Rogue One, ANH: Revisited HD (when it comes out), ESB: Revisited, a 3-in-1 prequel edit, RotJ: Revisited (when it comes out), TFA (Starlight Project, when it comes out), TLJ (my upcoming edit), and TRoS (fan edit).
It’s nice commentary on where Adywan thinks the Prequels belong (a large, junk-collecting tank). I’m happy that it’s the only real prequel reference, unless there’s a skeleton of a prequel species in the rancor pit.
Yo, Ady, could you replace the Rancor with an Acklay? That would be GREAT, thanks!
Didn’t Adywan mention that he wouldn’t be taking suggestions?
I have an idea: when Vader witnesses Luke being electrocuted by Palpatine, he should say “Leave my son alone.” instead of “NOOO!!!”. What do you think?
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Here’s a suggestion: you should use Adywan’s “Revisited” edits of ANH and ESB when introducing Star Wars to your kids.
BedeHistory731, given that Palpatine is returning in IX, then here’s my suggestions:
When Luke attacks Vader, he slashes off his helmet, as we see his scarred head. After seeing his scarred head and cut-off mechanical hand, the “I will never turn to the Dark Side!” scene and Palpatine electrocuting Luke stays the same, but Vader fights off Palpatine and as Luke escapes. Vader slashes Palpatine, as we discover that the latter is actually a Force projection (like Luke in TLJ, except that Palpatine is able to interact with other things as a projection), before he continues electrocuting Vader until he is defeated. Palpatine speaks with the remaining Imperials and orders them to meet him in the Unknown Regions to rebuild the Empire (Vader witnesses the hologram discussion as he dies).
Palpatine’s flagship is destroyed, as the remaining Imperials flee to the Unknown Regions. Upon returning to the Wookie homeworld, Anakin’s ghost appears to Luke and warns him that Palpatine will return and the Empire will rebuild in the Unknown Regions. Luke tells Leia and Han about this, as he comes up with a plan to rebuild the Jedi Order while Han and Leia reform the Republic to fight against the rebuilt Empire as it becomes stronger than ever. This would set up the sequel trilogy.
In the sequel trilogy, we have no Snoke: instead, it is Sidious, possibly on the verge of death. When Kylo kills Sidious in TLJ, Sidious’ spirit takes possession of someone (maybe Hux or one of the Knights of Ren or even a Sith acolyte), and the final battle in IX has Rey and Kylo fighting off Sidious and the Knights of Ren (who were loyal to him all along). The Sith acolyte is killed, and, just like in an old post-teaser rumor, takes possession of Kylo, who urges Rey to kill him, and sacrifices himself to get rid of Sidious once and for all.
(That way, we won’t have the whole “bringing back Sidious” thing undermine Anakin’s sacrifice. Also I plan on making remakes for the Star Wars films [not rewrites, but actual remakes] with this)
What do you think?
Here’s a suggestion: remove Finn saying that hyperspace-tracking is impossible, because it is contradicted by Finn planning to disable the tracker 20 minutes later and he knows where it is because he used to mop up that area.
What is it with people wanting Han to be killed off in Return of the Jedi?
Hey Hal, there’s an edit that fixes the error in RotJ of Luke “Force-kicking” a guy.
I havs a suggestion for you: can you remove Obi-Wan’s cringeworthy “Hello there!” line in your edit?
Do you plan on rewriting any of the sequel trilogy films?
Here’s how I’d fix Return of the Jedi:
ENDING CHANGE:
When Luke is attacking Vader, he slashes the helmet off, as we see his face. Also, when Palpatine is electrocuting Luke, Vader, having redeemed himself, decides to fight Palpatine off as he gets electrocuted, sacrificing his own life and allowing Luke to escape. Palpatine, realizing that the Empire is close to its destruction, orders the remaining Imperials to rebuild in the Unknown Regions via hologram before he and the remaining Imperials flee to the Unknown Regions (Vader witnesses the hologram part as he dies).
Palpatine’s flagship is destroyed. Upon returning to the Wookie homeworld, Anakin’s ghost appears to Luke and warns him that Palpatine will return and the Empire will rebuild in the Unknown Regions. Luke tells Leia and Han about this, as he comes up with a plan to rebuild the Jedi Order while Han and Leia reform the Republic to fight against the rebuilt Empire as it becomes stronger than ever. This would set up the sequel trilogy.
There’s a problem I don’t see anyone talk about: ever notice how almost anytime the movie needs to suddenly go somewhere else, a character is stunned unconscious? Poe, Finn (twice), Kylo, Leia, and Rose are all knocked out so the scene can move to another location across the galaxy. It’s almost like the writers don’t know how to end a scene, so they just knocks out a character to take a nap. It’s like watching The Room: the reason every scene ends with “Oh, I’ve gotta go” and cuts to a location shot is because Tommy Wiseau is lazy and has no idea how to switch from scene to scene.
When will you rewrite Attack of the Clones?
Speaking of re-editing TLJ, there is an edit in which Luke uses his Return of the Jedi lightsaber on Crait. Do you plan on using it for your upcoming TLJ edit? (Yeah, I know that Luke using his father’s saber is meant to be symbolism, but the “Luke isn’t really there” reveal was a bit easy to predict, especially due to the younger flashback appearance and his father’s saber that was split an hour ago. So, having Luke use his green saber would make the reveal more surprising)
I already saw Palpatine’s laugh from the IX trailer coming from the start.
I’m trying to handle some of it, but I keep running into it sounding unnatural when I try to separate the different parts of Sir Ridley’s clip. Here’s one that incorporates the reverb and some additional fading/other items.
I’m not a big audio editor, so I suspect that it still sounds rough. It’s doable and a more talented editor can find better clips/equalization/reverb effects to make it work. I would suggest finding a clip where James Earl Jones says a drawn-out “mother” (probably from his Bible audiobook). One of the more audio-minded people here could really make this idea a reality for Adywan’s edit.
This fan-made Steven Universe spoof of the “I am your father!” scene replaces “father” with “mother”.
Hey Adywan, what software are you using for your ANH:R HD edit?
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I think you just nailed it perfectly Dre with “cinematic inbreeding” being the most efficiently accurate way of explaining the ST’s constant borrowing and repurposing of the OT along with a near constant appeal to nostalgia in so much that the latest trailer uses pretty much half of its runtime for actual OT and PT footage with the OT footage itself making up around a third of the total runtime.
So a 9 film saga trailer (even though its more of a sizzle reel exclusively for D23), that shows clips from the films in release order (ending with new clips from Ep9) , uses a third of its runtime to show the OT (3 films out of 9 turns out to be a third 😉 ) and this is supposed to show how Disney is constantly trying to appeal to nostalgia?
I think the fact that they’re showing footage from the previous films in the trailer is supposed to be inspired from the second trailer for Avengers: Endgame before it released in theaters.
I don’t have a problem with Leia using the Force. I don’t like the “flying Leia” scene because it looked really ridiculous (maybe it’s the CGI or the way it was shot).
Do you plan to release the edit in 4K?
I also wouldn’t show Vader as a redeemed Anakin. IMO, Vader has committed, ordered, and been compliant with too many war crimes for a single decent act to absolve him of his guilt. The farthest I’d go is showing Vader as a haunted Force ghost, still bearing his wounds in life, who’ll have to earn redemption in the afterlife.
And yet Luke still sensed the good in him.
Luke reveals to her that their father is Darth Vader and that he must defeat him personally.
Later…
Surrendering to Imperial troops, Luke is brought before Vader, and he tries to convince his father to return from the dark side of the Force.
Okay, what? Luke starts off wanting to defeat Vader, yet now he wants to redeem him?
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