Bobson Dugnutt

Version 2 of ROTS Expanded is coming along nicely with a few minor and major changes compared to v1.

All the deleted scenes have been replaced with bryantmh’s upscales, of which are the best I’ve ever seen for the Prequel deleted scenes (sorry Hal)

The Blu-Ray scenes have also been replaced with my own versions, as I scaled them down to 720p and then upscaled them to roughly 2K before putting them back in 1080p. Topaz makes them look pretty alright compared to before. The colour-grading has all been redone for those scenes too.

The last scene in the Rebellion subplot has been shifted around to where it was placed in the shooting script, which is right before the Jedi War Room scene, as not to disrupt the Obi-Wan sequence too much.

The shot of Palpatine’s shuttle approaching Coruscant has been merged with a 35mm scan of the trailer, as done by (I think) williarob. It needs some dirt and speck cleanup to be done, but it looks 10x better than the SD shot from the trailer.

One small snippet that I was never able to get my hands on was mentioned over at T-Bone’s Star Wars Universe, as all his links are mostly dead. Apparently the Star Wars: Trivial Pursuit DVD Board Game includes an alternate line for a Super Battle Droid calling R2 “stubby”. I couldn’t find the clip anywhere so I went out and bought the entire game myself.

Here’s how the clip is presented alongside a trivia question.

And here is my integration into the actual film.

Once I can get the 35mm shot cleaned, I’ll upload v2 in the same place and folder as v1.

Star Wars: Leftovers is a collection that includes every piece of unused and deleted footage from Star Wars (1977) from a variety of sources. I’ve searched far and wide to collate every sliver and every frame and line that has not been used in any version of the film.

SW: Leftovers features raw footage shot on set without sound design, visual effects or any finalised editing. Some sections do feature John William’s score in sections where it would have of been silent, as the original source either had no sound or narration from Empire of Dreams.

This only includes genuine footage that was shot for the film, and not behind the scenes material or on-set B-Roll. It also doesn’t incorperate the footage into the film itself like “the lost cut” but presents all the footage on its own as a sort of long form compilation.

Runtime is 43 minutes and 49 seconds.

Here are the first 5 minutes

SOURCES

• Empire of Dreams (Dream Edition as made by Neothebird based on a Blu-Ray Screener)
• The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzer (eBook clips used)
• The Birth of the Lightsaber Featurette (2004 Box Set Bonus Material Disc)
• Original Trilogy Outtakes (2004 Box Set Bonus Material Disc Easter Egg)
• Discoveries from Inside: Hologram & Bloopers (2019 Revenge of the Sith Blu-Ray)
• Star Wars: The Complete Saga - Episode I-III Archive Disc (Ewan Macgregor Interview)
• Star Wars: The Complete Saga - Episode IV-VI Archive Disc (featurettes listed)
• Aboard the Death Star Overview, Battle of Yavin Overview, Holochess Set (from 2011 BR Saga)
• Deleted Scenes (from 2011 BR Saga)
• The Skywalker Legacy (Rise of Skywalker Bonus Disc Documentary)
• From Star Wars to Jedi (16mm Scan by TN1)
• THX Wow! Laserdisc (1990 Lucasfilm Demo Disc)
• Revenge of the Sith Teaser (an upscaled SD version and a 35mm TN1 scan were combined)
• Star Wars Celebration 2017 (footage of Gold Leader outtakes and the extended DS conference cleaned up by Jamie Benning)
• Star Wars: Behind the Magic CD-Rom (brief clips from the Cantina)
• Star Wars: 2011 and 2019 Blu-Ray discs (used to recontruct Jabba scene)
• Star Wars: 4k77 v1.4 no-DNR (borrowed opening fanfare)

These were only used for the Jabba scene, as I couldn’t source much of the Declan Mullholland footage myself

• Star Wars: Deleted Magic (Garrett Gilchrist Documentary)
• Star Wars Begins (Jamie Benning Documentary)

Sorry for the delay, but any and all audio issues have now been fixed. The same link I have already sent out will be updated. Also, please try to just send me a private message instead of requesting it in the thread, it makes it easier to keep track of things, thank you.

Honestly I realise how much of a mess the backend of the scene looks. I did remove the credits from the last segement though with After Effects which is neat. It looks a little dodgy when it goes over his face, but it’s not horrible

https://vimeo.com/501379411

I’ve since restarted work on the scene, using the 2019 BR as a base as the colours are a bit better, and trying to fix the errors in the Deleted Magic footage like freeze frames and such. This first section took the longest, so hopefully the backend of the scene will just be colour work.

There’s absolutly no mention of any lightman in the 1981 script that I could find, or the revised '82 script either. If it were to occur anywhere, it’d be somewhere in this small section. Although not written anywhere, I’d imagine the Lightman would be a guide through the darker areas of the Palace.

9 INT DUNGEON CORRIDOR
One of Jabba’s Gamorrean guards marches Artoo and Threepio down a dank, shadowy passageway lined with holding cells. The cries of unspeakable creatures bounce off the cold stone walls. Occasionally a repulsive arm or tentacle grabs through the bars at the hapless droids. Artoo beeps pitifully.

The edit is now done and on the IFDB, uploaded with a few bonus features too.

Also after listening to Rian Johnson’s commentary, I realised there was another little bit with Rose after the Fathier chase, so I just put it back in quickly.

I’ve been working on another revision of the edit, doing upscales of the BR scenes to 4K and then downscaling to 1080p. It looks surprisingly better, especially on the faces and clothing. So I’ll work on it for the ROTS scenes as well as the AOTC ones. I don’t think there was anything worthwhile for TPM but I’ll take a look

A short trailer for the edit, a bit of fun really.

I’m also putting together somewhat of a “Complete Workprint” that includes the Alt. Opening, extended Fathier chase, extended Phasma encounter and the small “Go Round Back” moment on Crait. I haven’t been able to put the Paige scene back yet, it might yet fit somewhere.

Currently it runs at 2:46:26, a bit under 5 minutes longer than the regular Expanded Edition.

Here’s the extra Crait bit, not sure about the music, might need to replace it or just extend it somehow, anyone know if there is a track just like it that would fit?

And the end of the Phasma fight, now extended a little with more of the unfinished VFX. I have replaced Phasma’s SE-44C blaster with the correct SFX as well

I’ve rendered out a small 5gb version of the Expanded cut without the Phasma scene if anyone would like it, for feedback if anything. I can do a full BD-25 encode if desired too

KumoNin said:

Nice! The closeup of Phasma climbing up could stay though, no? I mean there is the continuity issue, but is there a way to make that work? And the shot of her falling into flames?

I’m still working out the editing, so hopefully the falling shot works. But I don’t know if the close up quite works, I can try and tinker but I’m not sure.

Here’s a first pass at removing the Phasma tracking dots.

Doing some tests now to fix up the matte lines even more, and removing the tracking dots. Looks surprising well in motion.

I’ve done my best to try and integrate the deleted Phasma scene, and it’s a little tricky as the scene was reshot, so the continutity doesn’t line up completely. I’ve done some colour work just to try and make the compositing look better, mostly removing the matte lines around the characters. If I were to finalise this, I’d do more work trying to remove Phasma’s red tracking dots

https://vimeo.com/494268933

Honestly I’d love to use just the sauna bit of the Fathier chase, but it’s those 2 shots of Rose and Finn crashing down that kill it for me sadly. I wasn’t a fan of the way ebumms cut to black for that scene, so sadly it’s on the cutting room floor.

I feel that the unfinished CG backgrounds in the Bite scene work a little better and are far less distracting than the mostly untextured Fathiers.

As somewhat of a follow-up to my ROTS Expanded Edition, this one extended Episode VIII to it’s longest running time (with finished VFX). ebumms has already done his own extended cut, but this differs slightly. His included a portion of the longer Fathier chase, which had unfinished CGI, while I won’t opt to use that. I’ve also used a portion of the extended opening, Rose biting Hux and “Where We Belong” as he did not. The “Luke Mourn” scene transitions to Leia as it does in Rekindled unlike his cut going from Luke mourning to his daily routine. Similar to his cut however is the inclusion of almost all of the Canto Bight B-Roll, so those who hate that subplot might dislike this edit. Anywho, here’s a full list.

ADDITIONS

• Added a Resistance officer telling Poe the First Order found them, and him contacting Lt. Connix
• Added Luke mourning Han’s death
• Moved around a couple of Resistance scenes to accomodate match-cutting that scene with Leia coming out of hyperspace
• Added Poe catching Finn up to speed on what happened, giving him his jacket back (last 3 changes borrowed from poppasketti)
• Added BB-8 showing Finn a hologram of Rey saying goodbye to Finn (puppeteer’s arm removed by ebumms)
• Added the Caretaker staring down Rey for blasting a hut wall
• Added almost all of extra Canto Bight B-Roll to extend the Red Ponbloom search (extra SFX added by ebumms)
• Added Luke’s third lesson, telling Rey to be a proactive Jedi
• Added the extended Mega Destroyer incursion, cutting a few of the shots and lines that were repurposed in the Theatrical Cut, or where some shots are missing the digital set extentions
• Added Hux taunting Rose, ending with him ordering her excecution
• Added Finn telling Rose they are going back to “where they belong” (Crait reflection and perspective, and audio work done by poppasketti)

Theatrical - 2:31:51
Expanded - 2:41:57

Here’s the snippet from the Alt. Opening

And the Rose/Hux scene. It’s not 100% but I feel it’s finished enough to fit in.

I’m not too sure if there is anything from any Trailer, TV Spot, or the other Blu-Ray BTS stuff that could be put in. As far as I’m aware, the only thing from the trailers that didn’t end up going in was Rey on the beach but that has been put in as apart of the Third Lesson. If anyone knows of any other stuff that can be put back in, I’d love to hear about it.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

On another note, I’m not entirely sure what the new version contains compared to the one from August. It says it has like 500+ more MB of data but nothing changed drastically. Is this because of an AI upscale of the deleted scenes?

Some new audio fixes, a bit of work putting in some upscaled shots, just general fixes here and there that bugged me.

I’ve created a concept for an opening to a Phantom Menace one of these, that I’ll probably do down the line, once this is done and out in the world

Has anyone got another VHS recording of the TV cut? Specifically the shop scene as the recording I’ve got at the moment is terrible quality and is blown out. I’m looking into getting the footage upscaled, and can’t do it with what I’ve currently got.

And if anyone does want this extended cut, I’ve got an edit in the works combining the DVD and VHS footage into the Blu-Ray for an extended cut. More info here

Attempted to put the librarian talking about Dooku back into AOTC, as the BR scene is quite rough. Quality wise, it needs some kind of deblocking and sharpening to work with the film, but it’s not a bad scene itself, just terrible quality.

G&G-Fan said:

I would’ve really liked if you had kept the “You still have much to learn, that’ll never hold” “Ok, I still have much to learn, let’s go” thing in the whole edit, I really love that exchange. You could’ve just cut the shot in space with unfinished CG and I think it would’ve worked fine.

Sadly it doesn’t work as there is a gap between them walking through the fuel tanks as it’s at ankle height, and then they’re submurged up to their necks, the continutiy doesn’t match up and I can’t figure out a way to cut around it.

If anyone finds a way to do so, I’d happily include it in a workprint of sorts

Here’s another link, should work alright

Turns out I messed the audio up more, but it’s now fixed again. The same link should work as normal with an update file.

Here are those almost 8 minutes of unfinished scenes that I fixed up as best I could with some audio work and mild visual fixes. Some can’t be used and other definitly can be. Is a workprint cut with some of the scenes something that is desired?

I’ve found another featurette and now the running time is topping 2:51:41, and I’ve got to ask; is this release better done as a single feature, or as a chapter structre detailed earlier for ease of watching as I know many people can feel like almost 3 hours is a bit of a slog.

I’ve scrubbed through it again and cleaned up somethings and I’m assuming it’s ready for a final release and completion is nearing.

Did any of the previewers have feedback before I finalise this?

I’ve put in a bit of dough into the pot, hopefully it can help out

Alright v1.1 is now up, both on TSWT forum and avalible via PM.