szopman

Are you plannIng to share a vimeo link with download option as you used to do with the TCW edits? 😉

Movies Remastered said:

COVER UPDATE
(https://imgur.com/a/z37KMGK)

Wow, that looks amazing man!

Broom Kid said:

Hal 9000 said:

FWIW, I’d recommend the Rogue One style opening. ALTAIAGFFA card, then cut to an opening shot. I don’t imagine backstory or exposition via text would be any more useful for a movie adaptation than it was(n’t) for the original show.

This is the thinking I had too, you just summed it up much more succinctly. Even with the way it’s edited currently, I don’t think a crawl actually adds anything that can’t be picked up almost immediately through context as the story unfolds. It’s actually more engrossing that way.

(FWIW I don’t know that the most recent cut that makes the crawl “necessary” is itself, necessary. I think the previous version of the edit with all that stuff intact worked better)

Also, on a technical level: The title treatment with the Mandalorian logo as the meat in the Star Wars sandwich looks very off, and the font/text of the crawl itself isn’t right

+1

@Smudger, i think this solution worked So well in your TCW fanedits because the logo looked much more “Star Wars” (we basically received the same kind of logo in RO).

The Mandalorian one here seems a Little bit off to me.

In my opinion, the Best solution would be using a classic SW logo as in the movies, omit the Episode, and, since u dont want “the Mandalorian” in the title, Just use the title you came up with. It Will look like a classic SW movie. I have no idea how its done, but since you already did EVII version of opening crawl, I imagine it would be easy to Just remove Episode VII and leave it as an independent SW film.

Cant wait to See what you ll come up with 😉 Your TCW Episode I is still my head Canon version (and the only watchable one Id Say) of the 2008 TCW movie.

smudger9 said:

Broom Kid said:

I think at this point, considering how well liked Rogue One is (and to a lesser degree, Solo) the argument can be made that “The Theatrical Star Wars Experience” can just cold-open after “A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away…” now. Maybe it couldn’t have done that before, but it’s fairly accepted now, and honestly - it probably just works better here.

I’d suggest just cutting the crawl entirely. You don’t need it for a Star Wars movie to still feel like a Star Wars movie.

Solo also had an opening crawl. For me it’s a crucial part of a Star Wars theatrical experience. In terms of the font colour. I’ll be producing 2 versions… the pale Mando version and a classical yellow Star Wars version.

oh, sorry, I thought the yellow one is only for Episode VII version 😉

About Solo, there was a kind of opening crawl there, but not the classic one. Actually, I think it would work veeery well in the Mandalorian. And It would Save you a lot of work actually 😄

For me the color of the opening crawl Doesnt look Star Wars at all. It should be a classic one on my opinion, especially that the effect u want to achieve is to have a theatrical SW experience

Hal 9000 said:

Yeah, I’m not changing the title for this one. It’s not needed; it’s supposed to make you wonder what it means, at least does something to make Palpatine’s line “she is not who you think she is” not be completely obvious, and ties into the ending.

Since Im plannIng to do PL subtitles once the ENG once come out, can I change the PL title? 😄 in Polish, the title was terrible. Its literaly, more or less, “Skywalker. Revival” (/Skywalker. Ressurrection"). That Doesnt even sound like a SW title at all.

Im very curious about the Qui Gon /Yoda thing 😉 any possibility of uploading it on vimeo as well? 😉

Sorry if its a silly question but could someone maybe convert the workprint into some smaller, few GB, mp4 file?? 😉

I personally think the Best Way to introduce Bens spirit would be doing that in the novelization Way, i mean, by the ghost saying something like “I will always be with you” blah blah. But we would need someone to make a decent dub of it.

As crazy as it sounds, maybe Kylo Ren slaughter in the Forest could be reused then as Endor? The fire could be explained as l, u know, battle field, FO slaughtering 🤷‍♂️ or Just a flashback. Damn, this sequence is Just too cool to be cut 😅

Hal 9000 said:

Wow, that’s incredible. I’ll sit tight, then! Makes me a little nervous since I like the Mustafar opening and grabbing Vader’s Wayfinder, but that’s an interesting idea…

Well, the Mustafar opening is Just an awesome scene, but both possibilities look great. Maybe you would consider realeasing versions of the film with two different openings?

Or maybe the scene on the Mustafar could be somehow reused as a flashback or something? I know its not crucial to the film, but its Just Such a badass scene 😉

idir_hh said:

“The First Order was just the beginning… I will give you so much more.”

“You’ll Die first.”

“I have died before… Kill me, and my spirit will pass into you as all the Sith live in ME(face reveal).”

Nice.

There could still be a place to insert the line “More than a clone less than a man.”

Maybe over the shot of Palps’ test tube Clones or after Kylo ignites the saber to his face.

Hell, thats brilliant 😉

I was So devastated when I left the Cinema in December, but all those amazing work and ideas in this project make me believe I can actually enjoy the last Episode of the saga. Its incredible how Creative and capable you guys are.

Just some random ideas:
-anyone considered using some shots of Boba Fett or Mandalorians from “the Mandalorian” Just to make it even more fanservice epic scene? 😉 its probable they still live by the Time of those events.
-maybe some additional audio from Star Wars audio dramas? There are plenty of that there, like Xwing pilot ls standing by etc. Maybe even some additional dialogue from the Emperor (though I know Nick Jameson Doesnt sound So much as Ian)

I would love to See it as well 😉

So, when / if English subtitles for this edit comes out, or any subtitles, I d be glad to conTribute and do a Polish and/or Spanish translation 😉

Just a random thought:
Why dont we do some movie premiere watching together when the fanedit comes out via some streaming with chat? 😀

Hal 9000 said:

Feel free, certainly! English subtitles exist, so you could take a language subtitle file and align the timing or even just do a custom translation if you really want to.

I’ll try to do Spanish for ROTJ that I’m trying to get out the door, and the others sometime later.

For now, I meant only the up coming Ascendant project when it comes out 😉 but when I have more free Time I can try others 😉

Hal 9000 said:

My prequel edits have Spanish subtitles thanks to a volunteer. Originally MalaStrana did the French subtitles but I’ve done them since.

I’ll be sure to do Spanish subtitles for this and future releases, and go back and do them for ANH-TLJ. The work and syncing is done, as I can mirror the English subtitles’ timing to the Spanish ones. It’s not rocket science but requires some time and attention.

Maybe I could help with some Spanish / Portuguese translation I think 😃 and maybe my native Polish

jonh said:

leia, luke and ben force ghost ending…
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ieKbvLXpG5ZHXBicNtOf8PYuM7jqqNGa

For me Ben looks too CGI but I know you will improve it just as u did this amazing force ghosts stuff before 😃

idir_hh said:

skenera said:

Color corrected TFA teaser shot

Sadly as good as this is I don’t think it could work within the massacre scene since Kylo wears a cape in that.
It might work in a vision though.

He could always took it off before the battle

skenera said:

Color corrected TFA teaser shot

Amazing!!!

adobewan said:

szopman said:

adobewan said:

• Added Leia training with Luke as a flashback, as per rocknroll41’s suggestion. This uses Leia’s purple saber by skenera
• Removed all references to Kylo being named Supreme Leader
  (…)
• Removed the First Order storming the base. The last we see of Kylo is him screaming in defeat
• Removed Rey meeting Poe Dameron. Just feels like setup
• Removed Rey and Leia’s lines about “rebuilding the Rebellion”
• Added both the Star Destroyer montage and Rey at the Skywalker home from TROS
• Removed Leia’s ghost from the end of TROS

I think you should have left Kylo being name Supreme leader and storming the base scenę, or part of it at least, when he grabs the lucky dice of His dad. Making him the Supreme leader for like one day Just to lose it all, would even make His failure more complete and tragical. And the moment the dice dissapear his from His hand could be the moment he truly realizes he Just lost and that Luke was right.

About Rey meeting Poe, i wouldnt consider it a set up necesarily. For me its Just the moment they finally meet After first 2 films. Its like “finally”.
I m also wondering if its possible to change rebuilding the Rebellion into rebuilding the Republic 😉

About the ending, did you consider maybe using the idea from the other thread, with the gang being on the Falcon playing chess (from the beggining of the TROS)?

I still havent watched the fanedit So Just out of curiosity, where did you introduce the flashback? 😃

Anyway, i Just rewatched TLJ yesterday and yeah, i think this movie could actually work better as the Last Episode than TROS. So much.

Your first two suggestions I had kept in when first showing friends and they just didn’t quite work for me, though I may still try to reincorporate some of the last Kylo scene in V2.

The chess idea sounds good and I’ll see how well I can get it to fit!

I put the flashback just when Luke and Leia connect through the force

Im wondering if it would fit well some where when Leia is doing her force Superman flight in space. Like Quick flashback and then she wakes up in space and fly.

jonh said:

Jadi ghosts_purple version
https://vimeo.com/412387620
password:jedi

You are my Hero Man.

jonh said:

Last version of Jedi force ghost…
https://vimeo.com/409718237
password:jedi

problem: new shots, out of sync music

Pure perfection 😲😲😲😍😍💪🏽

adobewan said:

• Added Leia training with Luke as a flashback, as per rocknroll41’s suggestion. This uses Leia’s purple saber by skenera
• Removed all references to Kylo being named Supreme Leader
  (…)
• Removed the First Order storming the base. The last we see of Kylo is him screaming in defeat
• Removed Rey meeting Poe Dameron. Just feels like setup
• Removed Rey and Leia’s lines about “rebuilding the Rebellion”
• Added both the Star Destroyer montage and Rey at the Skywalker home from TROS
• Removed Leia’s ghost from the end of TROS

I think you should have left Kylo being name Supreme leader and storming the base scenę, or part of it at least, when he grabs the lucky dice of His dad. Making him the Supreme leader for like one day Just to lose it all, would even make His failure more complete and tragical. And the moment the dice dissapear his from His hand could be the moment he truly realizes he Just lost and that Luke was right.

About Rey meeting Poe, i wouldnt consider it a set up necesarily. For me its Just the moment they finally meet After first 2 films. Its like “finally”.
I m also wondering if its possible to change rebuilding the Rebellion into rebuilding the Republic 😉

About the ending, did you consider maybe using the idea from the other thread, with the gang being on the Falcon playing chess (from the beggining of the TROS)?

I still havent watched the fanedit So Just out of curiosity, where did you introduce the flashback? 😃

Anyway, i Just rewatched TLJ yesterday and yeah, i think this movie could actually work better as the Last Episode than TROS. So much.

DominicCobb said:

szopman said:

@Dominic
Have you considered maybe using some pieces of the Kylo/Vader fan film? Like for eg. You mention in the opening crawl that Kylo Ren is trying to find this Fleet. So it could be some kind of His vision After touching Vaders helmet in which at the end he hears Vaders voice saying Mustafar or something. Then he knows where to go next. It could make His journey longer.

Are you planning to use some different ideas/pieces from other threads like for eg purple lightsaber or shots of Coruscant etc??

BTW, i cant wait to See your work 💪🏽 i m So hyped 😉

I don’t think there’s really a natural place to use that footage with the way I have the film cut right now.

The purple lightsaber I’m considering. Not entirely sold. If someone could do it in this specific shade of purple I might use it though.

Coruscant for the celebration I’d love to use but I haven’t seen anyone do it yet. I’m also curious about the conference room scene taking place in Coruscant’s orbit but again I don’t think anyone’s done it yet.

As for other things, I’m keeping tabs. I’m not a big fan of the visual Force ghosts but I kind of like the idea of seeing flashes of them in the wide shots only. I do kinda like the idea of Ajan Kloss being Naboo, and I go back and forth about the tank of Palpatine clones.

What with all these people doing VFX shots, I should probably go back and see if I had any crazy ideas I wanted that might be accomplished that way.

Sound Perfect 😉

And what about the kiss? 😀

@Dominic
Have you considered maybe using some pieces of the Kylo/Vader fan film? Like for eg. You mention in the opening crawl that Kylo Ren is trying to find this Fleet. So it could be some kind of His vision After touching Vaders helmet in which at the end he hears Vaders voice saying Mustafar or something. Then he knows where to go next. It could make His journey longer.

Are you planning to use some different ideas/pieces from other threads like for eg purple lightsaber or shots of Coruscant etc??

BTW, i cant wait to See your work 💪🏽 i m So hyped 😉