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#623032
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Info & Project: Episode 1 TPM game sounds files
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peter_pan said:

Yes no problem there are a lot here and i am working though them so as soon as they are ready I will let you know. Not sure how to share them so might just upload to my drop box then email out the link to anyone who wants them, or is there a better way?

I know others on this forum have extracted sound files from a lot of the SW games on the ps2 onwards. I couldn't find anybody with the PM games though and I have it in front of me which is why I thought I should do my bit.

Do you have any SW game sound files?

Do you have any of the other SW games for the ps1?

 

Unfortunately I don't have any (was never really into computer games) and was simply googling to see whether anyone had already done anything like this, but it seemed not.  I know there is this thread http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Brashs-Star-Wars-Sound-Effects-Archive-A-collection-of-the-best-Star-Wars-sounds-for-use-in-Fan-Editing/topic/12364/ but there hasnt been a lot of activity there for a while, but if you wanted to have a go at making something like this maybe you could PM Brash and see if the two of you could collaborate. 

Also I'm of the attitude of just make as many sounds from as many sources available, even if you cannot imagine a use for them, you can guarantee that someone will think of something you didn't.  Just throw enough resources into a pot and you'll be amazed how many ideas start flowing out of it. 

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#621244
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Clone Wars Movies - Tartakovsky’s 2003 series - an Ideas thread
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Well since they announced doing many new films, I'm finding myself more excited about the idea they will do some that are set in the PT timeline but not entirely about the main story we already know.  Imagine if they bring Ewan McGregor back for an Obi Wan story, there might be enough footage right there to pad out Episode 2 enough that you could remove anything you didn't like and introduce whole new elements.  Chances are it won't be that simple but who knows.

Your suggestion of portraying a jedi Dooku has made me think of a pre Episode 1 film.  I have long wanted to find enough footage from other films to add into Episode 1 that could suggest Obi Wan had already been assigned an apprentice who was lost and grew up to be Maul after being corrupted by Dooku.  I know the ages are all over the place for this idea, but it would add elements of Dooku's fall from the Jedi Order, add a second apprentice for Obi Wan, and develop Maul a little.  I don't think there is anywhere near enough footage in the Clone Wars to show this, but I think something like this could be shown with Ventress. 

As for which canon to follow, I usually go with the idea that if its good then maybe use it, if it isn't good replace it with anything better.

Frankly I love the idea of a film with Dooku starting as a Jedi and ending up as a rogue Jedi.  I also like the idea of this latest Obi Wan and Maul storyline making an Obi Wan centred film.  I would like to say your idea of an Ahsoka film would round it all off perfecty, but the hardest thing is not knowing where she is headed in the series.  I was toying with the idea of using the clip of the old Ahsoka speaking to her younger self, and trying to show her run away from her life with the jedi, only to later reappear as an adult and use the footage from the Force Unleashed showing Shaak Ti to portray Ahsoka, but I just don't think it can work.

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#621237
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Clone Wars Movies - Tartakovsky’s 2003 series - an Ideas thread
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Just a random idea I had ages ago was that the EU is often creating stories between the films and though I haven't given much time to the EU I do think they have a nice idea now and then.  This lead me to think of additional films that fit between the films as .5 episodes.  For example, Splinter of the Mind's Eye could be episode 4.5. 

Now I know strictly speaking all of these episodes are occuring between Episodes 2 and 3, but perhaps with a little clever editing they could be made into 3 films that fit between Episodes 1-4.  For example Anakin and the clones did not feature in this episode, so who says it couldn't fall between Episodes 1 and 2. 

I haven't thought this through enough to know how well it might work, but if it could be done then perhaps it could even be used to expand on elements in the existing films.  Imagine if we could make a sub plot where a Sifo Dias is involved.

What do you think?

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#621156
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Clone Wars Movies - Tartakovsky’s 2003 series - an Ideas thread
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I thought it might happen purely because Star Wars doesn't seem to leave loose ends with regards to its characters so I figure anyone that isn't explained away by the films will ultimately die.  But I thought it was very well done within the story.  Like I say, I just hope we get a good conclusion.  I did think it was out of character for Palpatine to take on Maul though rather than leave him for the Jedi to sort out and then maybe step in if they couldn't manage it.  He is usually more of a long term goal kinda guy than a head on assault like that.

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#619118
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Clone Wars Movies - Tartakovsky’s 2003 series - an Ideas thread
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I hadn't seen the timeline but I had guessed it was possible to figure one out (even if only roughly in some parts). 

I've just been rewatching a few of the episodes from the first series.  The episode Cloak of Darkness made me think maybe you could show Ahsoka being trained by several jedi, creating the implication this is standard, whereas Obi Wan tried to train Anakin all by himself and it failed (whereas Yoda was good enough to manage it with Obi Wan).

I also think this would be a good episode to use as, with a little cutting and reworking the script, it could give a cool introduction the Ventriss, showing her creeping around the ship without knowing exactly who she is before revealing her as someone who can take on a jedi master.  I'm hoping they do a couple of episodes to bridge the gaps between this and a few of the following episodes so this story line could be cut down into a good half of a film introducing the three main bad guys.  I may change my mind slightly depending on exactly what happens in the other episodes though once they are fresh in my mind again.

As for a story focussing on the clones.  I've always been in two minds.  Part of me likes them becoming more developed characters.  However, I can't get past firstly, wanting them to be recruits from republic worlds rather than clones, and secondly, I can't help but feel it contradicts to have them originally shown as good skilled warriors, who we could even relate to and warm to, then to show them as stormtroopers who are fairly useless warriors, never seen as anything but fully helmetted symbols rather than characters. 

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#618966
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Clone Wars Movies - Tartakovsky’s 2003 series - an Ideas thread
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Wow thats a major rethink.  Clearly I have been viewing the idea through existing PT tinted glasses.  I have always hoped that the writers are brave enough to kill Ahsoka and make it contribute to Anakin's reason for turning to the dark side (though unfortunately I doubt they will do anything that suggests changes from the canon of the films). 

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#618926
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Clone Wars Movies - Tartakovsky’s 2003 series - an Ideas thread
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I completely agree.  I have been thinking about what parts would be worth including but really need to go back to rewatch the earlier episodes (and the film). 

I think my ideal scenario would be to have Obi Wan be the central character.  Have Dooku as the main villian throughout all three, supported by Grevious, Sidious (who would not obviously be Palpatine), and Tarkin.  Keep Yoda completely hidden.  And make the love story much better without being too big a part of the story. 

That said the only part that springs to mind from the episodes is when Coruscant gets attacked and we see buildings blowing up, I think that would be worth including.  It is a shame we aren't likely to get any shots of Vader that would match in style, or that we can't somehow mix this with the newer cinematic videogame trailers (The Old Republic one also has some great shots of Coruscant being attacked). 

Would you keep Ahsoka or cut her out altogether?

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#618290
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Help Wanted: Attack Of The Clones - How To Fix This Pooper
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brash_stryker said:

When it comes to armoured clones, there's another from the Stargate universe that springs to mind. The Kull warriors. And there's a particualar shot where an entire army of them is revealed.

 

Kullwarriors.jpg

Obviously replacing the droids in any way is a radical edit, I understand that. I'm just throwing ideas out.

 

Oh good call, I completely forgot about these and only thought of Jaffa and replicators (both which I thought weren't going to cut it).

And I am all for radical ideas, most of what I suggest on these boards would suggest refilming, but if it would help fix even part of the movies I'm all for it.  Frankly I think I'd settle for someone animating a better PT as long as they animated all three consistently, and even more so if they animated the OT to match.

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#618286
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Help Wanted: Attack Of The Clones - How To Fix This Pooper
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Whenever I watch something new I'm always keeping my eye out for little gems that might be reuseable as something in a different film, but realistically even if you found your perfect shot of your idea for a new style of clone warrior, the chances of then finding enough of those shots to be able to use in a meaningful way and make them mesh sufficiently would (sadly) I feel be impossible.  Short of a director having made a film and recreated shots with something like this in mind it just seems like it would be too coincidental.

But if you were prepared to settle for human armoured clones (to hide specific features), and I would suggest looking at long running TV series just so there is more footage available, then it may be possible.  This obviously wouldn't give you your ideal image of a clone, but it would allow the current Republic clone army to change to being just similarly armoured individuals recruited from the numerous planets in the Republic, which is in my oppinion an idea that is definitely worth pursuing.

As for suggestions the only series that springs to mind is Stargate Atlantis where the wraith warriors are all clones so look the same, are humanoid but clearly not human, and have a bad guy look to them.  Whether there are shots which could be used for this purpose, or even look Star Warsy enough, I haven't a clue.

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#618281
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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I can't remember if I have mentioned this before so I hope I'm not repeating ideas, but I thought it would have been nice to see more of Tarkin in the earlier episodes.  Also if Palpatine were made to look much older, like very very old man who just ages and deteriorates to the point we see in RotJ, then rather than him edge his way into power as we are shown in the PT, I would rather see him sort of bullied into it by other senators who see him as a wise old man, but over the course of the PT Tarkin (the Republic's head military guy) could seem to overwhelm Palpatine a little because he is such a strong character.  This could drive the other senators to want to remove some of Tarkin's power and give it to the Chancellor, moving the Republic closer to an Empire, but it would look like it was more in the control of the democracy than Palpatine.  This way when we find out Palpatine has been pulling the strings throughout he looks so much more manipulative than anyone could have known.

Also, with regards to keeping the Yoda reveal secret until ESB, I completely agree he should be removed from onscreen and just mentioned as a great jedi master who trained Obi Wan.  But I would push this idea even more and say that whilst the majority of the jedi we see will be human, it is nice to see alien species can be jedi too, but when alien jedi are shown, they should never be smaller than human.  Perhaps even have an alien jedi used in Yoda's place but make this character look a lot bigger, just to add to the shock that the most powerful jedi is so small.

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#604704
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Two Words for Disney: PREQUEL REBOOT
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timdiggerm said:

Don't forget though: You remake the "first" three.... someone's gonna remake the "next" three.

(where "first" and "next" are in reference to in-universe chronology)

To be honest I'm all for that.  I don't mean to just be sounding contraversial but as it stands we have the OT, which I think is great, but I think E6 has big problems and could have been massively better, so I think there is room for improvement there.  And we have the PT which (personally) I think should be largley disregarded and only the very best ideas, and a few cool names or designed, should remain (though I admit this isn't everyone's view).

But we have two trilogies with quite different styles, different actors playing characters, and so on.  We are going to get a new trilogy, which could in theory be just as different in style and quality again. 

If they remade them, they could all (1-9) be made in the same style, using the same actors for characters that carry through the different films.  And most importantly, they could try to make episodes 1, 2, 3, and 6 a lot better (again only my personal opinion here).  If E4 and E5 weren't seen as being as good as the OT was then its still improved two thirds of the films, and they could open the end of RotJ to lead into E7 better than I think they really could at the moment.  As it stands the bad guys are dead and the good guys have won.  Bringing back a bad guy or making a good guy bad or something like that would deminish the rebel's victory a little, or introducing a new bad guy will just seem random because there was no precedent for it in the films we have.  If they just remade copies of the OT with new actors and changed nothing but a couple of small references to Thrawn then right away the Sequel Trilogy would have a better foundation (if they wanted to take it in that direction). 

Another way of looking at it is the more they release new films the more snippets of footage there might be for fan edits of the films we already have, thats always a bonus.

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#604690
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Two Words for Disney: PREQUEL REBOOT
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Well by 2015 it would be ten years since Episode 3, and while I agree things shouldn't be rebooted that quickly, these days that seems like a respectable time to wait.  The Incredible Hulk rebooted after 5 years, Spiderman also 5 years, Superman 7 years, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo only 2 years. 

After all the released info so far suggests E7 in 2015 I doubt they will go this route, but I still think it would be the easiest route for them to make money, and possibly result in better new films.

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#604673
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Two Words for Disney: PREQUEL REBOOT
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It would be easiest way for them to make money.  If they remade 1-6 before making episode 7 then they would have less work to do on design and story for those 6, and they could try to please more people by improving episodes 1-3, they could try to keep episodes 4-6 true to the originals, and bring new viewers in from the very beginning instead of part way through a series.  They could also use the actors to play characters throughout and not have to cast younger or older versions of the characters each time.  They would even have their logo on the whole series and not have to worry about Fox getting a little share of 'their' money every time someone buys the existing movies.  It will happen eventually, they could just pause to plan it out and try to get it perfect before rushing into making a new film.

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#604160
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My proposal re: Disney Star Wars
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If they did that I think they should do them in order.  Treat episodes 4 and 5 as near perfect and keep them largely untouched, treat episode 6 as not bad but try to work in some more improvements and end in a way that leaves it open to a good strong sequel trilogy so we don't have a completely seperate story just tagged on after RotJ.  But strip the prequels right down and keep a few of the better pieces, but rework the stories a lot.  This way we could have the same actors play characters right the way through, have them age as they go, avoid the current contradictions in the existing storylines, and who knows, maybe even if we don't end up with a new episode 5 that is better than the original, we would almost certainly end up with a better 6 films overall, and hopefully a really good 9 films by the end of it all.

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#601273
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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Sorry to go back to the previous discussion about how to preserve the Vader being Anakin surprise but I just wanted to add my idea here.  If the duel between Anakin and Obi Wan could be editted so that the two characters both appeared dark, so there is very little distinguishing them in the distant shots.  And then one of their lightsaber blades could be changed to red, so that is our way to tell them apart.  Much like in this artwork:

Then I think by removing all of the close up shots of the actors faces, and adding a few shots of a solitary Obi Wan, it could possibly be made to look like Obi Wan is viewing the fight from a distance. 

If the idea of Obi Wan's second apprentice were used I think it could be made to look like Anakin and that apprentice are fighting.  The apprentice would be shown to use a red bladed lightsaber, and Obi Wan, unable to reach the two in time would just see one figure holding a red bladed saber standing above the other person, who would be holding on to a ledge or something, before being pushed off.  The murderer would then walk away. Obi Wan would later reach the place the person fell and retrieve Anakin's lightsaber from the ground. 

As long as the second character was generally the same size and had similar hair and outfit to Anakin, just so they weren't identifiable from a distance, I think it could be enough to sell the lie.

Also we know Ady wants to include newly filmed footage, and I think the existing duel has enough elements that it would only take a few new shots to tell a version like this.  For example a shot of the new character, and then one of them walking away from the ledge and picking up a cloak or something as they walk away, add in a few new lines from both characters and it would be a new scene with relatively little effort.

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#572705
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Collaborative Fanediting: An ROTJ Proposition (BACK ON TRACK WITH EMANSWFAN AT THE HELM--SEE POST 1488 OR OP FOR A LINK!)
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Yeah I think the idea of them turning on one another would work great in a tv series version of Star Wars, or even perhaps if the film series went up to 9 so you could have a little more depth.  But as it stands I think to do that idea justice you would need to give it a bit of screentime, and in doing so it would lessen the sequence where the Death Star goes bang, as that is pretty much the symbol of the rebel victory.

In theory I like the idea though, I just don't know how we could do it without messing up the pacing.