The problem with these rewrites is I can't decide which ones by which KZreadr is my favorite! 😫

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

The real question is has anybody managed to do a rewrite that's *worse* than the Disney trilogy!?

@prismarCRAFT

4 ай бұрын

@@kcreviews8161 i saw one where they made rey han solo's daughter after he had an affair :/

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

@@prismarCRAFT Honestly, I think a lot of other rewrites are gimicky and not very good because they include things like that, and I think that my rewrite is good because it avoids all that, but I didn't want to sound arrogant

@prismarCRAFT

4 ай бұрын

@@kcreviews8161 you dont sound arrogant i agree with you, you only change stuff to improve your story, some ppl even change the whole story and go as far as to change the NAME of the movie!

@youssefmesrati340

2 ай бұрын

​@@prismarCRAFTare you talking about phoenix studios rewrite of rey being han solo's daughter?

This was an amazing wrap-up to your rewrites (which I just listened to back-to-back). The final message at the end, wrapping up the entire saga, was far more profound than anything the actual Sequel Trilogy vomited out, all while using so many of the same story beats as that awful train wreck. You, Sir, are a real writer. Thank you for the excellent videos.

Just finished and this is by far the best rewrite of the sequel trilogy that I've ever heard. Amazing stuff.

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Do you imagine palpatine having a demonic looking spirit when it gets yanked from his body….since it spends the while film concealed beneath a cloud of dark energy and then inhabiting a partially regenerated body….what does his actual soul look like

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

That's a really interesting question! I hadn't thought about it, but I imagine it definitely looking dark. Demonic would make sense. In the actual version of this movie that will never actually be made, it would be interesting to see how it looked

@billmcdermott9647

4 ай бұрын

I sort of impression from what you described that he has 4 forms throughout the film 1. A billowing cloud of energy rising from the mystical pool this would just be voice acting 2. A motion capture role for the partially reborn emperor but mostly CGI 3. Fully resurrected with Ian mcdarmid in full costume on screen 4. The real spirit that’s underneath the cloud of dark side energy cgi again I probably put too much thought into it @@kcreviews8161

In listing LOTR and HP as examples of villains appearing much more menacing after a huge defeat, honestly you kind of invalidate your critique that the sequels shouldn’t have been made at all… cause those examples WORK REALLY WELL (but hey you’re here rewriting sequels anyway so there ya go)

My own story that is separate to the rewritten sequel trilogy, a republic and a separatist battle group have went missing in the outer rim near the unknown regions and have encountered a planet that's not even on any known star chart. And they discovered nearly intact starships from a time that is around 3,000 years ago. The two fleets do enter into a reluctant alliance and started to repair the damage their ships had suffered from the unknown anomaly that affected their hyperdrives and also in process made a long time effort to bring the old starships left on the planet back from that place to bring more ships to the field even if they're dinosaurs in comparison to the new ships. The combined fleet does escape the purgatory of a planet and once they returned to the galaxy they had been isolated from, around 50 years had past and they witness a galaxy still locked in war between the New Republic and the First Order. And their final decision was to fight on the side of the New Republic and with more courage while using outdated ships. It's my own idea, and I hope it's a cool one.

Well done is an understatement. Thank you.

1k subscribers? You're incredibly underrated imao

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

Spread the word! If you tell 2 friends and those 2 friends each tell 2 friends then eventually the whole world will be subscribed

43:20 Sorry, got a bit confused here. Did she find the lightsaber in the Death Star wreckage, or did she already have it? Luke had his lightsaber with him at the end of Ep. 6, I don't think it'd be on the Death Star

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

Uh oh I think here you've genuinely just caught me out on lacking Star Wars knowledge. I always just assumed because Luke threw his lightsaber away when he refused to kill vader and the fact we never see it in any of the other films, that it was left on the death star!

@milesfernando

4 ай бұрын

@kcreviews8161 The green saber is what Luke used to (almost) kill Kylo in the Ep. 8 flashback. If I remember correctly, you can also see it on Luke's belt in Ep. 6 while he's burning Anakin's body. *Oh, it's also what he uses in Mandalorian season 2

@burdy707

4 ай бұрын

@@kcreviews8161i understand the confusion for sure cuz we don’t actually see luke retrieve the lightsaber in ROTJ, but we see him use the same green saber in the mandolorian s2 as well as in his attempted murder of kylo in TLJ

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

@@burdy707 Oh jeez! At some point maybe I'll have to do a rewrite of these rewrites to account for this error!

@EbonyManta

4 ай бұрын

I was wondering that too, actually. I suppose it's not the biggest inconsistency out there. Maybe she could find Darth Vader's instead? Possibly spend a bit of time "purifying" the crystal so it's a proper Jedi color again.

I've waited for the final installment since I watched the Episode 8 rewrite. Great work, KC!

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

Glad to be of service!

Bro put in thrice the writing effort than went into the entire trilogy into one movie 😭

Can you do a rewriting on the 2015 Fantastic Four movie, Batman vs Superman, Amazing Spider-Man 2 and the Monster Squad?

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

I mean my next thing plan was latter season game of thrones, or Harry Potter, but I did have Spider-man as a plan at some point, and the DCEU.

@billmcdermott9647

3 ай бұрын

@@kcreviews8161 oh game of thrones sounds good

@srstriker6420

3 ай бұрын

@@kcreviews8161well you do Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was under the impression that Peter doesn’t seem to know the Osborns as he did stole a man’s identity to sneak into Oscorp in the first movie and it feels more towards Norman with this mysterious Gentleman as I feel like this Peter Parker is anti capitalist like he is those kind of people who believe all rich people are crooked and that they will exploit you so that would have been a better reason to why he wouldn’t give his blood as that blood thing is one of the reasons why that failed just to make Peter as Chosen one which he is not.

@kcreviews8161

3 ай бұрын

@@srstriker6420 That's an interesting interpretation. I mean it's definitely true that neither the MacGuire Spider-Man nor the Garfield Spider-Man are anything like in the MCU where he's basically the protege of a literal billionaire! And I 100% agree that the great thing about Spider-Man is the escapism in the idea that this could happen to anyone! That's the fun of the fantasy, so having this whole backstory about his parents and his special bloodline absolutely goes against that. That's also a reason why I dislike the idea that he designs the web-shooters, honestly, because it's all quite coincidental that a guy happens to get bitten by a spider and also has the technical ability to design web shooters. I prefer the idea that he just has the ability to fire the webs himself, even if that's kind of gross

Have you played the game Star Wars: The Old Republic? If you play to the end of the Onslaught expansion (a single month's subscription and immediate cancellation would allow this), you will get plenty of ideas about emporers.

@kcreviews8161

4 ай бұрын

I haven't played that game, but I've heard about it. Or I've heard about Knights of the Old Republic. I guess they're different names?

@martineyles

4 ай бұрын

@@kcreviews8161 Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 are single player RPGs, and Star Wars The Old Republic is a MMORPG sequel to those games, which can be played as a single player RPG game, and probably contains more story than both of them. You can play the MMO for free, but the things that are relevant to the rewrite here are more in the expansions (KOTFE and KOTET). Best to play the original KOTOR before SWTOR if you don't want spoilers. This relies on you having plenty of free time. I have 112 and 120 logged hours in KOTOR i and ii.

So many captures it's hard to keep up. They'd surely be dead if caught as much as this.

I just want to point out that the term "Skywalker Saga" basically didn't exist before 2019, and that following through on bringing back its villain if anything makes the series the Palpatine Saga... that said, unless you make Kylo the ultimate bad guy, a kind of usurper the way Vader wasn't, I don't see a better solution. Food for thought.

Commenting to engage

@kcreviews8161

3 ай бұрын

Thank you really appreciate that!

I thought you said you were going to have Luk tearfully apologise to Kylo. That would have been better.

YEAH IT'S HERE! Ahem. I made a rather detailed reaction to the first video but never got around to the second. Now that the third rewrite is here, I'm going to make the time to respond to it while it's hot off the presses. Relatively speaking. And my first comment isn't even about the rewrite, but about the ratings of the actual movie. Honestly... people in the Star Wars community frequently criticize the sequel films, and there's certainly a lot to criticize, but I sometimes wonder if that accurately reflects the opinion of the average person who went to see the films in the theater. That is, the people who aren't diehard fans. Is it a bad thing if the fans don't like something but the general public does? Well, that depends on how inherently unpleasable the fanbase is. It doesn't help also that I've seen at least one “review” of The Force Awakens that was not even remotely as insightful as yours, and I stopped watching it when I decided that the person involved was actively looking for things to complain about just to pad out the video, even when it made no sense to do so. How much of the vitriol that the sequels get is likewise complaining for the sake of it? That's why I like your videos. Few things prove that you know what you're talking about as much as suggesting something better. It's also far more useful to me as a writer, to see both the criticism and a suggestion as to how things SHOULD have been. And I like to focus on something positive. It's far too easy to be negative, and I've long passed the point where I got anything out relentless negativity. I'd much rather read or watch the content of people who WANT something to work, so they find a way to MAKE it work. That's the mark of a true fan, I think. Anyway, let's continue! I... am not whether I agree or disagree with the idea that, ultimately, Palpatine had to return in order for the sequels to be meaningful. Your reasoning makes sense, and it's logical to write it so that the sequels are the end of Palpatine's story just as they're the end of the story of the heroes. The prequels are about Palpatine's rise, and the original movies are about his downfall, with the sequel movies effectively extending that downfall. I think you COULD write a sequel trilogy without him and have it work... but if *I* were to make a sequel trilogy, it would be set centuries in the future with no connection to the characters of the Lucas 6 (could one even call it a sequel trilogy at that point?), so I'm not really interested in coming up with a Palpatine-less version of the actual sequel films, myself. I would have let the victories of the heroes and the defeat of Palpatine be as unambiguous as it seemed at the time. ...And I'm gonna ignore that the Legends EU brought back Palpatine. I like the bit with Rey casually mind-tricking the other inmates, and even as I heard you describe it, I pretty much got the message you wanted to communicate. I thought, “She's been using the opportunity to practice, but it's also troubling that she's at the point where she's using the Force for minor conveniences and amusement at others' expense.” Honestly, I think you're the one who really got me thinking about what a character's behavior communicates to the viewer, and that's something I haven't always thought about in my own writing. For once, Poe doesn't lose all his men! Also a good way to get the gang back together. Well, part of it. You're right about having to tie everything together in the third movie, and this is where the sequels really suffered - the lack of a consistent vision, or even of all that much foreplanning. That pretty much guaranteed that we were going to get a patchwork set of themes, a meandering plot, and various other issues like actively contradicting previous films. Drawing a comparison to The Lord of the Rings is a good one. By the end of the third film - hell, even the middle - you had the sense that everything that had happened previously had led up to the climax. It's a good feeling. Not much to say about the next scene with Rey, but it's definitely leading up to something as well. Finn and Poe have often been a great source of debates in this series. The bit in the first movie rewrite, with Finn defending the First Order's tactics with “Innocent people are always going to suffer. At least this way we're making the bad guys afraid,” is one of my favorite statements in all media. The scene here seems to almost be a callback, with Finn apparently continuing to believe that achieving a noble goal is worth getting your hands dirty. Poe seems to represent the idealism of the New Republic at its best, while Finn has a much darker perspective. In this case I kinda side with Finn here - targeting the enemy's supply chain is a pretty basic tenet of war. War is rarely about being fair or taking the moral high ground, even when it should be, but privateering seems to me to be one of the less repugnant examples of dishonorable actions. I really like the idea of Luke's Force Ghost giving the appearance of life. I was dismayed when Luke became one with the Force at the end of the Last Jedi, particularly since I thought it was brilliant that he'd tricked Kylo Ren into dueling him and giving the Resistance a chance to escape, when in fact Luke wasn't really there and Kylo had no hope of killing him, making the duel a complete waste of Kylo's time. And you're right - it is a very Jedi thing to do. It was just a shame that he might as well have been there physically, since the sacrifice was very real. Even as the film ended, though, it occurred to me that this end for Luke could still have narrative value - he's gone, but Kylo and the First Order don't know that, and could potentially be tricked by the Resistance into chasing ghosts, literally, wasting the First Order's time, attention, and resources since Kylo once again can't kill Luke. Alas, the Rise of Skywalker did not deliver. Anyway, a bit of the scene is lost, I think, by the audience's knowledge that Luke is dead. After all, it's one hell of a mini-journey to see Luke surviving the First Order's barrage and seeming like a total badass, and then finding out that he's better than badass - he's clever. Still, I think the scene still works. And now we get the time when Rey and Kylo find themselves on the same side, each the targets of attempted assassination. I really like the image of Kylo flying the Falcon and attempting to dodge fighters while carrying the prison block, and of the effects this has on the fight in the block. It reminds me of one of the fight scenes from Inception, and done right, screwing with the environment and physics of a fight can be visually very impressive. I like the conversation between First Order mooks, especially the revelation that one of the troopers had family on Alderaan. Makes me wonder if he's a descendant of survivors, or if he really is old enough to remember the Empire at its height (and at its worst). Probably the latter. I can infer from what little of his dialogue there is that he disagrees with the Empire, and probably joined the First Order because he thought they could learn from the Empire's mistakes and do better than both the Empire and the New Republic. It's a sign that the First Order is not united - and that some of them are going to be very unhappy with the direction the First Order is about to take. Rey and Kylo on an island... you know, something like this was on my mind after watching The Last Jedi, with me imagining an alternate path the film could have taken, with Kylo asking Rey to join him - but not join the First Order. Instead, he says that the two of them don't need the First Order, or the Resistance, or any of it, and that they could just go out into the galaxy and be themselves with no obligations. There's a bit of that here, but in this case, it's not freedom that motivates Kylo, but defeatism. He simply wants to hide. It's probably understandable, given how much he's sacrificed for the First Order only to see it betray him, leaving him with only himself and Rey - and he doesn't particularly like the person he is. I'm imagining the conversation between Finn and the prisoner taking place with the prisoner mostly in darkness, until the final moment when he leans forward into the light and we see that it's Lando. A bit cheesy, but it's worth it to see a familiar, friendly face. Kylo's reasons here are pretty understandable - he's someone who sees the eternal conflict of good and evil and despairs that good will when in the end, or in any real fashion. It's tempting to think that, when one looks at a flawed, conflict-stricken world. But I have the stance that good must constantly be fought for and maintained, and that the struggle is worthwhile even if it's not permanent. After all, we'll all die someday, but that doesn't stop the vast majority of people from fighting for survival - and it doesn't stop good people from trying to save others. I rather liked Poe's arc in the reworked The Last Jedi. Has he changed THAT much since then? Probably not, but he's certainly more aware of his flaws now. Also, it's very strange to imagine C-3PO giving good tactical advice - but it's also funny to imagine him giving it in his usual diplomatic, verbose way of speaking. (To be continued)

@EbonyManta

4 ай бұрын

Part 2: A lot happens with the prison break, but the thing I most wanted to comment on is this - I do agree that Rose's intervention in The Last Jedi was pretty stupid. If The Last Jedi was determined to not have Finn die at that time, I'd have handled it something like this - Finn tries to reach the cannon, but can't quite make it before it starts to fire, and he just lets out a quiet, “damn it,” as he realizes he's not going to get there in time - and then Rose slams into him, just as the cannon fires. The resulting blast destroys most of her craft - but they both make it, and rather than that speech Rose gives, we get a brief conversation where Finn wonders why the hell Rose would risk her life like that, and gets an answer. It's been a while since I've seen The Last Jedi, but the reason I disliked it, at least, was that if she hadn't done that, the cannon might actually have been destroyed. That, and... well, in war, you inevitably have to make sacrifices. Sometimes, it's the sacrifice of some powerful bombers. Other times, it's lives. Admittedly, even destroying the cannon would have done nothing but buy a bit of time. But still. And yeah... a meaningful sacrifice is the compromise between killing characters off for petty reasons, or not at all. Mind you, in reality, people die for stupid reasons all the time... but that rarely makes for a good story. And Star Wars, ultimately, is about heroes and heroic deeds. ...And then there's Hux. That's a fascinating interpretation of his character, one I hadn't really considered before. And the contrast is even starker here, as in the first rewrite, we had him standing up to Kylo and acting quite devious towards Rey, and now... well. We'll see if this ends any better for him. And thus, we see the end of DJ. I actually liked him in the film, thought he was a good representative of someone who, ultimately, doesn't have a lot of stake in this fight. And even then, he took remarkable risks to help Finn and Rose, up until they get captured and he really has no other option. I was half-expecting him to take the bribe money and turn around and use it to help the heroes. But alas. I'm a little iffy about the concept of a piece of the Death Star landing up somewhere other than Endor or its system. But it wouldn't be the weirdest bit of interstellar travel in Star Wars, and we kinda need a populated system for this next bit anyway. I rather like the sequence with the Death Star's wreckage. Lando, of course, is not only old enough to remember it, but he was part of the battle that destroyed it, even flying inside it. Maybe someone asks him if this brings back any memories. ...And it turns out things don't work out for Hux. Oh well. I like the rest of the scene, especially Rey's use of the Force - and of physics. ...Has Luke's lightsaber really been here all this time? Hmm. Anyway, the final battle commences - along with Rey's showdown with Palpatine. I really liked the lightsaber transfer in the real film, but it also had a bit of leadup to it, and I can't remember if we've had that here. I still like it though. I also like the concept that Palpatine is feeding off the death in the battle. As I heard about that, I imagined Rose reacting to Finn's revelation with, “What else can we do? Surrender?” And now, seeing what Finn DOES do, I can imagine him responding, “Close... but not quite.” It's also an extremely idealistic thing to have happen - but this is the Force at work. I don't really have anything else to say about the final showdown, not because I don't like it... but because I don't think anything more needs to be said. Or if there is, I can't think of it right now. I like the epilogue, too. The Force has, indeed, Awakened. I particularly like the idea that the Force is far more, well, available than the Jedi thought. They're kinda leaning that way in the new Canon with stuff like in Ahsoka, and some fans have criticized that - but such criticism strikes me as elitist. I don't particularly like the idea that a person can only become a Jedi (or a Sith) if they're born lucky, whether by being the child of a Force user or because they just happen to be able to use the Force for no apparent reason. What kind of a message is that? It's the message that, no matter what, you can't improve your station, and that some people will always be better than you no matter your efforts. Reality can be unfair, it's true - but that's no excuse to not try. Coupled with this is the message about elitism being defeated by... well, I wouldn't use the term “populism” but it's not far off. And it kind of fits the original trilogy, too. Palpatine was convinced that the only true threats to him were other Force users. In Return of the Jedi, he pretty much devotes his entire attention to Luke - but Luke pretty much had no role in winning the Battle of Endor. That was won by the many mundane individuals of the Rebellion, the common people that Palpatine had written off. It's not just Jedi and Sith that matter - and this new message reflects. I love it, I love it so much and I really think it fits with Star Wars, even with Lucas' vision. I don't even know how else to express it. And that's number 3. Honestly, thank you for your time and effort. I know it can't have been easy to come up with something better, even if you did have guidelines of a sort. It also can't have been easy to find clips to go with everything. Well, I consider the watch with the effort. It's easy for me to say, of course, I only had to watch for an hour, plus time spent writing these comments... but even if it had taken me months to do so, I'd consider it worth it. As a closing thought... I'm really glad I found this series. I don't even remember how I did so - I probably searched for rewrites, but there's enough of them on KZread I'd get decision paralysis about which one to go for. I'm glad I settled on this one. I should still branch out - but I'll always remember this one, for how it's improved my own outlook on writing and given me ideas. Some of which I might have to use for some Star Wars fanfiction in the future...

damn that was fuckin'...great

Would you ever consider rewriting the prequels? Im sorry prequel fans but phantom menace and attack of the clones really need some improvements

23:07 years?

@kcreviews8161

3 ай бұрын

I imagine the gap being at least 2 years, and maximum of like 4, so technically years, but I guess that implies a long period of time. But yeah I want quite big gaps to allow for the idea that Rey has been mentally training witht he force and has had time to get better at it

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