I’m currently thinking on a way to cut out the bargaining with Jabba scene to go straight to the rescue attempt on Han. But I do not know where to cut straight to the outside matte of Jabba’s Palace. So where should I cut?
I have a bad feeling about this.
It’s actually stitched-in with the blu-ray due to the unnatural colors. The only parts that were left in is some Endor scenes, the entire Sarlacc Pit fight and that’s about it.
The gas plan I ditched had Chewie participating. He would have to secure a ship and help bring the droids out.
I am still working on my ROTJ Edit, and though I really loved that idea of the release of harmful sedatives that Leia sets on the main room, I completely ditched that idea due to lacking scenes.
Hi everyone! I am working on a ROTJ edit that helps strengthen the first and third act of the film. Now, since this is in the early works there is not cutlist yet. But after tinkering around with other movies for quite some time, I would make a leap to start a fanedit. I just reposted this from fanedit.org just to get more attention. Hope this can be improved.
Here is my (very early concept) plan for Han’s rescue attempt, since the original plan (or would it even a plan) made no sense and relied too much on luck, or the Force perhaps.
Now, this is pretty much a bunch of failsafes, but hopefully It might be improved upon.
Before we get into this, we must have knowledge that Lando, Chewbacca and Leia are in the palace and giving the inside information to Luke.
The preliminary plan: Artoo and Threepio are gifted as messengers to Jabba and R2-D2 displays a hologram of Luke pleading to settle a deal with Jabba, in turn giving Han Solo back. Now, Luke knew Jabba wouldn’t let him off the hook that easy, so he smuggled a lightsaber in R2-D2 that would later come in handy for Plan B.
Since Jabba did not accept his request, but took the two droids, plan B would have to established.
Plan B: Luke would enter Jabba’s palace to mind-trick him to giving back Solo, and if that would not work, then he would need to kill Jabba.
During the execution of the actual plan, Leia had her own plan as well. She would make use of harmful sedatives that would later on, be released into the main room. She would also make use of her helmet, which had a double-purpose of being a gas-mask. She would then sneak across the room and un-freeze Han from the carbonite. She would also let Chewbacca wait outside to get Han and the droids, however it failed miserably. She and Chewie were later caught and Leia was forced to wear a suit that would be engraved into each Star Wars fan’s brain for the rest of their lives.
Lando told Luke about this and he was forced to modify his Plan B. Using the information that was gathered by both Lando and Leia, he had to become a prisoner, and be sent to the Sarlacc Pit just to fight to the death.
Since Luke also once lived in Tatooine he totally would have known about Jabba and his public executions at the Sarlacc Pit. This knowledge gave more advantage to him when he actually would have to be thrown in the pit himself.
This plan wouldn’t have been put up so easily without some people who have indirectly helped me make an edit as ambitious as this. Those people are NeverarGreat, nhoj3, ray_afraid, jarbear and other people who attempted to make ROTJ a great film before me.
My father made friends with a local theater owner, and we got to watch all six films in 2006, I believe. At the time they had prints of the OUT, except for ANH, for they had the 1981 version. I’m pretty sure they partially restored those pints at the time I was seeing it, because there were very few missing frames when I first saw it.
I really like this edit! Its very ambitious indeed!
I have one question though, will this fanedit be universal enough to be fit in with other edits of I and II? If not, are you going to edit those two movies as well?
I just lost my phone, in which it contained the files for the ANH Tagalog translation Project. Please wish me luck to help me find my phone again.
You could use a subtitle editor (i.e Subtitle Edit, etc.) to sync and add subtitles. It’s intimidating at first, but it gets real easy.
Are you going to restore the off-white Tantive and Bluish Death Star Walls? I would love to see that in ANH:RHD.
I’m braver than I thought.
I also really like that, but another (kinda way-out-there) possibility would be that Galen had secretly embedded the right position of the radar dish, and that file was something the rebels could decrypt.
I want to go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!
If you are using the theatrical Sarlacc Pit and adding tentacles, I have a small suggestion that I would like to see fixed is, when one of the skiff guards fall into the pit, the walls of its mouth move in a latex or cloth-like fashion, which either slightly or completely takes down the assumption that the Sarlacc is a real creature and makes it look more of a prop.
I really like that idea though! It would be nice to use it when they plug R2 and we see the wrong version. Then when we see the right version via a old 1970’s TV scan-style transition to have that used-in universe look.
I supposed you got Harmy’s “what the fuck?” from mine.
By the way, this thread is more on “nitpicking and demanding” than “ideas and suggestions.”
Looks like a line of things that will almost certainly not work.
I have just restarted the Tagalog subs for A New Hope, currently translating the first half right now.
NeverarGreat said:
The guy shot the footage, and the behind the scenes stuff is in the documentary, but for legal reasons he couldn’t release the actual scene.
That was supposed to be a weird “George Lucas-esque” post, but I got a reasonably fair answer 😕
I would suggest the Sarlacc Pit to be improved in the style of the theatrical version. More spikes/teeth, less flytrap mouth.
Where is that droid?
No seriously, where is he?