Well, I was hoping tonight to start rendering the mpv file for the new V2 cut of
TBKR, only to find that the video file of the new Dooku scenes have been corrupted.... so, now I have to re-rotoscope Dooku's lightsaber for the new scenes... again.
For those curious (most likely Frink, of all people
), here's an updated list of the new cuts and edits to
The Black Knight Rises V2:
1. Added a few more scenes of the Corusant space battle back into the film's opening sequence
2. Cut Obi-Wan's frantic line of the command ship's shields still being up, along with Anakin's "Sorry Master" line
3. Extended Obi-Wan's and Anakin's infiltration of Grevious's ship - they now locate Palpatine's tracking signal, Obi-Wan senses a trap, and says they'll "spring the trap" when Anakin asks their next move (I cut the shot of Anakin saying that he sensed Count Dooku and the scene after Obi-Wan's "spring the trap" line that involves R2-D2 staying behind with the ship)
4. Extended the Anakin/Dooku duel - it now has back the scene of Dooku telling Anakin that he senses fear, hate, and anger inside of him (I did cut the end of his speech to remove Dooku's last line of "But you don't use them")
5. Removed and edited nearly all of the Anakin/Padme reunion sequence - now they just embrace each other, followed by fading out to Anakin's nightmare
6. Removed the shot of Anakin running up the stairs outside of the "Opera House"
7. Cut the shot of Yoda saying "Quickly and decisively, we should proceed"
(don't know why, but I always felt that that scene had redundant dialog and Yoda looked stupid waving his hand like that)
8. Cut the scene of the clonetrooper telling Yoda that the droids are advancing, followed by Yoda saying "Then now the time is" - the scene now cuts from Yoda walking to oversee the battlefield to the Wookiees preparing for battle
9. Re-edited Obi-Wan's and Anakin's last scene together as friends before Obi-Wan leaves to find Grevious - Anakin now says that he's disappointed Obi-Wan, that he hasn't appreciated his master's training, to which Obi-Wan replies that he's very proud of Anakin
10. Pitched Mon Mothma's voice slightly higher so that she sounds a bit younger
11. Cut several shots of the "dragon" mount that Obi-Wan rides chirping and shouting at the Federation ship where Grevious is
12. Removed Obi-Wan's "Hello" to Grevious
( he lands silently and the audience thinks he's gotten the drop on Grevious, before the droid guards spin around to attack)
13. Lowered the volume of Mace Windu's "No" line to Anakin about coming to arrest Palpatine
(for some reason, Lucasfilm really raised the volume of his line, apparently to make him sound more forceful than how that character was speaking... although honestly, I suspect that this line is in fact an ADR line by Jackson and what he was saying in this scene was actually much different than what's really in the film)
14. Added back in the end of Sidious line "... to save Padme" when he tells Anakin to not hesitate and show no mercy in order to grow strong in the Dark Side
15. Cut Yoda calling the dead Jedi boy a "padawan" when he and Obi-Wan find the slain children in the Temple
16. Removed Obi-Wan's line to Yoda to "send him to kill the Emperor" and slightly re-edited the part where he states that he can not kill Anakin
17. Slightly re-edited the opening of the Obi-Wan/Anakin confrontation where Anakin Force-chokes Padme (to quicken the pacing of the scene and used a different shot of Obi-Wan at the top of the ship stairs when Anakin first sees him)
18. Cut numerous shots from Anakin burning alive and Obi-Wan watching him
(so it doesn't seem like Obi-Wan waits around forever watching Anakin burn to a crisp - now he just looks back briefly before he walks away from Anakin staring at him in anger as he burns)
