Hal 9000

(OT.com): “We held out to the end.
But the fan editing community has lost all its hope. TROS will have no deleted scenes and is frenetically paced. The spark is out.

A nerdy silhouette lumbers in

“Hal.”

“I know what you’re going to say. We changed our avatars.”

(Hal9000): “They’re nice that way… OT.com, I’m sorry.”

“I know. I know you are. I’m just glad you’re here, at the end.”

“I came to face TROS. And I can’t save it.”

“I held out hope for so long, but I know a satisfying conclusion is gone.”

“No story is ever really concluded.”

Hands OT.com a bottle of hard apple cider

(FE.org): Hal9000.

Hal winks

Walks out onto the salty tears of disgruntled fans.

(TROS): Stop! I want every abrupt scene transition we have to optical wipe at that man.

Scenes fly by at a breakneck speed, nearly as fast as within the movie itself

(Disney): That’s enough! Do you think you got him? A puny fan editor is nothing, our goal is to punish the fan base within that mine.

… blah blah blah …

(Hal9000): Every word of what you just said was wrong. Star Wars fan edits are reborn today. The collective metaproject is just beginning. And I will not be the last SW fan editor.

Smash cut to YOU laying into place a tricky audio patch to an edit point inside a NLE

I would like to apologize for the following.

If I had way more free time than I do, it might be a fun (if ambitious) idea to do a novelization of that script.

Nah. I actually like the quick Mustafar opening. (I mean, if it has to be quick.) He kills people to get a thing, and we understand it’s to lead him to his next destination. Starting directly with Exegol would only make it more rushed.

I guess I could send those to you if you like. But I ended up doing a lot with them. A given scene, or shot, might have 33% of one LUT, 75% of another, and 20% of a third.

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I’ll make a note of it. Might be an excuse to give this one an alternate track like the others.

lol

Just noticed something… Jabba turns down a chance to do the right thing but Vader ends up being redeemed.

The germ of all the flaws of all the Star Wars films that would follow can be observed in ROTJ. It’s also my favorite of them all.

That’d be ideal. If we’re lucky there’ll be enough released material to contrive a partial reversion to an earlier form of the movie, sort of like my edit of ROTS.

Jeez, I wasn’t paying close attention. Is that a sequel to Clerks, or in continuity?

I’m not sure shoehorning in offscreen Carrie dialogue would be helpful, but might be worth taking a look at. I’ve never seen Clerks but wasn’t it made 1991ish?

And thanks for saying that about the synthesized or curated nature of the prequel edits in particular. I guess it’s like a communal soup that many have nevertheless drawn from and further modified in our own bowls. I feel similarly with some of the ROTS edits that have been produced since mine.

As I was reading the Jedi beacon activating and spreading to other planes, I heard the score from Return of the King as the beacons of Gondor are lit.

“That’s how we’re gonna win…” smiles

poppy music kicks in while fading to black

God-awful Deepfake sequence

Nah, I wouldn’t remove it, I don’t think. Rose saw Finn transform into the hero she mistook him for at the start, get her medallion back, and demonstrate a willingness to give his all for the cause as her sister did.

I wouldn’t remove TROS’s kiss, neither. It’s like the only sexually charged anything the whole movie!

Did Vader ‘deserve’ to be redeemed? Does anyone?

It was interesting and enjoyable to step into a virtual theater and let it play out in my mind’s eye. It’s not amazing, but it’s much more coherent and sensible than what we got in TROS.

It’s easy to see what they borrowed from this script. Thing is… all those borrowed items make sense here, but don’t there.

As a Luke fan, his role (and direction!) in TROS feels even more disappointing when compared to this.

So, in this script, the First Order seems to be able to destroy a planet using a star destroyer (albeit maybe a special one?). So that’s pretty weird.

Hux childishly trying to use the Force to move things while Kylo walks in would have been very Spaceballs.

Luke’s comments about the dark side leaving Kylo hollow is 1000% the right message to carry forward from TLJ, and the literal empty well at the climax is a lovely picture.

Finn feels like a valid character by the end. Weird.

This script obviously needed Carrie Fischer, and so comparing it to TROS directly isn’t fair when it comes to Leia. This script has much more of an apparent time jump from TLJ, and I bet TROS has a much shorter one due to shackling themselves to footage for Leia from TFA.

It’s too bad we won’t ever get to know how Trevorrow would have directed this. Disney should have pushed this movie back a year. They could have cited Carrie’s passing, and we all would have understood. Don’t cite business reasons why they didn’t want to; their reward for that is on a spreadsheet somewhere, whereas the artpiece in question must bear the scars. I’m not an investor, so I’ll obstinately insist on artistic integrity for all the good that will do.

Jeez, I’m rambling.

I’ll have to read it and see if anything could be nodded to in a fan edit.

I’m with you for the most part.

I can’t recall the music that starts off the chase, so if that promotional clip’s audio can be used to replace repeated music, sure. I’d also like to briefly quote Duel of the Fates during the Death Star duel, as in one of the TV spots, and Across the Stars (as subtle as possible, subliminal even) during the kiss.

Leia certainly is awkward in this movie, but I’m not sure cutting that attempt at a gag would help. Hard to say right now for me.

Some have suggested moving the Han scene up to between Ben and Rey sending Leia, but I’m not sure Kylo’s performance afterward would match where his character would then be.

I would really love to get the full original Luke scene(s).

Yes, by all means let’s keep discussing and tossing things around. I’ll always be able to do that with my phone, even if butt-in-front-of-computer time is extremely scarce.

We’ll have to see. Given the way I think, best thing for me right now is accept the possibility that it won’t ever be.
I’d be happy to put individual ideas together and upload for anyone to use, and to find an edit emerge I’ll like.

Thanks for the kind words. I’m not leaving or anything. Just don’t need the open loop of TROS:A for the foreseeable future.

I brought the sound more toward center until the shot where Han moves into position to shoot, and made the shot interrupt the yelling. It works well and is subtle enough to avoid problems. 😃

Here’s an attempt. Unless someone has a good source for FO trooper chatter that would fit.

https://vimeo.com/390069257
password: fanedit