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smudger9 said:

So, after watching the finale, this is definitely a one movie series. There just isn’t enough meat for 2 films. The finale itself was a very action heavy 40mins, a lot of which can be heavily trimmed or cut like the TIE fighter attack.

The whole Peridea sequence could probably be shortened to an hour, which would fit nicely into a third act. That leaves an hour or so for the middle act on Seatos.

So for the through-line story I feel the focus of the movie, in order, should be.

1. Thrawn’s return.
2. Ahsoka and Sabine’s relationship.
3. Ahsoka’s rebirth.
4. Baylan’s quest.

And as has become a theme with these edits, the New Republic scenes (and thus Hera), add little to the overall plot and will be largely cut.

I’ll hopefully have a first cut completed by the end of the week.

I am looking forward to your cut Smudger. I’ll stick (for now) with 2-part Ahsoka movie, and after this finale I drew the names of both titles from Zahn’s EU books.

THE NEW REPUBLIC, Ep. V. - Dark Force Rising (formerly known as Shroud of Darkness)
THE NEW REPUBLIC, Ep. VI. - Specter of the Past (formerly known as Threat from Beyond)

smudger9 said:

GLogus said:

When you think about it, not a lot has happened over the course of 7 episodes. It’s basically just “Star Wars: The Return of Thrawn”. Seeing Hayden as Anakin again was nice more satisfying than in Kenobi), and I really like the the actor who plays Ezra, but over all, the show has not covered a lot of ground.

Totally agree. Plot wise it fits a 3 act movie perfectly.
Act 1: Character introduction & getting the map to Seatos.
Act 2: Confrontation on Seatos & Journey to Peridea.
Act 3: Thrawn reveal & Finale

However, it’s been edited and structured in a way that makes it difficult to cut the fat.
Much work to do! Hopefully all will become clearer after the finale.

I agree with the 3-arc plot. Even if some scenes are nice (Anakin’s hologram, C3PO’s visit to the senate, etc.), they don’t fundamentally move the plot forward. After the release of the last part, I will do my 2-part edit, but in retrospect I will also try to edit the version into one movie. I will of course look forward to your version as well. As you say, everything will be clearer after the release of the finale episode and confirmation if the Ahsoka story will continue in the 2nd season or Filoni’s feature film.

Smudger9, since it’s clear to me that episodes 6-8 won’t have enough material for 2 and a half hour movie, you could use the Mandalorian s02e05 footage you cut from your second Mando movie “Search for The Jedi” at the beginning of the second Ahsoka movie.
The confrontation between Ahsoka and Morgan could serve as flashback that Morgan would think about during the travel to Peridea, which would reveal how Ahsoka arrested Morgan and thus stretch the footage a bit.
We saw something similar in the Halloween Kills, where at the beginning of the film, thanks to a flashback, we found out how the police arrested Micheal Myers.

Hello There.
I’m making my own cut of Filoni and Favreau Mando-verse TV Shows into movie length and I need some logo that all movies will fall under - so I thing that THE NEWPUBLIC will be perfect because it’s in this era. Unfortunately I have absolutely no experience in art, VFX or design software. Would anyone be interested in designing some simple star wars logo which will be memorable? All I want is to be in Star Wars font, have words Star Wars and THE NEW REPUBLIC and be in png format. Thanks

smudger9 said:

This is going to be a really tough edit isn’t it! As many have said, the footage is there to make an amazing movie, but Filoni always makes it difficult to cut elements because one scene always leads to the next!

I’m not too keen on the idea of opening with episode 3. The presence of a crawl does give a lot of freedom regarding where you start the story because it’s free exposition. However, there will be way too much for the crawl to achieve in order to explain the state of the galaxy, the map, Thrawn and the Sabine/Ahsoka relationship. I think there are elements of episodes 1 and 2 that we need to see.

I think this edit is going to have to be done “back-to-front”, which is what I used to do with my Clone Wars edits. Figure out where you’re going and then figure out how you got there. So what I’ll probably do is edit together 7 and 8 as the final act and see what threads need a start point.

In terms of act 1, one idea I’m floating is to have Ahsoka already in possession of the map, which will be explained in the opening crawl. I’ll still open with Baylan and Shin rescuing Morgan, but then cut to Ahsoka arriving on Lothal. Then I can reinstate the scene where Morgan sends Shin to Lothal. That should all bring in act 1 at 45mins and streamlines things.
We open on the Republic cruiser and the story then moves to Lothal before heading to Seatos.

The real battle I’m having with this edit is episodes 3, 4 and 5. It’s so difficult to get those episodes edited down. Has anyone got suggestions of how to remove Ashoka’s stupid space walk? It would be easy if she hadn’t changed her damn outfit! Grrrr

Thanks for all the input. I’ve sent the link to those that have requested it.

Can I ask you where did you send the link? Because I don’t see it in Private Topics. Thanks

Can you please send me a link to your first Ahsoka cut? May the Force be with you.

smudger9 said:

szopman said:

So, I could watch only the first ~40min.
Unfortunately I probably won’t be able to watch the rest until the weekend.

Nevertheless, I wanted to share some insights:
-above all, I love how you edited the fight between Sabine and Shin. Now its way better, Sabine still got injured but she doesn’t get impaled with the lightsaber. Once again you proved what a skillfull and creative editor you are! 😉 Great job!
-overall, I’m happy with all the unnecessary stuff you cut. Tho I still believe that almost everything from those two eps could be cut 😄

I also wanted to comment the opening crawl and the title.
-I think that the white “Ahsoka” logo doesn’t compose well with the rest of the crawl. Maybe it would be possible to make it yellow, as the rest of the crawl? Alternatively, you could just name Star Wars: Heir to the Empire.
-btw, talking about the title, I don’t mind it, but it’s very probable that Dave Filoni’s movie will end up being titled “Heir to the Empire”. So maybe it’d be good to find some alternative title.
-Also, since you will probably end up with only one movie for “Ahsoka”, and considering the fact that this is a limited series, with no plans for s02 (for now at least), maybe it would make more sense to skip “Episode I” part for now? Again, it could be just “Star Wars - Ahsoka - HTTE” or “Star Wars - HTTE”.

Tbh I think the original “Ahsoka” crawl wasn’t bad, maybe you’d reconsider using it? Or just to modify it/create a similar one instead of the classic SW yellow one?

And regarding your previous answer to my post, I think that you are right that story-wise those episodes make a good first act (especially if you aim to create a coherent, 3-act movie).
Tho entertainment-wise, those episodes would be out xD

I guess 2nd and 3rd acts will be more tricky, as the episodes 4 and 5, although far from perfect, have a lot of cool content that are the kind of entertainment that the SW fans love. I’m wondering if it’s even possible to reduce them to less than 50-55min (the robots fight, Baylan vs Ahsoka, Baylan/Sabine, Anakin stuff, Ahsoka the white reborn, the whole space whales stuff).

I’m very curious to see how it all will end up (both the show and your movie edit) 😉

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely agree with your points about the logo, title etc. The current Ahsoka logo, title and crawl are placeholders.

I’m going to bring the Ahsoka movie together with my Mando and BOBF edits under one banner which will likely be “The New Republic”. Ahsoka is likely to slot in before Mando season 3 as episode 4. The logo will be something along these lines

The tile is also a placeholder… I’m currently favouring “A Threat from Beyond”.

The crawl itself is based on the crawl from the series but modified to fit better with the 3 paragraphs of (ideally) 6 lines we see in the classic crawls. The final crawl won’t be done until the series is complete because the emphasis of the crawl may need to change. It is also likely to be red in colour to match the logo.

I was thinking about the same title (TNR) because I originally planned to make two new sequel trilogies from Mando season 1 and 2, TBOBF, Ahsoka series and a Dave Filoni directed Mando-verse movie. But there is so much great material that it would be a shame to throw most of it away. So, I was thinking about one title for this series that connects everything. Well, finally when I bought the comics version of the Thrawn trilogy, it was labeled as The New Republic collection Volume 4. Well, that’s when I knew I had a title for this series because they take place in this era.

Hello there.
After the fifth episode came out, I made my own Ahsoka 1st-part movie cut. Originally, I planned to do what I did with The Mandalorian, where I would cut one season into a one movie, but the structure of Ahsoka doesn’t work very well, because none of the episodes are exactly filler or skippable. So I decided to make a 2-parter movie, where each one would be edited from four episodes (1-4 and 5-8), but unfortunately the end of episode 4 is terribly open and episode 5 is so beautifully closed that in the end, I decided that the first movie will consist of five episodes and the second movie from the remaining three (I still don’t know how long the rest of episodes will be long, so I’m afraid the 2nd-movie will have runtime around 2 hours.)

So, I edited the first movie into a 2h 41min runtime without credits. I could put a link to my edit, but I edited it mainly for my wife and daughter, so it is with Czech dubbing and thus unwatchable for english speakers.

Changes compared to the original:

• I sped up the shot of Ahsoka falling into the catacombs

• I trimmed down the part with Ahsoka’s puzzle to find the map

• I cut out Sabine’s intro, so we first see her playing the hologram from Ezra

• I trimmed down the Sabine vs Shin duel, because I feel like she shouldn’t last that long against an experienced Dark Jedi

• I cut part of Sabina’s helmet training

• I cut scenes when Marrok speaks (I feel it just doesn’t fit his character)

• I cut the part where Shin tells Morgan that she and Marrok are taking over the disposal of Ahsoka and Sabine (I think Shin should have more respect for Morgan)

• I cut the whole scene from Clone Wars flashback where Ahsoka tells Anakin that Clone Troopers are dying because of her

• I cut the scene of Carson Teva stalling back the New Republic captain

• I sped up some Ahsoka moves (mainly kicks and added kick sound effects)

• but the biggest changes were in trimming stretched out scenes or long akward pauses between dialogues

If anyone is interested despite the Czech dubbing, I can send a link to my edit.

Smudger9, can I ask you for a link to your cut of Ahsoka so I can compare it with mine and see if there is anything I could improve? Thanks

Hello smudger9, I am curently cuting together New sequel trilogy which will consist of the Favreau-Filoni TV show (Mando, TBOBF and Ahsoka). I’d like to make Episode VII - A New Dawn, which will be a mix of season 1 and season 2 of The Mandalorian but I’m stuck with in dle middle of my edit. I’d like to know if there’s a chance to see your legendary edits (and take inspirations from your). If it’s not a problem, would you send me links for them? Thank you.