EditModd

I remember reading about it online and even seeing some rough drafts, and watching the Justice League Snyder Cut brought this back into my mind, and I hope to one day make a radical fanedit of RoTJ that’s a “Kurtz Cut” (It would be called Revenge of the Jedi, its original title). Here are some of the changes:

• Two Death Stars under construction
• A key setting is the Imperial city world of Had Abbadon (would later become Coruscant). Had Abbadon’s moon is known as Endor, and it has a shield generator on it that protects Had Abbadon from invasion.
• Wookies live on Endor, and have been imprisoned and enslaved by the Empire to build settlements on Endor for residents of the overpopulated Had Abbadon.
• There are two sail barges over the Sarlaac pit, and Leia never goes to Jabba’s palace. She’s headed to Endor from the beginning.
• The final space battle takes place over Had Abbadon, and Lando is in command of a Mon Cal cruiser instead of piloting the Falcon. The two Death Stars aren’t destroyed by fighters flying into them, but by blasts from Rebel capital ships.
• The Emperor’s throne room is in an underground chamber full of lava.
• The Wookies are freed and help the Rebels fight stormtroopers on Endor.
• Han dies in Leia’s arms after being shot in the final raid on the Imperial shield generator base on Endor.
• The Force ghosts of Obi-Wan and Yoda appear to protect Luke from the Emperor’s force lightning.
• Darth Vader kills the Emperor by grabbing him and diving into one of the pools of lava.

I agree with you about your analysis, and it’s not a drastic restructure. I think I lump together two scenes from each subplot, since I’m getting rid of their horribly creepy first kiss scene, Anakin riding those weird giant tick-looking creatures, and their conversation at night about whether or not to hide their romance. You still jump back and forth, it’s just streamlined because most of the romantic scenes are just atrocious. In replacement of those I added in the scenes with Padme’s family. Their romance will be much slower and more subtle in this edit, with their first kiss being at the arena.

I’ve decided I’m going to be doing a fanedit of every movie in the trilogy, each with some sort of alteration and extension. Some films will have more alterations and extensions, others will have less. For example, ANH will have the Jabba scene taken out, some scenes from SC.38 edited in (with color correction and grain to make it match), and an extended and larger Battle of Yavin. For The Empire Strikes Back, I plan only to go full Adywan and add in more scenes of snowtroopers and Darth Vader in combat during the battle. Speaking of Adywan, I plan on using his OT edits as a starting base for my own. For the prequels, there will be more drastic cuts and changes, especially in regards to bad dialogue and silly scenes. The sequel trilogy and will have some mild changes, mainly in regards to removing out of place, over-the-top humor, and making the battle sequences feel less rushed and lackluster (this would again require some filming and VFX work). Overall, I want there to be as much tonal, story, and aesthetic consistency across the movies as possible.

I decided to start with the prequels because I currently have all the necessary footage and skillsets needed to edit these movies (however there may turn out to be a VFX scene or two I may need help with as the process unfolds). I’m working on an ROTJ edit, but there needs to be more content released (first Bucketheads Season 1 episode and Tydirium) before I can fully complete this edit.

So, on to Attack of the Clones itself. Here is the change list:

V.1:

• Added in all the deleted scenes to extend the runtime. The deleted scenes in this movie, especially the ones featuring Anakin and Padme, aren’t perfect but are still superior to their romance scenes in the original cut. In this version, their romantic subplot is much slower and more natural compared to the “Shakespearian” version of the original. The first time Anakin and Padme kiss is at the arena, not by the lake on Naboo.

• I’ve found that speeding up some of Hayden Christensen’s delivery of certain lines makes them more tolerable. Again, not perfect, but better than the original versions.

• Cut as much of Jar Jar’s lines as possible unless they are relevant to the plot, like him taking Padme’s place in the Senate or him granting emergency powers to Palpatine.

• Cut Jar Jar looking at camera in Padme’s apartment.

• Cut Anakin’s line about wanting to dream about Padme.

• Eliminate “Jedi poodoo” alien during the chase and other silly moments like the power coupling scene.

• Add force pull sound effect when Obi Wan catches Anakin’s lightsaber during the speeder chase.

• Cut as much of Anakin’s creepy/cringe dialogue throughout or anything that makes him seem bratty.

• Cut Anakin’s “it’s not fair” line and the following parts about Padme feeling uncomfortable with Anakin staring at her.

• Slightly speed up or slow down parts of certain lines to help negate the flat delivery.

• Add in Dooku’s backstory as a flashback with Jocasta Nu’s narration.

• Cut Dex pulling up his pants.

• Add in the blooper scene of Anakin saying the soup is too hot to give Anakin and Padme a moment of levity and humor during their conversation on the transport ship headed to Naboo.

• Cut the scene with Yoda, Obi-Wan and the younglings.

• Add in the scene Mace and Obi-Wan on the Jedi Temple landing platform, as this conveys the information that’s lost by cutting the youngling scene.

• Add in extended landing on Naboo to give Anakin and Padme more interaction to develop their romance.

• Make the Padme and Anakin love scenes into more of a montage with less dialogue, cut their first kiss by the lake.

• Add Across the Stars to the Anakin/Padme scenes where the dialogue has been cut.

• Cut Anakin and Padme scene by the fire, instead add some of the family deleted scenes.

• Restructure the Kamino subplot and romance subplot so they don’t jump back and forth as often.

• Cut the “your presence is soothing” and “Jedi don’t have nightmares” lines.

• Cut Boba shooting at Obi Wan in Slave 1. It looks very cheesy to have Obi-Wan get “blown up” twice within a very short period of time.

• As Anakin and Padme arrive on Tatooine, replace the cart droid’s “okeedokee” sound with a more mechanical sound.

• Cut some of Watto’s cringier lines, such as him pretending to be friendly to Anakin out of fear.

• Cut any of Boba Fett’s lines that would make him seem overly evil or annoying. The goal is to have him seem like a normal kid.

• Speed up Anakin saying to find my mother.

• Cut Cliegg Lars saying that Anakin’s mother is dead and to forget about it.

• Slow down Shmi’s head falling as she dies. In the original it’s much too abrupt.

• Cut Anakin’s breakdown and him telling Padme he killed the sandpeople. In this edit, he killed the men of the Tusken Raider tribe, but not the women and children. Instead, the scene has been modified so he only expresses his wishes to stop people from dying. Padme wouldn’t love a full-on murderer, and Anakin shouldn’t have fallen so far this early.

• Cut “so much” after Anakin says “I miss you” while standing by his mother’s grave.

• Cut Anakin initially disagreeing to help Obi-Wan.

• Add in a new music track (the Coruscant track from The Old Republic vidoegame) to the scene of the Senate granting emergency powers to Palpatine, as well as trim some of Jar Jar’s unnecessary lines.

• Cut C-3PO and R2-D2 antics during the droid factory and the arena, instead they stay on the ship. Their “humor” during both the factory and the arena is extremely silly as well as very jarring and out of place.

• Tone down the droid factory sequence to be a little less over-the-top.

• Insert the trial scene before the arena execution.

• Make Anakin and Padme’s love confession less wordy in order to avoid some of the poor dialogue.

• Cut Padme jumping onto the Reek’s back.

• Extend the Battle of Geonosis with footage from fan films and cinematics.

• Cut Padme saying that they’ve got to get to the hangar––they don’t know where Dooku is escaping to yet. Instead, she just says to hurry up and get a transport.

• Make trims in the ending duel with Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda and Dooku.

V.2:

• Add the deleted droid control ship scene into the Battle of Geonosis (VFX needs to be finished).

• Add more scenes of Jedi, clones, and droids, and various vehicles engaged in battle on the plains of Geonosis, using something like Unreal Engine to create the scenes.

• Possibly add a snippets of battles in various locations in between the Acclamators taking off and Anakin and Padme’s wedding to bridge the two scenes. The goal is to really cement the line “begun the Clone War has.”

Can I get a link please?

Here is a very rough draft/storyboard of what the final extended space battle sequence is going to look like. There are gaps where I would prefer more pilot and cockpit shots and chatter, which I hope to find in other fan films, or, if necessary, have help with shooting cockpit sequences and using people to volunteer as voice actors for the project. Some of the clips have been color corrected and sharpened to make them blend more with the original footage, other shots haven’t. Film grain, sound effects and music will be the last things to be added to this edit. The link to the edit is below. Remember, it is far from finished and very rough.

https://vimeo.com/518290482

password: fanedit

The YouTube channels Skyforge and Howard Day have also recently been releasing extremely high quality content, and more of that will be added to the final battle if it’s fitting (i.e. proper class of ships fighting, the planet in the frame is something that can be color corrected to easily match Endor, etc.)

This is a rough draft of the Battle of Sullust, which will take place between Luke’s visit to Dagobah and the Rebel Fleet meeting where they have a briefing about the second Death Star. It’s stated in the movie that the Rebels were gathering above Sullust, and also it’s in the new Disney canon that the Rebels sent in a smaller force before the larger fleet arrived to clear out any Imperial remnants. This also gives Han one last opportunity to fly the falcon in action. Unfortunately, the footage I have of Han is from the Holiday Special and isn’t of the highest quality. If anyone knows of a restored or upscaled version of the Holiday Special I could use for this edit, it would be greatly appreciated. I’m going to completely redo the sound effects for this battle, and then use a score from either Shadows of the Empire or one of the Gordy Haab Battlefront OSTs. I’ve lowered the contrast, increased lighting and added a sharpen filter to make it look more realistic and match the rest of the movie, but I still need to add film grain.

Here is a link to the work-in-progress Battle of Sullust:

https://vimeo.com/497052181

Do you mind sending me a PM of your edit to use as a base for my own? Thanks!

PM for this please! Looks like an awesome project.

I know I’ve been gone a long, mainly waiting on Adywan’s ROTJ: Revisited and Tydirium, but those could be years away, so I plan on making a Version 1 with the Disney+ release of ROTJ as the base instead, and then just drop in Adywan’s edit in as a replacement over its corresponding ROTJ footage once his edit comes out. I’ll try to post little snippets more regularly of things I’ll be adding into the film. Once again, the goal is to expand the movie be more of an “epic” in scale and add more focus on the war between the Empire and Rebellion. This won’t exactly be easy to do well and in a way that blends well with the rest of the film in terms of look, pacing, flow, etc. so any help or input on this project would be greatly welcomed and appreciated. I currently have two small scenes to expand the movie’s runtime in the works: an added Battle of Sullust between the Dagobah scenes and the Rebel fleet meeting, as well as a Boba Fett action sequence/side quest, which will be placed somewhere in the early Jabba’s palace scenes, which tend to be slow. (I accidentally posted this from an older account I don’t use anymore not focused on edits, so I’m posting it again from the real account to clear up confusion.

https://imgur.com/qJekN3x

https://imgur.com/k7KUDAX

Here is an example of before and after color correction with of fan film footage with Davinci Resolve - the ability to correct different elements of the clip instead of just the whole image is a lifesaver in getting everything to look more like ROTJ.

First of all, I want to say thank you so much for this long, detailed help post. I really, really appreciate it!

RogueLeader said:

Edits that add fan film footage aren’t really my cup of tea, but for some reason your thread sparked my imagination so I thought I would share some ideas with you. I definitely think it will be impossible to blend fan film footage seamlessly with the original, but I think if you, and anyone who watches this, can accept that, then we can have a lot of fun with it at the very least.

I think there might be a few more ways that can help make the difference feel a little less jarring.
You’re already looking into ways to regrade the fan film footage to feel more “filmy”. I’d definitely say keep doing research on that.

I’ve never tried this before myself, but another way you might be able to make the CG space battles blend more with the original footage is to cut frames out of the CG footage. I think sometimes the new footage looks too smooth in comparison, so maybe experimenting with that could find something that works well. The ships in some of the new footage move a lot faster than in the theatrical film, so slightly slowing some of those shots down might help make it feel more consistent.

Interesting idea! I’ll give those techniques a try.

There is a bit of deleted material you could use to help extend the runtime of the film, if you’re basically wanting to make a Return of the Jedi: Extended Edition with as many deleted scenes and new scenes as possible, with overall pacing being less of an issue.
You can probably notice that a lot of the deleted scenes are extremely grainy. Having old grainy footage AND new footage next to each other will likely be very jarring, so maybe you could add a ‘grindhouse’ grain to the entire film, which would be easier than trying to clean all of that footage up.

I’ve heard there’s already versions out there that people have cleaned up, if true, those would be my first choice.

Some notes regarding the test clip you showed:

That shot of the inside of the Falcon flying around the Star Destroyer is not high quality enough to use in this edit at all, I would suggest cutting it.

Yeah, that was Star Tours footage with a Falcon cockpit greenscreen over the top, I agree it isn’t the best, I’ll definitely remove it.

I’d also suggest not using that music you’ve inserted the latter half of the clip. I honestly would only use music from the original trilogy, and MAYBE the Shadows of the Empire soundtrack or Gordy Haab’s Battlefront soundtracks if you were just desperate.

Some of that music was Gordy Haab, some was the unused Sail Barge track, and some was fanmade sounddtracks I’d found. I think the fanmade soundtracks made it all sound off, since the instruments sound more artificial in those. I plan on using familiar cues from the OT mixed in with Gordy Haab’s music, so the soundtrack is mostly original and not associated with other scenes in the OT, unless the OT theme is appropriate to what’s happening on screen in the new fanfilm footage.

I would also use less, or none, of the X-Wing interior shots with the fan film actors. I feel like it doesn’t match the way the pilots in the OT were filmed. I did like seeing the Rodian pilot that is in the original cut of that fan film.

Also noted! One of the cockpit shots is from a battlefront commercial for the X-wing VR, that one was probably the best of the bunch. I’m also waiting on Howard Day’s animated battle scene, his CGI looks almost exactly like old ILM models, it’s crazy. This is some of his work, it’s phenomenal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaBC_GZ8MvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SnTOLfVJBw

Originally, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, was going to start with a opening montage of battles happening across the galaxy. We see a fragment of this with the Order 66 montage. From what I understand, we would’ve originally seen most of these planets in that opening montage, then later return to them for the Order 66 sequence.

Maybe you could implement this idea into ROTJ for your added runtime, as well as to add a sense of scale to the Galactic Civil War. I was thinking you could build this idea off of the Special Edition ending of the film. In that ending, we see a montage of Bespin, Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant all celebrating the death of the Emperor. So maybe we could see these planets being attacked/liberated by the Rebellion at the beginning of the film in a 3-5 minute montage.

You could use footage from Destroyer to show Bespin being liberated, and some footage from Battlefront 2 for Naboo. It might be hard to seamlessly blend game footage with other footage, but you can try.

It’s so funny that you bring this up, because I’ve been working on a montage scene like this for the past week, and I’m posting up a rough edit now. It has Odyssey and Destroyer and some others, cut-down and re-contextualized. I meant for this to be a mirror of Order 66, except showing the Rebels rise up against the Empire (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) all across the Galaxy after having been given a rousing speech by Admiral Ackbar (all made with Battlefront audio), who calls for the Rebel cells across the Galaxy to do anything they can to divert the Empire’s attention away from their impending attack Endor. Instead of in the beginning of the film, I was planning on putting it the middle of the film, placed between when the Ewoks capture Han and Luke, and when they are all brought into the village. This is mainly because the second act can be pretty slow and boring, and needs something to make it feel exciting.

Here’s the link for it:
https://vimeo.com/353849351?activityReferer=1
Password: fanedit

For Coruscant, I had a bit of a different idea. First, you could have an establishing shot of Coruscant city or specifically the Jedi Temple (which is now the Emperor’s Palace by the time of OT) from one of the prequels, then use footage from Rebellion to imply that they’re sneaking in to attack it. You could reuse the shot of the bomb at 1:05, then cut to something like this, one of the temple towers blowing up,then some of kind of Imperial reaction shot, then cut back to an exterior of the smoking Jedi Temple from Revenge of the Sith (perhaps the establishing shot used when Yoda and Obi-Wan sneak back into the temple). If that temple explosion test is too low quality, you could just have the shot of the bomb, then hard cut to a close-up explosion, then to Imperials running around or reacting to the explosion with klaxons blaring.

Interesting idea! I might try a rough cut of that soon.

You also could use some footage from Battlefront 2 to show Sullust being liberated, since the Vader mentions the Rebel fleet amassing near Sullust in the film. Maybe you could insert a shot of a volcanic-looking planet in the Rebel fleet establishing shot, or you could see a glimpse of it outside the hangar as they’re getting ready to leave. The Battlefront 2 campaign also has cool shots of the attack on Fondor shipyards that could be use for the montage, either implied as Coruscant or just a random shipyard. Not sure if they would fit though.
Battlefront II footage is great when it comes to ships, vehicles and environments, the only problem is when the footage shows humans, it just doesn’t look right.

After this 3-5 minute montage (I would find one good music track to use for this montage to help you edit it together), I would cut to the first scene of the film with Vader going to the Death Star. And since we saw a montage of the Empire losing battles and being attacked, it might add to why the Empire wants to build another Death Star. The growing rebellion and the necessity of the Death Star could be touched on in a new opening crawl as well.

In the Coruscant scene I’m working on right now, with Battlefront audio and Vader: Extinction footage, Vader reports on the growing threat of the Rebellion to the Emperor, who then remarks that their resistance will be futile, and that their homeworlds will all burn - the scene then goes to the new Death Star. My completely out there dream for an opening scene would be something that would have to be filmed. It would be Vader leading Stormtroopers against Rebels in a backwater city, something similar to Mos Eisley or Batuu but colored gray. One of the problems with ROTJ is some people consider Vader less dangerous than the other films, and showing Vader being ruthless on the battlefield as both a warrior and a commander would help his image. It also gives an extremely exciting opening, and parallels Luke’s scene on the Sail Barge where he takes out the skiff guards. This way we see both Luke and Vader show their prowess above the average trooper, and wonder even more how intense their face-off would be and who would have the upper hand. This scene is also much more in-line with Disney’s new canon version of Vader, who’s extremely powerful and consistently gets his hands dirty on the battlefield.

For the Battle of Endor itself, I think what you’re trying to do now, by adding more to the space Battle, is good. You also could use footage from fan films like Scout and Bucketheads to add more to the ground battle as well. Again, this will take a lot of cutting and tweaking to make this not feel extremely jarring with the original footage.

Thanks for the ideas! I currently plan on using bits of both.

There is also some deleted footage that could used for the battle, like the Mon Calamari or Sullustan Pilots, the shots of General Madine, or the Rebels on the Millennium Falcon. Maybe Madine can be killed by the Death Star destroying his ship.

I’m hoping on using the deleted Endor footage once Howard Day’s animated battle scene comes out, for pilot footage.

Keep in mind that there are quite a bit of deleted scenes you can use throughout the film, too. If you want to beef up runtime I would use as much as possible. You could transition from the first scene of the film to Vader calling Luke as he builds his lightsaber. Reinsert the entire Moff Jerrjerrod subplot (also, audio of the Emperor giving him the command to destroy Endor does exist), and maybe use snippets from the sandstorm without the dialogue.

Do you know where I can find versions of these that are a bit more cleaned up?

This is all I can think of so far. Again, I think the big things to remember is to be forgiving when it comes to cutting footage from ROTJ, but be merciless when it comes to what you keep from the fan films. I would HIGHLY recommend rebuilding the audio for these fan films from scratch, and completely reinsert brand new sound effects and music that feel more appropriate to Return of the Jedi. This might also be necessary for snippets of the actual film in order to blend new and original footage together better.

I definitely agree about rebuilding audio from scratch. This will be done last, after making sure everything fits to a high enough standard visually.

Here is a longer video about trying to match the filmic look using digital footage. The latter half of the video focuses on the post-production side of things, and he uses Davinci Resolve, which is a free editing and color grading program that you could use too. This might be useful when it comes to trying to match the ROTJ-look. And since you’re using deleted scenes, I would look into using a grindhouse overlay for the sake of having a little more consistency.

Thanks for the link! I downloaded resolve about a week ago but the problem is it won’t let me import any video files onto it to be edited.

I love your idea of moving the Section33 bunker assault to the end of the ground battle, gives Han and Leia a more exciting and climactic finale, and makes the fight to take the shield generator that much more of a hard struggle.

4throck said:

EditModd said:
Any advice to help make the final product all blend seamlessly…

It’s hard to blend because the cinematography is different, specially CGI.
My best advice is to work with the deleted scenes from Jedi and perhaps a few takes from the Ewoks movies.

It’s possible to restore the original space battle sequence, and that changes the pacing a bit - see the link to my thread below. You can also throw in General Madine and add the Jerjerrod subplot to add more scale to the movie.

Please take a look at some of my ROTJ experiments, might be helpful:
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/My-ROTJ-fixes-and-changes/id/67046/page/1

Thanks for the ideas and resources! In terms of getting the footage to match, because it’s quite different, it can be very hard. Even if I can’t get it perfect, I’d like to know what I can do to at least make it blend more, and see how that works. I’m willing to overlook a few deviations from the original style if I have good fanfilm footage that I want to put it, but I’d just like anything to get it closer to the actual footage aesthetically, whatever would improve the fanfilm footage to make it look like the movie.

Essentially, even if it won’t look perfectly like the actual ROTJ footage, I’d at least like the clips of fanfilm footage to look like a better match (I know color correction is one way to do this). Also other things like changing contrast and lighting. Even if the cinematography differs, I’d like to achieve the basic look.

JSteven said:

Can we please re-insert Luke building his saber and Vader calling to him? There are restored versions, with replaced mattes and all and they look pretty good!

The rebels storming the shield generator would be a great addition too.

Ewoks shooting blasters would be pretty great as well - I saw someone insert scenes from the old Ewoks movies and it worked pretty well. The hardest part will be making the image quality consistent throughout the film.

Vader fading away after he dies would be pretty cool too. I’ve seen this done in a few fanedits before.

Another great idea,
which I’ve also seen done before, is to put Luke on Dagobah in the very beginning of the movie. This really tightens up the timeline imo (this would require a crawl change as well)

Anyway, these are just a few ideas. Good luck, looks interesting!

The first three ideas I’m all looking into. I would love to know where I can find restored versions of the lightsaber building deleted scene, those would be excellent resources. The Rebels storming the shield generator is also something I’m definitely adding in, there’s a version on youtube with VFX and SFX that I’d use. In regards to Ewoks shooting blasters, there will small snippets where they do that, replacing them using sticks and rocks. I plan on using Adywan’s ROTJ revisited as the starting point for this edit once it comes out. There will be Rebel ground combat on Endor, so I plan on almost entirely removing the Ewoks from the battle outside of when they initially saved the captured Rebels. Hopefully Tydirium is also released soon, as I can use that infantry combat action as well and hopefully have a trooper battle that rivals the Battle of Scarif.

This is my first concept, the extended battle of Endor. I tried to distribute the new clips throughout the original battle footage instead of clumping them together into one long extended battle section, to not destroy the pacing. Also, when it cuts to the shimmering water, that signifies a cut to the Endor ground battle or Luke’s duel.

https://vimeo.com/353469572

Password: fanedit

It’s still very rough at the moment, with really only visuals and some music. I didn’t want to get too far along with adding everything yet and have it turn out a lot of stuff doesn’t work, or have someone else suggest a completely new idea.

I used Battlefront II footage, the Lost Starfighter, Eckhart’s Battle of the Dreadnaughts, and a few other VFX test projects. I plan on using dialogue from different Star Wars games, including dialogue of Wedge saying to take out the two Star Destroyer towers on the bridge from one of the Rogue Squadron games. I believe that once some of the dialogue is in the place, the new battle footage will be a lot easier to follow in terms of what’s going on.

I would love suggestions on how I should keep color correcting the new footage. So far I’ve generally decreased contrast, slightly increased saturation and added a slight blue tint, but I would love more specific suggestions on how to make it look closer to the real ROTJ footage (i.e. decrease contrast more, less brightness, add a bit of grain, add a bit of a sharpen filter, etc.).

Any advice to help make the final product all blend seamlessly into the final movie is much appreciated! And I would also really appreciate it if someone with more VFX experience could help a bit, mainly in adding background ships to the footage from the Lost Starfighter. It looks kinda weird to suddenly go from a dozen star destroyers to one in the span of a few seconds. Even slightly blurry 2D images would probably work.

Like many fans, I see ROTJ as the weakest link in the original trilogy, mainly due to the bad pacing of the second act, the Ewoks and the prequel-esque “humorous” moments. But I also see that it lacks a sense of scale that I’d appreciate from the finale of such an epic saga. With Revenge of the Sith and recently Rogue One added to the series, Return of the Jedi is comparatively lacking in the aspect of scale, something I don’t think should happen as the capstone of the OT.

I hope to make an edit of ROTJ with a longer runtime, around 2.5 hours, and a larger scale. This means adding more content portraying the overall conflict/battles/campaigns of the Rebel Alliance, and its effect on the Galaxy. Essentially, finding places to put snippets of battle footage, taken from fanfilms and other Star Wars media, throughout the story in a way that doesn’t feel forced. The second way to add to the length and scale is by adding extra footage to the battle of Endor, to up the epicness of the trilogy’s final space battle.

I’ve made a rough edit earlier that cuts out the prequel humor and a LOT of the content regarding the Ewok Village in the second act, but that leaves the movie at a little less than 2 hours. This means I’m going to need to pull a lot of content from deleted scenes and fanfilms to bulk the runtime. This is the part that’s going to be tricky. I’m going to have to use clips from fanfilms of a higher quality, and use color correction/grading, custom sound editing, and other visual tricks to get the fan film clips to blend seamlessly with the regular footage. I know getting it to look EXACTLY like the ROTJ footage would be impossible, but I’m hoping to get it pretty darn close.

Right now I’m mainly toying around with different ideas and concepts, so any input and help is greatly appreciated! I want to see what people think about different concepts, and ways they’d improve them to fit better with the look, tone and feel of ROTJ.