I’d like those too, I think I preferred the old one. The old one looked pretty perfect to me, while the newer one’s Anakin looks slightly weirdly proportioned to my eyes. Still amazing though.
If that could be pulled off with the AI then that would be great, I like mentioning Padme as another way to tie the trilogies together.
I’m probably in the minority but I like the theatrical line for the Leia flashback better than it is right now. It implies that Leia is fully a Jedi when she dies, and gives her an actual reason to stop rather than just because. It also mirrors Revenge of the Sith with how Anakin experienced visions of Padme dying, and chose to go to the dark side to prevent it. Here, Leia wants to prevent it at first, but chooses to fully embrace the light at the end, completing her training. And when Ben dies at the end, it fulfills the prophecy, but in a way we didn’t expect. I don’t think it really spoils the ending rather than foreshadows it, and the way in which Ben dies is still a surprise.
Looks awesome, I can’t wait to see them all!
Any updates? I can’t wait to see your versions of 1 and 2 especially.
+1 for a version of this with the original Vader/Leia ending, with one of those amazing Leia deepfakes. This would be my goto edit with that.
Sounds great! Will the Rey Nobody version be updated with these as well?
Was Mace facing Sidious alone ever complete? I would love to use that in an edit and the screenshot looks good but not sure if it was ever shown.
Sounds great! Are you going to wait to release them all at once or release them whenever they’re finished? I’d love to check them out.
I think adding a line to Jannah implying that Finn was a known figure amongst the stormtroopers and was at least partly why they were inspired to rebel would be a nice way to suggest the stormtrooper rebellion plotline. Having Jannah know who Finn is makes her more willing to trust him and have him lead the squad into battle later. Something like:
FINN: I never knew there were more.
JANNAH: Deserters. We all heard your story.
Not sure if there’s enough material from Jannah to get a good reading, though.
Is that in both versions? I love that change!
This is more of a question of your prequel trilogy as a whole, but is the chosen one subplot changed at all in these? In my opinion it’s kinda half baked and removing it from the whole trilogy would allow for the sequels to integrate into the overall saga better since palps ends up coming back.
A small visual change I would suggest is adding some purple and yellow sabers to the geonosis battle for some background Jedi. Then you never have to ask why mace gets a special color and no one else does while also just making the battle cooler.
I would love to expand on the idea of palpatine not really being himself but more of like a sith zombie. Would do wonders for the trilogy if that could be properly explained and understood within the confines of the movie itself.
Just watched V1.1 again, and this edit has truly reinvigorated my love for the film. The restructuring allows the tension to build up naturally until Han dies, and makes this movie feel much more cohesive with the other 2 sequels as well as the originals. The only things that stood out to me were:
Jakku color grade - I know you’ve stated you’re going to go back to this, I just wanted to say that I really like the white washed out look and how it makes the planet feel different from others. It just needs some more consistency as it looks more colorful in some shots.
AI lines - I love the new voice lines but I feel like I could tell when some of them were inserted mostly because of the lipsyncing. But still great.
There’s one audio hiccup I noticed right after Rey escapes on Starkiller when Kylo senses Han, I think he says “escape” and the end seems clipped off. Not sure of the exact time stamp but worth looking.
Can’t wait for V2 when you get around to it!
I think if we could produce a community driven ROTJ edit with this thread for the 40th anniversary this year that would be awesome. Are there any other things we want to do with the movie? So far we have:
New Boba introduction/subplot (detailed wonderfully by RogueLeader)
New Anakin ghost/unmasking
Seeing Luke in person for the first time as a black hooded figure force choking the Gam guards is just such a good reveal for him and sets up his arc. I would love to see the saber building deleted scene redone to be on dagobah and put in the beginning though.
Those sound fantastic, I would love to see mockups of all of those.
The extended death scene I linked + the shot of Boba holding his helmet from BoBF.
My ideal cut would be something like what darthrush proposed, Hal/L8wtr’s cut with:
I remember watching the revised Yoda scene where he doesn’t take out his lightsaber but I may want to reinstate that, I’m not sure. I might try to throw this together and see what happens.
I’m no vfx wizard but I imagine it would be possible to make a clean matte of the ghosts since they phase into the shot. Then we just need a good Hayden clip, I’ve looked at some interviews and found some good ones but he’s talking in most of them. If we can manually close his lips that would work.
Since we’re discussing AOTC edits and new editions has anybody thought about including this extended Jango death scene? Only a slight difference but I would love to see this in one of these new edits with the training scene.
EDIT: Including the flashback shot of boba holding the helmet from BoBF might be cool too.
That would be cool, would it just be reusing empire footage with maybe an ai voice?
With ai and deepfake technology I think we could finally pull off a good ROTJ Hayden. I’ve seen a deepfake attempt on the unmasking scene but it wasn’t that good. Anyone up for it? I’ll try to find some older Hayden clips to replace the ghost.
Your Empire edit sounds great, can I get a link?