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.
Wonderful.
lol, no, I won’t be doing that. 😃
I think that’s part of why Phasma in TLJ contributes to the movie being overstuffed. In real life, Johnson inherited this character and there was a need to include her in some way. She was in the trailer and all that. It so happens that, going by the movies and nothing else, Phasma is back from the dead only to die again real quick.
In a fan edit, trailers and real life studio concerns be damned. Phasma could easily be a TFA-only character, whose sense of meaning with Finn was already resolved by Finn being “in charge” and executing her along with most of the personelle on SKB.
Good point about the 4K version being a source for cropped shots. Hopefully… someone could rip it for those particular shots later on.
I’d love to remove Phasma outright, which I think would help this movie in a vacuum removed from the real world concerns around it, and other editors may want to as well. It’ll depend on whether someone can make it work, or if cropping is enough.
We have indeed, and thanks!
I think removing Phasma altogether would be preferable to merely removing the fight because, as you say, it just has her appear in 2 out of 3 films pointlessly. Either she goes away completely, or the fight with Finn has to stay.
I can’t recall but I’m pretty sure there are several shots with her that would need work, so I’m not holding out hope we’ll be able to do this effectively. But, conceptually, it’d be my first choice.
And welcome aboard, TiMartyn! Thanks for the kind words and input. I agree with most of these. I can’t promise I’ll be able to begin editing right away, but there’s plenty of collective work and brainstorming to do around here which will help all of us.
As I think on it, I anticipate removing Phasma from TLJ altogether. The film is overstuffed, and Phasma already had a plausible “out” in TFA. She was not necessary to the story of TLJ at all, and cutting her material allows for a much easier removal of some problematic Finn, Rose, and BB8 stuff.
It will depend on whether it can be pulled off. I’m pretty sure it would require some visual FX work to remove her from several shots, since she is present for an extended scene as DJ sells out the Resistance and Finn and Rose are prepared for execution.
If it’s doable, this is what I’d prefer, but I am far from certain it would be.
Each of these places also contain a link to get lossless output files for anyone who wants to mess with these.
Oh that’s great, thanks again ! … You know what’s my next question is gonna be : something about lossless output files such as these for roman numerals with no “V” episodes 😃 (in due time, of course !)
You’ll get those, too. Have I ever not delivered for you before?
Only once, I’m still waiting for the fucking pizza.
Look who’s talking, you never paid me for the goddam thing.
Each of these places also contain a link to get lossless output files for anyone who wants to mess with these.
Oh that’s great, thanks again ! … You know what’s my next question is gonna be : something about lossless output files such as these for roman numerals with no “V” episodes 😃 (in due time, of course !)
You’ll get those, too. Have I ever not delivered for you before?
V2 is up in the same places. Seek it out on the 'spleen or Reddit. Each of these places also contain a link to get lossless output files for anyone who wants to mess with these.
No, it was just something I neglected this time. Fortunately. It’s something I’d do at the beginning as I prepare the timeline, roughly analogous to forgetting to plug a mic in.