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Topher Grace's Star Wars Prequel edit

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I wish I could see this.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/topher-grace-edited-all-the-star-wars-prequels-int,70527/

AV Club said:
Topher Grace edited all the Star Wars prequels into a single movie and apparently it's pretty good

By Sean O'Neal March 7, 2012
There have been many after-the-fact edits of the Star Wars prequels made over the years—some without Jar-Jar, some where no one speaks but Jake Lloyd, whatever George Lucas did today—but few if any of these edits have been done by actor Topher Grace. Until recently, anyway, as self-proclaimed film geek Grace reportedly gave himself a crash course in editing by compiling his very own cut of the Star Wars prequels, combining footage from all three movies, a few scenes from the original trilogy, and even some dialogue and music from a Star Wars audiobook and episodes of The Clone Wars, then stringing them all together into one streamlined movie. Final run time: Around 85 minutes, or the approximate length of a single conversation about the Trade Federation.
And whaddayaknow, according to /Film writer Peter Sciretta (who saw a private screening), Grace’s Star Wars III.5: The Editor Strikes Back still manages to tell a complete, surprisingly moving story of Anakin Skywalker’s rise and fall even while making some severe cuts—namely, everything about blockades or taxes or whatever, that whole cloning subplot, the myriad debate scenes in the Galactic Senate, midichlorians, “Noooooo!” and pretty much the entirety of The Phantom Menace, including all of Jake Lloyd’s scenes and most of Jar-Jar, who’s here reduced to a single line of dialogue. As it turns out, many of these things were not entirely necessary.
Anyway, you can read a thorough description here of Grace’s version, which Sciretta proclaims “probably the best possible edit of the Star Wars prequels given the footage released and available”—and which, of course, you’ll probably never actually get to see, unless George Lucas goes on some sort of nitrous bender or something. Incidentally, this marks Topher Grace’s second appearance in Newswire today, which means that the Midwest can expect rain soon.
 
Interesting. Reminds me of the "Machete Order" (which removes TPM entirely) that we were all talking about here a couple of months back.
 
I have started and stopped my own version of the same thing several times. Often because I get to busy or plainly to bored of the prequals to even care about doing it. I too would be interested in seeing this.
 
There's a dedicated fan community out there with around nine billion different re-edits of the Star Wars films and the prequels. (I remember once seeing an trailers made for a version that would edit the Anakin story to be something running simultaneously with Luke's story, in a kind of The Godfather II sort of way). I wonder how Grace's edit would compare to those, but if you really want to see 'improved' Star Wars, it's out there.
 
There's a dedicated fan community out there with around nine billion different re-edits of the Star Wars films and the prequels. (I remember once seeing an trailers made for a version that would edit the Anakin story to be something running simultaneously with Luke's story, in a kind of The Godfather II sort of way). I wonder how Grace's edit would compare to those, but if you really want to see 'improved' Star Wars, it's out there.
This. Fanedit.org lists dozens of SW prequel edits alone... but, in the end, imho, when it comes to Eps. I-III, the Only Winning Move is Not to Play. :p
 
Here is my Edit, I fixed your mistake

But, in the end, imho, when it comes to Eps. I-III, the Only Whining Move is Not to Play.
 
I just want to see a cooking show where Mace Windu shows the public how he can cook many different imaginary starwars creatures rectally with his purple light sabre.

Or a cook off?

Where mace Windu and Obiwan see who can bumfry more Womprats than the other in 2 minutes.
 
Sounds interesting.

Now if Topher could edit himself out of SPIDER-MAN 3 and PREDATORS, maybe those would be much improved.
 
In other news Danny Masterson has made a killer playlist that he's shared with his girlfriend.
 
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I don't see why he just doesn't put it up on YouTube.


Basically uploading someone's work in such a way has a lot of legal traps.

Of course, there are tremendous legal issues which would prevent him from screening the edit in public. He has no intention of uploading the footage online, and doing a screening at, say, Comic-Con, would require uncle George’s permission — which probably would never happen.
 
I've had the displeasure of seeing it.
Admittedly, it is superior by all accounts to any of the prequels simply because much of the insipid dialogue, cardboard characters, and naive political machinations have been removed.
Mind you, that's like saying that my shit smells better than yours. It's still shit.

-Jamman
 
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