Yes, we all know it’s a disgrace, we all loath this horrifying cinematic failure… but for the last year I have been working on this film to make it just about worthy to bare the Star Wars name, I’ve always looked on previous edits of this movie and thought each has it’s merits, but to me they still never fully captured the Star Wars feel, so I decided to make my own using various reviews of TPM (including of course RedLetterMedia) and previous edits of TPM for ideas, I’ve been using Sony Vegas and Adobe After Effects to make this, which is what Adywan used for making Star Wars Revisited.
Changes I have made are to cut out most Anakin scenes and to make Obi-Wan a more Luke Skywalker type character and to make him seem more “reckless” Qui-Gon is no longer a member of the Jedi Order but a Rogue Jedi who left the Order, this is to explain the lack of Yoda as Obi-Wan’s master as Obi-Wan in his “reckless” ways leaves the Order to complete his training under this Rogue Jedi Qui-Gon. I have reworked many scenes to make Palpatine and Sidius seem more like two completely different people by cutting out most of Palpatine’s blatently obvious sinister looks and suggestions, to add to this touch I used After Effects to give Sidius the white prune face, that’s clouded over to everyone as he plays his roll as Palpatine, “the dark side clouds everything”.
I have done colour corrections and some changes to the score, Naboo is now Alderaan, there is no C3PO in my edit, and in terms of Jar Jar, he is cut out as much as possible and will be revoiced in English allong with Boss Nass, Captain Tarpels and the Nemoidians, using dialogue from Magnoliafan’s “Balance Of The Force” which I would strongly reckomend as it’s one of the best edits of TPM I’ve seen.
I wish I could describe this edit further but I don’t want to stray away from what I need to ask. The release date of this edit was 19/05/11, however it’s still yet to be released because I had to take time off for personal reasons from April to September. Then after the release of the blu ray I wanted to go a step further and have the cgi Yoda aswell but my computer is not advanced enough to rip blu rays or to read any of the blu ray torrents, so this project is at a stand still until I can have the blu ray to work off, if anyone on here can help me by just posting TPM blu ray on youtube so I can download it off there I’d really appreciate it, we’re all Star Wars fans here and I promise I’ll give you something worth watching if you can help me out 😃