IlFanEditore

Wow, that’s a perfect Italian, my friend.
Thank you 😉

EddieDean said:

Welp, that totally puts that whole train of speculation to bed.

To be fair, I suppose we do have to acknowledge that Vader-as-father only came in an early ESB script, and Leia-as-sister only existed as an idea for ROTJ, so Star Wars does kind of have this ‘laying the tracks before the train’ approach.

But still, I don’t think that justifies this lack of oversight and planning for what should have been a cohesive trilogy from the start.

EU media will gradually embed Palpatine-as-grandfather in the canon more solidly, but personally I’ll always prefer Rey Nobody, especially knowing how little it mattered to the production team.

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Remember, I’m not English native speaker. It’s always possible that I’m not clear.
I wanted to have a saga that is watchable in episodic order, meaning that the two main plot twists (Darth Vader being Luke’s father and Leia being Luke’s sister) are not stated in Episode III.
In order to make this, we don’t see Palpatine retreiving Anakin on Mustafar. And in Episodes IV and V, noone says that Vader was Obi Wan’s apprentice.

But Return of the Jedi doesn’t require heavy plot changes, because we resolve those two twists in the first act of the movie. So… my ROTJ edit can actually be watched without watching any previous edit. It could work as a single Episode VI edit. That’s all.

As soon as possible I will. I’m finishing Tarkin’s uniform in that sequence. BTW, in the original I added music, I added shots of a planet exploding from a documentary and then replaced Alderaan with Krypton from Man of Steel.

Didn’t mean to ASK you to do it, of course. Just saying I’d love to see what you’d do 😉

I know. Right now he’s working on finishing TPM. I’ve been following this project for months.

I’d LOVE to see your version of the original triloy.

SparkySywer said:

A lot of the compositing looks better than the compositing in the original movie. Very well done!

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Thank you so much for your comment.
About Lando… yeah, I wasn’t sure about all that. But as you surely noticed I also removed Leia and Chewie arriving at the palace, because I wanted to improve pacing in the movie’s first act. My intention is to pass the message that everyone but Luke is already inside the palace: Leia, Chewie, Lando. It’s all part of Luke’s plan. They infiltrated in the palace who knows when.
But I totally get that it might be confusing…

And that link is supposed to be posted on this site becaaaause…

Thank you!
I never noticed the subtitle’s mistake until now, lol.

To make the saga watchable in episodic order while keeping the plot twists intact.
There’s a complete changelist in the very first thread.

No need., I didn’t make any of those, lol.
The OT intro was from somewhere around this site. The disclaimer was from Hal’s edits, if I remember correctly.

Of course, PM sent

PMs sent 😉
Thank you for showing interest in this, guys.

Fair enough. I’ll just increase lighting a little bit 😃

Other comparisons.
I’ve been working on the Tatooine scenes. The outside shots look fine to me. Still not sure about the Cantina’s interior, but I wanted to give it a Mandalorian look. Any thoughts?

TOP: original
BOTTOM: edited

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It looked bad, don’t worry. This was the first edit where I tried to heavily color correct.
I’ll eventually remake this.

But after all, ANH is among my least edited SW movies. Concerning the story aspect, there are only some cuts here and there.

Anakin Starkiller said:

While I don’t care for any of your story edits

That’s so… direct. I like it! 😄
Nah, I don’t think I’ll release a color corrected-only version.

Some comparisons.

TOP: original
BOTTOM: edited

Hal 9000 said:

It should be pretty similar. I applied the ‘grey Exogol’ LUT halfway. But, I didn’t also apply the green reduction LUT halfway at the same time. It’s still much less blue than the theatrical while avoiding issues some scenes can have with making it totally grey.

Thanks. I didn’t watch it simultaneously with the original so I thought it was left untouched. Great job 😉

Loved it. The final Naboo shot looks great.
Am I wrong or you chose to go back to the original blue tone for Exegol? I kinda liked the grey-ish color from workprint 4.