Bobson Dugnutt

I’ve gone ahead and fixed the monitor showing the Jedi in the hallway, where now it shows an alert that their ships are in the hanger. Hopefully this looks alright as I’ve never created an effect shot like this.

I’m also looking into shifting around the Seeds of the Rebellion scenes, in a similar way to Octorox’s “Happy Sanding” EpIII edit, but have not done anything definitive yet.

How does this compare to your PaNup SDTV copy of the Theatrical Cut? I tried comparing them in VLC but I didn’t see anything too different.

Regardless of the differences to it though, seems like this is the definitive version of the Laserdisc. Did you rip this from a sealed copy? Your post implies so.

benduwan said:

looks really great.
but the escape is cut.the scene at the fueltank is missing.
i know the quality is…,but EXTENDED 😃

There’s a few shots and lines missing between them walking down the fuel tanks, and Anakin saying “No structue”. I’d love to use it in a workprint cut of the film however.

Here’s that missing stuff from the script for those interested

They run, EXPLOSIONS rattle the ship, and pipes continue to burst around them, spilling more fuel into the hallway. At the far end, SIX SUPER BATTLE DROIDS drop into the fuel. The SOUNDS OF SHIELD DOORS CLOSING AND LOCKING ECHO throughout the hallway. They pass several large power generators, which are topped with SPARKING excess power dischargers.
ANAKIN: They’re sealing this section off.
OBI-WAN: Six droids coming our way!
The last of the DOORS CAN BE HEARD CLOSING in the distance.
ANAKIN: Keep moving. There must be vents . . . This way.
They move along a wall. ANAKIN climbs up the side to a small vent. The fuel gets closer to the SPARKING dischargers.
OBI-WAN: We’ll never get through that. It’s too small!
They move toward a second vent. OBI-WAN is swimming in the fuel as it reaches to within a couple yards of the ceiling. ANAKIN feels along the ceiling and finds another smaller vent. He closes his eyes and tries to sense an opening, then he moves on. OBI-WAN is forced into hand-to-hand combat with one of the SUPER BATTLE DROIDS. It pulls the Jedi under the fuel. Just before he is about to drown, OBI-WAN disables the SUPER BATTLE DROID by pushing him into an exhaust pipe.
The fuel is up to the Jedi’s chins. ANAKIN finds a very, very small metal grate, then pounds on it until the tiny grate breaks loose.
ANAKIN: I found our escape vent.
OBI-WAN: Anakin, this is no time for jokes. We’re in serious trouble here.
ANAKIN: Only in your mind. My Master. Look, no structure. . . .
ANAKIN grabs the side of the tiny hole and gives it a big yank, ripping a large panel loose revealing a “man-sized” work shaft. They scramble through it as the DROIDS swim closer.

And also, here’s a (final?) cut of the Star Tours clip with some new SFX and score added to try and seemlessly cut 3 clips together

I had a go at putting the extended clip into the scene with some new bits at the start and end which make it work a lot better, but are dogshit quality. I’d love to see where these clips came from so I could use them in better condition.

Edit: Already found a better source, the link has been updated. Still not 100% perfect but it’s working I think

benduwan said:

do you use for your edit “making of” and “behind the scenes” parts too?

Is there any specific shots or clips that would be workable?

Jar Jar Bricks said:

If I may, I would recommend your alternate Shaak-Ti clip with the extra space battle shot before the scene. This way, nothing needs to be cut, and it follows the original script better.

I don’t know if the clip works, the camera work isn’t quite like anything in the film, and is a bit short. I’d like it if it was a bit longer but currently its not going to work, sorry.

Here’s the probably the final cut of the Shaak Ti scene, I’m happy with it unless anyone else has some suggestions on what else to do with it

Switched up the Shaak Ti scene once more by moving the Grevious intro back again and splitting the hanger scene in half, implying that R2 takes time to find Palps, as well as trimming the Grevious walk to the window to move things along a bit faster.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH3YzXKf2VI
Better resolution but still only 720P. It’s also cut short. Should be suitable for implying a passage of time, however.

I’ll see what I can do with it, thank you!

In the meantime, here’s the other Shaak Ti death, I’ve reworked some of the audio but the sheer amount of blasters, lightsabers, and sounds that need to be added is astronomical so it shall remain unused. I mean I could just redo the shot from the theatrical cut so that the audio flows seemlessly, but that is a gigantic task I feel.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

The “You Jedi are all the same” line is better because the other line implies that they are using their light saber, even though they’re just standing there.

I’ll have a go at smoothing it over then, with a few changes to the scene structure once more, trying to fix the teleportation of Grevious. I think I’m okay with it as that is how it’s scripted, but I haven’t found a satisfactory way to fix it as of yet.

Cameron Samurai said:

Bobson Dugnutt said:

I’ve been considering using some Grevious lines from the game to replace the redunant lightsaber collection line and tried out a few here.

https://vimeo.com/407869290

Thoughts?

I can audibly tell when the sound bites occur (presume that’ll eventually be smoothed over), but yeah, that was timed well

Do you prefer either line (the pathetic one or the lightsaber one)

I’ve been considering using some Grevious lines from the game to replace the redunant lightsaber collection line and tried out a few here.

https://vimeo.com/407869290

Thoughts?

The Jedi Imposer scene that will be used in a workprint cut of the film. Now it has some exciting score and flows into the surrounding scenes, still unfinished however.

Here’s the alt cut, not 100% clean, but it has some new score compared to the other one and is trimmed differently.

sade1212 said:

I like the scene but you’d have to cut some of the banter between Grievous and Anakin/Kenobi when they get captured.

“You’re shorter than I expected!”
“What? Did you already forget what I looked like from fifteen minutes ago when I executed Shaak Ti?”

It also obviously precludes you from implementing the scene where Anakin kills Shaak Ti. That scene does have the problem of suggesting Shaak Ti doesn’t sense any of Order 66 going on around her, though, and requires some not insignificant AE work to clean it up.

I think the height joke works as a snappy comeback to Grevious’ age joke. I don’t think I’d cut it.

And as much as I’d like to use some portion of the 2nd Shaak Ti death (namely the 2nd part of him walking through the Jedi Temple carnage) it’s way too unfinished to work at all.

Here’s my own version of the 1st Shaak Ti death, I didn’t trim as much, just the reference to them landing as it fixes the continuity.

I was thinking about putting the Shaak Ti scene like this instead but I have no idea if it’d work

CURRENT
Jedi in hanger -> Shaak Ti Death -> Grevious on bridge (trimmed) -> Elevator

NEW
Jedi in the hanger -> Grevious on bridge (uncut) -> Shaak Ti death -> Elevator

It would remove the need to cut the references to the Jedi landing, and is also how the shooting script is structured too. Unsure if the two scene would work back to back cause of the shots, but I’ll test that too

Jar Jar Bricks said:

This looks fantastic! Revenge of the Sith has always been my favorite movie in the saga, and it looks like this is the definitive extended edition. I would greatly appreciate a link to this project!

The project isn’t done yet as I’m still tinkering with stuff.

Speaking of which, I had a look at TM2YC’s Reborn edit, and he included a great truncated version of the Shaak Ti death scene that excludes any of the fuel tank stuff with unfinished VFX. Is this something that should be added?

Added the “Plot to Destroy the Jedi” scene before the Council scene and after the Palps/Anakin scene

PLEASE SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE INSTEAD OF POSTING IN THIS THREAD IF YOU WANT A LINK, I WILL IGNORE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD ASKING FOR A LINK.

Taking the usable deleted scenes and making the longest possible cut of ROTS

• Added some banter with Obi-Wan and Anakin while taking an elevator on the Invisible Hand
• Added a new line from Dooku before the duel
• Added alternate line from the Super Battle Droid who kicks R2 “Yap this!”
• Extended scene with Palpatine telling Anakin that he is taking control of the Jedi Council and making adjustments to the constitution
• Added Windu, Kenobi and Yoda discussing what Palps is doing, and that there may be a plot to destroy them
• Added scene with Bail, Padme and other senators discussing a course of action against Palps
• Added another scene of senators saying they need to form an alliance in the Senete against Palps
• Added the senators confronting Palps, and that a return to democracy is needed
• Trim scene in Jedi War Room as dialogue is repeated from restored Windu/Yoda/Kenobi scene
• Added 3 lines from The Clone Wars episode “Voices” to restore Qui-Gon Jinn’s voice to Yoda’s meditation
• Added Yoda exiling himself to Dagobah

SOURCES

• 2011 Blu-Ray: For the film and two deleted scenes (Banter and Constitutional Adjustments)
• 2005 DVD: For the majority of the deleted scenes, upscaled by Hal9000 and DrDre
• “Epic” Trailer: A new shot of Palpy’s shuttle is taken from here
• PS2 Game: For the new Dooku shot and dialogue, and an extra Grevious line in the Shaak Ti scene
• Star Wars: DVD Trivial Pursuit - The alt. droid line is taken from one of the trivia questions on the disc
• The Clone Wars: The Qui-Gon voiceover is borrowed from S06E11 “Voices” as Liam Neeson reprises the role
• TM2YC’s ROTS Reborn: Recreated his Shaak Ti scene structure’
• Hal9000’s Labyrinth of Evil: Recreated his integration of the “Plot to Destroy the Jedi” scene
• Octoroz’s Extended Edition: Main video source for the edit as well as his integrations
• ROTS Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Used a few of the tracks to rescore some of the deleted scenes
• SFX from a few sources to replace sounds in rescored scenes or add some where there never were any

CLIPS

Here’s something that would probably be used in a workprint, Qui-Gon talks to Yoda. I took a bunch of lines out of the Clone Wars episode “Voices” and edited around them to add reverb and some new music. The scene with finished VFX only has a few of these lines.

Does anyone know where this scene should go? Some of the dialogue appears later, but will be cut out for this scene.

I was thinking after the council room scene, before the first Padme/Rebellion scene, and thats before Obi-Wan and Anakin talk about this. Might fit there but unsure

I realised I forgot an audio track and left out the music at the end of the elevator scene, which makes it sound a lot more complete

Chase Adams said:

Holy crap! Those are great! Can I get HD links to the first two clips? Also Bobson, how are you going with your efforts to reduce the blueness in Luke’s force ghost? It’s a project I have immense interest in after seeing your test screenshots.

I’ll put them up soonish when I’m 100% happy with the scenes, still needs a minor tweak or two.

I’ve been working on that Luke ghost scene, so that should also be done soon

Also thanks for the other kind words, I plan to put these in Octorox’s extended edition to make the longest cut with finished effects, maybe adding the other DVD scene with Mace, Yoda and Obi-Wan

Did some work on the usable Blu-Ray scenes from Revenge of the Sith and fixed up the Dooku advantage line. They’d be ready to put into the film in this state I’d imagine

(the images are links btw)

There’s a few shots from the trailers and The Skywalker Legacy doco. There’s only really one actual full scene that’s been released which is Rey oiling D-O.

The doco clips can be seen here
https://vimeo.com/398677816

Not sure if anyone has collected the trailer shots yet, but it’s not much if I remember.

crissrudd4554 said:

So ROTJ has trailers and tv spots but not the other two???

Star Wars has a launch trailer, which I’m pretty sure is just this one from the Digital Collection, but other than that, nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnKn9rp0T7c

ATMachine said:

What’s “The Lost Interviews”?

Some audio interviews done with the cast in the late 70s that have been edited to some footage

https://youtu.be/n6h-g8hlwpg

The new Blu-Rays don’t have the greatest selection of extras, it seems to have;

STAR WARS
Conversations: Creating a Universe
Discoveries from Inside: Weapons & the First Lightsaber
Anatomy of a Dewback
Archive Fly-Through
Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels and Carrie Fisher interviews (3 separate clips)
Tatooine, Aboard the Death Star, and The Battle of Yavin Overview
Deleted Scenes (All of the 2011 ones)
Those matte paintings and 360 turnaround things too from the 2011 BR

EMPIRE
Conversations: The Lost Interviews
Discoveries from Inside: Matte Paintings Revealed
A Conversation with the Masters: The Empire Strikes Back 30 Years Later (2010)
Dennis Muren: How Walkers Walk
George Lucas on Editing The Empire Strikes Back (1979)
Irvin Kershner Interview
George Lucas on the Force (2010)
Hoth, Dagobah, Pursued by the Imperial Fleet and Cloud Overviews
Deleted Scenes (All of the 2011 ones)
Those matte paintings and 360 turnaround things too from the 2011 BR

JEDI
Conversations: The Effects
Discoveries from Inside: The Sounds of Ben Burtt
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Revenge of the Jedi Teaser Trailer
Return of the Jedi Launch Trailer
It Began TV Spot
Climactic Chapter TV Spot
Tatooine, Endor, Death Star II Space Battle Overview
Harrison Ford Interview
Deleted Scenes (All of the 2011 ones)
Those matte paintings and 360 turnaround things too from the 2011 BR

Doesn’t seem like its got too much worthwhile stuff, I thought they’d include Empire of Dreams in some capacity, maybe The Making of Star Wars or SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back, perhaps some featurettes or trailers but I mean its something I suppose.

EDIT: Glad to see that Classic Creatures got a feature on the Jedi BR, although in SD its very welcome

Here’s a version with the green reduced

And how it looks on the other shot

Chase Adams said:

I would like to consider Bobson Dugnutt’s direction for the colouring as an alterante option so Bobson, if you’re still active and listening, could I by any chance grab a PM of the force ghost scenes once you’ve finished the colours? Thanks in advance.

Once I have the Blu-Ray, I’ll work on it, for now I’ve only got screenshots

Master Skywalker?

Trying to fix the hyper blue they added to Luke, so that it’s more in line with Yoda in TLJ and Obi-Wan in Empire and Jedi instead of looking like a neon hologram

I did finish the edit up, but I didn’t post any updates over here as I’m more active on fanedit.org, but feel free to PM me if you’d like it

Here’s a trailer for the release

https://vimeo.com/375210449

KurganX said:
Now then, who has a complete version of the Declan Mulholland Jabba scene to go with it? Every version of it I’ve seen has those tv station borders/logos burned in…

Look over here for some work I’ve done on the scene…

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/ANH-Jabba-Scene-Pre-Special-Edition-Recreation/id/69559