Thank you for sharing your work. Really appreciate these cleaned up scenes and can’t wait for the others.
Thanks…just posted #2 “Luke with friends”…see above…1 more to go for this group of scenes
That’s fantastic work, I look forward to the clip on its own.
Thank you for sharing your work. Really appreciate these cleaned up scenes and can’t wait for the others.
Thank you very much, one scene down, two to go!
I would be eternally grateful for a link to that cleaned up scene if you are of the inclination to share it out.
Okie Doke. Here’s a link to my opening of RotJ up to the point where Luke walks in through Jabba’s front door: //drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EleIyLvBBrk-D8zN9zy23NJhEeg6FMcs?usp=sharing
Interesting resequencing.
I chopped the entire Obi-Wan scene, there’s just too much reiteration and nothing really new said…except who the other Skywalker is.
I did some selective cutting when Luke and Leia are talking on Endor to stay in step with this.
Now, just like in TESB where Vader reveals his paternity to Luke, it’s Vader and the Force sleuthing out that Luke has a sister during their duel, he threatens to turn Luke’s sister and that puts him over the edge.
Leia now announces to the audience the brother/sister thing as the she and the Force open up to one another and she connects the dots.
Just had to share this short but spectacular clip from SkyForgeFilms:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nV4UeojnK8c
His work just keeps getting better and continues to impress! It would be a dream come true if there could be some collaboration between SkyForge and Ady for his expanded space battle in ROTJ:R.
I used that clip for my RotJ fanedits opening. In that context it represents the Bothan spies getting away with the Death Star II plans and the tracking device on one of the Corvettes is how Palpatine knows the location of the rebel fleet massing near Sullest.
From this scene I cut to Yoda and Luke on Dagobah.I actually quite like that idea, regularjoe! Definitely in favor of somehow beginning the film with a bit more of a punch and excitement than it does originally. I imagine you also reworded the crawl to reflect the new opening and clue the audience in with what’s happening? And/or did you add your own comm chatter?
I used someone else’s custom crawl that indicates that Luke has returned to Dagobah.
As far as comm chatter, etc. I left it the way that it is. It doesn’t literally spell everything out however it leaves a breadcrumb trail to fill in some gaps.
Just had to share this short but spectacular clip from SkyForgeFilms:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nV4UeojnK8c
His work just keeps getting better and continues to impress! It would be a dream come true if there could be some collaboration between SkyForge and Ady for his expanded space battle in ROTJ:R.
I used that clip for my RotJ fanedits opening. In that context it represents the Bothan spies getting away with the Death Star II plans and the tracking device on one of the Corvettes is how Palpatine knows the location of the rebel fleet massing near Sullest.
From this scene I cut to Yoda and Luke on Dagobah.
Luke sure made it from the North Pole to an equatorial docking bay dragging a dying giant of an armored man pretty darn quick.
I think placing it after the crawl dilutes it, the crawl already tells you that Vader is obsessively looking for Luke, putting it after the crawl just seems redundant, especially as he is learning his identity here and the crawl implies that he knows it already.
I did a pre-crawl scene in my TFA edit, I think that it is something that can work very well if one doesn’t have inflexible ideas about how a Star Wars movie has to start.
I like this a lot. I would transition it from Vader to the Wiiliams fanfare and the Star Wars logo rolling up the screen.
It has a primary audience that I am not. I prefer the Valerian set pieces more than the Amblin inspired stuff.
I have an old fanedit that someone did of Jedi that had a restored sandstorm, am pretty sure AI wasn’t used and the result was great.
“What have I doonne?”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
The possession part of the meeting the Jedi scene doesn’t work very well with integrating the two episodes, would be interested in seeing if/how someone pulls that off.
For me the biggest stumbling block of the ST was that I just couldn’t invest in Kylo Ren as a villain.
As the post above this says, Manny is just owning the role of Qimir and for me this is the best developed dark side user we’ve had since Darth Vader and Palpy. I was rather meh about the show at first and I am fully onboard with it.
I think the answer (and I am not trying to be mean here) is that they literally don’t care anymore about making sure that things align to everything cannon or otherwise. We’re just going to make stuff.
BTW I am not Disney bashing here or denigrating the quality of what’s come out, I’m down with pretty much all of it as long as the initials JJA aren’t associated with it, just clear to me that worrying about, oh, a yellow lightsaber was only used in one sentence in a book from 1987 that that is now out of print, do you think we should do that? Those days are gone.
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EDIT: Just realized there’s also a shot of some Ewoks smoking pipes. I guess this movie does have lots of smoking in it.
I have contemporary photos of the shopping mall in my hometown from when the movie came out, there’s ashtrays to the left and right at the top of the escalator going down in one of the anchor department stores.
Small town America, everyone smoked.
Things have changed a lot in that regard.
It’s a real niche preservation/nostalgia effort, I feel for you.
Not too long ago I tried to make a 1977 Star Wars edit that felt like watching it at my local theater, period specific ads, don’t forget the concession stand nag, the Duck Dodgers cartoon before the movie that Lucas couldn’t license (when I was a kid they still played cartoons before G rated movies where I lived) and trailers for other later summer 1977 movies. The worst part of it was that everything in the pre-show section looked aged and then the cartoon and the movie looked pristine, I don’t really want to distress/age them to achieve the goal and at the same time can’t upgrade the period pieces and I wound up abandoning the project.
Re the post immediately above, Pacing and Structure (don’t want to copy and paste a ton of text), Ep3 ends with Jedi Wookiester walking into his home essentially nekkid. Ep4 starts with him…walking home through the forest wearing his robes.
So…he went inside, put on some clothes so he could…walk back outside and then walk back inside of his home?
I like this episode a lot, had some great world building.
Something I did not like, however, and I will fault other brands for this sort of thing as well, is they bring in this cool character just to kill him off. Hey lookit! Wookie Jedi! Cool! Neat, huh? Ok he’s dead now.
I figure that there’s future flashback episodes where we see more of him but the way it’s playing so far is disappointing.
Oh and way too many wipes.
The last episode needed more wipes.
I’ve regarded the show as Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Star Wars until this episode, not bad per se, just not what I am geeking out about the most for Star Wars.
What I really liked about Ep 3 was how The Coven has a very Taoist approach to The Force and the Jedi are more Confucian. I’d love to see this explored more throughout not just the show but the entire franchise however I suspect this episode is a one-off for that sort of thinking.
The Bobson Dugnutt one is the edit that you are looking for.
Finite resources, humans building in factories, droids building in space.
I really hope that K-2SO will be handled properly in season 2. He’s in the unfortunate position of being a comic-relief character in a show which isn’t supposed to have comic relief. I worry that they’ll have to add in humor to make him fit in (or elsewise his portrayal will be inaccurate to Rogue One to accommodate the difference in tone.) Ideally, his quotes should come across as blunt/edgy, as opposed to comedic. It’s a minor thing, but the addition of comic relief would really change the feel of show, and not for the better.
You make an excellent point.
Here’s my idea on how to work this, he’s a reprogrammed Imperial droid.
A facet of the reprogramming could be that is not reliable initially or the best done job and Cassian is, for a while, tweaking his work.
K2 feels comfortable around Cassian however around others he masks to try to hide any deficiencies in the reprogramming that may stand out to someone who knows how a K2 droid should behave.
His snark/comedy stuff could be played as a facet of how he interacts with others based on how much he feels he can let his guard down around them or even try to maintain some kind of upper hand.
No Snoke.
Ben Solo is still around but he never fell.
Rey is still important.
There is dark side stuff happening, it’s more the dark side of the force flexing it’s muscle and trying to find someone corruptible.
Han has been hiding Ben for this reason.
7 takes place almost entirely on Jakku, much more cat and mouse and more exposition to all of the characters.
Rey is accidentally found by the First Order and sets off some Dark Side alarms as she is a corruptible candidate that was hidden there. Also sets off some alarms with Leia, who dispatches her husband and son to find her and protect her.
Luke is still hiding.
Han doesn’t know what to do but figures that Luke does. They get the other part of the map and the movie ends with them heading to Achoo. When they get there Luke is already dead, he’s a force ghost and essentially a guardian of the island, the whole dark entity thing that we deal with in E8 is present and force ghost Luke basically is convinced that he’s counterbalancing this and neutralizing it, even in his present state.
E8 would clearly bring Palpy back as the dark side agent, cloning stuff abounds, they’re looking for a corruptible for him to possess. E8 would be about training Rey so that Rey and Ben could vanquish Palpy, I can go with the dyad thing.
E9 would pretty much be a mashup of ending what I posited here and elements of the Colin Treverrow treatment for E9, particularly Finn leading an insurrection.