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Revisiting this thread has shown me what I’m making for dinner tomorrow!
It’s really just the color correction of the movies, I don’t think it was a conscious choice to make them different, like in something like an animation.
To be fair… enthusiasm for Star Wars was at an all-time low
Lower than from 2006-2012?
IMO, they needed an Episode 10. Frankly I’m unsure how to change TRoS to make it better without changing TFA and TLJ, but I can easily tell you how I’d do a two-movie follow-up to them.
The trilogy format is something that was entirely coincidental for the original movies, and a consequence of another entirely coincidental factor for the prequels. There’s no reason the sequels should have been beholden to it. A sequel quadrilogy (or two sequel duologies?) would have been better.
Phantom Menace is the best prequel. It’s the closest to an actual movie.
This.
And ROTS is the absolute worst of the prequels.
TPM is the prequel movie that they put any effort into. I have a lot of respect for it because of that.
It’s the least offensively awful of the prequels, but it’s still a prequel.
It’s unfortunately BS
New scene from Anakin looking at the sunset.
A younger Count Dooku in TPM.
Is this … the ultimate version of the prequels?Another dreaded “Special Edition” lol Gotta include some random creatures walking past the screen and blocking out everything
Make sure you edit the Trade Federation doors to be three times larger on the outside than they are on the inside as well then.
Replace Palpatine’s “I am the Senate” with “I personally see myself as the embodiment of the authority of the Senate.”
“I don’t think he exists anymore. He died about the same time as your father.”
However, I am looking for ways to remedy this problem. I’m curious about buying 4K downloads of the prequels (or 1080p, at least)
I recommend you use Schormann’s preservation of TPM as a base for your edit. It’s in 1080p, it’s equivalent to the DVDs changes-wise, and looks way better than either the 2011 HD Blu Ray or the 2020 4K Blu Ray.
Where you will launch these edits ?
Theaters near you!
I personally felt like Rey was very much tempted by darkness during TLJ.
Less than relevant anecdote but I saw TLJ twice in movie theaters and the second time I remember it feeling kinda jarring seeing Rey be all good and innocent at the beginning of the movie, after having her at best push at her boundaries over the course of the movie.
Any thoughts on an edit of the sequel trilogy that finishes off the story with The Force Awakens/the battle of Stakiller base? I figure Snoke would likely need to be removed and Kylo could be implied to die when Rey slashes him in their fight. I’m still considering how to wrap up the Luke cliffhanger in a satisfying way. Maybe it could a short training montage and then credits after Rey slashes that rock in half.
Kill off Luke? Instead of having him go missing and the First Order rises in his absence, he dies and the First Order rises in his absense.
I don’t know how well it would work but that’s the only solution to the Luke cliffhanger I can think of.
I usually just write down the ones and zeroes onto clay tablets and bury them in an undisclosed location
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I’m betting on the day after I eventually delete my master ProRes file, meaning I’d have to potentially do a lot more work to get back up and running.
Delete it tonight
I just want to ignore Ashsoka’s existence and the resurrection of Maul, because both feel incongruous with the films. But the Filoni-verse keeps over spilling. I don’t want to see Maul in the Kenobi show for crap’s sake!
God, ain’t that the truth. It’s looking more and more like Ahsoka and Rex are the two most important characters to ever exist in fiction. His OCs are god damn everywhere!
Nobody puts one past detective Handman
I have the Despecialized Editions and 4k77 downloaded to my computer and I just watch it on there. Sometimes stream it to Plex. I never bothered burning them onto discs.
I also have some Special Edition VHS’s, and the 2011 Blu Rays, but I don’t watch those very often. Pretty much the only times I ever interact with them are solely to skim through and check something.
What a time to be alive when this is even a question on the original home of Harmy and Team Negative 1
Welp, that totally puts that whole train of speculation to bed.
To be fair, I suppose we do have to acknowledge that Vader-as-father only came in an early ESB script, and Leia-as-sister only existed as an idea for ROTJ, so Star Wars does kind of have this ‘laying the tracks before the train’ approach.
But still, I don’t think that justifies this lack of oversight and planning for what should have been a cohesive trilogy from the start.
EU media will gradually embed Palpatine-as-grandfather in the canon more solidly, but personally I’ll always prefer Rey Nobody, especially knowing how little it mattered to the production team.
All valid points. I very much get where they got the impulse to freewheel it- not wanting to tie themselves down and wanting to recapture some of the ‘free’ atmosphere of the original trilogy, which, like you said, was equally freewheeled original trilogy. It was definitely a mistake.
Major difference was that it was all Lucas freewheelin’ it back in 1980, so there was at least one cohesive goal…whereas it was 3 different directors and writers all mostly ignoring each other for the sequels.
Not really true, Lucas famously hated a lot of the things Irvin Kershner was doing in Empire Strikes Back. And it was often others coming up with those big ideas and changes, most prominently Kasden and Kershner in Empire.
The other influences may be present, sure, but Lucas was still at the helm with his vision guiding things overall.
Not really. While Lucas was distracted with working on Indiana Jones with Spielberg, Irvin Kershner shot Empire in such a way that when George Lucas came back to edit it, he pretty much had no choice but to follow Irvin’s ideas. Very few takes were shot, and among the ones that were shot, there wasn’t a whole lot of variety. While George Lucas wrote the broad strokes of the story, the final product become much more of an Irvin Kershner movie than a George Lucas movie.
Like JakeRyan said, Lucas’s complete lack of control over Empire was a huge influence on RotJ. He took a lot more control over RotJ and hired a much weaker director (Richard Marquand) who wouldn’t pull the kind of stuff Irvin Kershner pulled. This is why I think RotJ feels a lot more Lucas-y than the other two movies. I think this is also why Empire is George Lucas’s least favorite Star Wars movie.
I don’t mean to downplay George Lucas’s contribution to the OT. This isn’t an early 2010s conspiracy theory about how XYZ rando was the REAL creator of Star Wars. But we shouldn’t swing too hard the other direction either. Even ignoring his rocky relationship to Empire, the idea that he was a sole visionary force behind the Original Trilogy is wrong. Most movies are group projects, and hell, Star Wars is the example I usually go to for this, where so many people were putting their ideas for Star Wars, sometimes directly against George Lucas’s wishes, that are now some of the most important aspects of Star Wars. Which is why when the prequels rolled around and George Lucas was in complete control, and all these other creatives were either dead or had had a falling out with Lucas, to most people the movies felt like they were missing something integral to Star Wars.
Okay but what would any of this achieve? Leave it as Han’ backstory and move on.
It would be a radical change, isn’t that what this thread is?
But radical changes for the sake of radical changes are kinda dumb. I don’t see any apparent benefit to having Solo not actually be about Han, it would just be a bunch of work for absolutely nothing.
Don’t show them the early posts on the prequel radical redux thread lol
Man, what schools did you guys go to where you only had one teacher for 12 years?
That’s pretty reasonable for a master/apprentice relationship. Not to mention, the prequels making the Jedi start their training as toddlers is kinda ridiculous, training for 12 years is definitely not what they had in mind during the OT.
Besides, the prequels making the Jedi more of a bureaucracy than a creed muddies this a lot. In the OT, what it means to be an apprentice taught by a Jedi master is very different to how it’s depicted in the PT.
All these issues are probably well beyond the scope of a fanedit, but still. This is definitely a contradiction between the OT and PT.
Leia being Luke’s brother at all, snip.
I mostly agree, except for this being the motive for Luke breaking and attacking Vader to the point of almost losing himself. If there was a way to change Vaders dialogue in that scene then it would all work. Something else that Vader could say or use against Luke to provoke him. Maybe a threat towards his friends, lamenting their soon to be demise, or capture and torture then death. Something. Any good Vader impersonators on here?
I tried this in an old edit in like, 2016. I had my friend voice Vader saying something about how his friends were probably all going to die horrible deaths if he continued to hide, inaction would basically guarantee it. Would he allow his friends to die like that? (Never!)
I don’t know. Looking back I’m not sure if it works, because Luke’s being more rational in that version instead of instinctively going apeshit and cutting Vader’s hand off, kind of ruining the next moment where he notices himself becoming more like Vader because of that. My friend’s VO was unconvincing, anyway, so I never ended up using it.
I like the idea of Yoda not being in the prequels at all personally. Then when you meet him in the OT, he’s a jedi yea, but of a long begotten age. More pure.
Absolutely agree. And this one’s honestly pretty plausible to pull off. Yoda doesn’t have that much of an effect on the plot.
Man, what schools did you guys go to where you only had one teacher for 12 years?
That’s pretty reasonable for a master/apprentice relationship. Not to mention, the prequels making the Jedi start their training as toddlers is kinda ridiculous, training for 12 years is definitely not what they had in mind during the OT.
Besides, the prequels making the Jedi more of a bureaucracy than a creed muddies this a lot. In the OT, what it means to be an apprentice taught by a Jedi master is very different to how it’s depicted in the PT.
All these issues are probably well beyond the scope of a fanedit, but still. This is definitely a contradiction between the OT and PT.
Leia being Luke’s brother at all, snip.
I mostly agree, except for this being the motive for Luke breaking and attacking Vader to the point of almost losing himself. If there was a way to change Vaders dialogue in that scene then it would all work. Something else that Vader could say or use against Luke to provoke him. Maybe a threat towards his friends, lamenting their soon to be demise, or capture and torture then death. Something. Any good Vader impersonators on here?
I tried this in an old edit in like, 2016. I had my friend voice Vader saying something about how his friends were probably all going to die horrible deaths if he continued to hide, inaction would basically guarantee it. Would he allow his friends to die like that? (Never!)
I don’t know. Looking back I’m not sure if it works, because Luke’s being more rational in that version instead of instinctively going apeshit and cutting Vader’s hand off, kind of ruining the next moment where he notices himself becoming more like Vader because of that. My friend’s VO was unconvincing, anyway, so I never ended up using it.
A lot of the compositing looks better than the compositing in the original movie. Very well done!
I think it would be easy to edit the crawl to say they’re just Jedi bros, and then edit out every time their master/apprentice relationship comes up in the rest of the trilogy.