Hal 9000

You might try hairy_hen's alternate ROTJ audio that you can find a link to in his thread. There's an alternate musical cue during the Kenobi exposition scene, but perhaps the audio is synced perfectly. 

You could even just do a quick edit and splice the two together, circumventing the alternate music in that scene. 

Y'know, for lack of anything better before your marathon. 

I agree; I have no quibs with "special edition" treatments, but Star Wars is the only one I can think of that intentionally tries to obscure the original version. 

I'd like to do a fan edit of a "tasteful" special edition, but I doubt that Harmy's DEed would match up very well with any other transfer in terms of color and grain and things. 

Perhaps he was able to write something halfway decent given that he did it of his own initiative and with no deadlines. At least it isn't a script. It's not dialogue we're talking about, just the napkin-sized synopses that others will run with. 

I'm surprised to hear myself say this, but I think it's good that GL is involved in that capacity. (But only that capacity.)

I like the new streamlined thread title. Makes it feel pure, like it's finished. And that's pretty cool. Congratulations once again. You deserve to be discovered and put to professional work doing this sort of thing. 

Was the 2003 retconned out of existence? If the two are mutually exclusive, I'll take the Samurai Jack style cartoon any day.

I can give you one post now, plus fifteen... when 2.5 is released.

DVD9, for best possible quality source for upscaling. 

Subtitle contest: "Please don't throw it at me this time."

As have I; sincere apologies; hope to see you abide in the forum.

Just a pesky request. Since you're in the process of uploading JasonN's prequel edits, might I ask that you upload Ep3 next instead of Ep2? It'd be much more useful sooner. 

"R2 has been known to make steaks... from time to time." Cutaway to shot of an R2-D2 barbeque that has to exist (ala Jar Jar being made into "a salad" in TRM).

Do you have a source for that?

I wouldn't mind a cast list sometime soon so I can know whether Chewbacca will be in the film. To me, that more than anything else would signify whether the EU will be revered or largely ignored before I get too far along in my post-ROTJ EU exploration. 

That color test made me feel like I was having a stroke.

Tyrphanax said:

Bingowings said:

I wonder if the Force Kick guy has a name.

He does not. But maybe you could write him a story.

I'd like to think he was prone to seizures that cause him to drop abruptly, hence the helmet.

There's no link to a news source? Put this in the general VII thread.

are you for real or like no way man

The script might not be perfect, but Harmy seems to have done a thorough job of customizing it afterward. I don't think it'd necessarily benefit greatly from starting all over. 

Personally I'd feel a lot better if I watched two minutes of the BluRays themselves then looked at the Despecialized again. Any imperfections melt by comparison.

Just re-watched the featurette Harmy did about the sources, which is shockingly good, and was wondering if the You_Too preliminary color corrected source was ever made available. Anyone know? It would do nicely if I ever wanted to put together a project of sorts for ANH or the other two.

DV: "The Force is with you, young Skywalker."

Luke: "The Force?"

DV: "...Now the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, it... Luke. You are not a Jedi yet." 

I'd enjoy a Death Troopers movie.

skywalker89 said:

Can someone recreate the deleted Jabba Scene? from "a new hope" with? the actor Declan Mulholland in HD? The available version of a reconstruction is bad because you can see the stencils and the quality differences of the sources, also a color correction is missing.

And I also want to see the final version from 1997 in HD, with and without original cinema subtitles. If someone needs some source, I have a DVD Transfer from a 1997 German Laserdisc, with original German cinema subtitles.

And color correction & picture cleaning of the official Blu Ray deleted scenes would also be nice.

It's been attempted, but there's not enough source material to do it 100%. The most that can be done still has a few seconds of CGI Jabba. It wouldn't suffice in a proper edit. 

I've heard about a Japanese Laserdisc that has the original version of the scene, though I don't know if it would be enough to do what you're asking.

Oh, I have zero expectation for this EU knowledge to actually play into the films. However, now would be the best time to explore the post-ROTJ EU as the film approaches. As long as Episode VII doesn't out and out preclude the broad strokes of the EU, things should be fine. 

Episode VII: Generations

Episode VIII: First Contact

Episode IX: Insurrection

Episode X: Nemesis

Episode XI: Star Wars

Episode XII: Star Wars Into Darkside

cain spaans said:

Well they could not add young Han to ROTS but they made a Lego young Han minifigure for the Lego Star Wars movie The Padawan Menace

Yeah, exactly.