timdiggerm

Aah, that's a good idea - The "Imperial Facility" could be something on Couruscant itself. I imagine following the insertion vehicle down into the City, either covertly or literally blazing past defenses, could be pretty exciting.

As for the plans--->DSII fade, I agree that it doesn't feel Star Warsy, but I wanted a good way to transition to Vader scene.

CP3S said:

Tim will never cuddle with his R2-D2 plushie in quite the same way again...

Har har. For some reason, I had got it into my head that the relationship between Luke and Artoo was like a guy and his kid sister. I guess little brother works too.

Idea I just had:

Completely re-do the opening to ROTJ, with a newly filmed scene of Bothan spies entering an Imperial facility and stealing the DSII plans along with the info about the Emperor's itinerary. The crawl can easily be adjusted as necessary, something about "Even now some of the Rebellion's operatives are seeking to capture information necessary for a new assault. . ." Many of them die (obviously), but one makes it to their extraction point, where he boards some kind of transport/shuttle and escapes.

GUY ON SHUTTLE: Did you get it?

THE BOTHAN WHO LIVED: Everything we need, and then some.

He pulls out a little holo-emitter and holds up the projection of the plans, on the left side of the camera. The shot then fades (okay, maybe a nice wipe...) to what we know as the ROTJ opening, with the DSII visually replacing the orange plans.

Problems:

• Writing, Filming, Directing, etc a somewhat long and involved sequence that would involve Bothans (costume/makeup) and Stormtroopers and probably Officers as well as special effects. I mean, we're talking a ~5-min short film with music and blasters and everything. And it all has to look like it fits in the same movie as the rest of ROTJ. This is obviously a major problem.
• Characters we've never seen before and won't see again, unless you can insert them into the Briefing (or we conflate/undisambiguate Bothans with Prunefaces)
• Does it even feel like Star Wars?
• I'm sure someone will tell me it's world-shrinkage or something

Advantages:

• Exciting intro to a movie that starts pretty slow
• Shows us another side of the Rebellion
• Adds length to a movie that, after meeting the judicious fan-editor, is probably shorter than the others in the Saga.

So, thoughts?

Dangit.

Never mind. As some would say, /thread

It's pretty well agreed on that Threepio is portrayed as male. Some would say a gay man, but a man nonetheless.

Am I the only one who thinks Artoo is a girl?

Needs more carbon-scoring and a disc that's jammed in there real good.

Needless to say, this is going to open a whole new chapter of work for this site. Full-assed work.

EyeShotFirst said:

I wonder if George will pull a "you have to buy the complete saga" crap to get deleted scenes. He would do that just to shit on the original trilogy fans.

I do believe this is already confirmed to be the case.

But I'm sure we'll all buy them in order to watch fanedits that use the deleted footage.

Yes, yes, yes

Yeah, that could be a real bear to clean up, if it's even possible. I'm not very knowledgeable about such things.

Posted over in the ESB/ROTJ Wishlist:

OT Deleted Scenes Trailer: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80121

Things I noticed:

• The ROTJ footage seems in the worst quality, which is awful news to fan editors. Anyone want to speculate on how well this stuff can be cleaned up?
• That being said, it was really great to actually see the Bunker's innards and the Mon Cal pilot
• This confirms all the basic categories of deleted scenes I can think of, other than Sail Barge stuff
• That shot of Luke & Treadwell is in much better condition than I expected, particularly in the color department
• Oh god I can see why they gave up on the Wampa

Check your PMs

joshdv said:

Harmy to recreate jabba the puppet and film the scene again? ;-)

NO ONE SUGGEST THIS TO ADYWAN PLEASE I BEG YOU

Oh that's...uh....great....

I really appreciate that Anchorhead's contribution includes a refusal to listen to it. I'm not disagreeing with your choice whatsover, but I do like how it's very in keeping with your views on other topics.

Seven Samurai (1954), The Magnificent Seven (1960), A Bug's Life (1998)

I haven't seen the original, but it's considered a classic. I've seen the other two, and they're both excellent, though obviously A Bug's Life is a bit different in tone.

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Jaitea said:

timdiggerm said:

At the very least, the Star Destroyer is moving much faster in the last shot, which is jarring and doesn't make sense.

Well the SD's speed was based on the original footage.......I think it matches.....dunno?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F2nq6OdVfQ

J

 

Oh.

Never mind...

We haven't quite hit the 2 year mark, and he's already at 18000+. His post-rate has more than doubled!

At the very least, the Star Destroyer is moving much faster in the last shot, which is jarring and doesn't make sense.

If you're not an experienced space pilot, are you going to think "This weird cave is actually a slug!"? I'm okay with the answer being "no".

Done

PM'd

However, Lowry Digital originally created either 4k2k or 8k4k masters at the time (my memory is a little vague) not 1080p ones.

Is that news for us? I forget.