I think it would be nice to see the shape fixed. The color, I would find a halfway point. I think it should be just slightly more muted compared to animation.
Farm planet, boring, it’s gone.
Yavin 4, insufferable characters that are never once made relatable. It’s gone.
Mon Mothma plot, heavily, heavily trimmed.
Syril and Dedra… pretty good plot actually. Did not take up too much run time, scenes were punchy.
Is the current version of this available to watch? I would love if you could send me a copy.
Does this lean into some of the CGI shots that Adywan made for his old version? I liked those. IMO my dream version of the movie was to have Adywans old CGI shots, the George Lucas CGI shots, and SC38, and make a new “prequelized” version of ANH. I love the old special effects best, 1977, but I want a version full of the CGI stuff Lucas and fans have made, to have a version that fits in with the greater series.
Also, a deleted scene that is my dream to see, though we only have poor quality is “This Sith Lord”. Rogue One tie in and mention of the word “Sith” in ANH. Hope we get a better copy one day.
ANH-X version 1 will include 90% of the deleted restored scenes
based on adywans version so yes all his enhanced FX, but upscaled to HD
and yes the “sith lord” extended board room scene with clean audio is already done and will be included in the version 1
Wow, can’t wait to see it!
This is my most desired edit. My brother started showing my nephew Star Wars - Prequels first - would be amazing to have this for our watch through. No pressure though xD
Is the current version of this available to watch? I would love if you could send me a copy.
Does this lean into some of the CGI shots that Adywan made for his old version? I liked those. IMO my dream version of the movie was to have Adywans old CGI shots, the George Lucas CGI shots, and SC38, and make a new “prequelized” version of ANH. I love the old special effects best, 1977, but I want a version full of the CGI stuff Lucas and fans have made, to have a version that fits in with the greater series.
Also, a deleted scene that is my dream to see, though we only have poor quality is “This Sith Lord”. Rogue One tie in and mention of the word “Sith” in ANH. Hope we get a better copy one day.
So my wife and I watched, and we loved it! We were not bored at all. I have seen Boba Fett, but not season 3, and my wife hasn’t seen any of the series.
When Paz stood up and gave his speech in support of Din, my wife got so excited. Same with seeing Grogu at the end, and the Mythosaur. My wife doesn’t know names of stuff, but she was like “That’s the animal their helmets are designed after!”
I thought this movie was the first time I felt the story delivered on the premise of “The Mandalorian”. This feels like the first fully focused Mandalorian story.
I asked her if the Mandoa was too much at all throughout the movie, and she said it was not.
She couldn’t really give me specifics, but she did have feedback of “Parts felt a bit choppy.” Take that for what you will, maybe you can sus out what she means. She loved it overall.
I thought the pacing was excellent. The only minor nitpicks I have are, I don’t feel like Din would necessarily explain to Peli Motto that he is trying to redeem himself etc when asking for the droid that detect the toxicity or whatever it was.
The other thing is, I think the Mandoa works, my wife thought it was great. But I think if a line sounds great in basic/english, it should be considered to be swapped in for special circumstances. The one I’m thinking of is “Have you removed your helmet?” More that the actress’s delivery was really good on that, you could feel the weight of it. I am wondering, maybe she could say it in Mandoa first coming out of that conversation, but then the second time she says it in basic so the line really hits, that’s the one where the actress’s delivery really sells it. Idk if that’ll work but something for you to consider.
Otherwise, we really loved it. I told you in your chat, I was considering doing my own cuts of the series, which would essentially be like yours but cut in half. So your first 4 movies, would only be 2 in my version, which I’m still interested in. However, after watching this one, I might just leave your last movies 5 and 6 as is (depending on how 6 goes), because I thought this one was great! There wasn’t really anything major I wanted to cut.
Edit: OH! I forgot our biggest want… WE WANT BOBA FETT!!! We love Boba. I hope his modern story is a significant part of your Book 6, can’t wait to see how you handle that material.
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Sounds legit 😂
We are ready for book 5!
Would love to see this if you don’t mind. I opened a thread a few months back concepting a similar idea (sub 2.5 hour cut of the whole season). But I was going to mess with the timelines a lot. Use the prison plot as the A plot, with the other plots cut around that, as flashbacks or otherwise. And cutting several things entirely, like most of his home planet (fennix, ferrix, something?) THat would include most of his buddies there like Bix, so im interested to see how integral they are in s2.
I did see one of your premiere’s on youtube for your visul novel project. I think that’s awesome. It’s not really my thing but as I was watching I had the thought of “This is the future of filmmaking.” You’re a pioneer!
I also showed my wife your Mandalorian series for the first time (1 through 4). She has not watched Mando/BOBF at all. She did enjoy it a lot, and said that she would not have given the TV shows a chance otherwise. Although she is similar to me, at parts we wanted it to move even faster (which I know most of the audience on here is not like us). The Mayfeldt plots in book 1 and 4, we felt could have been cut. However I know the runtime would have required you to restructure everything else to do that, so we arent gonna give you too much grief. But overall she wanted to commend the work you’ve done and thank you for making the series watchable.
We are excited to see 5 and 6! I have not even watched your old Book 5 because I am waiting for your new version. I am very excited because the Boba Fett stuff is my favorite.
An aside, after watching your Book 4 which introduces live action Ahsoka, we then watched Kai Patterson’s Ahsoka movie. That worked really well imo
I started watching your Mandalorian edit, I think it’s amazing! Although I don’t understand why you took out the farmers defence episode?. I feel like that’s what created the bond between Din and Cara. Just felt like there was no reason for her to risk her life for someone that she shared a drink with. As for Boba Fett, you ever thought of adding a time stamp or something for the time in between Return of the Jedi and rebuilding his life?
A short “X Years ago” at least for the sarlacc escpape would be cool.
For me, this would take me out of it. I get the idea but I think he does it well as is
Is Ahsoka pointless without Rebels? Because my wife and I really don’t want to sit through it, and I can’t find anyone who has condensed it significantly via edit. I mean I see edits, but I want to get the highlights in like 1 or 2 movies. Just whatever is relevant to Ahsoka
Really looking forward to this. I think too many edits that want to turn shows into a movie, end up making some 3 or 4 hour thing. 2 and 1/2 sound perfect.
I mostly fall into the GL camp. Where I digress from him is how hard he pushed making the Prequels digitally, when that was at an era in filmmaking when they still could have been made to look like classic films. It’s a shame we didn’t get one last hurrah for practical filmmaking. I can’t deny he was ahead of his time, though.
Here’s things from your list I agree with and some ideas of my own I would also love to see:
Theatrical cuts of the OT made available.
Ever evolving special editions for the OT and PT. Just keep growing the movies and updating them.
A new season (or single movie) of Clone Wars in live action with de-aged Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Samuel Jackson and Natalie Portman. Along with Ariana Greenblatt as Ahsoka. Does not have to overlap or contradict other stories, just set it before the finale sequence of the last two seasons. I think it should show us what Thrawn was doing during the Clone Wars, and tie in Ahsoka characters like Baylen.
Luke Skywalker post-Jedi series. Rebuilding the order, or at least showing the start of it. Tie it into Thrawn why not. Do an adaptation of Heir but with wiggle room to account for a broader canvas of stories outside of that. Also for this, I would prefer a NEW ACTOR, not AI Mark Hamill. We love the character. Yes we love Mark too and what he did to create it, but in the end it is the character we love. Put a new actor in who can continue that growth.
Give us proper continuations of Boba Fett, Obiwan, and Solo. These are all beloved characters that were not done justice. But on the other hand, all three of these stories were not outright terrible (well some people would say they were but I dont think so), however they did not live up to their characters. Give us one sequel per each of these just to put a bow on these characters. 1 movie or tv season each. Obi vs Maul, Boba growing his empire, Han Solo getting into debt with Jabba (can tie in young Boba, Lando, Kira and Maul, in fact Han doesnt even necessarily need to be the main character).
I don’t have much of an opinion on eras beyond, because I think the storytelling potential of focusing in a close time period is so much greater than spreading thin to multiple disconnected eras. I did love both Kotor games back in the day, but a problem I have is, it’s supposed to be set 4000 years before, yet it doesn’t feel like it. If you told me it was 1000 years, I might believe that easier. But the lack of change over so long I think is unreasonable, and honestly dissapointing. In terms of design, I think High Republic actually did great in terms of style and palettes. I buy the idea that its the 100 years before the PT. But Old Republic being 4000 years? No way, not even a chance. In my personal head canon, it is only 1000 years before. And I think that is the danger in jumping so freely in the timeline outside of what is developed already.
I’ve tried to repitch Hayden’s voice before with the ElevenLabs tool that takes existing speech dialogue and basically applies a filter over it. In this case, the filter was a chunk of his dialogue from the beginning of AoTC. It worked great - except when there were lightsaber noises in the flashback scene. As far as I’m aware, it isn’t possible to separate those noises from the speech in the audio track. So in order for this to be possible, his dialogue would have to be generated completely from scratch and all of the scene’s audio tracks entirely remade (would take a ton of time and effort).
Makes sense. Well, I think if there are even 1 or 2 lines that could be changed, it would make that transition a little smoother.
Excited to see this. Definitely agree on utilizing the flashback. I haven’t GregKnight06’s version but it definitely needs some good de-aging, and if possible, I think Hayden’s voice needs just little pitch up to match the rest of AotC.
any news ?
Hey! Not too much. I was sidetracked by some life events, my work situation got a bit crazy by the end of April. I did a much cleaner version of that ending I posted above. As well, I did more work on the start of the edit. But I got a bit stuck in the intro sequence.
I cut a really good first scene or so out of Andor’s jungle flashbacks, so good I really want to use it. But I got stuck because cutting all of those scenes together revealed an issue with the Maarva character that I outlined in my last post.
Basically she never really seems justified in taking Cassian from his home. Clem was right when he told her to leave him. Now one of our protagonist characters doing something morally ambiguous is fine. But the problem is, the show doesn’t do anything with it.
If the show addressed that in a later scene, of Maarva being confronted on some level about what she did, it would be easier. But the show never does that. Her only justification is she is afraid of the incoming Republic. So she actively knocks him out by force and takes him. But if she had time to walk and carry him back, why would he not have time to just run back himself?
If I had magic reshoot powers, I would make it where the Republic DOES show up and start blasting, and Andor gets knocked out in the battle, explosion or something, and THEN Maarva finds him and actually saves his life.
As it stands, compared to when you watch the show, when you watch those jungle scenes full on chronological back to back, it does not paint her in a good light, and the show never does anything to address that afterwards.
I would love to get back to this very soon. I will for now just skip that sequence until I can find a better solution, and move onto cutting the meat of the film.
Edit: Well this got me to pop the project back open. Those flashbacks to his childhood take up about 11 minutes. I think honestly, I am going to cut it as soon as the crash survivor stands up and shoots the tribal girl. I can cut to that point and remove some other filler, make that whole sequence about 3 minutes which is much more manageable for an intro.
Then later on, in some scene where Maarva and Cassian discuss his past on some level, I can cut in shots of her carrying him off through the jungle. So the implication being that there was some extended conflict in the jungle after the officer got up, and Cassian was injured, and Maarva found him and carried him off.
That gets rid of the problematic scene inside the ship. The biggest loss imo, is that it cuts Clem out of the sequence, and I like his character in that part. But removing it solves the issues with that sequence and improves the pacing of the intro by quite a lot.
I will only be watching the full conclusion film version that wraps everything up in one 2:30h movie.
Yes I am definitely wanting to see a one film version. Can’t wait to see your work
So this is going to be two movies?
Actually, in the early scripts, the whole show was about Boba instead of Din’s role. They couldn’t work it out with timing for Temuera and also wanted a blank slate rather than having to deal with the complexity of Boba’s character. There were even plans for Boba and Luke to interact, but they cut it to tell a “smaller” story instead. I agree that if done right, I would’ve loved to see Boba instead as the main protagonist!
Wow. I had no idea. I mean, I suspected the show was born out of that scrapped Boba Fett movie, but I wasn’t sure how far they developed that concept. I think that would have been great, to see the meatiest parts of BoBF and Mandalorian, focused in on that one character. Anyway, I REALLY hope they don’t just trash the BOba character based on the reception of that one season.
But, it is what it is. I guess your edit here will be the closest I get to scratching that itch, at least until we can make full on AI fan edits.
Though contrary to this, I did have an idea a long time ago, sort of akin to an SC38 kind of thing, to add in scenes in Return of the Jedi where Boba Fett gets out of the sarlacc and flies to Endor to have a showdown with Han Solo, just to beef up the forest stuff. Obviously that doesnt work at all with the current canon. But I think that would have made RotJ even better ,as the forest stuff is the weakest when you’re cutting back to the spacefight and Luke/Vader.
I think a good compromise now instead would be to film a scene during the sarlacc fight, to make Han and Boba actually have a fight, instead of just that silly moment of accidentally killing him. Just a 30 second thing to make boba more formidable and to give Han a good fight scene, and the fight ends with Han getting the upper hand and damaging Boba’s jetpack, cut to the shot of him flying off.
But that has nothing to do with anything in this topic xD
The chips have become such an important part of animated canon. We have the arc in Clone Wars season 6 and it continues into Bad Batch.
I definitely see your point, but I do agree with the other user. I think the chip was inserted because Filoni was creating all of these sympathetic clone characters, and to him it didn’t make sense for them to know about Order 66 but still be sympathetic. But to me, it was kind of a cop out, and made O66 less powerful.
I think a better option would be that it was only known to the very top brass of clones, and even then it wasn’t considered something that was /going/ to happen, but rather a contingency plan, “just in case” kind of thing is how they would justify it to themselves. And you could say that there were other orders for similar contingencies against the Senate. And you could still have the plot of Fives discovering it and questioning everything, and being killed for it.
But thats just my fan fiction I wish had happened. I think the chip removes character agency so no I don’t like it at all.
Definitely think it would be best to cut it into one movie. 2 and 1/2 at most. The story does not support more than that
I could definitely make them all feel like movies, but I think that would bring the series down to ~4 movies instead, and to me, it always feels bad when TV shows are cut down way too much into movies because the character development is so slow in TV shows, I never feel like I’ve connected as I do in movies that are designed to function around that timeframe.
Now personally, I would love this, but I know that would be other project from what you’re already committed to. So idk, maybe if you get that itch I have, I’d love to see it. But really I’m happy with what you have.
I guess I think about it in context of the pacing of the entire SW series, which is why I really enjoy movie cuts for these shows in particular.
Awesome! I love this idea. I will double check the delivery of the line and its tone to make sure it works in my edit, but I’m all for it on paper. Makes a lot of sense thematically. Thanks for the suggestion. As I go through all of the Special Edition edits, I’ll be referring back to your reviews of each movie too, so thanks again for writing those.
I did just watch the scene again, and there isn’t a TON of room after his “I was.” line. So it would be a tight cut. That being said, I’m pretty sure your cut from him saying “I am Boba Fett” was already pretty tight because it cuts right away to Fennec. So, I think it will be possible but you’ll have to look and decide. But thanks for considering it.
That’s interesting how you view Book 2. I will be honest, I think the big factor and reason why for me, is that I actually really liked BoBF, especially the flashback sequences. I love the Boba character in general. In fact, years ago now when “The Mandalorian” was coming out, I was literally asking “Why couldn’t this have just been Boba Fett?” Like literally Boba Fett finding the child etc lmao. Which in a way I think COULD have worked. That could have been Boba’s redemption story, since the child is an orphan just like him.
But thats just my fan fiction.
And yes I’m the most excited for Book 6 because it will be having not even watched Season 3, so I will be a good guinea pig for you to try that out on