Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (12/16/16) *SPOILERS*

Collector Freaks Forum

Help Support Collector Freaks Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
I think this would be an interesting approach to one of the stand along movies. A familiar story, or at least a story with familiar pieces, but told from the Imperial point of view. Maybe a group of recruits joining up to fight against the unlawfulness of the rebellion, or a story following a crack team who's desperately trying to locate the rebellion after they destroyed the Death Star.

That would be cool. A mini prequel to each OT movie.

I would like the mini prequel movie to TESB to start off with Palpatine confronting Vader on his failure from the DS lose.

Is Shadows of the Empire cannon?
 
Someone posted an image of digital tarkin on reddit and I did some photoshop work


The Rogue One stuff is so dark looking (original on the right) - in fact the whole first half of the movie was one or two steps too dark. Perhaps we had a sh-tty projector. I can't imagine seeing that with 3d glasses.

I did a few adjustments to exposure&color and it looks closer to the original footage.

uJDSlKo.jpg


I considered softening the focus which would be even closer to the 70's footage. I settled for a "bloom" on his very reflective scalp.


 
Last edited:
I finally saw it for the second time. Picked up some more stuff, like the blue milk and the fate of the original Red Five.

Somehow knowing John Knoll wrote it makes it seem more "legit".
 
I finally saw it for the second time. Picked up some more stuff, like the blue milk and the fate of the original Red Five.

Somehow knowing John Knoll wrote it makes it seem more "legit".

An unproduced Star Wars TV episode script he wrote ten years ago was the starting point for Rogue One's story development - I don't think much of what Knoll wrote ended up in the finished film based on his pretty minor writing credit.

And he supervised CGI FX on the much-maligned late 1990's SW Special Editions and had nothing to do with the OT - so not sure why his involvement would make RO seem more legit.
 
I did not know that. So this movie has connections to that TV show they never got off the ground, wow.

They had a ton of stuff written for it no?
 
I did not know that. So this movie has connections to that TV show they never got off the ground, wow.

They had a ton of stuff written for it no?

They supposedly had all of the scripts written. Production location was moved from Australia to Eastern Europe (several countries) as Lucas shopped for better and better deals - until it just got shelved. It was supposed to be a bit like Sopranos. In the end, after trying to save millions, they ended up wasting millions developing something that never happened - but they took a core idea from Knoll's episode and it became RO, so it was worthwhile in that regard.
 
An unproduced Star Wars TV episode script he wrote ten years ago was the starting point for Rogue One's story development - I don't think much of what Knoll wrote ended up in the finished film based on his pretty minor writing credit.

And he supervised CGI FX on the much-maligned late 1990's SW Special Editions and had nothing to do with the OT - so not sure why his involvement would make RO seem more legit.


I didn't have a problem with the SE or PT... so that's why! :D
 
I didn't have a problem with the SE or PT... so that's why! :D

Whether you like the SE additions (and the PT) in terms of story or not, what I mean is FX execution - Knoll's job.

SE Jabba looked awful in both the theatrical and home video releases (they took two shots at it, both equally poorly done) - that's what I mean in terms of Knoll and the OT. Whether it was necessary or a "because we can and it would be cool," the idea of a CGI Jabba added to the D94 scene could have worked from a technical point of view, but the CGI was so phony it destroyed any chance of it working.
 
Back
Top