Kapheen

Edit all of Episode 2 and 3 with current day Jake Lloyd.

Reveal that R2D2 and C3PO are Force users. 

C3PO levitated himself in Ewok village using the Force.

Mind blown at your level of dedication to this edit Adywan.

Due to the size, complexity, and duration of this project I'm curious as to how you are running the management side of this edit. Is it organized as per an organizational structure (such as Project Manager, Lead Cinematography, Lead Animator, etc...) with assigned tasks and responsibilities, or is it managed mostly ad hoc on an as-needed basis?

I would say the guy doing all the work is entitled to the last say, and also the option of having the biggest ego if he so chooses to have or not. I would say that Adywan is fairly benevolent in this regard to listening to opinions expressed in the forum, and providing detailed reasoning for his decisions. 

Everyone else is entitled to start their own edit with their own ideas if they so choose. 

Bump.

I'm still holding out hope that this project isn't dead because it held so much promise based on the early test reels. Is there any glimmer of hope?

doubleofive said:

 

Kapheen said:

Shortest version ever: The Star Destroyer actually hits the Tantive IV, blowing it up, along with Leia, R2D2, and C3PO. Droids never hook up with Luke, Luke never hooks up with Ben, Ben never hooks up with Solo.

End Credits. :D

Been done before. ;-)

 

So it has! Awesome.

Shortest version ever: The Star Destroyer actually hits the Tantive IV, blowing it up, along with Leia, R2D2, and C3PO. Droids never hook up with Luke, Luke never hooks up with Ben, Ben never hooks up with Solo.

End Credits. :D

Make Vader sound like a battle droid. A truly ridiculous idea.

It's a cool idea Ronster. Don't get me wrong. Just the wrong circumstance.

BlueCardinal said:

@ Kapheen - thank goodness he didn't lose the will to live before Lando showed up. :)

It runs in the family don'tchaknow.

Just so I am not just a complete troll, I will throw my two cents in and say that the TIE Fighters are not necessary in this scene, and would just take away from the plight of Luke being at his very lowest.

Luke seems to be on the verge of dying of a broken heart. 

::scurries away::

The Notebook has got nothing on the love story in Attack of the Clones. ;)

/end tangent.

Perhaps, but will the viewing satisfaction be the same as seeing a battle droid get smelted into a searing unrecognizable liquid? 

aalenfae said:

I'm all for seeing a battle droid. But... I think Ady already did something like that in the sandcrawler in ANH.

Yes he did. That was my original point.

If Adywan replaces that IG-88 looking thing with a battle droid it would be a pleasantly surreptitious wink at the prequels.

Throw my name into the SD camp as well. I never even considered it being the Executor before this conversation. I interpreted the scene as a fleet of Star Destroyers milling about, seen from various angles, when a large shadow dwarfs them, revealing the Executor to establish that the Empire is pretty much still in control despite that ugly Death Star incident a few years back.

Regardless, this is Adywan's project, and ultimately his vision of what ESB should have been. If he wants to put taun tauns in space, it's his right. 

(I'm secretly hoping that he sneaks in another battle droid head into the scrap heap on Cloud City, like he did in the Jawa crawler in ANH:R)

Anyone else notice that the probe droid is doing the Ninja Cat move and appears closer every time you look away and look back? ;)

Looks great! Can't wait to see the final product!

Looking forward to it!

I like that the Emperor's face was also repositioned to give the appearance of being more hunched over.

Angel said:

Kapheen said:

Another potential idea: Can the same hilt with a different crystal produce a different colour? Maybe Anakin didn't swap sabers, he just put in the red crystals.

Find me a way to show it and i might consider it. Now manage to calculate where to put the scene, why, how long it will be, if there is a dialogue and how it will affect the pacing and all.

-Angel

 

How about using the new scene of Luke in the cave tweaking his saber? If you can digitally make it Anakin's face under the cowl, then the turning on of a red saber would be quite the visual. 

As to when it could happen... How about in between the time that Anakin kills all the Trade Federation folks on Mustafar, but before Padme arrives?

Then again I might just be senselessly complicating matters.

Yeah, the 'mood ring' as you aptly put would be a bit of a stretch, but I was trying to just lob some ideas at the editors for a way to resolve the whole lightsaber issue.

Another potential idea: Can the same hilt with a different crystal produce a different colour? Maybe Anakin didn't swap sabers, he just put in the red crystals.

This might be blasphemously radical thinking, but I wonder if the colour of someone's lightsaber couldn't be a representation of their 'Force aura' or something like that. So as Anakin starts to slip towards the dark side, his lightsaber starts to get altered along with him until he is fully evil, and it is fully red.

There can be hints of red appearing in his saber when he kills the Tusken Raiders that abducted his mother, and again when he slices off Count Dooku's head. Finally when he enters the Jedi Temple to murder the kids his saber is full-on red.

When Obi-Wan takes back the lightsaber it technically becomes 'his', and therefore changes back to the blue colour.

Like the majority of the original Ep1 plot, the energy plotline would be established in the opening crawl I would suspect.

If Maul were to survive being sliced in half and falling into the energy pit, one would surmise that he would be coughing all the time (lung damage) and would need a ton of mechanical work *coughGrievouscough*.

This is not a new idea to make Maul into Grievous, but just adds more to the character's tale, and brings full circle Obi-Wan's first fight in Ep1 and their final battle in Ep3. 

Force manipulation of the doors makes sense, and workable in the context that Maul is trying to distance himself from Qui-Gon, but it still doesn't explain why they are actually there in the first place. An energy emission/exhaust barrier actually gives them a function, but we would have to somehow explain why the exhausting stops when the lightsaber battles happen in the room.