SparkySywer

Oh my goodness

What’s the source of this? Because Hoth was originally the name of the planet Cloud City was on, in the first draft of the script.

Outside of Adywan’s ANH:R, which did specifically what you said you didn’t want to do, I don’t think a fanedit like that has already been made.

I personally don’t think you can remove a lot of the problem elements of TRoS without getting into radical territory. Which is fine, this is the radical redux thread, but a conservative HAL9000-type edit of TRoS that removes the stuff we don’t like is not something I think is possible.

I agree with RogueLeader, the only thing you really can do is try and set them up better in TLJ and TFA.

It would be a pain in the ass at times, but yes.

DuracellEnergizer said:

jimbo said:

The Phantom Edit is an abomination. While I wouldn’t mind editing a movie for personal use editing someone elses work and distributing it is stealing plain and simple.

lawl

It’s such a shame that some of the most influential posters of this site have been banned :\

RIP jimbo

And also some people in their single digits!

How’d you edit Yoda out of that scene? It looks great!

snooker said:

Why do people hate puppets so much

I think it’s because of the limitations of practical effects, and that people are willing to trade that in more and more for the limitlessness of CGI, even if that sacrifices the actors and sometimes the visual quality of the effect itself. The Yoda puppet has a lot of restrictions when it came to movement, something you wouldn’t get if you had a real life little alien walking around on set. This is what I think people mean when they say it’s obvious Yoda’s just a puppet. I mean, it’s not like that was a secret, so it has to be something deeper.

However, I think the fact that they added back in a lot of these limitations when doing the CGI for the prequels speaks to how important they are. Real life creatures may not have the same limitations as a puppet, but they don’t have the same freedom of movement that CGI has. The restrictions on the Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda puppet just make it all the more convincing that it’s a baby with limited motor function.

Inspired by this Just Write video, I kind of wanted to make a fanedit that just ends the story with TLJ. Almost everything is resolved by TLJ, so it kinda works. Even the First Order still roaming around is resolved: While the Resistance is decimated, the First Order didn’t exactly leave the movie unscathed or frankly even in a better position than it started in, and the Broom Boy scene kind of cements that the First Order is living on borrowed time. It leaves the plot lines loose enough to be reopened, but they’re still resolved. Kind of like the end of Breaking Bad Season 4 or the Original Star Wars movie: the plot could have ended there and it would’ve worked fine.

The only issue is that Rey and Kylo Ren’s relationship is unresolved. I originally thought to cut the final force-skype out of TLJ, implying the connection ended with the story being resolved. That would have worked, but I had this idea:

-The crawl says that despite the First Order technically winning in the Last Jedi, they’ve lost Snoke, their best ships, there’s disunity between Hux and Kylo Ren, etc, etc, and they’re in really bad shape. Plus, Luke Skywalker’s actions on Crait inspired the galaxy to join the Resistance. The First Order is losing, but Kylo Ren’s leadership is the one thing keeping them alive.

-Kylo Ren has a vision that he will meet a ghost in the wreckage of the Death Star that will change the galaxy. He thinks it’s either Palpatine or Vader, since they died there. He wants to seek it out. Rey may or may not have had this same vision, but she knows about it and wants to prevent Kylo from reaching it. Always in motion, the future is, and she can prevent it.

-Rey and Kylo Ren fight on the Death Star, Rey stabs him, and heals him. She leaves knowing that Vader never became a ghost, Anakin did, and his ghost left Endor long ago, and that Palpatine’s soul was destroyed with his body. Neither of them are here.

-Kylo Ren takes a moment to reflect on this, and finally meets the ghost: Han Solo. They talk, and Kylo Ren throws away his lightsaber.

-Kylo Ren was the last thing the First Order had left, and without him, they’re finally pushed to defeat.

There would probably be more stuff in there, but this is just the barebones of what the edit would make it about. There’s also a few things I’m not sure how I’d pull off, but I’d like to try.

Rey Romano

DuracellEnergizer said:

Goes to show how much of a lazy/cheap hack Lucas is. Luke screaming as he fell down the shaft could’ve worked if Lucas’ gotten Hamill in to record it, or someone with a relatively similar voice. But no, he reuses the Palpatine scream 'cause he couldn’t be bothered to put the extra ounce of effort into it.

Actually no, he’s a genius and this is secretly art. It’s symbolic of how Luke is Palpatine, which makes sense if you watch the Original Trilogy backwards, as it was always was meant to be.

Good point, although I believe this is solvable. Not sure how though, I’d need to sift through the Blu Ray and be more familiar with the movie if I were to say how.

This project’s essentially been dead for 2 years now but especially since Act on Instinct offered to do voice acting, I’ve been thinking about bringing it back.

As I’ve said before on this thread, though, the 3-in-1 movie isn’t something I think really worked. It ended up 4ish hours long, and I wasn’t satisfied with that. I thought NeverarGreat’s advice was good and I couldn’t really achieve that runtime.

I also felt unsatisfied that the movie would spend such a large time in Chapter 3 undoing what Chapter 2 did, which if you went and saw a movie that did that, you’d think it was sloppy writing. It works when Empire and Jedi are separate movies, but if it were one movie then it should have been written out in another draft. If I could somehow make it that Han died at the end of Chapter 2, maybe it could work?

However, the idea of there being only one Death Star was originally incidental to the edit, but it became my favorite aspect of it, so I thought about trying to make it work as like a 6-part miniseries. Six Episodes, two per movie. I ended up scrapping this too because I felt like the episode lengths were too all over the place, however after the longest Mandalorian Episode was 16 minutes longer than the shortest, it got me thinking that this could work.

Now, the difference between the longest and shortest episodes I had was over half an hour, but I could easily add more runtime to the shorter one and I’m sure I could cut 5 to 10 minutes out of the longer one, to get the difference down to 20ish minutes.

Anyway, the point of me saying all this was to gauge how people feel about this project. There was a little bit of interest in this back when I first posted this, would you guys still be interested in this without the 3-in-1 aspect or was the interest only in a 3-in-1 fanedit of the Original Trilogy?

Edit:

Another I could think of is editing it into two movies instead of one, which could work, but I’m not so sure of. I’d still want this fanedit to be of a more different format, though, because I’d rather not have it just be an alteration of each of the OT movies. I wouldn’t be able to justify the hard drive space to download that, in my opinion.

RogueLeader said:

RJ said he created Rose because he felt Finn and Poe had the same voice, but imagine the Rose and Finn conversation about war, but Poe took Finn’s place and Finn took Rose’s place. Poe likes being the hero and does whatever he can to win, but considering Finn is a literal child soldier, he knows all about the costs of war.

Cosmonaut has a lot of really good takes, but I never agreed with this.

Rose is not talking to Finn about how bad war is. She’s talking about how war against the First Order is good, justified and necessary, and that Canto Bight is awful for supporting the First Order, not for supporting war.

Finn wouldn’t have saved his friends by running into the cannon, wasn’t that the whole point?

I really love that idea, Outbound and Eddie.

krausfadr said:

Make two Emperor Palpatines in TROS because he cloned himself. Now they cackle together in full dolby surround sound.

Have a cool effect where they cackle out of sync and you get to hear the cackling move from side to side in the room.

Like other people have said, it’s a good idea. My first foray into editing was combining HAL9000 and L8wrtr’s edits of the prequels, and adding my own stuff.

OutboundFlight said:

Instead of Palpatine, Darth Jar Jar is the main antagonist of Episode 9, having revealed to be the evil mastermind all along.

Fuck it I’m in

Well if it was in Episode 9, then it would appear in the saga itself.

I agree, and I always felt like there’d be more tie-ins between the sequels and the spinoff movies. Reminds me of people thinking TLJ would feature Vader’s Castle on Mustafar after Rogue One.

It’s not poetry or plagiarism, it’s one of the most common tropes in fantasy.

OutboundFlight said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

OutboundFlight said:

OriginalTrilogy is a bunch of prequel haters who are so obsessed with hating them, they have to validate the DT to stick it to them while crying that their sons and daughters managed to find out about the existence of the prequels despite their efforts to hide them and having showed them Fanedit #28286 that retcons the existence of the PT, and worse of all, they liked the prequels, so they can only now hope they can brainwash their future grandchildren and that ROTJ Revisited can ramp up the foreshadowing for the DT, and ANH Revisited HD starts making deep retcons to erase the prequels from their headcanon yet again because “waaah they raped my childhood 20 years ago so bad i can’t even see a pixel of them ever again lest I get TRIGGERED”

They are the OK BOOMERS of Star Wars.

His comment section is hilarious.

Funny, but not “ha ha” funny.

More nervous chuckling.

I feel like I lose brain cells every time I even hear about these people, let alone interact with them.

marsthgodofwar said:

but there is a certain wholeness of what is now the original 6 that is absent in the sequels, apart from Last Jedi.

I think you only think there’s a wholeness between the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequels because you grew up with the prequels just being part of Star Wars, they always were. Am I right in assuming that?

I did too, in fact I actually didn’t even know about episodes four through six until I was older, fun fact, but rewatching them as an adult I don’t feel like they fit together at all, there’s no wholeness and now as an adult, I have a really hard time convincing myself they’re in the same universe. I often think of there being two entirely different Star Wars franchises: The universe of the prequels and the universe of the OT (which also makes it super weird to me when they overlap but that’s not important). At least with the sequels, I can easily see them as part of the same universe, with the same characters.

I don’t feel like that contributed a whole lot to the thread and it’s just me being a dick but IMO that’s not something I agree needs to be done.