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                       And I bet Han still shoots first!
                                        
> His idea was to edit the Star Wars prequels into one movie, as they would
> provide him a lot of footage to work with. He used footage from all three
> prequels, a couple cuts from the original trilogy, some music from The
> Clone Wars television series, and even a dialogue bit from Anthony Daniels’
> (C-3PO) audio book recordings. He even created a new opening text crawl to
> set up his version of the story.
> 
> The result is an 85-minute movie titled **Star Wars: Episode III.5: The
> Editor Strikes Back**. It should be noted that the Star Wars prequel
> trilogy is almost 7 hours in total length, and the shortest film (Episode
> 1) is more than 51 minutes longer than Grace’s fan cut. What this means is
> a lot of footage ended up on the editing room floor, and a lot of creative
> choices were made in the editing process. And the result? Topher Grace’s
> Star Wars film is probably the best possible edit of the Star Wars prequels
> given the footage released and available.
> 

Via Jason Kottke [1], “Topher Grace Edited The ‘Star Wars’ Prequels Into One
85- Minute Movie and We Saw It | /Film [2]”

Personally, I would love to see this version. Heck, I'd like to see any of
the subsequent re-edits from anybody other than George “Despoiler of
Childhood Memories” Lucas.

Heck, even the “It's not Star Wars as you know it” comic Darth & Droids [3]
(the conceit: it's a role playing game) delivers a much better and more
coherent storyline than what George “I should have stuck to editing” Lucas
ever came up with.

What? Me, bitter?

[1] http://kottke.org/12/03/new-
[2] http://www.slashfilm.com/topher-grace-edited-star-wars-prequels-
[3] http://www.darthsanddroids.net/archive.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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