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  • and the hood doesn't have those stupid poofs on the side.

  • Even though I felt the addition of Ian McDiarmid into the reworked Empire scene was a needed improvement over the original Clive Revill scene, this fan-made scene is head and shoulders above even that. This is EXACTLY how Palpatine should have looked in that scene and the dialog is spot on without all that unnecessary exposition. This is brilliance.

  • I reckon (don't know how you would achieve this) but if you could make his voice a little higher it'd be good. his voice was higher in ROTJ than it is when he's doing his croaky voice now

  • My goodness the fans can do a far better job than Mr Lucas himself. Imagine if he shared the production rights with the fans, the franchise would grow twice as much.

  • This is much better than the shitey remake of this scene Lucas did!!

  • This is amazing! This is the version I would take into account as the 'actual' scene. Its brief, straight forward and has no dialog change or corruption. It so looks genuine as though it was made by Lucasfilm! How was this made?

  • this emperor is the same one from the one from star wars III

  • Thank god I own the original VHS tapes

  • @Fibr3Optix Amen brother!

  • Awesome.

  • The force is strong with you

  • now i'm totally confused....1.this is the dialog from 1980, but with the voice of ian mcdiarmid...wtf??? 2.it's the face of ian mcdiarmid but not the special edition face of the 2004 version...looks more like in rotj...so what the hell is this???? :D by the way: i like this version!!!

  • @dieselnoi666 Its a fan version of the star wars movies . head over to facebook and search for " star wars revisited - the saga"

  • I noticed something interesting. The shape of the Emperor's hood is taken from the scene where Vader throws his lightsaber at Luke and Palpatine steps towards them laughing. Isn't it?

  • I can't find A New Hope Revisted anywhere. All through the internet, all the Download links are dead. Help!

  • @TrapnestShinigami I tried to reply your comment with a link included but an error appears every time I try to post it. I can give you an active link (the download speed is really slow but you'll still get the movie after a day or so)

  • Ohh excellent, the thing I didn't like about Lucas's change was how the hologram was so in-your-face that all the mystic of meeting the Emperor was lost. The holigram being fuzzy and having more shadows on his face recapture a bit of that moment when we first meet him.

  • what other changes did you make i mean this is honestly awsome!

  • About the only proper change ever made by Lucas

  • I'm sorry I'm sorry... where is this from? Looks really good, but it's not from the Blu Ray. Save me from my ignorance. Where exactly is this from?

  • this is how it should be it makes since with episode 6 

  • Which edition is this? Is this from the blu ray or what is this from?

  • @ChocolateisIsNice It's from the forthcoming "Empire Strikes Back - Revisited" a fan edit aiming to be what the Special Edition should have been. Look up Star Wars Revisited on fanedit.org for the first one. Very good.

  • Bea Arthur?

  • How?

  • This rendition of the Emperor looks a lot better than the bloated, rubberfaced ghoul from the 2004 DVD version. And changing the dialogue back to the original was an excellent idea. I always took it to mean that Vader already knew or deeply suspected Luke's relationship to him and was hoping to use him as a weapon against the Emperor.

  • @KenoshiAkai Im new to Star Wars...saw the originals like everyone but didnt like the new ones. I went to comic con a couple of years ago and a fan explain the story in great detail. Know I love Star Wars. Last month this was on HD TV and notice the Emperor looked fat. What version is this and how is it different? Theres 3 versions? Please explain next week Im getting all the Star War movies and want to not only understand the story in context but Lucas point for the small changes. Thanks!

  • @b7r7u7c7e this is simply done by a fan, but it does adimitedlly look better than the 2004 version, the one you call "fat". The original one from 1980 in my opinion is the best even though it doesnt necessarily look like the emperor, there was an ominous creepiness to it that made it work perfectly.

  • Not bad.

  • LOVE IT

  • excellent. i hated the 2004 dialog. finally i am at peace. if i am right thinking how you made this, you did an awesome job meshing it together.

  • How did you do this?! This is amazing.

  • who plays the emperor in this version?

  • wait so is this fan-made? it looks so much better....

  • ;)

  • Still looks better than the 2004 special edition ! !

  • if only the blu ray version was just like that but with better quality

  • Fantasic! The new style emperor / Darth Sidious always looked completely stupid.. always wondered why they made him look like a crotchety old man instead of the bad ass evil looking self he was in ROTJ. Excellent job you done it right.

    WHY WON'T LUCASFILM SHOW THIS THE SAME LOVE?

  • that's just a younger ian mcdiarmid right?

  • The actor who played the emperor probably said..."Geez how many times do we have to "improve" this scene?"

  • If you could use Ian McDiarmid

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  • @CommentaryX It's because of the overly detailed monkey ass makeup on his face for ROTS. It puffed out his face more than it needed to be.

  • Dude this is soooo much better than Lucas' Revisited horse crap version.

  • that version is still nothing compared to the 2005 or 2006 version which had palpatine from episodes 1, 2 and 3

  • it would be all right if they kept everything original and put that to DVD...

  • I prefer your first trailer's version of this. By the way, the emperor's cloak isn't blue but black. If you're planning to make the holograms represent the transmision's true colors as they did previously on the film, this would need to be fixed a bit, don't you think?

  • I agree with most of the comments your version is better than the 2004 version I have to agree with bushidocrusader assessment of the two version dialogue altering the character intention but The dialogue allows Vader the first time in manipulating the Emperor by justifying turning Luke to the dark side to service him when in fact Vader intend to overthrow the Emperor in the Sith fashion harking to his tempting word to Padme at Mustafar to tempt Luke into joining him instead.

  • youve made as many different versions of this clip as lucas himself haha, the only difference is that you get better each time, not worse

  • Your version is, for me, the best. The Emperor's face in like in ROTJ, and not like ROTS. I prefer the 2004 version than the 1980 because of the actor. And the text is different but 1980's text was good too. Your idea to put 1980's text on Ian Mc Diarmind 's face was great, and i prefer YOUR hologram, it is better than the new one. Great job !

    PS: sorry of my english, I'm french. I hope you understood what I've written ^^.

  • It's perfect !

  • FANS MAKE BETTER VERSIONS. WOW. BETTER THAN THAT FAT, BLOATED VERSION. WTF? Why don't they get it??? why???

  • This is great. Definitley well done. But the 2004 version looks more like a version of the Emperor between the Prequel Adventures and the Original Trilogy. That's what I like about it.

  • @jayce79

    Well, I try to act like the Prequels don't exist anyway, because they are so far below the quality of the original films, and the story often outright conflicts with things we see and are told in the originals that it doesn't make sense. Also, the prequels are about 23 years or so before Empire. Jedi is about 1 year after Empire. So Empire Emperor should probably look exactly like Jedi Emperor anyway.

    Not to mention the "new" dialogue is awful and ruinous of Vader's character arc.

  • The 2004 version ruins Vader's character arc. In the original, he is "obsessed with finding" Skywalker, and we come to realize that is so because the encounter with his son touched his buried humanity. Ultimately, it will redeem him.

    In the "new" version, Vader somehow didn't realize this "Skywalker", who had the force and was the right age, was his son at all! Stupid. So his "obsession" was not from his humanity, but because he was just a mindless attack dog for the Emperor. Ridiculous.

  • Love it. Send it to Luca$ and demand he change it back to this.

  • Effects on this aren't great, to be honest. I like the way you've added in flicker and disruption to the hologram to make it seem like it's not just a static image when he isn't speaking, but it's still a bit obvious in my opinion.

    I fully agree with the dialogue changes though. The 2004 edition was bollocks.

  • How did you do this??

    And how come Lucasfilm COULDN'T do this?!

    I mean how could they NOT get the make-up right?!!

    It's the same flipping actor playing the same character!!!

    Anyway, well done.

  • I love that all comments have to be approved before being allowed. Are you only allowing favourable comments, then, Adywan? And they call Lucas a control freak!

  • Nice job. If it had looked and sounded like this in the 2004 DVD, I wouldn't have hated that change.

  • Here's a remake idea for George Lucas: The 3 original Star Wars movies in 1080p, with only minor audio/video fixes. Period.

  • Doe he not blink?

  • This one looks like Tommy wiseau

    SERIOUSLY! Look at how his mouth moves!

  • I hate when they change the characters of movies to fit the "modernism" of the last character we saw. Big fucking whoop, the Emperor in the first three (IV, V, and VI) is different from the one from the last three. Probably cause they were created some 30 years apart from each other! It doesn't change the story for me or anyone else, so leave it the fuck alone LucasFilms! -_-

  • @kbtheangelofrock Sorry but you do realise the Emperor from VI is the same as the one from I, II and III? It was just Episode V that had someone else. I agreed with Lucas reshooting it to have McDiarmid as the Emperor to fit in with the rest of the series but the new dialogue was awful

  • The force is strong with this one.

  • Why does the face of the Emperor remind me of Jacob from the TV series Lost?

  • Does look much more threatening here. Seemed like he'd had a stroke in the 2004 edition!

  • @Robotdrummerzzk

    I think he looks like he was on crack in 2004. This version is best IMO.

  • @Noobsaibot21 he looked nothing like he did in rotj

  • How the hell did you do this? This is awesome!

  • This is awesome, This is better than every version lucasfilm has put out, well done, finally the emperor gets his best version(ROTJ) and best dialogue for this scene.

  • The scene would be allot better if the Emperors theme was playing in the background

  • @JBRAVOS YES YES Adywan please do that!!!! The Emperor's Theme would be great for this scene!

  • I like this better. Agreed that the original dialog was better, it made the scene much more mysterious. Don't forget, when we first saw EMPIRE, we had no idea who Anakan Skywalker was. I really wish Lucas had found a way to keep the shocking surprise ending of EMPIRE intact.

  • @LordoftheJimmy

    I agree. Just because everyone knows the plot twist doesn't mean that it has to be spoiled. 

  • I kind of like the darker version of the Emperor from your first trailer. It looked more menacing. Anyway, I love what you've done here since I'm a great fan of the character and never liked the ways he was portrayed on this film. Congratulations.

  • Adywan > Lucasfilm

  • Problem, the oldest hid his face a bit so that we were stunned in rotj, kinda ruins teh surpise, maybe you should cover his forehead and eye areas except for the eyes have them glow and show the jaw, its menacing and evil and better

  • Pretty good though I felt it was a bit rushed, especially the dialogue.

  • Incredible visualization, but why did you cut out the 2004 DVD dialogue? Why'd you change it to match the 80s? The DVD words gave the scene better influence.

  • @SciFifan19

    better yet, why do anything to it?

  • @neomp5 Well, that is a good point. But I think this visual looks more interesting. I just wish he kept the DVD dialog.

  • @SciFifan19 the added dialogue for 2004 dvd was horrendous. The original dialogue worked so much better. If i had my way i would wipe the 2004 versions from existence.

  • @adywanuk Um, okay.  Whatever fits your preference. Later.

  • @adywanuk The original dialogue might have worked on first viewing but made no sense whatsoever thereafter. And given that this is one film out of six, the dialogue changes fit perfectly

  • @adywanuk

    Good job here. But you may have more work ahead of you. The blu ray versions have been tweaked a lot more for the worse.

  • @adywanuk The 2004 dialogue was closer to the original Empire Strikes Back novelization.

  • @adywanuk The 2004 DVD change never bothered me until I saw this. Your version is infinitely superior.  Why is Palpatine so lucid in the DVD version?

  • @SciFifan19 The 80s dialogue had a better flow to it.

  • @BoredomCorner OK. As I said, whatever floats your boat. I'm not interested in arguing. To each is own.

  • @SciFifan19 -

    The original dialogue is far, far better. The new dialogue is clunky and ridiculous-sounding. It also makes Vader appear stupid. He apparently has been going after "Luke Skywalker", but does not realize it might be his (Anakin SKYWALKER'S) son until the Emperor tells him. Huh? He couldn't have put that together? A boy who shares his last name, who "the force was strong with", and is the right age for the son he had? First he's thought of it? Ridiculously stupid.

  • @SciFifan19 besides, by that point back in 1980, nobody had a clue who Anakin Skywalker was. it wouldve thrown us way off if we saw the main antagonist above Vader mention something that Vader didn't know and that would make Vader's character of less importance and more like a pawn. we didn't want to cast away Vader so early, especially if he was going to kill Luke. This also would've ruined Vader's revelation to Luke because the audience would've known it was already coming.

  • @jmiester25 Ok, first off: I already said I understand. Not everyone likes what Lucas did. But, we are all entitled to our own opinions.

    Also, I know Anakin wasn't known. But, that was WHEN the movie was FIRST released. The point is, George put someone of the past, in the future. This is my (only my) opinion, but I just feel it tied into the prequels better, mentioning Vader's "forgotten self" and all. Plus, it's can be said that Vader's curiosity may be a lie, to overthrow his master.

  • Also, I know Anakin wasn't known. But, that was WHEN the movie was FIRST released. The point is, George put someone of the past, in the future. This is my (only my) opinion, but I just feel it tied into the prequels better, mentioning Vader's "forgotten self" and all. Plus, it's can be said that Vader's curiosity may be a lie, to overthrow his master.

  • @SciFifan19

    LOL. Did you ever stop to think that YOU, the viewer don't need ALL of the goddamn answers to feel complete??

    I LOVED the original 1980 dialogue, because it left so much of Vader a mystery. And to be honest, the prequels were so bad, I don't want to consider them canon.

  • @LukeLovesRose Oops, I must apologize. My text got cut off. I also wanted--never mind. What I've been trying to say is, I don't mind anymore. I'm generously saying that people can like what they want to. I really don't want to argue. PLEASE don't make me feel guilty. I'm not interested in fighting.

  • @SciFifan19 The dialogue was horrendous. "I have no doubt he is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker". He says it like he doesn't know Vader is Anakin. Even in the sense that Vader is no longer Anakin it makes no sense, because Luke is still biologically half of him. So there for it just makes it strange and awkward he doesn't say "I have no doubt he is YOUR offspring". The original dialogue made it ambiguous and was worked even after you know Vader and Anakin are one in the same.

  • @BamesJonifer Oops, I must apologize. My text got cut off. I also wanted--never mind. What I've been trying to say is, I don't mind anymore. I'm generously saying that people can like what they want to. I really don't want to argue. PLEASE don't make me feel guilty. I'm not interested in fighting.

  • @SciFifan19

    I hated the 2004 version. So fucking horrible.

  • Wow!

  • In response to people that complain of to much static. The Star Destroyer was moved out of the asteroid field so a stronger connection could be established with the message, whos to say and asteroid or two could straggle from the field and interfere the signal a couple times.

  • WAY better.  Much more closely accurate to the OT Emperor as it should be. Well done!

  • Ady, indeed you are as powerful as the Emperor has foreseen!

  • well done on the "yes, yesss" part. Good to reshoot the scene for continuity. Bad to have the make up and lighting look funky. and no "wtf my son lives?" from vader being there. I mean, really? the rebel named luke skywalker with jedi powers is your son and you couldn't figure that out until the empreror said so... thanks lucas.

  • Excellent! When is ROTJ coming?

  • @mattdawg83686 Just let him finish ESB !! ^^

  • Fantastic Love it

  • That's brilliant! Makes me even more excited for ESB:R!

  • That's pretty solid work... it looks spot on like the Emperor from ROTJ.

  • An eye blink would be nice.

  • @kamdan2011 That's what I was thinking too. Overall it's a really good effect, however I could do with a little less static and a little more "life" in the upper part of his face. Since he never blinks and his brow never moves it seems to lessen the illusion a bit.

  • @Timstuff It was already done but it looked fake, so Ady decided to leave it static. BTW there is no need to give him more ''life''.

  • @Timstuff @Timstuff I like that he doesn't move - makes it seem creepier. There are enough distortions in the hologram effect that fool the eye into thinking there's the odd blink and so on.

  • @Timstuff I like that he doesn't move - makes it seem creepier. There are enough distortions in the hologram effect that fool the eye into thinking there's the odd blink and so on.

  • it's fascinating that the fans do a far better job than the actual guys who made the DVD "special edition". For shame, Lucasfilm. For SHAME. Keep up the grand work, Ady!

  • @LordPhillock8 That's because the fans spend the time and money to create something that the fans want to enjoy where Lucasfilm does not.

  • What was changed here?

  • @GameStation3 See: v=EyxwJ_cqNZ4&t=2m5s

  • @tobar1p I meant from this and the test shots Adywan mentions in the description.

  • You can now download the high bitrate 720p version of this video. Just click on the link in the description above.

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