Now my view on childhood only existed on 35mm optical Dolby stereo 4.2.4 If I had knew what 70mm was back around 1980 chances are I’d be sniffing around it like dog. Well I’ll say fair play to Adywan good show for the long arguer’s task. Wanna chat SW with me on Facebook!?! Friend me at chad.wayne1 facebook.
SO, I guess my point is… PLEASE Ady, KICK IT UP A NOTCH!!! and TELL ME HOW TO GET A COPY!!! Can’t wait… Sure, the pod race THUMP-THUMP-THUMP of Sebulba’s drives was INTENSE (could have been the shroom enhanced viewing?) but other then that…. Now before you guys “bomb” my e-mail with how SW’s has the best sound in the Galaxy, I agree! It just that I always thought it could use a bit more. Ryan’s opening battle put you right smack dab on the beach? Well, I always thought that was what SW lacked. You get my point? I would like to see a Blu-ray release of Ady’s Empire (is that even possible?) and also a little more BASE on the Hoth battle… I want to “feel” the AT-AT’s coming thru my house a mile (or parsec) away! You know how watching pvt. and maybe some whip cream, OH! and a little hot fudge. Kind of like a ice cream sunday… He just add’s the chery. The ONLY thing that upsets me about the Adywan “updates” is that HE HASN’T DONE THEM ALL ALREADY!!! Absolutely perfect in EVERY WAY! Sure, EMPIRE is perfect but still, I can only imagine what he will do with it! Truth is, like most SW fans… After seeing said film’s a BAZILLION times, it’s nice to see something “fresh”… Afterall, the integrity of the films are still intact. Don’t miss the A New Hope Revisited Change List!.Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Revisited is scheduled for release to the internet sometime in 2011.“As long as it takes” should be the mantra for fans waiting, because the wait will be worth it. It is a worthy goal, and the time he is spending on it shows greatly. Adywan isn’t making the Special Edition Lucas should have made he’s making the version Young Adywan saw in theaters, using his modern skills to fill in where his imagination had to back in 1980. The version I watched was a rough cut, with most effects shots being marked “TEMP VIDEO”, but the ideas were all there. The pointless Special Edition scene expansions are cut seamlessly away, almost making this more of a restoration of the theatrical version than a fan edit of the 2004 Special Edition. Cloud City is the beautiful city in the clouds the Special Edition hinted at so briefly. Yoda is more emotive and less puppet-like. The feeling of excitement during the Battle of Hoth and the Asteroid Field are back thanks to the enhancements giving them more depth. I’ll try to explain what I mean.Īll of the flaws you overlooked when you were young but bothered you now that you’re older are gone. He also sent one to me to get my opinion on what I thought of it so far.Įmpire The Way Your Childhood Remembers ItĪ New Hope Revisited may be what the Special Edition should have been, but Empire Strikes Back Revisited is the way you want to remember Empire when you first saw it. Rogue Squadron) by sending them a rough draft workprint of the work he had completed through June 2010.
Empire is widely regarded as a “perfect” movie by fans, so some have feared that Adywan’s enhancements will detract from the perfection, especially after Adywan started talking about how he was going to build physical models and create all new shots with them and even found a group of costumers in California to film some new shots of Rebel Troopers fleeing the Imperial Walkers to replace some bad mattes.Īfter several delays, pushing his release date from May 2010 (the 30th anniversary of Empire) to December 2010 to sometime in 2011, Adywan decided to encourage the costuming group (a.k.a. Shortly after he released his version of A New Hope, he moved on to The Empire Strikes Back.
While he was in there, he decided to further enhance the movie with new effects and almost a completely new sound mix, creating what most fans believe the Special Edition should have been. This involved color balancing the entire movie to fix something that had gone wrong on the DVD, re-rotoscoping every lightsaber and blaster bolt, and basically going over the movie with a fine-toothed comb to fix mistakes most people wouldn’t even realize were there. He attempted to fix most of the continuity errors, enhance the existing special effects, and remove a lot of the ill-advised CG additions Lucas made to the movie in 1997. This guy called Adywan was about to release an edit of the original Star Wars ( Episode IV: A New Hope). A couple of years ago I was introduced to a fan-edit project called “Star Wars Revisited”.