Thank you! I’ll try my best.

This movie, and this comes from a complete horror fanatic since the age of six, had the potential to be the best horror movie I’ve ever seen. The first hour of the movie is, except a few lackluster scares and/or character flaws, pure gold. Three things ruined it;

• Too much nonsense near the end started ruining the very well-paced mood.
• The ending with the children (children, unfortunately, often lack the ability to be scary - few exceptions, being the Babadook for instance).
• Things you just mentioned.

However, I don’t know which scenes of the entitity you’re talking about removing, but the one where he’s in the pool and turns his head towards the camera should definitely be in.

snooker said:

Really excited for this!

EDIT:

The first clip is edited really well, except for the constant shot reuse and lack of spacial awareness. Are they going towards the planet or away? Are they in the middle of space or are they next to a planet? Etc.

I really like the writing for the Nemoidians, they seem genuinely threatening.

Yes, I’ve been thinking about replacing the background planet with starfields, or simply re-grade and re-color it to be another. I don’t think this would’ve been much of a problem if people just assumed it was another planet than Naboo, but seeing how everyone know it isn’t - it might be a tad too confusing.

Thanks for your positive feedback! I look forward to pleasing both you and @Smithers.

Star Wars - Episode I: The Ancient Lore - V2 EDITION

Episode I is the best-looking of the three prequels, with a lot of devotion put into them from both the crew, actors as well as the director himself before he went all ludacris on digital moviemaking. It is also the most dull of the three prequels, with little to no character motivation or even plot explanation.

This project was started at fanedit ORG in around 2014, but was abandoned due to hardware loss. It got re-started somewhere around early 2015. The entire purpose of this edit is to re-make the entire movie into a very interesting and exciting piece of cinema, with the very best of my ability to make it into a coherent Star Wars addition, full of wonder, mystery, compelling characters and life.

[The Changes - Per V2 Edition, V1 is scrapped and was more of a beta version]

• There are more new visual effects than i can count, and many alterations to both audio (voice and alien language) as well as music and sound effects.
• Story narrative altered. The Nemodians are motivated by revenge as much as Sidious’s plot (;which is to create a clone army on Naboo).
• Appearances of Lord Sidious will have his hologram face hidden for a duration of the beginning to create mystery, as well as his hologram voice altered and new plot points given. Perhaps even the entire movie.
• The Nemodians (Nute Gunray & Co.) speak in foreign Alien language, to give of new and menacing voices, as well as completely new plot points for the story.
• The Purple saber of Mace Windu will be removed in my trilogy, and given to Qui-Gon. It makes him more important, and fits his rogue style as he choses not to be on the Jedi Council. Mace Windu will get green.
• Battle Droids has a new voice, but hardly ever speak.
• Jar-Jar Binks will serve as comic relief, although appearances or voice from him that diminish an important character or story moment, will be removed or decreased. His presence is that of C-3PO in A New Hope; he’s there, but he doesn’t take up screentime that he does not deserve.
• Qui-Gon is the main character of the story. This is very clear throughout. Obi-Wan and Anakin are side-characters that will get to shine a little bit throughout, but are part of a bigger puzzle to occur in the later entries of the trilogy.
• Anakin has, to the very best of my ability, become a very strict, grown-up kid with a lot of personality. This comes across in his dialogue with Wattoo and Sebulba, as well as his lack of stupid lines or groans or unecessary screentime. There are neither any accidents in his actions.
• Anakin is not any chosen one, and his father died gambling. His mother is all he has. Anakin and Padme’s love theme is given to Anakin and his mom and their relationship.
• Darth Maul has more screentime and presence throughout.

[PLOT EXPLANATION]
The Nemodians have gathered political supporters, systems, planets - and most importantly - techonology and intelligence - through the co-operation with Palpatine, aka. Lord Sidious, for years. Naboo is the movie’s target for invasion, because this is where Palpatine sees fit to create his Clone Army; Naboo has everything they need - the huge space travel gap between them and the Republic, and all the resources needed.

• Most of this comes across throughout the dialouge and actions taking place in the film.

///////// PREVIEW CLIPS /////////////

THE MOVIE’S OPENING (5M, 30 SEC ## This IS OUTDATED and from VERSION I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a69tzvDYnpE

SITH LORDS ON TATOOINE (Some VIDEO FX will be updated for V2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElzRNYkrn7o

BEGINNING OF THE END (Will be updated)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_XtnqJgfKI

QUI-GON VS MAUL (Might be updated)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJEKjGAyHjg

FATHERLY TIES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXSldN2x_Ag

THE ENDING PT. 1 (Will be updated)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9uWRdEXz1E

Any way to get the Attack of the Clones Deleted Scenes in HD/1080p? PM anyone? Greatly needed, and greatly appreciated.

TV’s Frink said:

I’m sure adywan can handle a few negative comments after years of handling lots of negative comments.

That’s just what I told my ex-wife, and we’re divorced now.

Ronster said:

thorr said:

You need to dangle just the tip of the carrot 😃

I bet the Wampa has something dangling, but I doubt it is a carrot.

ADR14NAT1ON said:

Kids? This will give the parents nightmares.

This entire process has been a nightmare.

However, if you’re fed up with this shit, I wish you and your ESB Revisited a swift and happy release. Good work.

I haven’t been updated throughly on the 1400 pages here, but there is a pretty damn good Wampa full-body costume on sale here in Norway in my local antique, movie-geek store.

When The Empire Strikes Back Hoth Battle scenes were shot here in Norway, it created Star Wars fuzz here as well. That resulted in the making of a lot of costumes for the Wampa to sell as merchandise upon the films release, called the “Norwegian Wampa” and some simply “The Wampa”. There are a lot of them still around.

I am going to buy the Wampa head out of educational purposes with my wife.

I love how everyone makes up their own stories and reasons as to why the ANH saber fight doesn’t look like shit - when it does, and the only reason is because they were limited to the extent they had to do slow movements close to eachother to not destroy the props and/or the glowing effect.

It had nothing to do with “Vader is being restricted because his last fight didn’t go so well”. Or “Vader is testing his ground”. They were simply restricted; end of story.

Did you finish Han’s new hair color?

You Are not overthinking it, it was the shitty script that underthought it.

Good idea - hope you find a good execution.

It’s just a little creative freedom, for the Darth Maul theme.

The blue orb is not a finished effect, but it’s the floating hologram of Sidious.

IsanRido said:

You’re making the underwater city the actual sanctuary? It’s great to see that finally implemented in an edit. It always bothered the so called “safer place” where Gungans took refuge was nearer to the invaded zone, and in broad daylight. Reminds me of that Scorpion King movie where a bunch of people was “hidden” in a plainly visible oasis, and were like “you people are bringing the enemy” when the zeroes arrived there.

Yes. And as you said; this removes the horrible, illogical movement that is their entire race moving up to the battle-infested grounds.

Now, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan gets down there with Jar-Jar, is introduced to Boss Nass, in which Obi-Wan persuade General Nass to team with the Naboo. Thereafter, in the next scene, the Gungans have come to the top - but now, not for it being the sanctuary, but for meeting with the Queen and her people.

And - oh yes, by the way, guys! For those thinking this one is near finished or that everything is sorted out; it is not. I am absolutely open for any suggestions whatsoever.

snooker said:

I love all of these drastic edits that people are starting to do! Everything that one could do to keep the story relatively intact and cut all of the fluff has already been done, so these types of edits are all that are left. My only minor complaint is the title, “The Ancient Lore” doesn’t give off a Star Wars-y vibe to me.

This edit is especially interesting, can’t wait!

Yes, there is not much left to do than these re-imaginings of sorts. But I didn’t start the edit back in 2013 because I wanted it to be different; it was because I saw endless possibilities to re-create the movie into something way, way better (IMO). And that just made my brain go into crazy mode! I mean, come on; what more cool than to make your childhood memory into something even better, especially when that childhood memory is a movie mostly despised by the audience you seek to show it to?

Not often do you get such an idea and then get the chance to do it, so I definitely just had to!

As for the title, although I’ve received a lot of praise for it through the years, I can absolutely believe people are just as liking to it as there are people who are not. The best and/or worst part of being a Star Wars fan, is that we’re so universally focused on certain aspects that are not really that important. And that makes us the best fans ever!

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, and I hope you’ll find something much more enjoyable in my version of TPM than what you originally got.

NeverarGreat said:

This is a fascinating project. We will follow your progress with great interest.

Thank you! Happy to hear that!

STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE ANCIENT LORE

This edit has been going on for four years, started over at fanedit.org. Thought it’d be time to introduce it over here as well.

Moving on from my Harry Potter Revisited franchise, It’s time to rework one of my other childhood memories. For those who know me by now, you know I don’t do with only editing pace or lines or cutting. I really want to change everything that I feel doesn’t work in a storytelling sense, be that creating new scenes, languages or even incorporating non-canon story elements.

This Phantom Menace will not resemble anything close to what you have seen before - and is not meant to it. There is a completely new narrative, and with that a completely new beginning, middle and an end to this version of George Lucas’s prequel trilogy. This version of Episode I is what I think Episode I should be, with the material at hand.

[1.] OUTLINE

Episode I is the best-looking of the three prequels, with a lot of devotion put into them from both the crew, actors as well as the director himself before he went all ludacris on digital moviemaking. It is also the most dull of the three prequels, with little to no character motivation or even plot explanation.

I even think half of the people that have seen the movie probably still don’t understand its plot, nor importance in the prequel trilogy. Is that a problem? Heck yes…

[2.] THE GENERAL CHANGELIST

• Movie completely re-graded to resemble a less childish palette, and more of a mature and darker picture.
• There are many new visual effects, and many alterations to both audio (voice and alien language) as well as music and sound effects.
• Appearances of Lord Sidious will have his hologram face hidden. His one real-life appearance with Maul is dubbed, as well as his voice altered and new plot points given throughout.
• The Nemodians (Nute Gunray & Co.) now speak in foreign Alien language, to give of new and menacing voices, as well as completely new plot points for the story.
• The Purple saber of Mace Windu will be removed in my trilogy, and given to Qui-Gon. It makes him more important, and fits his rogue style as he choses not to be on the Jedi Council. Mace Windu will get green.
• Jar-Jar Binks has a new voice.
• Battle Droids has a new voice.
• Jar-Jar Binks will serve as comic relief, although appearances or voice from him that diminish an important character or story moment, will be removed or decreased.
• Qui-Gon is the main character of the story. Obi-Wan and Anakin are sidecharacters that will get to shine a little bit throughout, but are part of a bigger puzzle to occur in the later entries of the trilogy.
• Story narrative completely altered. The beginning of the movie in the Trade Federation Ship now takes place in the middle of the movie, and the story now starts with a Space chase, Naboo and the saving of the Queen.

[3.] PLOT EXPLANATION

The Nemodians have gathered political supporters, systems, planets - and most importantly - technology and intelligence - through the co-operation with Palpatine, aka. Lord Sidious, for years. Naboo is the movie’s target for invasion, because this is where Palpatine sees fit to create his Clone Army. Naboo has everything they need - the huge space travel gap between them and the Republic, and all the resources needed. But this plot is not known to anyone but the Nemodians and Palpatine himself, which is something they only discuss in great secrecy.

It is not before the defeat of The Trade Federation (the separtists) on the Planet of Naboo, that Sheev Palpatine realizes his recklessness and executes his plans far beyond the reach of the Republic, in the dark corner of the galaxy on the planet of Kaminoo, with the help of corrupted Master Syfo-Dius and Count Dooku - plotting for even more years to come - which is what leads into Attack of the Clones.

HOW TO: Some of these plot points are learned throughout the new Opening Crawl, and the rest told through dialogue or interpretation of new and/or existing scenes.

[4.] PREVIEW CLIPS (both finished once, and unfinished once)

SITH LORDS ON TATOOINE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=89&v=ElzRNYkrn7o
EXTENDED TATOOINE BATTLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJEKjGAyHjg
FATHERLY TIES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXSldN2x_Ag

UNFINISHED PREVIEW OF CERTAIN KEY SCENES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH7wznxvDVI

I hope Adywan removes Luke from Episode VI to make it more of a mystery in TFA what really happened to him, and have Han Solo kill the Emperor and Vader instead. It would also strengthen his character.

Anjohan said:

THE SAME SCRIPT AWAKENS

EXT. SPACE, 30 YEARS AFTER ROTJ
Rey is Luke. Finn is funny. Poe should be dead, but I liked Oscar Isaac - we’ll keep him.

It’s the same plot as A NEW HOPE, but with Han as Old Ben - the mentor figure. Rey lives on Tatooi- Jakku, a desert planet, and her father is Anaki- Uhm, Obi-Wan, but we’ll keep that info until EP 8. There is a new deathstar, but BIG DUFFERENCE: it is much more enormouser!!! Gigantic!

The new villain is unsure yet, but I might have to write him himself… bleh, boooring! I’ll ask George for ideas on this one!

The movie ends pretty much the same way as ANH, but I WANT BIG LIGHTSABER FIGHT IN END! I WANT THE MOVIE TO FEEL NEW!!

I found J.J’s first script draft while traveling through Disneyland yesterday. It was inside his car. I broke into it.

THE SAME SCRIPT AWAKENS

EXT. SPACE, 30 YEARS AFTER ROTJ
Rey is Luke. Finn is funny. Poe should be dead, but I liked Oscar Isaac - we’ll keep him.

It’s the same plot as A NEW HOPE, but with Han as Old Ben - the mentor figure. Rey lives on Tatooi- Jakku, a desert planet, and her father is Anaki- Uhm, Obi-Wan, but we’ll keep that info until EP 8. There is a new deathstar, but BIG DUFFERENCE: it is much more enormouser!!! Gigantic!

The new villain is unsure yet, but I might have to write him myself… booting! I might ask George for ideas!

The movie ends pretty much the same way as ANH, but I WANT BIG LIGHTSABER FIGHT IN END! I WANT THE MOVIE TO FEEL NEW!!

Alderaan said:

7 of the last 10 reviews on IMDB:

1. “The Worst of the Very Worst, Should be Forbidden”
2. “This Movie Is Stupid”
3. “Leaves A Lot To Be Desired”
4. “The Fart Awakens And Stinks up The Galaxy Far Far Away”
5. “So bad I had to create a review account”
6. “Imagine if someone gave you money for presenting someone else’s work/script/idea”
7. “Not terrible, not great either”

Which one is your favorite?

Ahhh, lovely to see the brutal honesty from fans! My favorite would have to be nr. 6. It’s just too harshly true to be avoided.

Alderaan said:

Mocata said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Alderaan’s constant bitching about Disney almost makes me feel sympathetic towards Disney.

That might be my favorite gif ever.

Too bad, Disney used to be a good company.

That GIF sums up my feelings for TFA pretty well.