Vladius

Cool idea, to be sure.
The only issue I have is where does Maul go if he beats Qui-Gon?

I'm not sure you actually like Star Wars.

Bingowings said:

Extremely tangentially connected (what with the originator of this project's screen name) but I notice there are currently 666 topics on this board.

End of off topic interruption.

 I'm  glad someone else noticed...

Bingowings said:

Could help but notice that the blue and black colour scheme of the plane made it look rather like a Naboo starfighter.

 lol

Can we take a look at what this guy has to offer instead of criticizing him and being rude? This community is overly insular as it is.

Could someone PM me a link?

Art from adversity.

On an unrelated note, Dane Ditor is a cool Star Wars name.

You remembered! It was fantastic.

Regarding Luke and Han being friends, is there any way to use footage from the Yavin hangar and turn it into the Hoth hangar?

I know this is really difficult. :(

I suppose this is as good a place as any -

As of later today, I'm a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As such, I'll be gone for two years. (Going to Idaho!)

I expect progress when I get back, guys! Thanks for hours of entertainment in watching edits, speculating, and thinking about one of the best film franchises of all time. You've given hope to those who have none! The choize is yours alone! (this is a Shmi reference for those who don't get it)

Goodbye for now,
Vladius

lol, I use emoticons for the same purpose.

When people think of iconic Star Wars, they think of all three movies. Force ghosts, ewoks (not actually referred to as such within the movie,) the Emperor and his guards, the rancor, Jabba, speeder bikes, the sarlacc, A-Wings, Admiral Ackbar - all classic designs. I think the influence of Lucas is a little bit apparent, but overall it's still one of my favorite movies and the rest of the cast and crew pulled it out of the fire. Even people who hate ROTJ still usually love all of the things taking place in space with the battle and the confrontation between Luke, Vader, and the Emperor. When I watched it as a kid, it was my favorite because it had all the cool aesthetics, music, limb-severing and stuff from the other films, and it was funny in a way I could understand. As kitschy as it was, "bad" humor with puppets is better than any humor with Prequel CGI.

I think it's an Act I, Act II, Act III kind of thing. Of course Empire is the darkest, which is why you need a return (heh) to the adventure and fun. It's the same reason the Dark Knight Rises and The Last Crusade are great movies that wrap things up tonally, and sometimes edge out as my favorites of their respective threes.

Nope, I don't agree at all. I love Return of the Jedi, including for a lot of those reasons. It's as much of a classic as the other two.

If it's at the very beginning, it establishes Obi-Wan's character and the clone army.

Maybe it could even be "the border dispute on Ansion" he's returning from. :V

Great idea. I think the key to unlocking the prequels' potential is to present the events in a more exciting order. Imagine how crazy it would be to have Padme established as a character for half the movie, then to blow her ship up.

The idea is to make functional, good movies out of existing material. If you can make a functional, good movie with Kamino then great - if it's something that can be cut, chances are, someone will do it. I personally like to use all three movies in the same stew so that I don't run into them being really short or excessively long.

I loved all of your ideas. I wasn't laughing at you, I was pointing out the preference most people have for avoiding the balcony scene.

Um, there's literally a line in the scene where she tells him, where he says "this is the happiest moment of my life."

...Or we could just pretend he and Obi-Wan are back from a more lighthearted mission and have the scene there. Shows more of the Clone Wars, makes more sense, avoids the balcony scene.

It's very stylized and not really supposed to be taken seriously, even less seriously than the prequels I'm sure. I love it for what it is, but it's not really supposed to cover the same ground as the CG show. It's intentionally Genndy Tartakovsky having Samurai Jack-style fun with explosions and swords.

That said I did try to include the cartoon kidnapping of Palpatine in my own edit, but all the people around me went "BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT STYLE" and I couldn't quite get the stuff off the DVDs.

Thanks for the Dark Resurrection stuff. It's absolutely fantastic and generally recognizes that Star Wars is space fantasy and should be treated that way.

That was fantastic!

While still communicating that Sebulba flashed him with his Vince or whatever.

Have you considered starting the movie during the escape, or on Coruscant or Tatooine, as some people have suggested? The current way the movie works, with long sequences of Naboo at the beginning and the end, is a little bit tiring. This way you can also combine some of the action.

ben_danger said:

I've just brought this up again at FE.org, and thought we could perhaps brainstorm here aswell. (Sort of follows on from the Episode Alpha, Beta, Gamma edits that were suggested a while back)

An Episode I which opens with Padme fleeing the invasion of theed, using footage from the end of TPM shooting droids etc. This then leads to coruscant and footage from AOTC. We follow her plight initially like we did with Leia in ANH, and are introduced to Anakin and Obiwan much later like we did with Luke.

Could a new story be formed around this? Does the Clone Wars start because of the invasion of Naboo? Maybe Padme now pushes FOR the creation of a clone army? Would there be a mystery?

A new sort of Desert-Naboo could be created by combining it with Geonosis, so the film ends with its liberation. Or perhaps a sequel edit would open with Naboo's liberation?

Sounds great. I would think that this would result in two prequel movies, the later one being an episode 3 edit.