Hal 9000

I think he was making a joek. 

emanswfan said:

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Episode VII is officially being shot on 35mm film.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/23/star-wars-episode-vii-will-be-shot-on-35mm-film

It's being shot on film similar to what was used in the OT.

Kodak 500T 5219 tests:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CkXgcafB0&feature=BFa&list=PLCA9F6103371D67E5

This also makes my 35mm PT preservation work all the more important to finsih it and get it right.

So excited right now!

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Right on, man. I may as well just put my fan edits on hold because it is now imperative that I use your source material. 

And this is a great sign! 

I'm working on one too, which'll be in HD. The highest regarded HD versions to date are L8wrtr's and Q2's versions. 

This thread is NSFW or for class! I'm giggling through day 1 of this Masters level class. Maybe I should unsubscribe, but I don't want to miss the next golden egg.

Bingowings said:

It's going to look great on the acronym database that's for sure.

ALLOL during a class

can it have two titles, perhaps one at the very end?

one could do worse than future shop. i went there a few days from now and will be getting some blank dvds

i am subscribed to this thread to follow your rapid progress

will it really be complete to end all other star war? i hear many promises and lift my shoes for you to fill if you please to

Looking good. I think it will really come across as if the films had been made with a somewhat retro look. Not that you have so far, but I wouldn't want to take this effect farther than merited; I wouldn't want them to have any more grain and other artifacts than a good transfer of the original trilogy. 

I heard a rumor that Episode VII might be shot on film, and if that's true this project will be all the more valuable. 

I always wondered if a subtle edit would work, having Anakin vanish during the last shot where Luke puts his head down, and we only see Anakin's nose. 

SilverWook said:

How about Palpatine watching Spy Who Shagged Me? Use the Death Star exposition scene.

+1

Glad to hear it, man. It'll be a way off yet, but I think the end result will be superb, given that Kerr is at the helm. 

And hey, LOTR can use more editors; you might even have some brilliant ideas yourself. 

TV's Frink said:

Akira
Blues Brothers
District 9
Futurama
Ghostbusters
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life of Brian
Mr. Show (the blow up the moon sketch)
Prometheus
Speed Racer
Star Trek 09
The Tick (chairface moon episode)
Waterworld

Other ideas welcome.

I say bake those things into Order 66. Apparently Order 66 is destroy everything.

I like the recoloring too; those sabers just about look like Luke's in ANH. I'm definitely keeping my fan editing files around until this is released, so I can re-encode with this as the source. 

Glad you think so, though by no means is that my idea. Slumberland edited his that way, and I'm sure there have been others.

Time for a little update. This fan edit has evolved somewhat as I've been working on it. I'm keeping the Sand People murder after all, but it will remain Anakin's secret for now; Padme will not know. She seems pretty adamant about NOT killing innocent people in Episode III.

I'm keeping, though trimming in a similar way as L8, Jar Jar addressing the Senate in order to not have the film come across as a fan edit.

Jango Fett will still die in the film; removing his death doesn't really gain me anything. My editing goals are to 1) Tell the basic story of the prequels, and 2) Bend them to match the originals in continuity. Removing his death doesn't really help either of those goals.

I surveyed, and re-surveyed several prior fan edits of this film, since Attack of the Clones fan edits have a lot of variation. My take on the romance plot is modeled after Slumberland for the most part. Does anyone have a strong opinion, and reasons for them, about Slumberland's or L8's "fireplace" scenes? Slumberland has the two of them eating dinner at dusk, then going out next to the lake at nighttime and sharing a kiss. The next time we see them is the 'morning after.' L8 has the lakeside scene occur earlier, then we see them eating dinner at dusk, then we see a couple of shots of them next to the fireplace and it wipes away abruptly to imply they are going at it with each other. The next time we see them is the morning after. I'm inclined to structure it as Slumberland did.

Also, let me throw this out there and see if anyone has any thoughts: Palpatine is behind the assassination attempts on Padme. In the original version of the film, Count Dooku seems to simply appease Nute Gunray by killing Padme. That seems pretty weak, especially since the film portrays Padme as leading the opposition to something Palpatine wants. But the final cut of AOTC seems to jettison what I suspect was the original motivation for her being killed in favor of a simpler plot where Nute Gunray wants her dead out of delayed vengeance, and there's a bunch of action scenes. So, in my cut, the goal is to make it look like, indeed, Palpatine's behind it all! The opening crawl will state that Padme works to oppose the creation of an army, whereas the original crawl implies she is promoting creation of an army to assist the overwhelmed Jedi. (This film is a MESS, as we all know.) By including the early scene of Padme addressing the Senate, we clearly see what her role is in all this. Palpatine is also quick to delay her from going further, and gives a hollow sympathy to seeing her alive in the next scene. (Why he wants to place her under Obi-Wan's protection is still a mystery; maybe he thinks the dark side is making the Jedi into fools.) When Obi-Wan eventually traces the assassination attempt back to Count Dooku, we do not hear Nute Gunray calling for her death. He still enjoys the execution arena, but it's not like he's holding out on signing a treaty because of her. The audience may wonder why Dooku would want to kill the primary person who is preventing the creation of an enemy army, unless he wants to start a war. Then at the end of the film, Dooku returns to Coruscant and we finally meet Sidious for the first time. Then we realize Palpatine's behind it all. (Please note, however, that Palpatine does not take an apparent interest in Anakin in this film. I'd rather not get into that until Episode III. It puts more nails in the coffin of the subplot that Palpatine 'invented' Anakin.)

SilverWook said:

That tactic didn't go over so well with some fans though.

Pffffft.

I don't expect the new films to make anything of the existing EU, but hopefully they steer clear of openly dismissing it entirely. If the films skip 40 years and don't require knowledge of what happened in between, these still might be fun as occasional podcast replacements.

and I forgot to list the Han Solo trilogy; I remember being enthralled by them sad a kid, despite the CG Jabba on one of the covers.

Tobar said:

I would unrecommend Truce at Bakura. Sure it picks up right after ROTJ but it's so terribly written and from what I can recall nothing in it ever becomes relevant again. There is one poignant scene with Leia but that in no way makes the entire book worth it. 

Thanks; I'll skip it then.

I've never really dipped very far into Star Wars books other than as a child. I have fond memories of reading the children's series "Glove of Darth Vader" and a series for kids about Anakin Solo. Also as a child, I read a few novels that closely relate to the films themselves, such as Shadows of the Empire, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, and even Rogue Planet. That last one stuck with me enough that I noticed Episode II was "wrong" to show the Geonosians as the designers of the Death Star. 

That's the extend of my EU novels background, though I've tried a few times to pick up post-ROTJ stories. I'd like to, at a somewhat leisurely pace, pad out the wait for Episode VII with some of the essential post-ROTJ books in roughly chronological order. I have little time for reading, but manage to cram a ton of podcasts into my life, so I could replace that with (abridged) Star Wars audiobooks in spurts. If a typical abridged audiobook is around 3 hours, I could easily listen to many of them. (If I go with unabridged or sitting down with physical books, this whole endeavor would not be feasible. I would not dream of approaching an abridged copy of Lord of the Rings, but this is Star Wars and there is a lot to get through.) 

Here are the books I've gathered as being recommended as essential, or important in regards to ongoing plot. Please affirm the ones that should be read, suggest new ones, or de-suggest poor ones I may have listed. Assuming three hours apiece and two years to go for Episode VII, this could be halfway fun. 

Truce at Bakura

The Courtship of Princess Leia 

Rogue Squadron (#1)

Wraith Squadron

Tatooine Ghost (This one sounded interesting when it came out, synthesizing the PT and OT)

The Thrawn Trilogy (If I read nothing else, this seems to be the most important)

I, Jedi (Could this book be representative of the Jedi Academy trilogy for efficiency reasons?)

The Crystal Star

Hand of Thrawn Duology

Survivor's Quest

NJO - Vector Prime

NJO - Balance Point

NJO - Star by Star

NJO - Traitor

NJO - Destiny's Way

NJO - The Unifying Force

Betrayal

Crucible

Then I say it's the Taintive IV too. I don't care what some other nerd says about a cartoon.

But someone in a theater in 2005 was supposed to see it as a will-be remodeled Taintive IV? Does anyone have the novelization handy, to reference?

Continuity? Why would showing the Taintive IV in Episode III violate continuity? 

Either way, the interior of the ships are obviously supposed to be extremely similar. I don't see a reason why that'd change his idea about matching the colors.

Sounds like a good plan. I might ask for selfish reasons for Windu saber correction as a companion to V1, though.

Helping AOTC and ROTS feel more filmic will help any fan edit.