This is going to be one of the greatest projects ever in this place.
No B.S.
Don't worry. It will be all over the place.
The Pirate Bay, Demonoid, and probably MySpleen.
I'm sure there will be individual download links (like Rapidshare) as well.
ROTFLMAO!
Awesome!
ray_afraid said:
Some of these changes have already been shown, such as correcting Lukes head from popping back up. But somethings like the new slug mouth haven't been mentioned in a long time...
I was bored so I compared the early change list with the final one now up on page one.
I noticed that these were missing.
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Tweaking Tauntaun's facial movements, adding blinks.
Altering Ian McDiarmond's dialogue to pre-2004 version.
Enhancing Slave 1's cockpit displays.
Replacing shadow of TIEs and Falcon against the Big Asteroid.
Fixing the asteroid that explodes before the Star Destroyer laser hits it.
New asteroid slug interior mouth model.
Added mist to wide shot of crashed X-Wing to fix continuity problem.
Possibly adding C-3PO coming down the stairs upon arrival in Cloud City.
Restoring original "Who are you?" Stormtrooper line.
Fixing shot where Luke hands off lightsaber to stage-hand.
Removing Luke's head that pops back into frame when he jumps off the Carbonite Platform.
Fixing shots where lightsaber flashes show off the edges of the gantry matte.
Fixing the problem on the gantry when the flashes light up the back walls and show the visible matte painting.
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Are these changes confirmed?
One must admit that it is freaky.
They do look like Jawa eyes and there is no logical reason for them to be there.
I agree with doubleofive.
What was on Hoth was a cell of the Rebellion, not everybody in the resistance.
For example, Mon Mothma is not on Hoth.
As far as alien species go, it could be explained away by saying that a number of said species choose to go with other groups knowing that a generally unhospitable world like Hoth was this cell's destination for the time being.
There is something weird when Obi-Wan comes to Luke's aid on Tatooine while Artoo is hiding. There are these strange lights in the crack to the left of Artoo that look like Jawa eyes.
I don't know if this has ever been spotted before. It probably has, but I don't feel like reading through 380 pages.
You see them twice. The first is when the Tuskens drop the unconscious Luke on the ground. The second time is when Kenobi comes.
Thanks.
I have a decent outline for Episode I. It’s mostly unorganized notes for the others, but I definitely remember what goes where.
This section of the site is good for voicing one’s opinions and bouncing ideas off of each other. It used to be more active though. Like myself, fans get all excited and then that initial energy wanes. You start to think that, in the end, it’s not worth all the effort.
Just remember that you’re not going to please everyone. Even people who like your work will probably have problems with some of it. That’s just life. Don’t let it dissuade you.
In the end, you have to do it for yourself. You do it because you love Star Wars.
Now this one, well....
And don't forget all those standard DVDs of Episode I.
The puppet Yoda will live on.
Pittrek,
Do you have any plans for doing these in NTSC?
I ask because I'm wondering if I should wait to grab these if you are planning to do so.
Thanks for the compliment.
Unfortunately, I never ended up writing my screenplays.
I still think about doing them though. For some reason, I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately.
It’s funny to type this, but I still have this bag with lots of papers and notes with specific ideas scribbled on them. I wrote some new scenes like the two Dooku scenes in Episode I. A number of others. I know that I have kept everything, all of my ideas… plans. When I started to take notes and began to organize years back, I knew it was going to be a huge task.
One of the problems I quickly realized was that any rewrite would most likely have to be a combination of a screenplay and a novelization in order to relay details that would be tough with just a basic screenplay. That’s a lot more work.
Also, I was going to have something like an opening statement to kind of explain my plans, intentions, goals, etc.
Then I was going to have a section where I would I would specifically mention a change that I thought might stop someone reading it. For example, I might change someone’s home world or how a planet’s name is spelled. I would mention this in this numbered list so that I wouldn’t have someone saying… “Oh, so-and-so was born on __, not __. This guy doesn’t know what he is talking about.”
There would be a lot of changes to be sure, but a lot would stay the same.
I was also going to hire an artist to draw stills of certain scenes I created from scratch. I figured it would’ve been something cool to add to the project. A visual companion as it were.
Someone I knew from back in the day said that the prequels were like a beautiful chessboard with the pieces in all the wrong places. I tend to agree with that. I think there is a pretty decent amount of stuff there that can be used.
My PT rewrite, if I ever do it (LOL), has big roles for Organa, Mothma, Tarkin, and moderate roles for Black Sun and Raith Sienar.
Now having said my peace, I do agree that if Lucas had written all three movies before he started on TPM, the PT would have been vastly improved… maybe even great.
Many years before this novel, I had written two scenes for Dooku for Episode I. He runs into Jinn and Kenobi in the Jedi Temple. It would have established his existence, some of his history, and a few of his beliefs. He even sees Anakin and inquires as to who he is.
I felt this would add to his larger role come Episode II. The same for Grievous. I had an idea to show Grievous in Episode II as his alien self before the accident. And guess what? He worked for the Republic. He was the head of the Galactic Republic’s Security and Defense forces. There isn't much to it, and with the Separatist movement swelling, he wants a clone or robot army for the Republic along with a huge increase in military spending. I made it so that he was a General on his home world which was rife with war, first amongst themselves, then with neighboring planets before they became part of the Galactic Republic.
When he gets frustrated with the whole affair, he jumps to the Confederacy. He has no loyalty. In his eyes, The Separatists will do things the right way. We see his ship get shot down during the Battle of Geonosis and that’s why he ends up like he does. See, he was at the secret meeting with Dooku, selling out the Republic. Obi-Wan sees him there along with the others and reports back to Coruscant.
Oh, and no lightsaber use either. That was crap. I make him this great shot, an unbelievable marksman. He'll kill Jedi, but he picks them off from distance. In close, with his four arms going all at once, he still manages to kill some lesser Jedi, but he won't get too close to a true Master for obvious reasons.
One of the problems I have with the Plagueis novel is that he should be long dead by the time period before TPM. The EU contradicts too much. Sidious has Maul at this point. What happened to the rule of two?
Also, it makes Palpatine seem weaker. Plagueis is coming up with the idea for Palpatine to use the Naboo situation to become Chancellor. That's weak.
I don't need Plagueis coming up with the plans for Palpatine. In the attempt to fit Plaguies into all of this, Palpatine gets neutered. I know that the book tries to say Palpatine was just playing along, biding his time, but I think the damage was done.
I'm no big lover of the rule of two, but it is explained well in Terry Brooks novelization for Episode I and as to why the Sith went this route.
I don't tend to follow much EU, so I don't even know which came first anymore. Unfortunately, the EU tends to do more damage than it helps. To me, the whole thing seems based on the idea of the fallen angel, a Lucifer-type thing. A Jedi that goes bad, becomes a Sith, disrupts the Force, throws off the balance, etc. I think the Jedi should have existed first.
It seems that even ROTS screws over Plapatine’s success.
“Once more the Sith will rule the galaxy.”
Once more? So … what? It was just Plapatine’s turn in line?
Not only did Lucas screw Anakin/Vader. He also screwed Palpatine/Sidious.
Palpatine should be the first (and only) Sith to actually succeed in taking over the galaxy.
timdiggerm said:
I agree with that idea, although the idea that Dorme or whoever did some kind of suicide is slightly creepy.
SilverWook said:
hat's a good point. We saw sporting events being watched in the bar in Episode II, so there ought to be news broadcasts and even a "C-Span" for the Senate.
As for the Death Star being in orbit of a planet, well, this is another example of brilliance. The thing wasn't fully operational and yet in is just sitting out there is empty space.
Ridiculous!
Ady is spot-on. It would be in orbit of a planet taking on supplies, equipment, troops, officers, etc. al. Only when fully operational to move and defend itself completely would it break orbit from the planet.
It was such a obvious thing and yet I can't remember anyone ever having that idea before. And I've been online talking Star Wars since 1998. Aldera (Chuckie Taylor), Prequel Spoilers, TFN once upon a time (sadly), X-Boards, Galactic Senate (T-Bone), Millennium Falcon.com, etc. and I never heard anyone propose such an idea.
I guess it was too obvious that it just seemed to slip through the cracks.
I think one of the problems people have had with the duel music comes from a general dislike for anything PT. Yes, for some that includes Williams' music.
While I'm no fan of the PT, I don't mind having the theme there. What we should be focusing on is the brilliant work by Ady in making the duel faster (somehow) and making it seem longer (somehow) instead of the music.
The fact that he is going to give us the option to have it either way music-wise, well, what more can the guy do?
Jeez.
Also, this is the first time I can remember anyone complaining about the ESB theme being there.
One thing I notice that doesn't seem to get mentioned much is the Emperor's theme used in the Death Star conference room. That was an amazing addition by Ady.
It's true that not every scene in a film needs music, but anyone who thinks that theme playing in the background during that scene doesn't take it to a whole new level of awesome is dog^%&* nuts.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Time Bandits
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
I found some pics of that four disc set in the EditDroid set.
Scroll the page.
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/The-EditDroid-Trilogy-DVD-Info-and-Feedback-Thread/topic/1703/page/19/
A very rare find nowadays.
When I was a kid I used to wonder what the public thought with regard to what happened to Anakin.
The buildup around Episode III made it seem like Anakin was a sort of celebrity to the people of the Galactic Republic. You have to figure that many wondered what happened to him.
I guess it was assumed he died in the Jedi Purge.
One of the problems with the prequels was the lack of involvement of the general populace, especially the people on Coruscant.
I always felt that the Holonet news should have been used in the PT in some way (a few direct scenes, or maybe just playing on some screens in the background during a few of them) to help convey the mood, the feelings people were dealing with during the Clone Wars.
I would've done it like a daily news program with maybe one humanoid and one alien news anchor. Think Futurama. Another obvious use for it would be pure exposistion.
I think it would have gone a long way to generating some real emotional resonance. This was something that was clearly (and sadly) missing from the PT.
nmr1723 said:
I actually have the entire RowMan supplemental set as ISO files on my PC. I'd love to seed these, but I'm having a little trouble getting started. I'm using uTorrent at the moment. I've created the .torrent file and then added it to uTorrent, but it is not seeding. I've renamed the file to match the current one on the systeml: The Ultimate Supplemental Collection - OT Episode VI - By RowMan
Has anyone ever culled together a list of all the docs/featurettes since the first OT VHS release all the way up to AOTC VHS release?
topdawg193 said:
Yoda himself never tells Luke that he must actively strive to seek Vader out and conquer him (and indeed chastises Luke for such a course of action in Empire), but rather serenely states in Jedi that 'face him you will' - it will be so dictated, life will conspire to have it arranged, it is the ‘will of the Force’ perhaps, and how Luke handles this event is, instead, what is central.