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Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut
eldavojohn writes "Star Wars Uncut has taken a novel approach to remaking Star Wars IV: A New Hope. You merely sign up for a 15 second clip, film it and submit it. The trailer is now complete and I will suspect you might enjoy the high quality (and low quality) of some of the already accepted scenes. 251 scenes remain in need of claiming with 688 claimed and 291 finished. Do your part to remake one of the greatest movies by filming fifteen seconds of yourself and your friends!"
If you don't have/want flash/javascript, get the trailer here.
The kid's a pussy, apparently he/parents sued everything and anyone that had anything to do with that video and he's been scarred by the horrific experience. I'd cut in the original star wars kid clip but again... sued into oblivion seems risky for a non profit joke movie.
They did allow multiple submissions per scene, and say they plan to have some sort of rating system to see which makes the final cut, and to keep the alternates so people can watch it differently. Its in the FAQ on their site, which has more text than all of the rest of the site as far as I could see.
George Lucas is usually supportive of fan-made material as long as they aren't going into for commercial purposes.
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It is pretty confusing. The "free" link lists all scenes that haven't yet been "claimed" or "finished". Currently, there are no scenes that are neither. However, each scene may be claimed/finished up to three times, so you can select a scene that has only 1-2 claims against it, or if you see a "finished" scene which you feel could be done better, you can put a claim against it.
Currently, finished scenes are marked in blue and claims are marked in red. Any scene that has less than a total of three claims, finished or not (if red+blue 3), may be claimed.
John Willaims has done music for pretty much every blockbuster of the past 30+ years:
Fiddler on the Roof
The Poseidon Adventure
Earthquake
The Towering Inferno
Jaws
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Empire of the Sun
The Witches of Eastwick
Born on the Fourth of July
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Home Alone
Hook
JFK
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Seven Years in Tibet
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
The Phantom Menace
The Patriot
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Minority Report
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Terminal
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Memoirs of a Geisha
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
If I were ever to make a movie, I'd get John Williams to do the soundtrack.
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A warning to those with epilepsy, a history of nausea, or good sense. Do not watch the trailer!
Parts of Uranus the Magician are quoted in star wars epVI. As well I heard that Star Wars originally hoped to use gustav holst's the planets but it was changed for some reason. I do know that they used some of the planets music early on before john williams made the track.
Although I appreciate John W's work (especially Schindlers list, Seven years in Tibet), he's not the only composer on the block. It seems somehow you've missed Hans Zimmer then. With well over 100 soundtracks under his belt, I'm surprised you managed to overlook him. Some block busters that carry his name are:
- Rain Man
- Gladiator
- The Davinci Code
- The Lion King
- Backdraft
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates of the Carribean
- Simpsons - the movie
- Thunderbirds
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- Madagscar
- Kung Fu Panda
- Black Hawk Down
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Difficult to ignore, I'd say.
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Yet he's gone after any replica props that don't even bear the Star Wars name like the KGB. Yeah, HUGE supporter of the fan community . . .
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