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WXM said:

No need to apologize. More people will look at your SW fe’s over there, yay!

Cheers, thanks!

Hi all, I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I completed a 9-film fanedit of Star Wars. I really did it for myself, I thought about not posting because I’m worried about criticism but I figured I should just post it here in the off chance anyone is interested, or wants to take anything from it for their own fanedits.

The two most noteworthy changes are probably inserting a cyberman puppet Yoda into the prequels and a replacement cgi Jabba into A New Hope. I made a teaser for it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0YpV_xVSE

there are other trailers/teasers I made for it on my channel. I was going to post a Drive link to it but Youtube needed some kind of verification so if you want the link to them just send me a private message. Subtitles for aliens Episodes I-IV are in there as well.

My idea was to blend together a lot of other ideas from other FanEditors that I’ve liked over the years, so in many ways it’s a mishmash of that. I haven’t put together a full changelist, but here’s a rough outline:

Prequels:

• Very mild color correction and grain throughout, sometimes I think edits can go overboard with this
• Puppet Yoda throughout
• Anakin’s voice slightly deeper throughout

Star Wars Episode I The Ancient Fear:

• Modified title and crawl, mentions THE FORCE and THE JEDI to seem like the actual first movie
• Deep cuts throughout, mostly using The Phantom Edit as a guide (sometimes frame-for-frame). Many other small changes.
• Kept sea monsters because creatures are cool and good
• Gigawattboy Gungan voices
• Anti-Cheese Edit Nemoidian voices
• Telugu voice dub for Watto
• No midichlorians
• Slightly color corrected Jabba, correct number of fingers
• Added a couple edited deleted scenes on Tatooine
• Puppet Yoda (using a Cyberman yoda head I acquired years ago and painted, added hair, digital mouth movements, and blue screened myself)
• Removed any reference that Qui-Gon trained Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan calls him master in a couple points, but that’s consistent with how he addresses Windu at times also, just gives the impression he’s an older master deserving of respect. Cut the line “Fought well you have, my old Padawan,” from Yoda’s duel with Dooku in E2 and inserted it into the last scene with Obi-Wan in Episode I to restore Obi-Wan as Yoda’s apprentice.
• Anakin’s voice dropped 1 semitone to make him seem slightly older. His dialogue is substantially curtailed, which I think makes him slightly more of an enigma which I like

Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones:

• Deep cuts throughout, based primarily on Attack of the Phantom, but with influences from Hal9000 and the Anti-Cheese Edit, and many of my own small changes
• Restored some deleted scenes: edited Padme Senate scene, edited scenes of Padme’s family home on Naboo
• Puppet Yoda throughout. Yoda’s duel with Dooku is only throwing rocks around and force lightning (no lightsaber fight).
• Anti-Cheese Edit Nemoidian voices
• Telugu voice dub for Watto
• Cringey dialogue cut throughout, and most Naboo sequences gone or heavily edited, similar to Attack of the Phantom or Hal9000 (in some places I went farther).
• No Jar Jar dialogue. Senate scene cuts straight to Palpatine
• Jedi have many different colored lightsabers during Battle of Geonosis now. Even when I first saw this movie in theaters as a little kid I remember being disappointed that there could only be so many lightsaber colors.
• Anakin’s voice dropped by ~1 semitone throughout. I get that the Vader helmet is supposed to have a Wizard of Oz effect, that was the whole point in ROTJ. But somehow I just never thought the character’s voice had enough gravitas to play someone who could eventually become Vader, so a slight shift in voice I thought helped.

Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith:

• Slightly edited opening crawl
• Significantly edited opening space battle
• Many other cuts throughout, primarily influenced by Hal9000 but some places where I went further/less far.
• Anakin’s voice dropped by ~1 semitone throughout.
• Palpatine’s skin is color corrected to be very pale throughout (though obviously his skin doesn’t melt until the force lightning scene). I just always thought it made more sense for Palpatine’s flesh to be being eaten away at by the dark side, it even seemed like they were going that route in Episode 2. This is the best I could do to try to restore a sense of that
• Coruscant traffic is reduced in certain scenes, especially around the Senate and the Jedi Temple. This is based on something pointed out by Redlettermedia in their review of Revenge of the Sith, about how it seems like life is barely affected by the war. Other edits throughout the prequels were also influenced by Redlettermedia reviews.
• Puppet Yoda throughout
• Used Hal9000’s excellent Leia ending but included Padme’s funeral in Anakin’s force vision scene, as well as a couple shots from the TV series Kenobi
• Restored most political deleted scenes, only slight editing for some rough dialogue here and there
• Multicolored lightsabers in confrontation with Palpatine
• Anti-Cheese Edit Nemoidian voices
• Dramatically reduced the length of the final lightsaber duel and the Yoda/Emperor duel (no lightsabers)

Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope:

• Basically Harmy’s Despecialized Edition with some small changes:
• Some Revisited sequences
• my CGI Jabba
• one quick fan SFX shot of the death star approach

Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back:

• Basically Harmy’s Despecialized Edition with some small changes:
• Some Revisited sequences, primarily the Revisited Emperor and Yoda’s mouth movements
• Revisited Wampa with 1 shot from the blu-ray as Luke escapes
• Mostly blu-ray cloud cityscape shots, with a few originals and a few Adywans

Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi:

• Basically Harmy’s Despecialized Edition with some small changes:
• Added Yoda mouth movements, to correspond to the Revisited changes in Episode V. I did my best to copy what Adywans did in that.
• A very brief medley of some fan SFX during the Battle of Endor
• Other minor consistency fixes and small things here and there
• End sequence: Despecialized but with the Blu-Ray score, and Blu-Ray planetary celebration sequences, “weesa free” removed using a Russian dub, Sebastian Shaw

Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens:

• Lightly edited crawl
• Many changes inspired by Hal900, most notably moving the destruction of the Hosnian system to the end of the movie. Some things I kept from the blu-ray.
• Some small cuts in dialogue here and there to remove annoyance
• Longer Rey vision, including: blue energy emerging from pit of second Death Star with emperor laughing superimposed, fan SFX shots of post-Endor wreckage in space, some Exegol shots, an extra shot of Rey’s mother
• Han/Leia relationship drama mostly removed
• A very quick addition to the Falcon arriving at Starkiller base where they arrive just outside the planet before descending. Going to lightspeed from an atmosphere happens too many times to cut it out of the sequels entirely but I tried to tone it down a bit as much as I could here and there
• Shortened Rey’s domination of Kylo Ren in the fight to make her injuring him happen so quick that it didn’t feel like she was just suddenly the best Jedi with no training, as best as I could

Star Wars Episode VIII The Final Order:

• Edited title (never liked having “The Last Jedi” 2 episodes after “Return of the Jedi,” feels redundant. And light edits to crawl
• Many Hal9000 and Gigawattboy changes utilized
• Switched order of some of the opening scenes, starting with Hux and Kylo Ren meeting Snoke (now set above Mustafar)
• Removed Hux from opening battle, as Snoke had just ordered him to come back to base. He appears briefly as a hologram
• Moved 2 scenes from Episode 9 into this movie, including Kylo Ren finding the wayfinder at the beginning of this movie)
• Added back in some deleted scenes (heavily edited in some places)
• Small changes to some annoying scenes and dialogue throughout
• Removed almost all of the Poe/Holdo gender anxiety. I love Laura Dern but those scenes are just awful. Now she basically appears briefly as a Mon Mothma-type character.
• No “3 lessons.” Luke just agrees to train Rey after R2 shows him the hologram, followed by a training montage using some fan music. The scenes where Rey is just kind of awkwardly following around the island while he acts weird now serve a purpose to move forward the plot
• Used Gigawattboy’s excellent reversal of the Kylo/Luke narrative of what happened on Ossus
• Used a deepfake Yoda using alleyvoid’s deepfakes. Never entirely liked the look of Yoda here. (see: https://ibb.co/tTprRw1c) Unfortunately, he didn’t complete the scene, so I added one deepfake at the end (I always felt the close up shots were a little better so I left them as is). Added force glow and transparency to Yoda throughout, as well as mouth movements like in Episodes 5 and 6. Slight edits in dialogue.
• In the scene after the battle on the Falcon, made a change to the music and removed Leia’s “we have everything we need,” changing the tone of the scene
• Transitions from this scene to the scene where Kylo Ren discovers Exegol and meets Palpatine. Palpatine says “I AM Snoke” now (from another fanedit), and added the Hal9000 “ghost from a rotting clone” line. It ends ominously on “who is she?” then transitions to the final shot of the kids on Canto Bight.

Episode IX Rise of Skywalker:

• Slightly modified and edited opening crawl
• No lightspeed skipping. Slightly more scenes than Hal9000, but implied they all take place on the same world
• Many other Hal9000 changes throughout, such as using the Emperor’s transmission, Leia’s purple saber, etc.
• Death star wreckage changed to be only a small fragment of the death star (used actual footage from ROTJ) Why: (https://i.imgur.com/taOPriP.png)
• Deep edit to Rey’s backstory. Some dialogue added/changed throughout to help with this.
• Kept force ghosts from Hal9000 on Exegol, but replaced Hayden Christensen with Sebastian Shaw, using footage from an old movie
• Modified ending celebration music using music inspired by ROTJ ending from Samuel Kim (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGjHuHCcRM) (used Hal9000 added footage)
• Basically Hal9000 ending, only very slight differences

There are probably many other small things I can’t remember. I wanted to post this on the 10th anniversary of the Force Awakens (well actually, I wanted to post it on May 4th but Fanedits take forever to finish). Maybe there’s some strange person out there like me who will enjoy it.

Please delete, posted in wrong forum

Re-posted it here: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/My-Fanedits-I-IX/id/140091

WXM said:

A mod can delete this if I’m too off base, but there’s a whole forum here for Star Wars fe’s. This one here is for OTHER properties. So, you might want to ask a mod to move this for you (and delete this here post by me after 😃 )

Here’s the SW fe area
https://originaltrilogy.com/discussion/Star-Wars-Fan-Edits-and-Other-Projects/id/9

Sorry, I’ll move it and delete here, thanks for the heads up

Hi all, I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I completed a 9-film fanedit of Star Wars. I really did it for myself, I thought about not posting because I’m worried about criticism but I figured I should just post it here in the off chance anyone is interested, or wants to take anything from it for their own fanedits.

The two most noteworthy changes are probably inserting a cyberman puppet Yoda into the prequels and a replacement cgi Jabba into A New Hope. I made a teaser for it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER0YpV_xVSE

there are other trailers/teasers I made for it on my channel. I was going to post a Drive link to it but Youtube needed some kind of verification so if you want the link to them just send me a private message. Subtitles for aliens Episodes I-IV are in there as well.

My idea was to blend together a lot of other ideas from other FanEditors that I’ve liked over the years, so in many ways it’s a mishmash of that. I haven’t put together a full changelist, but here’s a rough outline:

Prequels:

• Very mild color correction and grain throughout, sometimes I think edits can go overboard with this
• Puppet Yoda throughout
• Anakin’s voice slightly deeper throughout

Star Wars Episode I The Ancient Fear:

• Modified title and crawl, mentions THE FORCE and THE JEDI to seem like the actual first movie
• Deep cuts throughout, mostly using The Phantom Edit as a guide (sometimes frame-for-frame). Many other small changes.
• Kept sea monsters because creatures are cool and good
• Gigawattboy Gungan voices
• Anti-Cheese Edit Nemoidian voices
• Telugu voice dub for Watto
• No midichlorians
• Slightly color corrected Jabba, correct number of fingers
• Added a couple edited deleted scenes on Tatooine
• Puppet Yoda (using a Cyberman yoda head I acquired years ago and painted, added hair, digital mouth movements, and blue screened myself)
• Removed any reference that Qui-Gon trained Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan calls him master in a couple points, but that’s consistent with how he addresses Windu at times also, just gives the impression he’s an older master deserving of respect. Cut the line “Fought well you have, my old Padawan,” from Yoda’s duel with Dooku in E2 and inserted it into the last scene with Obi-Wan in Episode I to restore Obi-Wan as Yoda’s apprentice.
• Anakin’s voice dropped 1 semitone to make him seem slightly older. His dialogue is substantially curtailed, which I think makes him slightly more of an enigma which I like

Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones:

• Deep cuts throughout, based primarily on Attack of the Phantom, but with influences from Hal9000 and the Anti-Cheese Edit, and many of my own small changes
• Restored some deleted scenes: edited Padme Senate scene, edited scenes of Padme’s family home on Naboo
• Puppet Yoda throughout. Yoda’s duel with Dooku is only throwing rocks around and force lightning (no lightsaber fight).
• Anti-Cheese Edit Nemoidian voices
• Telugu voice dub for Watto
• Cringey dialogue cut throughout, and most Naboo sequences gone or heavily edited, similar to Attack of the Phantom or Hal9000 (in some places I went farther).
• No Jar Jar dialogue. Senate scene cuts straight to Palpatine
• Jedi have many different colored lightsabers during Battle of Geonosis now. Even when I first saw this movie in theaters as a little kid I remember being disappointed that there could only be so many lightsaber colors.
• Anakin’s voice dropped by ~1 semitone throughout. I get that the Vader helmet is supposed to have a Wizard of Oz effect, that was the whole point in ROTJ. But somehow I just never thought the character’s voice had enough gravitas to play someone who could eventually become Vader, so a slight shift in voice I thought helped.

Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith

• Slightly edited opening crawl
• Significantly edited opening space battle
• Many other cuts throughout, primarily influenced by Hal9000 but some places where I went further/less far.
• Anakin’s voice dropped by ~1 semitone throughout.
• Palpatine’s skin is color corrected to be very pale throughout (though obviously his skin doesn’t melt until the force lightning scene). I just always thought it made more sense for Palpatine’s flesh to be being eaten away at by the dark side, it even seemed like they were going that route in Episode 2. This is the best I could do to try to restore a sense of that
• Coruscant traffic is reduced in certain scenes, especially around the Senate and the Jedi Temple. This is based on something pointed out by Redlettermedia in their review of Revenge of the Sith, about how it seems like life is barely affected by the war. Other edits throughout the prequels were also influenced by Redlettermedia reviews.
• Puppet Yoda throughout
• Used Hal9000’s excellent Leia ending but included Padme’s funeral in Anakin’s force vision scene, as well as a couple shots from the TV series Kenobi
• Restored most political deleted scenes, only slight editing for some rough dialogue here and there
• Multicolored lightsabers in confrontation with Palpatine
• Anti-Cheese Edit Nemoidian voices
• Dramatically reduced the length of the final lightsaber duel and the Yoda/Emperor duel (no lightsabers)

Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope:

• Basically Harmy’s Despecialized Edition with some small changes:
• Some Revisited sequences
• my CGI Jabba
• one quick fan SFX shot of the death star approach

Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back:

• Basically Harmy’s Despecialized Edition with some small changes:
• Some Revisited sequences, primarily the Revisited Emperor and Yoda’s mouth movements
• Revisited Wampa with 1 shot from the blu-ray as Luke escapes
• Mostly blu-ray cloud cityscape shots, with a few originals and a few Adywans

Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi:

• Basically Harmy’s Despecialized Edition with some small changes:
• Added Yoda mouth movements, to correspond to the Revisited changes in Episode V. I did my best to copy what Adywans did in that.
• A very brief medley of some fan SFX during the Battle of Endor
• Other minor consistency fixes and small things here and there
• End sequence: Despecialized but with the Blu-Ray score, and Blu-Ray planetary celebration sequences, “weesa free” removed using a Russian dub, Sebastian Shaw

Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens:

• Lightly edited crawl
• Many changes inspired by Hal900, most notably moving the destruction of the Hosnian system to the end of the movie. Some things I kept from the blu-ray.
• Some small cuts in dialogue here and there to remove annoyance
• Longer Rey vision, including: blue energy emerging from pit of second Death Star with emperor laughing superimposed, fan SFX shots of post-Endor wreckage in space, some Exegol shots, an extra shot of Rey’s mother
• Han/Leia relationship drama mostly removed
• A very quick addition to the Falcon arriving at Starkiller base where they arrive just outside the planet before descending. Going to lightspeed from an atmosphere happens too many times to cut it out of the sequels entirely but I tried to tone it down a bit as much as I could here and there
• Shortened Rey’s domination of Kylo Ren in the fight to make her injuring him happen so quick that it didn’t feel like she was just suddenly the best Jedi with no training, as best as I could

Star Wars Episode VIII The Final Order:

• Edited title (never liked having “The Last Jedi” 2 episodes after “Return of the Jedi,” feels redundant. And light edits to crawl
• Many Hal9000 and Gigawattboy changes utilized
• Switched order of some of the opening scenes, starting with Hux and Kylo Ren meeting Snoke (now set above Mustafar)
• Removed Hux from opening battle, as Snoke had just ordered him to come back to base. He appears briefly as a hologram
• Moved 2 scenes from Episode 9 into this movie, including Kylo Ren finding the wayfinder at the beginning of this movie)
• Added back in some deleted scenes (heavily edited in some places)
• Small changes to some annoying scenes and dialogue throughout
• Removed almost all of the Poe/Holdo gender anxiety. I love Laura Dern but those scenes are just awful. Now she basically appears briefly as a Mon Mothma-type character.
• No “3 lessons.” Luke just agrees to train Rey after R2 shows him the hologram, followed by a training montage using some fan music. The scenes where Rey is just kind of awkwardly following around the island while he acts weird now serve a purpose to move forward the plot
• Used Gigawattboy’s excellent reversal of the Kylo/Luke narrative of what happened on Ossus
• Used a deepfake Yoda using alleyvoid’s deepfakes. Never entirely liked the look of Yoda here. (see: https://ibb.co/tTprRw1c) Unfortunately, he didn’t complete the scene, so I added one deepfake at the end (I always felt the close up shots were a little better so I left them as is). Added force glow and transparency to Yoda throughout, as well as mouth movements like in Episodes 5 and 6. Slight edits in dialogue.
• In the scene after the battle on the Falcon, made a change to the music and removed Leia’s “we have everything we need,” changing the tone of the scene
• Transitions from this scene to the scene where Kylo Ren discovers Exegol and meets Palpatine. Palpatine says “I AM Snoke” now (from another fanedit), and added the Hal9000 “ghost from a rotting clone” line. It ends ominously on “who is she?” then transitions to the final shot of the kids on Canto Bight.

Episode IX Rise of Skywalker:

• Slightly modified and edited opening crawl
• No lightspeed skipping. Slightly more scenes than Hal9000, but implied they all take place on the same world
• Many other Hal9000 changes throughout, such as using the Emperor’s transmission, Leia’s purple saber, etc.
• Death star wreckage changed to be only a small fragment of the death star (used actual footage from ROTJ) Why: (https://i.imgur.com/taOPriP.png)
• Deep edit to Rey’s backstory. Some dialogue added/changed throughout to help with this.
• Kept force ghosts from Hal9000 on Exegol, but replaced Hayden Christensen with Sebastian Shaw, using footage from an old movie
• Modified ending celebration music using music inspired by ROTJ ending from Samuel Kim (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGjHuHCcRM) (used Hal9000 added footage)
• Basically Hal9000 ending, only very slight differences

There are probably many other small things I can’t remember. I wanted to post this on the 10th anniversary of the Force Awakens (well actually, I wanted to post it on May 4th but Fanedits take forever to finish). Maybe there’s some strange person out there like me who will enjoy it.