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emanswfan said:

I’d agree that deepfaking fake wedge would be great, though I’m not familiar enough with the process to know how much work that would be. I’ve seen a lot of impressive deepfake videos but most still have noticeable artifacting, so I would only say it would be good if it can be done to a certain level of quality.

Honestly, getting a guy to dub the one line might be best. Microphones and mixing can get a voice to blend pretty well into the 5.1 mix.

I don’t think it’d be hard for Ady to get a voice actor to dub the one line. That’s a bit easier than recoloring his hair or a deepfake replacement.

Given how Dennis Lawson later did voiceover work for the Rogue Squadron games, I’m surprised he didn’t redub his ANH and ESB lines. Heck, said time would have been perfect to separate fake (using the original VA, who later appeared in R1) & real Wedge.

teharri said:

LordZerome1080 said:

That’s blasphemy

Granted it needs work for sure, but it is more consistent and is better than a 60+ year old actor playing a character in early 40s.

As far as Ady’s edits are concerned at the moment, the Prequels didn’t happen (at least, the way the movies manifested). I’d love it if he upgraded the crawls to delete the episode numbers.

He did like R1, which is why ANHR:HD will have pink-engined X-Wings.

exitzero said:

Goof Fix - Luke’s Kick from Return of the Jedi-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dejy3mo0DQk

Looks like a lot of work to me.

The guy did the opposite of what Ady will probably do. He extended Luke’s leg and moved the guy’s head closer. Adywan will probably try to create a clean background plate and move the guy forward, to avoid giving Luke “stretch Armstrong” limbs. Of course, this also depends on how Adywan’s Fett dies.

Given some of the stuff Ady did in ESB, it shouldn’t be too bad.

TK42-WAN said:

I posted this here a while back, but I am hoping to get back to this edit now I have the time. I love feedback on what people think of the restructuring of the duel. I’ve attempted to keep it in line with the physics of the OT.

WIP. Incomplete audio.

https://vimeo.com/321404471

Password: FANEDIT

I like what you’ve done here in streamlining the duel and eliminating the crazy physics. The deletion of all the dialogue was also a fantastic touch. Even if it was meant to be part of a larger prequel/Kenobi edit, the no-dialogue approach still works.

My one suggestion would be to eliminate or move the shot of the shuttle arriving if you want the duel to be a stand-alone piece (e.g., inserted in ROTJ or as a short feature).

A larger idea that I’ve long pondered would be to have a red saber-wielding Anakin (who gave his blue lightsaber to Padme, who subsequently gave it to Obi-Wan) simply going over the lavafall with the control arm thing. This would probably only work in a prequel/machete/Kenobi edit that operates on the presumption that Anakin dies and we don’t know who this “Vader” is until ESB.

I’m feeling pretty darn confident with Ady’s abilities. I’m just trying to break down for myself where several potential deaths could fit within the sequence.

1. Fett lands on the skiff, tries to shoot Luke but gets his gun chopped up. Potentially, Luke could just kill him here, but that means that a lot of the sequence has to change to accommodate Fett going away.

2. That gun firing from the sail barge hits Fett, knocking him over. This point could also be a place to insert a Fett death, as he falls down and the camera shifts to Lando asking Han & Chewie for help. Luke then jumps to the other skiff, meaning only a few shots have to be replaced with added footage or we cut back to the sail barge interior (which means a music edit).

3. Fett is about to fire on Luke, which Luke could sense. Fett would fire his wrist gun thing, Luke would reflect the blast, and Fett would take the full force of it. This requires even less editing of the sequence.

4. Han hits Fett with his spear. This point is probably where Ady will make the “better death” edit, with a few possible outcomes. Han could impale Fett with it, hit his jetpack and cause Fett to die in an explosion, or activate the jetpack and Fett explodes while in the air. These all require little in the way of re-editing the sequence, with the most work being a few insert shots done in the same manner as the Hoth extras or a CGI Fett exploding in some manner.

My big concern is what can be possible with extant footage, new material (e.g., ESB-style inserts), and CGI. I’m just happy the sarlacc (beakless, I assume) won’t burp after indulging on an overappreciated bounty hunter.

Whatever happens, I’m certain Ady can pull it off without music edits or interrupting the flow of the sequence.

I’m just wondering how Ady will execute the “more definitive” Boba Fett death within the timing of the sail barge sequence and in time with the music. There are a few ways I could see it go down.

1. Luke slashes Fett up with his lightsaber, perhaps decapitating him.
2. Fett’s blaster bolt gets reflected by Luke and Fett takes the full force of it.
3. The gunner on the barge accidentally disintegrates Fett.
4. Han hits the jetpack, causing it to explode and kill Fett.
5. Han’s spike impales Fett.

I’ve long thought that Solo is just the Star Wars equivalent of the opening scene from Last Crusade. It’s trying to explain everything about this character, all the while destroying the mystery surrounding his origins. While I like what I’ve seen of it, it’s got its problems and I think it would have been better served as a Disney+ series about the Star Wars underworld.

RogueLeader said:

That is really great! I feel like something could be done at the very end to help transition to the credits music. It just feels a bit jarring, it feels like it is missing some kind of build up or something. But honestly that is a perfect track to use for the ending!

Thanks! The way that song goes is that it builds up to a big note, then quiets down. I didn’t want to have the big note/crash happen, let the music quiet down (but not finish the song), then start the end credits (that felt more jarring).

“Luke and Leia” makes for a far better ending theme to the OT than “Yub Nub” or “Victory Celebration”/the 500 Nations emulation. Its tone doesn’t clash as much with the pyre piece or even “Leia Breaks the News” (which I like shortened, to eliminate envious Han).

This is my attempt to redo ROTJ’s ending with a non-diegetic piece from the 1983 soundtrack (namely, “Luke and Leia”). A bunch of other fanedits have done this (e.g., the Dan Edit), but I wanted to demonstrate it with the 1983 cut of the ending. I sped up the music a little, for better sync.

Here’s the vimeo link.

Password: fanedit

Sweet! Good work, man.

Fantastic work, Ady!

Well, the 4K version of AVTAK (recently put online) undid the cropping from the Ultimate Editions. However, the master is otherwise the same. A few of the 4K versions are a bit better than the blu-ray, such as LALD and Goldeneye.

The MGM HD version of OHMSS surprisingly wasn’t used for the 4K version of that movie (from what I’ve heard), even though it also undoes the pillarbox titles. Did the MGM HD master have the same over-boosted contrast from the blu-ray?

SilverWook said:

Have they just been sitting on a bunch of decent non-Lowry 007 remasters? Like the one for TSWLM?

I’m honestly surprised that one improved as much as it did for blu-ray/4K. It’s like the home video crew took one look at how thoroughly awful that movie looked on home video (e.g., faded colors, severe edge enhancement artifacts on both SE and UE, and poor color timing on the UE), and figured that they should start from scratch for a new master. The added frame information, better color timing, and preservation of the soft-focus look lead me to believe that they either started from scratch with the video master or went back to the negatives/interpositive for a better source. Maybe they found the cinematographer/editor’s notes and redid the presentation to better match the original version.

Flexicon9 said:

… My DVR now has three rare broadcasts… (TCM HD) Looking For Mr. Goodbar in a pristine high definition broadcast that even host Ben Mankeiwicz said was a TCM premiere (this was 2 years ago) … (MGM HD) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service… not the Lowry transfer, but actually the original print from EON with the proper color timing… rare as it gets, without question. And now, Star Trek II… and I have the SKY broadcast (European) of the director’s cut which is AWESOME. The TCM is better. My DVR is magic… but alas, I have no way to share it with the world. No capture card or a nerd to do it for me. But I will own this magic for the life of a hard drive dvr cable shit box. Thank you and good night.

We could help you out on that front. That OHMSS broadcast, in particular, has been sought-after by several of our Bond preservationists.

I really like them! Do a bit of tweaking and you’d be set. It’s a good way to “exclude” the prequels from any OT edits/accommodate any one of those three-in-one prequel fanedits.

I partially agree with Dre on this one. While the Hayden ghost has been the default for many people who watched the movies for the first time in the past fifteen years, one does not need to look far to know about the controversy on this one. From my browsing of the often toxic Star Wars reddit, a decent amount of people prefer Hayden as the ghost. They buy into the logic that George used (i.e., restored to where he was before he completely fell to the dark side). There’s also the fact that many fans grew up with the Prequels/the Clone Wars cartoon series, where the Hayden visage is how they “see” pre-fall Anakin. These fans will also admit that he should have been better incorporated into the scene, so it’s not that bad. Many fans, even young ones, prefer Shaw. This is why popular series of parodies either make fun of the change (Robot Chicken) or default to Shaw (How It Should Have Ended).

I’d be largely OK with Hayden. We’ve learned that Force ghosts can appear however the heck they want to appear/what’s relevant to their current goals. From Kylo’s perspective, Shaw wouldn’t really mean anything to him. Hayden, on the other hand, is how Anakin would have looked for in-universe media and the in-universe memory of the character. While Shaw may be relevant to Luke, Hayden/distortions of Vader would be relevant to Kylo. Of course, I only want the ghosts if they’re essential to the plot. If it’s an unnecessary cameo (the stoned Yoda puppet in TLJ was kind of necessary), I won’t like it.

MikeWW said:

Another SE style thing would be the ship combat scenes. The ST uses no practical scale ship models. (That I’m aware of.)

That’s just the forward march of special effects technology. Heck, the SE’s and bits of TPM used scale models for some material (e.g., the sandcrawler, several TPM ships, etc.).

SilverWook said:

MikeWW said:

SilverWook said:

There might be wiggle room on that as Yoda looks a tad younger in TLJ, or at least happier.

Luke probably didn’t know what young Anakin even looked like at the time, but Kylo worships his grandfather so either form could appear to him and make more sense than the SE change.

But seeing as Kylo is based on Hayden’s Anakin in many ways, having some kind of CG-Sebatsian-Shaw-voiced-by-Matt-Lanter monstrosity would be lame IMO.

Anakin could make a point about the life he could have lived had he not fallen, going from healthy Sebastian to Sebastian right after the helmet came off would emphasize that. Kylo may have ignored certain aspects of Anakin’s life soley focusing on the Vader aspect.

I remember how one of the original plans for TFA was to have Anakin’s ghost appear, phasing in and out of the Vader suit.

I could imagine something like that with some Shaw stock footage, Hayden, or a different actor. Granted, I’d only want it if the story and character arcs would benefit from it.

I’ve always liked the idea of chopping the episode numbers and titles off of the crawls and moving the movie titles to the place of the “STAR WARS” card. That way, we have Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi without calling to attention the need for prequels or anything like that.

I like what you’re presenting, what with the 4K77-styled grade/grain & damage overlay and the idea that Qui-Gon fathered Anakin. It adds some much-needed motivation for Qui-Gon’s pursuit of him beyond “he’s especially force-sensitive.” The Jar-Jar removal is also pretty seamless, which I didn’t think could be done that easily. Good work!

While I get what Criterion was going for here, it’s disappointingly bland. The digipak release had a much better “inner cover (a bit of photoshopping work to add Phoenix and Reeves would help):”

Hi Adywan, I’ve been following your projects for ages now. I love both ANH and ESB Revisited, and I can’t wait to see what you do with ANH:HD and ROTJ (your color grades on both thus far are fantastic, BTW). I just have a few questions regarding ANH:HD.

1. Will you be fixing the weirdly warped pylon at the beginning of the duel?

2. Is Obi-Wan still going to ignite his lightsaber first? That was one of my least favorite changes in ANH:R, as it doesn’t jive with the dynamic between the two characters. Vader with an already ignited saber fits more with how he’s waited for their confrontation. Obi-Wan doesn’t seem likely to leap to the defense that quickly.

3. Will the shot of Leia before Alderaan’s destruction be returning, like the shot of Tarkin before the Death Star’s destruction?