Sounds very interesting. Will you have link when done?
I will, although the minor stuff takes a while in my experiences with episode I and II. That is, video transitions, wipes, color grading, sound editing, etc. Given the time I worked on the previous two, I’m guesstimating it will be finished in a few months.
Removed some more dialogue and cut the edit down to 103 minutes. I like the edit so far, but I haven’t watched it in one sitting as of yet. I will see what else can be edited, but I think the general stuff is close to being done.
Redub Anakin with a Tommy Wassu soundalike
You’re tearing me apart, Padme!
Digitally replace all of Hayden Christensen with Jake Lloyd, and get a Jake Lloyd soundalike to redub all of Anakin’s lines from II and III.
Just realized that Yoda’s adventure on Kashyyyk really isn’t all that essential to the plot and promptly deleted it, reducing the runtime to 106 minutes for right now.
I’m having a little difficulty deciding where the deleted scenes featuring Padme and Organa should go. I’m gonna rewatch HAL and l8wrtr’s edits again to see how they did it and hopefully glean some insight.
“No. Jar Jar is your father.”
Deleted scenes added. With the new scenes, the running time shot up from 109 minutes to 115 minutes, so I went and shortened the movie down to 108 minutes.
I’m still in the cutting stage, and I have no intentions of saying “the cutting stage is over.” Especially since I want to see what I can do about the dialogue to make it less cringe-inducing. However, it’s looking like we’re gonna end up with a 105-110 minute edit. I want to see if I can shorten it down some more (especially since I and II were shortened down by a lot), but I’m already finding that hard, because I’m seeing things that need to be shortened down some more, but other areas that I may have trimmed too much, resulting in a sort of yin-and-yang situation.
I’ll give the edit a watch and see what areas can be fixed.
In Toy Story 2, Emperor Zurg broke out of his box and proclaimed repeatedly, “Destroy Buzz Lightyear! Destroy Buzz Lightyear!”
Likewise, all of Darth Vader’s lines should be replaced with “Destroy Buzz Lightyear!” Like Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy saying “I am Groot.” So it is with Darth Vader saying “Destroy Buzz Lightyear!”
Working on inserting the deleted scenes. The only difficulty I’m experiencing at the moment is where to place the Padme/Rebellion subplot scenes in a way that works. I put them in rather late in the first half, but then I realized, “Oh wait. Padme’s trying to mention a jedi they can rely on, but he’s on Utapau at the moment.” So I’m going to see if I can place them earlier rather than later.
Replace the Imperial March/Vader’s Theme with the entrance theme music for the wrestler Big Van Vader.
Are we sure this is the worst ideas thread?
I’m reluctant to say, as there are so many fan edits out there (including yours truly) that it’s hard to keep up. However, of the ones I’ve seen, it’s a toss-up between l8wrtr’s and HAL9000’s edits. I prefer l8wrtr’s take on Episode I, but I agree with natestarwarsfan122 on the superiority of HAL9000’s take on Episode III. With Episode II, though, I’m on the fence between HAL and l8wrtr.
Create a crossover with Star Wars and Michael Bay’s Transformers.
Getting the deleted scenes converted for Resolve. I ripped the second disc of my DVD of Episode III and tried coverting it through EaseFab, but for whatever reason, one of the scenes wouldn’t convert to DNxHD. So I bit the bullet and went over to Handbrake instead. I guess I’m one of Handbrake’s followers now, because I was able to convert all of the scenes to a workable MP4. I also gave the audio a DTS-HD passthru, which might give the audio a boost (or not).
My only concern now is the framerate of the two sources. If they aren’t properly synced, I’ll have to convert the files again.
I’ll try to work on the deleted scenes soon, but Easter’s making my day job busy at the moment. Fortunately, things are expected to get quiet after Easter, so I’ll be able to return to the edit once that bunny has laid his eggs.
Insert Yello’s “Oh Yeah” to the scene where Luke and Leia kiss in ESB.
Edited the rest of the film, and I’ve brought it down to a rough cut. Currently, my edit stands at 109 minutes, but it isn’t final. I still have a lot of things to patch up. Plus, I haven’t added the deleted scenes yet. I also have a lot of decisions to make with the more dialogue-oriented moments, as those could arguably be the worst moments in the film (The Padme and Anakin moments being the worst offenders).
So, I still have a ways to go, but at least the first steps have been taken.
Replace all of John Williams’ scores from all nine films with kazoo covers. Starting with this one:
Take all of Luke’s character traits from TLJ and apply them to Luke from the original trilogy for consistency.
Add Palpatine’s “Power! Unlimited Power!” line from ROTS to the end of ROTJ when he’s zapping Luke.
Got the opening sequence down to a rough version. I’ve removed 10 minutes so far. I’m likely going to change it again.
Otherwise, I’m at the opera house scene listening to the tragedy of Darth Plageus the wise. Despite the troubles I’ve had with the opening sequence, I haven’t found a lot of things that need to be removed so far. I expect that to change when I get to the halfway mark, though.
Make this the ending to Episode I:
“Never. I’ll never join the Kirk side. You’ve failed, your highness. I’m a Picard fan, like my father before me.”
“So be it.”
(This plays as Force Lightning shoots Luke)
FATHER!!! PLEASE!!! REMEMBER LOCUTUS OF BORG!!!
“Never. I’ll never join the Kirk side. You’ve failed, your highness. I’m a Picard fan, like my father before me.”
Make an anime version of Star Wars.
Wouldn’t that be an awesome idea?
If you think turning Princess Leia into a waifu, making her talk about being best friends with Han, Emperor Palpatine saying “this isn’t even my final form!”, or Luke trying to become stronger because destiny or something like that is awesome to you… Well, to each their own, but I see it as unintentional hilarity at best.
Make an anime version of Star Wars.
It’s been a few days, and I’m still working on the opening action sequence. Sheesh, this one’s been a challenge. I’m still deciding which jokes to keep and which ones to remove, which Anakin and Obi-Wan moments to keep and which ones to remove, which special effects to keep and which ones to remove, etc. (Just when I thought this episode was gonna be easy).
This is why I’m glad I don’t put up the list of changes immediately. It’s because of scenes like this where I’m changing a lot of tiny little things and details by the minute. I’m sure the opening is gonna be great by the time I’m done, but it’s a pain in the neck right now.