Hal 9000

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.

I guess nobody liked Leonardo's joke. Anyway, I've got a stocked Kindle (app) and a revised, though still ambitious, reading list. I've got a good 2+ years for all this catch up reading, and I can always skip some of these if my time grows short. I don't need to read every solitary book that's come out in this time period, though I do want to get a good sense of events and character development. 

I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy right now, as everyone says this is the more important. I like it so far; he seems to understand the characters. Afterward...

The Dark Empire comic series. Because why not. 

I, Jedi - I'll read this one in place of the Jedi Academy trilogy for efficiency. 

The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy 

The Corellian trilogy

Hand of Thrawn Duology

Union: The Marriage of Luke Skywalker (comic) - Again, because why not.

New Jedi Order - An abbreviated run of just five entries: Vector Prime, Star by Star, Traitor, Destiny's Way, and The Unifying Force

I would appreciate suggestions of which are the essential reads of the Legacy of the Force and Fate of the Jedi serieses. They're recent enough that I haven't found a reliable description of which ones are the barebones essentials. 

Now, this may be entirely too much content to shove into a relatively short time. I may go in spurts, but that's my goal. If I start to run out of time or get tired of it, I can go back to the abridged audiobooks for some of these. I haven't read a Star Wars novel since I was a kid, really, and I'm enjoying Heir to the Empire so far. We'll see. (And I might knock off the Black Fleet Crisis and/or Corellian trilogies in order to skip ahead if need be.)

Actual toast is better than what I usually get out of that app. Maybe I expected too much from it for crunching things down onto DVDs.

That Yoda origin story would... not make me happy. 

ALLOL

Do you have any plans to maybe put the Episode 4 ANH crawl in there too? :P

That's cool, just wondered what your plans were. 

Do you have any plans to include the '81 version of the opening crawl with "Episode IV: A New Hope" as an alternate option for the BluRay?

+1 for Toast

or VMware.

I found RLM's prequel reviews somewhat therapeutic, or at the very least fun.