Following COD, LOE V5 is uploading now and is listed in all the normal places.
I had some trouble with TAS, but it’ll be up very soon to close this out.
Very, very rough test for an idea regarding Luke dropping the lightsaber:
At the risk of getting nuts, if Ridley’s eyes could be contrived to appear to be gazing slightly downward as she looks back where Luke had been standing, that would help sell it.
The R2 one occurred to me as well. Shouldn’t be hard to do.
I doubt I’ll be editing anything between Luke’s arrival on Crait and his death.
I was hoping to see Luke ‘ignite the green’ and all that, but that was under my assumption that Rey would be using the blue one. When they team up to go kick ass, as obviously what was going to be happening in this movie, Luke would naturally be using his trusty old green saber.
However, in the context of the movie that was made, the blue saber is the right choice. The movie begins with him sordidly chucking it over his shoulder, and concludes with him accepting and using it.
Thanks, AbramPT. I think I’m pretty much in agreement with you. I was very pleasantly surprised at the turnout for the deleted scenes this time around. I was only able to view them on my phone so far but most of what I’d hope to try reincorporating had apparently finished score and effects.
It’s on Reddit/r/fanedits and I can’t link to it directly because it contains a download link. Here’s his changelist:
***Rewritten opening crawl to give more political context:
A galaxy in chaos! Both the evil FIRST ORDER and the brave RESISTANCE have been catastrophically decimated, each desperate to snuff out the other and fill the power vacuum left by the extinction of the Republic.
Leader of the Resistance, General Leia Organa, lives in hope that her brother, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker can return to restore peace and order to the galaxy.
As the First Order speeds toward the Rebel base, the fate of the galaxy rests on their escape….
Removed the flute run at the beginning that’s the same as ANH. Replaced with the start of the First Order theme cut from TFA.
Removed Kylo Ren’s theme when the First Order arrives at D’Qar because Kylo Ren is not present. Replaced with First Order leitmotif from the end of “Main Title and Attack on the Jakku Village” from TFA.
Tone down the humor in spots where it doesn’t fit tonally, e.g. Poe and Hux prank call and the Ach-To nun getting hit with the rock are both gone.
Cut Leia slapping Poe.
Cut the green milk scene from Rey following Luke montage.
Trimmed Canto Bight and cut Fathier chase. Finn and Rose join DJ after he propositions them in the cell.
Cut Leia floating way above the force-field of the ship to make her flying more believable. (I tried to cut it, but it really is needed for the film to make sense. Sorry.)
Cut Holdo and Leia scene.
Trim Finn’s fake-out sacrifice so that it doesn’t give you a chance to root for him to go for it.
Moved Canto Bight kids telling the legend of Luke Skywalker to overlay Luke’s death. It’s really beautiful and poignant, trust me. This also allows the film to end with the last of the Resistance on the Falcon.***
I’ve seen a few of the deleted scenes, though it doesn’t look like they are available in full anywhere yet. So far, as long as the quality is as presentable as it seems it will be, I’d like to include Rey’s third lesson and BB8 showing Finn his recording of the end of TFA.
Noodle_flinger is at it again, already posting a rough cut on Reddit. I took a look, and there’s a few good ideas I’ll likely use for this project. The best one is trimming down Finn’s suicide run; it’s amazing how this helps subvert RJ’s subversion of expectations somewhat, and keep the hypothetical first-time audience from getting to the point where they are fully invested in saying goodbye to Finn in that moment.
I cannot begin editing TLJ until the BluRay is released, for obvious reasons involving linear cause and effect throughout the progression of time in one direction. But, I won’t begin work until I’m 100% finished getting the prequel trilogy output, vetted, and distributed.
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
You should see the one with Kylo in the metal bikini.
“Your father wanted you to have this, when you were old enough… but your uncle wouldn’t allow it.”
ALLOL
It was supposed to be Coruscant, but it isn’t present in the current version.
And the lightsaber will not be changed. It is important that it’s the blue one, because Luke finally embraces using it to help the galaxy, reversing his refusal at the beginning of the movie.
I hope to remove that line, not for that reason, but as an effort to make the opening scene NOT feel like an SNL parody.
I’ll have to see once I get situated with the movie and sufficient time and brainpower for it. We’ll see what’s possible.
I’m afraid these edits are hard locked the way they currently are. I can imagine that idea being nice, but the other scenes that make up the ending of the movie flow into each other, so I don’t think it’s necessary.
Yeah, I don’t see those ideas being feasible. I do rather like, in principle at least, the idea of Luke walking past Rey as she holds out the saber.
So, what Last Jedi fan edits do we have proposed so far?
darthrush’s Dark Cut
Hal9000’s Legendary Fanedit
My Light Edit
EvenSteven’s Firestorm Fanedit
I call dibs on being considered the moocher of the bunch. 😉
I just uploaded COD to Google Drive, though I had to do so as a zip archive. Luckily, and much easier than with a .dlc, you simply need to go to the folder, download it in one fell swoop and extract. Links can be found on that same Reddit post as before.
II and III will come later, as they are not encoded yet.
I don’t think it’s needed in Ep2, and it’d take considerably
more work. I’m happy with this subtly inclusion.
PS: Hal, any chance you remaster your PT saga trailer (that still gives me chills) with material from the new v5s?
What the hell, why not?
The penultimate piece of the puzzle has been delivered by Sir Ridley. I’m extremely happy with the result.
I’ll post here too (I posted this in the TLJ edit ideas thread).
I made a Yoda edit test video in After Effects:
https://vimeo.com/258530054password: yoda
Fixed face, enhanced mouth movements, ghost glow.
I strongly approve of this. However, I wonder how it would look with the mouth contortions applied at about 50%.
though it might drive me to suicide
I hate to be that guy, but please watch what you joke about.
Quick idea: Obi-Wan says/shouts “high ground” the instant his saber impacts Anakin to dismember him.
I prefer (obviously) to remove that scene. Rather than Windu ordering Anakin to gauge Palpatine’s reaction to the news and report back, Anakin simply does so on his own. Makes it a tiny bit stronger for him to let Windu know what he discovers. Plus, there is value (at least in my arrangement) in using the deleted scene between Windu, Yoda, and Kenobi (so that Obi-Wan is in on it and can interact with Anakin in that capacity during the climax), so it’s simpler to remove the whole war room scene.
I agree. Just looking forward to seeing what we’re working with.
I would prefer not to dig into TFA for Phasma. I’d either leave every beat of her in TLJ or remove her altogether.
As I think about the potential of the deleted scenes… assuming they are usable and presented nicely, that might be the single biggest aid to the film. I think TLJ would have been a superior film if it were presented as a 3-hour Star Wars film and ask the audience to just accept this, rather than both packed to the brim and cut to the bone. Of course, we’ll have to see how it goes, but I hope to give it a running time as merited, not out of concerns of marketability.