Hey, Hal. I thought you had said that you weren’t going to add these edits to fanedit.org.
I understand why George made that change, but from my understanding, people felt the additional dialogue just made things more confusing. The opening crawl and Vader’s actions at the beginning of the film, demonstrate that he already has a personal obsession with finding Luke, which implies he already knows who he really is. Having Vader find out during the movie seems to contradict that. Is he now just obsessed with find Luke because he destroyed the Death Star and he wants revenge?
You could argue Vader is feigning surprise, but already knows and pretends because he is planning to use Luke to help him usurp the Emperor, but it arguably just makes things more complicated.
I have a novel that focuses around Anakin/Vader’s life. It’s called The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader. In between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, he discovers who the rebel who destroyed the Death Star is, but is confused about his last name, believing that there may be others out there who share the name Skywalker that could be related to Anakin and Shmi. This helps make the Special Edition dialogue make sense for Palpatine to clarify to Vader that Luke really is Anakin’s son. I personally like the new dialogue because it adds new layers to the characters and story, as well connecting with the Prequels where it doesn’t come across as “in your face” and ties well with the overall storyline.
He could be obsessed with finding Luke, not only because he destroyed the Death Star, but mainly because of his curiosity in his last name, as well as feeling the Force being strong within him.
Is it odd that I may be the only person who likes the new dialogue added to Vader and Palpatine’s conversation in the Special Edition of The Empire Strikes Back? Although, Adywan did a better job with the Emperor’s appearance.
I read that your edit of The Empire Strikes Back combined a (supposedly) color-corrected rendition of the 2011 Blu-ray, kk650’s Semi-Specialized Edition, and Adywan’s Revisited Edition. Will A New Hope and Return of the Jedi be done using the same video sources? Also, after you’re finished with Return of the Jedi, will you go back and possibly add anything that Adywan uses in his Revisited Edition of Return of the Jedi, whenever that will be finished?
When do you think your Prequel edits will be listed on fanedit.org again?
When I made my own custom Special Edition of the trilogy, I used the 1997 Special Edition mix as the main audio source. However, for any times where I used the 2011 Blu-ray mix, I added a treble boost to the audio and matched up the volume, and it now sounds pretty close. Especially in voices.
Fair. However, it is the only thing we hear of him in that particular environment.
That’s true. I did re-watched the part again, and I noticed that you also put a similar vocal sounding effect on his laugh too when looking through the pod’s window.
I do have something to say about V6 that sounds a bit jarring. It’s nice that the brief shot of Grievous launching the escape pods is back, but the line that is pulled from The Clone Wars does sound very different compared to how he sounds in the rest of the movie. I think they used a slightly different modification on Matthew Wood’s voice in the show compared to Revenge of the Sith. It’s sounds far more exaggerated in the effect.
It would be interesting if a new more enhanced puppet of Sy Snootles was used.
Not like that, though.
It would be interesting if a new more enhanced puppet of Sy Snootles was used.
As obsessive as I can get about certain things, the reality is that I can’t be steward of this metaproject forever, and so with V6 I fully intend to set the prequels down and just let whoever wishes to take up the craft going forward cull whatever they wish from them. They’ll be my ultimates, of course, but there’ll never be an end of the line.
Even if IX ends up requiring me to go back again, say if the plot crucially involves midichlorians or something, I’d probably just reckon those as V6.1.
I can assure you that there will be no mention of midi-chlorians.
Will a 1080p version of the trilogy get a release too?
No. RotJ:R and ANH:R HD are the last two projects Adywan will be working on, and both of them will be released in 720p and NOT 1080p.
Oh. Shame. I also would’ve loved to see his vision of the Prequels. It sounded really ambitious and different.
I’ve come to know something for the past two years of being a fan editor that I think many of us can agree on. Sometimes we go back to our previous edits and make minor and/or major adjustments and changes, due to our minds changing as well as our perceptions of how something plays out. It really makes me understand why George Lucas kept tinkering with the changes made to his films, as the same thing happens to how he feels about his work as we do for our work of his movies.
I just saw the birth scene, and WOW! Angel, Snooker and Sir Ridley did such an incredible job removing the droids that I didn’t even notice it at first.
Will a 1080p version of the trilogy get a release too?
It’s a nice line, and has plenty of meme magic behind it, but this edit is from an alternate universe, after all.
Not to get off topic, but I don’t know why Revenge of the Sith has the most Internet memes surrounding it out of all the films in the franchise.
Because of the amount of poorly-written dialogue.
I still think Attack of the Clones takes home the award for worst dialogue in the franchise.
And it’d be reeeeal weird to have a ~17 year old Ben Solo address Rey as ‘sweetheart.’
It may not be from the past, it could very likely be said by him in the future, possibly in The Rise of Skywalker. Afterall, her vision did foreshadow their duel on Starkiller Base.
Surely that was intended to her mother or father, right?
I believe the junior novelization, which is not what I was referring to earlier, says that she had no memory of her parents. It could be from them, but I don’t think that was the intended direction, but I digress.
Here’s a suggestion for a new version. In the novelization of the film, during Rey’s Force vision, she hears a voice, that I believe is very likely Kylo Ren’s voice.
"Once more she climbed to her feet, her chilled breath preceding her. From in front of her, not far away, came the sounds of battle: the cries of the wounded and the clashing of weapons. Then behind her, another voice. That voice.
“Stay here. I’ll come back for you.”
She whirled, glazed eyes desperately scanning the dark gaps between the slender trees, trying to penetrate the darkness. “Where are you?” She started running toward the voice
“I’ll come back for you, sweetheart. I promise."
What do yo think of the idea of getting a sound alike voice actor that can sound like Adam Driver to read out these lines for that scene? For example, when she looks down the hallway in Cloud City, she hears the first part. Then she hears the second part when she runs into him in the snowy woods. The second part could play out like this.
OBI-WAN: Rey.
KYLO REN: I’ll come back for you, sweetheart.
He appears in front of her with the lightsaber. You hear his last part when she stumbles backwards.
KYLO REN: I promise.
OBI-WAN: These are your first steps.
It’s a nice line, and has plenty of meme magic behind it, but this edit is from an alternate universe, after all.
Not to get off topic, but I don’t know why Revenge of the Sith has the most Internet memes surrounding it out of all the films in the franchise.
I’m doing a V3 for TLJ, and I’m just going to hold off on finalizing it until after seeing IX just in case. But I won’t revisit TFA unless IX gives me a reason to.
Sounds good.
Are you planning on making another version of your edits to Episodes VII and VIII after seeing Episode IX?
(The droids being removed from the birth scene.)
That is a very ambitious change to make in a fan edit. I personally wouldn’t change anything about that in my edit of Episode III, but I am very curious to see how it appears in your new version of Labyrinth of Evil.
Is V6 almost done?
Toxic, nl0428? I hadn’t noticed. Anyway I hope you enjoy the movie 😃
Thanks very much, Biggs! I hope you do too!
