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#253356
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Possible Red Dwarf edit
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/253356/action/topic#253356
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Hi all,

Following comments in OCP's megathread regarding the making of a Red Dwarf fan film, it's something I'm seriously considering.

For those familiar, the current idea is to use the extended versions of a few episodes of series 7, the ones without laughter tracks. But I'd thought I'd start this thread as somewhere for people to brainstorm.

So if you've got any ideas, comments, or wishes, this is the place....
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#253353
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Idea: a possible Red Dwarf fan film...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/253353/action/topic#253353
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Hi all,

Following comments in OCP’s megathread regarding the making of a Red Dwarf fan film, it’s something I’m seriously considering.

For those familiar, the current idea is to use the extended versions of a few episodes of series 7, the ones without laughter tracks. But I’d thought I’d start this thread as somewhere for people to brainstorm.

So if you’ve got any ideas, comments, or wishes, this is the place…

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#253215
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** The OCPMovie News & Releases Megathread **
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/253215/action/topic#253215
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Originally posted by: ocpmovie
I've got one - Red Dwarf, the Movie.

I'm watching Red Dwarf series 7 for the first time - I'd always avoided it after seeing one awful episode from it (Stoke Me a Clipper) ... it's clearly the worst series for a great show ...

But watching the DVD's extended versions of "Tikka to Ride" and "Ouroboros", which are presented without a laugh track ...

This might as well be Red Dwarf the movie. They're all filmlooked, and only rarely look like video during these episodes due to the single-camera style. There's a flashback and time travel aspect to both episodes that would lend itself well to a movie, and to including clips from previous series ... we flash back to the end of series 6, the beginning of series 1 (to annoyingly rewrite history and include the black hole of comedy herself, Chloe Annett, who sucks the humor out of the series ... but never mind, it'd be a good excuse to revisit series 1 or 8 in the movie) ... Lister's wedding to a Gelf back in ... series 5 I think ... is also referenced.

These being flashbacks, they wouldn't have to look like film, if you kept them brief. You'd have to be carefully choose non laugh track material though ... thankfully the DVDs contain lots of material without laugh tracks as deleted scenes, outtakes etc.

These two episodes do link together slightly, despite Rimmer not being in the latter. The ending to Ouroboros, which is a good one, uses the time travel device from Tikka to Ride.

I think that these episodes and others from Red Dwarf series 7 could be edited together into one coherent story. I think the pace should be picked up a bit, because it doesn't quite work without the laugh track.

Effects shots from previous series could be used in all their filmy glory, and if possible, I'd like to see Holly brought back somehow. You'd have to keep Rimmer in the story too somehow.

You'd also have to crop the 4x3 footage to 16x9, and sort of rework the order of things, introduce the plotlines of all the episodes you're using together at the beginning of the film.


But it would definitely work. It's halfway there already.


Just an idea.

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I like it, I like it a lot.

I like it so much, I'm ripping the DVD to my HD as I type. Tell you what GG, if you script it, I'll do all the donkey work...
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#250439
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"Star Wars: Bounty Hunter - Beyond The Game" a Galactus & MoveAlong Production
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250439/action/topic#250439
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Well, just finished going through this DVD. As expected the transfer is just gorgeous and the special features abundant....but, and this is in my humble opinion only, the fact that it is what it is, as in just the cutscenes, makes it feel lacking to me. It kind of gives it less reqatchability. I can't really see myself revisiting it too often, since the story dosen't flow. No maybe I'm biased because of the way I like to do things, as anyone whose watched my discs will know, but thats just how I feel.

Saying that, I knew what I was, and wasn't getting, here and like a famous British TV advert says....it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Good job fellas
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#250096
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/250096/action/topic#250096
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Hey guys,

I'm in the UK, but I'm one of those guys whose been downloading Lost since the beginning.

Season 2 fiished here just over a week ago, but me and the missus watched 3.01 tonight. The text I sent to a friend of mine sums it all up...

...."the first episode of the new Lost changes EVERYTHING!!!"



I'll be honest, I was worried that it was gonna get messed up, but those first 5 minutes of that first show makes me feel that there really is a masterplan, and its not just written on the fly

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#249518
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"The Clones Revealed" (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249518/action/topic#249518
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Okay...I give up.....this is a formal declaration of defeat.

After months of dwindling enthusiasm on my part, I've officially had it with this project. I just can't seem to make it work as a watchable film, sure the set pieces all look great, and if I could think of a way to some how just link them and release it as something that had even an ounce of 'flow' to it then I would. However, I'm gonna propose something that I'm pretty sure has never happened on this forum (or maybe at all, where these kind of edits are concerned), and with the right result could maybe polish this turd to the point of brilliance...

.....I want someone to take over

What I have as it stands is a practically finished product that I'm just not happy with. I'm on my 3rd scene by scene run through and I'm still not happy. Like I said, the setpieces work fine, as do the reconstructed deleted/lost scenes, it's just the bits in between that annoy me. So I want one of you guys to take over. Believe me when I say, I'm happy to just abandon this and let it go by the wayside, but there are some bits, the speeder chase and the Yoda/Dooku fight for example, that are just sheer class (if I do say so myself), so I would just love it if someone could take the reins and maybe that new perspective will make this really come alive.

Like I said, I'm happy to let this die, but if someone wants it, it's and easy enough process to export what I have and send the disc to someon else to finish off.

Any volunteers?