BrotherOfSasquatch

Jar Jar Bricks said:

Agreed, Sasquatch. It finally feels like a fun summer blockbuster, unlike the original film which was a huge slog.

I actually made a copy of the edit which includes the Yoda vs. Dooku duel, using the original video source Hal used. I am curious, though, which other deleted scenes you would have preferred to be reinstated?

Off the top of my head, I know that there’s a scene with Kenobi having the archive droids check out the dart before he goes to Dex that would’ve been cool.

But I would have to look at the rest of the deleted scenes to see if there was anything else.

On a whim, I decided to finally check out this edit tonight.

Barring some things I wish weren’t cut out (namely the Yoda and Dooku duel, which I am a weird defender of) and some deleted scenes I wish were incorporated alongside the others that you have already put into this edit… My God. It’s honestly amazing what nerd discontent and an editor’s intuition can do for a movie. Because of this edit, my second least favorite Star Wars movie of all time, a movie that I have previously decried as being bad and boring, is now an exciting and fun piece of cinema. I honestly can’t believe it! Quickening the pace and cutting out some of the more egregious, confusing, weird and creepy elements of this film really does wonders for it. It doesn’t make it a misunderstood masterpiece or anything like that, don’t get me wrong. But it’s definitely a marked improvement of a film that I had completely grown out of as an adult and have disregarded for a while now.

Anyways, nicely done Hal!

Dang… I’m sorry to hear that you were disappointed with Season 2 and that you’re struggling with it in regards to your second film. I had actually finished the series yesterday and came here to see if you had started work on a second film. lol.

Also, good to see that a finished definitive version of your first film is now released!

Were the color and audio issues fixed?

Bobson Dugnutt said:

How did it feel “shaggy”? Is it because the sections feel very seperated, rather than being more chronological in it’s approach to production (like part 1 being pre-production, part 2: shooting and production, part 2: post-production, editing and vfx, etc)

Yeah, basically that. Again, can’t really fault you for that though since this is such an ambitious project on your part and taking materials from such disparate sources would be quite the challenge of trying to separate and then put them all in chronologically.

Also, good to hear that there is a V2 in the works! I’m looking forward to it.

Hey there! So after watching “The Phantom Menace” yesterday to celebrate its 25th Anniversary, I decided to give this a whirl having it play in the background all day as I did some work.

Anyways, I wanted to say that this was pretty great and I highly commend you for overtaking such a huge project such as this. Because of the wide scope of the entire project, I did feel that how you sectioned off each part of the doc was pretty shaggy but I can’t really hold you against that. One other issue I had as well is that numerous times towards the end, the audio cuts out.

Other than that though… Nicely done!

DZ-330 said:

Honestly didn’t think we could have that much of a step up from V4 to V5, but holy crap, better 3PO lines, more TLJ/Luke continuity, etc. Exciting stuff guys. Can’t wait to slot in V5 on my Plex Server and never have to download another version of TROS again.

Well… until the next Rey Nobody version that has a lot of this stuff (and maybe some other additions) comes out. 😉

Hal 9000 said:

Okay, I finally found some time to dig into this project a little. Here is the state of the flashback sequence.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VBFPUHnRAGrGfMWsUy5pnSo31u54SY0m/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDmXzsVWWzbfOoC8DKCLNvfSex2wV3-I/view?usp=sharing

The delivery of “Leia sensed it as she trained you” could be better, and possibly the wording. Rey responds with, “She still trained me,” which sounds a little redundant.

I hate to lose the reference to Padme, but I think it flows better (and lets us get away with the alteration a little more cleanly) without it. 😕

WOW. That seems pretty much perfect to me!

Honestly, that looks not that bad to me! Granted, I’d have to see what it looks like in motion.

This might be a Mandela effect thing going on but doesn’t he already have teary eyes/is crying during this scene?

Jar Jar Bricks said:

There’s also the opposite idea that the First Order was sent to kill them all by Jannah and her company. Probably at the direct command of General Pryde, because he was a part of the original Empire and wants revenge for Palpatine.

Actually, I just got another idea that this reminded me of because I just found out in those Ewok movies, they ride ponies in some scenes. So, using Hal’s fan edit as a template that makes Kef-Bir into Endor, we could include scenes of the Ewoks here as being allies to the defected Stormtroopers.

Inspired by me absolutely DOMINATING as an Ewok warrior on Battlefront II the other night, I wonder if there would be a way to imply that the Resistance has recruited Ewoks into their ranks? Now, as goofy as that may sound, it would make sense that the off-shoot of the original Rebellion would try to maybe recruit some of the alien species that happened to take down the original Empire in the first place.

Obviously, not too much could be done in regards to like action scenes or whatnot. But I feel like you could maybe use some upscaled and color corrected footage from those Made-for-TV Ewok movies from back in the day in order to insert some footage of Ewoks hanging around at the Resistance base on D’Qar/Ajan Kloss? Granted, I’ve never actually seen those movies so I’m not sure if the footage would be useable there in the first place. But I feel like it could be worth a shot!

I’d like a link to this as well!

I’ve also looked for a fan edit(s) of this as well. I’m genuinely surprised no one has taken a crack at it yet.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

1. We’d need to see his own ship flying down to Mustafar’s surface to understand how he suddenly got there. Fixing Disney Star Wars commissioned a really talented VFX artist who used to be on this forum to do this for a project (Petrovelly, I believe). Their project is now defunct, and they didn’t have the decency to release these materials to the community. So unless somebody can think of some sort of clever transition method, it probably wouldn’t work.

Aw, man. I had no idea that happened. That sucks!

New “Sc. 38” just dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPx1kTveXpk

This could be used pretty effectively in those mega ROTS edits that use The Clone Wars finale stuff alongside the movie. Could really help bridge the gap between the two.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

You could change the inscription from “where the last war ended” to “where countless fell in battle” or something generic like that. That way it’s possible the journey starts at a different site for everybody depending on the point in time - it just requires a lot of residual death in the area.

“Where the Emperor fell… quite literally”

[Somewhat joking but I do think we could have it be something in regards to the Emperor’s supposed death]

NeverarGreat said:

I am of the perhaps unpopular opinion that the goonies moment where she uses the dagger to find Palpatine’s tower actually worked in the original, and its absence is noticeable here. If I did a version of this edit, that moment wouldn’t be removed.

Honestly? Same here. In fact there’s a couple of moments from the film that I remember some fans getting upset about and that have been subsequently been removed in fan edits that didn’t really bother me despite how goofy or nonsensical they were (i.e. “They fly now!”, light speed skipping)

Having just watched the film last night and knowing about the advancements when it comes to AI voice replacement/replicas, I would love to see a fan edit that makes Young Indy at the beginning actually sound like 1980’s Harrison Ford instead of Old Man Harrison Ford. I think that’s one of the many reasons why I absolutely loathe that beginning sequence so much and I feel like doing that (plus maybe adding some grain and other effects to lessen the digital uncanny valley sheen of everything) would help to make the sequence at least somewhat tolerable to me.

Along with the same line of thinking Starkiller has, I’ve always thought it would be interesting to have Passanna(?) be Jakku again.

NeverarGreat said:

It definitely feels like the Jedi Texts are a patchwork of various authors, of whom Luke is the latest. Certain parts may have survived from the beginning with scraps of ancient papyrus or something, but more likely these are copies of copies of copies, with annotations from a thousand generations of Jedi thrown in for good measure.

This is what I always thought of the Sacred Jedi Texts being. Kind of like that one Jedi Path book. Or “The Red Book of Westmarch”… lol

jadenkorr41 said:

BrotherOfSasquatch said:

So, with the advancements with AI to generate new dialogue that fits into the films, I wonder if that could be used for this deleted scene seen in the TROS documentary on the Blu-Ray in order to make it workable for fan edits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPjvA49ukQ

Obviously, it would have to take some more work seeing that one would have to figure ut what they’re even saying in this scene. Plus, you have the added challenges of green screen replacement in the background. But, this could be a valuable asset if it’s fixed!

I’ve tried taking a stab at seeing if this scene is usable for anything; however, with my limited skills, the scene is too low quality because it’s a zoomed version of something in the corner of the screen in the original documentary. Topaz upscaling didn’t do much for me in bringing the scene to some acceptable quality. Be happy to see if others can get th quality of the footage improved

Oh dang. I had no idea this was from the corner of the screen during the BTS doc… 😕

So, with the advancements with AI to generate new dialogue that fits into the films, I wonder if that could be used for this deleted scene seen in the TROS documentary on the Blu-Ray in order to make it workable for fan edits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPjvA49ukQ

Obviously, it would have to take some more work seeing that one would have to figure ut what they’re even saying in this scene. Plus, you have the added challenges of green screen replacement in the background. But, this could be a valuable asset if it’s fixed!

Love all those idea, RL! And I might have an idea that could help you with some of the Battle of Exegol stuff. I’ll PM it to you.

DZ-330 said:

Also… off topic, but can we add a new final line of Ben sadly saying “Rey” when she is dead? That is a much better final line for him than it being “Ow”.

+1