s tombstone, along with the other two, to ANH and RoS? Just a small detail that doesn’t really change anything, but makes the films a tiny bit more cohesive. Then again, it’s likely no one will notice. Really, though, I think you’d only to add them to a few shots in the binary sunset scenes.

Currently reading Duel of the Fates. It’s so much better than TRoS in some ways and yet so much worse in others. It’s kinda frustrating. And both of them needlessly add to the story of Rey’s parents, taking away from what was established in TLJ (obviously TRoS’s meddling is much worse, but still). It’s honestly kinda hilarious how, had this film been made, every film in the trilogy would’ve given Rey a different love interest. I really don’t get why they went for Rey x Poe. It comes outta nowhere (aside from that one scene Trevorrow requested be put in TLJ, and the romance was just as weird there), and is so much less interesting than Reylo, which was established. I’m also one of the twelve people on the planet who wanted Palpatine back, so there’s that. But I can’t help but wished they’d kept things like the inclusion of Coruscant and Mortis. It’s clear the people writing DotF had a love and understanding of SW as a whole whereas Abrams and Terrio just saw it as five movies.

Perhaps, but that sounds a little boring to me. Not a big fan of single word titles.

The only way I could see that working is making just voices like when Rey hears them. We can’t convincingly pull of ghosts for a conversation. Works better with the lore anyway.

And I am here because I like the idea of editing these films and others, both to be their best possible versions, and because I just like putting my stamp on the things I love.

Hal 9000 said:

Cool! I wonder if there’s ever been an alternate recording of the track. That may help it feel like it’s what was originally done.

Clearly you’re looking for this version, right?

Here’s another version I found suggested when watching the last one, but it still has the choir.

The only place where a choir would likely feel appropriate without adding one throughout the trilogy is when Palpatine has a literal choir on standby at the end. Besides, the character is associate with choirs.

Really rough, done in a few minutes, but if anyone is interested in adding Force Ghosts to TROS, I think there is a decent number of shots that could be used. I know that many don’t like this idea, but anyway…
https://vimeo.com/397773583
This one could be just after the ghosts’ apparition. Just mirror it and it looks like Anakin is staring at Palpatine.

Well I did do some test footage but the results weren’t exactly professional.