Vladius

It's from bondukkevin's Star Wars: The Beginning. I've been keeping track of it for a while, myself.

Yeah, Star Wars is not exactly about subtlety in character design. That's not a weakness, I would say it's a strength.

Keep up the good work! There's too many of these "ambitious" projects that go under.

As much as I love the visual changes, do you have any updates on how the movie is different plot-wise, anything to do with dialogue changes, etc.?

Certain scenes with Anakin and Padme (you know the ones...) are still painful to watch and should be cut or reworked, but this is hardly your fault. On the whole it's a fantastic improvement and I've taken the main characters seriously for the first time.

That sounds great!
Even if you think certain parts are silly, George Lucas had a grain of truth when he said Star Wars was for kids. I really want to be able to show my kids the "full story," and if that means using other cheesy movies, or putting in voices that don't sound quite right, then so be it.

emanswfan said:

Vladius said:

Hunger Games is great actually.

not when you've read the book

I have and I just watched the movie and it rules and it's a faithful adaptation. It doesn't have an indie soundtrack either - no lyrics unless you get the CD. Not comparable to Twilight.

Hunger Games is great actually.

My name is Topher, so I've always had some connection to this guy even though I know very little about him. This is pretty exciting, it's kind of what I would do.

Amen to that.

Hauh hauhh hauhh no noo, I'd be much too frightened to tease a rescorer.

Sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me...

fishmanlee said:

Vladius said:

By who, who's going to make them?

Someone wise.

You?

By who, who's going to make them?

Saw this on FE, I'm pretty pumped.

Does anyone know of good footage of Ian McDiarmid outside of Star Wars? My plan is to restructure everything into one defend-the-planet movie, with the kidnapping of Palpatine taking place near the end and the killing of Dooku becoming the true turn to the dark side event.

darth_ender said:

I just want to make a point here.  We have already voted to put the funeral pyre last.  This means that Ben and Yoda (and possibly Anakin) will be seen before that, rather than after (or perhaps we'll just have to cut that part, but hear me out).  I really feel pretty strongly that if we want to see the Force ghosts, part of the conclusion would involve putting Anakin at the pyre scene.  The reason for this is because it leaves Luke ready for closure.  If he sees the ghosts including his father, then burns his father's armor and/or body, it seems like he's already had the closure and the scene is redundant.  If we simply show Ben and Yoda, he feels some closure but still feels some emotional weight.  But at the fire when he sees his father, he and the audience feel satisfied.  That's the way I see things, and I want to put in that plug before the voting gets too far along.

Shoot, I really prefer it the original way. I guess I'll just make my own remix after it's all done. :)

Wouldn't it actually be best for the Emperor's arrival to be inconspicuous?

Part of Mon Mothma's speech is "the emperor is personally overseeing the construction" which means that that part was supposed to be a secret too.

Let me just say that this is my favorite version of ROTJ and I love the use of the Luke and Leia theme at the end especially. Don't change it too much!

Johannus said:

 I'm not 100% sure but I think there is a similar garrison in the US where they have a spefic following of Endor troopers (I think it is in California, but only going from memory), which it might be more useful to get in touch with.  The reason for this is even if I find a dozen suitable costumers willing to help out in the UK, I have no idea where we could film in a woodland that would pass as Endor (though I'm open to suggestions).

 

You answered your own question! California, definitely. But if there's any Canadians around Vancouver works very well too.

I've noticed a lot of things that cut down on runtime (in a good way, of course.) Just in case the movie is dramatically shorter, have you considered using scenes from the other two prequels? My wish would be to turn them all into one film with ROTS as the base since it's the best one, and I'm working on that on my own but my edit is definitely not going to have all the cool things this one will. Not necessarily flashbacks but certain scenes, especially with Palpatine, fit in the context of all of them.

darth_ender said:

So I know I'm late on this, but I will begin to tally the votes now.  Two people have said they will vote, but they haven't gotten the chance yet *cough* fishmanleeandvladius *cough*.  I will wait a till tonight to post the vote, but once it's posted, I don't want to have to go alter all the tallies again.  Thanks for everyone's participation thus far.

I voted and you bolded my name. :V

Well, he was set up to be a really cool character. He was distinct from the other bounty hunters because he knew how to outsmart the heroes.

Just want to note as I'm voting:
The orbit of the Death Star around Endor is unrealistic compared to our Earth and Moon, but the Death Star was constructed in orbit. Also in the game Universe Sandbox, there's a pre-made sim of the DS around Endor and it works fine, based on real principles of gravity, mass, etc.

(But if you blow it up, Endor gets hit with several big chunks right away. :V)

Yeah, it could be some magical dark side disease.