Star Wars: The Black Knight Rises
by JasonNThis fanedit combines the best aspects from other RotS fanedits along with many of my own concepts/edits to create a definitive version of “Revenge of the Sith”.
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(9 votes, average: 7.56 out of 10, rated)
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Original Titles: Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
New Title: Star Wars: The Black Knight Rises
Original Runtime: 140 minutes (2 hours, 20 minutes)
New Runtime: 100 minutes (1 hours, 40 minutes)
Time Cut: 44-45 minutes
Time Added: 3-4 minutes
AVI Release Information
- - Resolution: 720×320
- - Audio format: 5.1 Dolby Surround
- - Language: English
DVD-9 Release Information
- DVD Format: NTSC – DVD9-DL
- Region: 0 (region free)
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1, 16×9 widescreen
- Audio format: 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Language: English
- Subtitles: none
- Custom DVD Menus
- DVD Extras: Fanedit Trailers – “Star Wars: Attack of the Federation” and “Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic”
Major Cuts/Edits/Changes
- 01. Added a new title crawl (developed from an After Effects “Star Wars title crawl” sequence originally created by Taolar)
- 02. Major cuts/edits to the Anakin, Padme, Obi-Wan, Yoda, Mace, General Grievous, and Palpatine characters
- 03. Tried to edit the Obi-Wan/Anakin relationship to be more akin to a elder brother or friend relationship (much less of this constant “my young padawan” or “yes Master” crap)
- 04. Count Dooku is no longer “Darth Tyranous” and has absolutely NO connection to the Sith – he is still a Jedi (abit a rebel Jedi) in my Prequel fanedits
- 05. Dooku’s lightsaber has been rotoscoped purple instead of “Sith red”
- 06. Removed the subplots of “Jedi not being able to marry” and “Anakin keeping his marriage to Padme is a secret”
- 07. Re-edited Anakin’s post-nightmare talk with Padme to heighten their relationship and remove poor acting
- 08. Removed scene of General Grevious arriving on Utopa and speaking with Sidious
- 09. Edited the “Jedi spying on Palpatine” subplot to better reflect the Jedis’ suspicions of Palpatine, increase Anakin’s anger toward the Council, and remove any mention of the “Chosen One” prophecy
- 10. Added the deleted “Plot to Destroy the Jedi?” scene back into the film
- 11. Trimmed the “Opera House” scenes a bit to remove Anakin being caught about spying on Palaptine and to remove the dialogue regarding midiclorians
- 12. Added the deleted “A Stirring in the Senate – Bail’s Office” scene back into the film
- 13. Re-edited the “Mace VS Palpatine” duel (along with the following “Anakin’s choice” scenes) to remove redundant elements and increase drama
- 14. Re-edited the “Order 66″ sequence to include the Clonetroopers attack on the Jedi Temple and Anakin’s encounter with the younglings
- 15. Rotoscoped Yoda’s lightsaber to be purple
- 16. Removed Obi-Wan/Yoda’s attack on the clonetroopers outside the Temple
- 17. Added additional children screams to the audio during the hologram playback of Anakin attacking the Jedi Temple
- 18. Completely removed the “Yoda VS Sidious” duel from the film
- 19. Re-edited the final battle into a single duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin
- 20. Removes Padme “losing the will to live” reference
- 21. Padme now gives birth to only Luke
- 22. Cut and re-edited the “Birth of Darth Vader” sequence to remove overtly ’stupid’ plotpoints
- 23. Replaced the shots of the WIP Death Star from Vader’s final scenes and replaced it with the planet Coruscant
- 24. Film now ends with Padme, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan/Luke sequences
- 25. Added “Faneditor’s credit” to the end credits
Software Used: Sony Vegas 7 (video editing), Adobe Photoshop CS2 (image editing), Bahaus Mirage (compositing), Adobe After Effects 6.5 (compositing), Sony Sound Forge 8 (audio editing), Sony DVD Architect 4.5 (DVD authoring)
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This is now my preferred cut of the film. I’m interested to see the editor’s take on RotJ to align the continuity with this and the edits of Leia’s birth.
Review by Moe_Syzlak — April 8, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
9 / 10
One of the best-ever fan edits of Episode III I’ve ever had the pleasure to see. Intelligent cuts made the pace of the film flow tremendously better, and even the addition of a couple of deleted sequences were much welcome. Of all the things I enjoyed the most, it had to be the final duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan. Edited into one continuous sequence, I was fairly gobsmacked at how much better it played out.
Only two things did not work as well for me: the first being (after the insertion of the first so-called “Birth of the Rebellion” scene) the jump to Padmé’s apartment (with a sudden passage of time) and, more importantly, the Emperor not appearing on Mustafar to collect the wounded Anakin. Other than those two points, everything else about this edit was near perfect.
Review by p3jedi — May 24, 2009 @ 4:22 am
Amazing edits, all three of them are great. Keep it up.
Review by AbsolutFireman — May 26, 2009 @ 1:23 am
I Really Loved the Phantom Menace edit by Jasonn. I Also liked this one except one thing that bothered me is that there is no Leia at the end
Review by pokemonkey — August 13, 2009 @ 4:44 am
Great job JasonN
I also would have left Leia at he end (or totaly cut Padme naming the twins) but I know your reason for that.
Review by TMBTM — October 29, 2009 @ 8:34 am