13las said:
I want to thank you all for your continued support and excitement. I promise that I am still working on this project! Wish that I had something new to share to show my progress, but I don’t. Life always seems to find a way to get in the way, but I hope to have some free time in the next couple of months to get much closer to the finish line on this daunting project.
In case you’re wondering, the script that I’ve written for this project is currently sitting at a, frankly, insane total of 331 pages long. I think that would be something like 8 hours all told, give or take. And, yes, I do plan to release it all in a single marathon-length video.
The video will be roughly half voice-over narration, used over the changes themselves and to explain history and context.
The other half is going to be me on-camera, primarily to show off some physical items. I actually have a pretty sizable collection of SW home video releases and ephemera (from Super 8 to 4K and everything in between). And I think that will help to tell this story in a really definitive and visually interesting way.
Like I said, the prep and writing is essentially done — and that includes collecting B-roll and assembling all of the changes themselves in my Premiere timeline. It’s just a matter of recording/filming and then editing it altogether. Hopefully I’ll have something cool to show off relatively soon!
Thanks so much for the update! Totally understandable that it’s taking time — no stress at all. Really appreciate the work you’re putting into this, and I’m looking forward to it whenever it’s ready 😊
I was rewatching the 1997 mix of Empire and spotted a small detail I hadn’t seen mentioned yet: right after C-3PO says “Excuse us, please,” the “Headquarters personnel, report to command center” line plays again. Pretty sure that wasn’t in the earlier (pre-’97) mixes — at least I don’t remember hearing it. Not sure if it’s still in the later versions either.
It’s a really minor thing, but thought I’d flag it in case it’s helpful for documentation.
Here’s a clip for reference:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DexxxkrKIl0oqXHYYGti3L02R_yTnJ-n
Edit: Just noticed something else kind of interesting — Boba Fett’s line “He’s no good to me dead” has a distinct distorted filter in all of the original mixes (35mm stereo, 70mm 6-track, Mono), but in the 1993 mix there’s no effect on it at all. In the 1997 mix, there is an effect again, but it’s much more subtle compared to the original versions. The 1980 70mm recreation doesn’t have the effect either, but the actual 70mm track as heard in 4K80 does include it.
There’s actually another scene in the 1997 mix where his voice was processed differently — this video shows a comparison of that change really well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYANLwLB-bQ
