szopman

So, I’ve finally watched your work print of this edit (thank you for sharing btw).

As always, you did a great job with restructuring the show into a movie format.

In this case, you made the show that sucked an enjoyable movie experience. What I liked most was trimming the flashbacks, trimming the motorbike gang, the finale and the scene with Cad Bane, Boba and Fennec. You cut a lot of bad content which is great 😉 and I’m so happy you cut the Sarlacc flashback (when they were looking for the armor).

When it comes to what I’d personally change/improve:
-I still think there are things that could be cut. For ex: the scene where Boba and Fennec steal the ship, I think it could be just ommited. The same for Krrasantan attacking Boba. It could be cut and left ambiguous (like something that happened off screen, this way we avoid the ridiculous scenario where a big wookie just enters the palace and gets straight to the Boba’s chamber). I’d also cut the scene where Boba meets the gang - thet defy him too much in my opinion. If its cut, next time they appear the audience will just assume they ve been working for him as his street soldiers.
-I think it could work well if you moved the first scene with Cobb to the very first scene of the film. I think it could work super well as an opening of the film (though I know it’d require changing the whole crawl which probably is too time and consuming).
-I personally missed some cut scenes from 1x06,I’d just leave it all.
-I agree with ppl that it’d be better to end the movie with cliffhanger (Grogu’s choice would be revealed then in the next movie).

Anyway, overall its a great edit and definitely 10 times better than the original source material.
I LOVED what you did with the final battle. In future, I ll definitely watch this instead of the show (this or just 1x05 and 1x06 together) 😉 you really made it an enjoyable film.

It’d be an honor to see the workprint! 😉

Not sure if it’s a right place to post it but I ve just started a Podcast (and reviews) with my gf on YT. So well, technically it’s a review of mine for a movie 😄

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PFeQVXUf_EM

Btw this “The Diplomatic Pouch” sounds like a very interesting movie, added to my watchlist. Im happy I found this topic, I see a lot of good and less mainstream movies are reviewed here.

WitchDR said:

smudger9 said:

WitchDR said:

Looking great smudger!

Like szopman said above I do think it could use some trimming of the dialogue. Something I’d really like to see in the edit is less “smart Fennec -stupid Boba”. I hate that Fennec always has to talk him in the right direction. It just further drives the wedge in his past self being the most fearsome bounty hunter, when he constantly makes stupid moves. You should try removing Fennec talking Boba out of attacking Bane in that scene. Just have him make the smart decision of being more calculated when going against Bane, instead of external forces motivating him to be.

Good idea about the Fennec/Boba dialogue. I’ll see how it feels when I watch the full edit. I agree it makes Boba look weaker, but I like that it adds something to the Fennec-Boba relationship.

I agree that it would take a lot of Fennec/Boba’s relationship out, but I don’t think every moment of it needs to be removed. Just a few so it’s not like every time Boba has a plan, Fennec is right there to tell him why it’s no good or how she has a better idea. That’s one thing I disliked about the show. It felt like Boba was just kind of bumbling around with Fennec guiding him. He’s been a ruthless bounty hunter for so long, you’d think he’d have some level of assertion and confidence in his ideas. But in the show he’s very easily persuaded by everyone, especially Fennec.

I tried messing with that scene a bit just to visually show what I mean. The music obviously needs more fiddling with to line up properly. You could even leave in a few more back and forth shots I cut out to draw the suspension more.
https://vimeo.com/684007411
password: fanedit

Wooow, it’s perfect 😍 soo soo much better, love it man!

The editing looks great! faaar better than what we’ve got in the original 😉

Though I still think Boba talks too much 😃

smudger9 said:

Sirius said:

Chase Adams said:

smudger9 said:

The rancor rampage can actually be cut by having Boba v Bane be the climax. Then cutting to the Fennec assassination scene.

I like that, but logistically you’d need to keep Grogu on Tatooine otherwise there’s no existing reunion between him and Mando.

Technically you don’t really need to maintain Grogu on Taooine to have a Mando and Grogu reunion. CarboniteSolo give this idea for a sequence of events, what I think could work for the final:

-Have Din arrive and spend time talking with Ahsoka, Luke training Grogu, but omit the scene when Ahsoka talks about Grogu’s training being interrupted if he sees him.

-Luke asking Grogu if he wants the lightsaber or his friend’s gift.

-Then we see Din’s ship flying off the planet.

-The last scene is Grogu tapping on the glass and Din pushing the button to accelerate.

Plus, you could take the central lines of their reunion and paste somewhere in this footage, maybe in the scene where Din’s ship is flying off the planet.

This sequence is my next task. This week I’ve been cutting together the Tatooine finale and have managed to completely remove Grogu, Pelli and the Major-domo. The resulting cut is actually really good although the audio is going to be challenging!

Sounds amazing 😍

I love all those ideas 😍

Wow, so far it sounds awesome 😄

smudger9 said:

szopman said:

smudger9 said:

szopman said:

smudger9 said:

First cut coming in at the 3-hour mark, which is much longer than I would like. Annoyingly Mando’s trip to see Grogu completely derails the story, interferes with pacing and adds a huge chunk of time. I really wish they hadn’t used this series to reunite Mando and Grogu.

Sounds cool, it means 3.5h of fillers and messy stuff cut 😄

Dunno what’s your plan and if this idea helps but maybe yoy can cut all the twins/krrasantan thing from episodes 1-3 and introduce him with the scenes from chapter 4 where he beats up some people. It would spare us as well the miserable beating Boba got from him before 😄

Out of curiosity, how you are gonna treat the whole mototbike gang? 😉

About Grogu, maybe there’s some way of cutting him completely from the finale and leave the choice scene as the last scene/cliffhanger? This way, even when we see Mando abd Grogu together in the next episode, it will be just obvious the kid chose Mando, doesnt need to be shown on screen.

Anyway, Good luck with editing the finale 😉 if anyone can make this mess a coherent nice sequence, its you.

The motorbike gang have been vastly reduced. I’ve left in the recruitment scene in Mos Espa, but the chase scene has been completely cut, as has any reference to the Major’s majordomo… he flees the Mayor’s office and is never seen again!

I’ve kept the twins scenes in because they are tied to the Rancor and they do provide some valuable plot progression. I’ve dealt with Krrsantan by Boba offering him a job instead of releasing him, allowing me to cut his scene in the Catina.

Unfortunately you can’t have just Grogu’s choice scene because the choice is between the lightsaber and the beskar, which Mando needs to deliver.

Having watched the rough cut through, it does make a decent movie. Infinitely more watchable than the series itself. The difficult part is trying to make sense of Boba’s motivations.

So, you plan to remove the whole Groku/Mando/Ahsoka/Luke stuff?

JEDIT
3h movie sounds very ok I think. Nowadays, a lot of blockbusters reach 2h30-45min runtime so it’s okay.
Very interested to see how you edited Krrasantan thing 😄

No, the Luke/Grogu/Ashoka stuff will be there. I’d prefer it not to be, but it’s essential for the overarching story.
It will be trimmed to keep it more compact.

Sounds cool so far 😄

I think it’s your first edit where the goal is not only to reedit the stuff to make it one 2.5h film, but also to actually save the original story, make it just better, enjoyable and coherent (like Rise of Skywalker:Ascendant) 😉

smudger9 said:

szopman said:

smudger9 said:

First cut coming in at the 3-hour mark, which is much longer than I would like. Annoyingly Mando’s trip to see Grogu completely derails the story, interferes with pacing and adds a huge chunk of time. I really wish they hadn’t used this series to reunite Mando and Grogu.

Sounds cool, it means 3.5h of fillers and messy stuff cut 😄

Dunno what’s your plan and if this idea helps but maybe yoy can cut all the twins/krrasantan thing from episodes 1-3 and introduce him with the scenes from chapter 4 where he beats up some people. It would spare us as well the miserable beating Boba got from him before 😄

Out of curiosity, how you are gonna treat the whole mototbike gang? 😉

About Grogu, maybe there’s some way of cutting him completely from the finale and leave the choice scene as the last scene/cliffhanger? This way, even when we see Mando abd Grogu together in the next episode, it will be just obvious the kid chose Mando, doesnt need to be shown on screen.

Anyway, Good luck with editing the finale 😉 if anyone can make this mess a coherent nice sequence, its you.

The motorbike gang have been vastly reduced. I’ve left in the recruitment scene in Mos Espa, but the chase scene has been completely cut, as has any reference to the Major’s majordomo… he flees the Mayor’s office and is never seen again!

I’ve kept the twins scenes in because they are tied to the Rancor and they do provide some valuable plot progression. I’ve dealt with Krrsantan by Boba offering him a job instead of releasing him, allowing me to cut his scene in the Catina.

Unfortunately you can’t have just Grogu’s choice scene because the choice is between the lightsaber and the beskar, which Mando needs to deliver.

Having watched the rough cut through, it does make a decent movie. Infinitely more watchable than the series itself. The difficult part is trying to make sense of Boba’s motivations.

So, you plan to remove the whole Groku/Mando/Ahsoka/Luke stuff?

JEDIT
3h movie sounds very ok I think. Nowadays, a lot of blockbusters reach 2h30-45min runtime so it’s okay.
Very interested to see how you edited Krrasantan thing 😄

smudger9 said:

First cut coming in at the 3-hour mark, which is much longer than I would like. Annoyingly Mando’s trip to see Grogu completely derails the story, interferes with pacing and adds a huge chunk of time. I really wish they hadn’t used this series to reunite Mando and Grogu.

Sounds cool, it means 3.5h of fillers and messy stuff cut 😄

Dunno what’s your plan and if this idea helps but maybe yoy can cut all the twins/krrasantan thing from episodes 1-3 and introduce him with the scenes from chapter 4 where he beats up some people. It would spare us as well the miserable beating Boba got from him before 😄

Out of curiosity, how you are gonna treat the whole mototbike gang? 😉

About Grogu, maybe there’s some way of cutting him completely from the finale and leave the choice scene as the last scene/cliffhanger? This way, even when we see Mando abd Grogu together in the next episode, it will be just obvious the kid chose Mando, doesnt need to be shown on screen.

Anyway, Good luck with editing the finale 😉 if anyone can make this mess a coherent nice sequence, its you.

Maybe use the title of the last episode?

Yeah, that’s what I say 😄

I know I may be a pain with this aspect, but does it make sense (for now at least) to still make it (The Book of) Boba Fett - Episode I?

We don’t really know yet if they plan the 2nd season. So ot would be off to have only Episode I with nothing to follow.
Then, if someone wanna watch SW in chronological order, we have:
Star Wars Episode VI, then Mandalorian Episode I, Episode II and then Boba Episode I 😄
And after Mando s03, it 'll be Mandalorian Episode I, Episode II, Boba Episode I and again Mando Episode III. So it’s like jumping between episodes of different subserieses. Maybe for now it makes more sense to make this Mando Episode III? Or simply Star wars:The book of boba fett or more like A Star Wars Story thing?

Don’t wanna criticise or anything, just sharing some insights about the bigger picture. Who knows, maybe after Ahsoka, it will even make more sense to make all yhos post-RotJ movies Episodes 7,8,9,10 and so on.

So, I made for myself a custom, shorter version of the episode I of smudger9’s TCW. Basically, nothing radical, I just cut most of the the first 39min. I just consider those stories an uber boring filler and I always skipped after the crawl until Chrostopsis part. Just wanted to share here to see of others had a similar idea maybe 😉

So, I cut 20th Century Fox logo, the fanedit org logo (cause I wont post this edit of someone else’s fanedit there, although I left the fanedit claimer in the beginning)
and I left lucasfilm logo along with “Long time ago…”. I added some audio there from TCW 100th celebration video (though I still consider to leave it kust silence or adding the original audio there from the theatrical version).

I left the crawl as in smudger’s version, and after the Anakin approaching shot I cit directly to Grievous / Dooku conversation. The rest is unaltered Smudgers9s brillant work 😉

Here are the first minutes (since the rest is exact the same as smudger9 made it):
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/675958497
Pass : tcw

I know that the transition to Grievous/Dooku scene may not be perfect but that’s all what I could have done with my skills. I still consider cuttinf the whole crawl and starting directly with Obi and Anakin on Chrostopsis though.

Smudger, please, save this mediocre show, you’re our only help 😄

Hi 😉
Are all the google drive links still working? ☺️ For some reason they don’t open for me anymore 😔

Maybe it’s time to redesign those projects to rebrand them as Episodes VII, VIII and so on?

Guardians of the Galaxy could fit nice into SW universe 😉

EddieDean said:

(…) FINALLY it feels like the worthy successor to the sequel trilogy and the Skywalker saga that it should have always been. Two years later than I should have been, I’m finally at peace with this movie.

Nothing more to add here.
Finally we got an enjoyable finale of the Star Wars Saga.
Btw, today I showed it to my dad (he never saw E9 before) and he s still not aware it was a fanedit 😄 During the ghosts scene he was like “oh, finally, there’s Yoda” 😄

Do we have Spanish subs for v2 maybe?

Little update: after completing 17 chapters, the author decided to release a movie version with some upgraded animation scenes. “Heir to the Empire - Part One” will be realeased on Christmas 😉

hinventon said:

I remember someone trying to edit a scene where Ben listens to Lando’s call while flying to exogol, that would be a cool scene.

Wow, that would be actually a very nice thing.

And Billy Dee W actually participated in a lotnof projects, including Dark Empire audio drama, so maybe there d be a piece of dialogue there

Hello there!

So, recently I have been thinking about one particular idea: could Dark Empire (I and maybe II) audio dramas work as a Canon bridge between Ep VI and sequel trilogy of edited wisely? By canon, I mean live action canon, no books/comics continuity taken into consideration.

For me, for some reasons, it actually could make sense.
It could work well in terms of Palpatine’s return. Now we’d have a clear explanation how his clone bodies/spirit transfer work. DE II ends with an open ending if I remember correctly so it 'd make sense that he s gonna return this one more time. Even the whole idea of Palpatine’s return not being such a surprise and the infamous “Somehow Palpatine returned” would make more sense. I mean, if the galaxy knows he has returned before, it makes more sense that they just all accept this news.

Also, DE part I introduces already a darker path for Luke, something that will be explored more in The Last Jedi. And some of Jedi powers shown in E8 and E9 appeared for the first time in DE as well.

About the editing the source material itself, what ‘d need to be cut would be all the mentions of Jacen and Jaina. No more Solo twins in the story.
And the Anakin Solo would need to be changed into Ben Solo. it’ d be even more ironic when they all say how great Jedi he ll become at the end of DE II.
So, not much to edit there tbh. Just trim some dialogues, maybe cut some little scenes and voilà.

Probably I’d cut the crawls as well, just not to mention Thrawn trilogy (it seems they ll be adapting some of it in the Mandalorian).

What do you people think? Would the idea make sense?

PM please ☺️