Star Wars: A Vergence in the Force [Episodes I-III Fanedit] 

Wow so, this was kicked off RU-vid for a few years and then magically reappeared a few weeks ago. Thank you Disney? I'm so happy to see so many people enjoying it. When me and my good friend Paul Odgren made this together back in 2015, we thought it'd get like 514 views. It's been amazing to see the response over the years. Thank you all for watching. ❤

This is the best Unofficial Star Wars Release in the world. The truth is I saw this years ago and was finally able to like the prequels, so much so that here I am Jan 2024, and loving it!!!

Never thought the prequels could become watchable. This edit changed that.

I love all the Star Wars trilogies. This one makes Anakin’s story closer to his feelings for Padme, and shows it a bit more time emotionally. Thank you for sharing this. I Enjoyed it. 👍❤️

Without the dialogue between Padme and Anakin in the "romantic" scenes.......how is the audience supposed to know that Anakin hates sand??? And the reasons why he hates it.

I've got all of them made and still watch them in order, even the off shoots. Got hooked in 76 and still hooked.

Thank you so much for this wonderful edition!!! Much appreciated.

This reminds me of some writing advice I read years ago: Don’t write the boring parts.

Really smooth and well done. I'd say this is the best fanedit I've seen. Really captures the Anakin story as needed and keeps the whole thing streamline. I appreciate the care you took in making the transitions seamless. Especially the audio. Thank you. I consider this a suitable replacement for the original prequel trilogy.

Hats of to who ever reedited this. It’s hands down the best. I likely will never watch the prequels again after this. Great, great, great job. ❤❤❤

Thank you, so glad all the bloat was removed but the edit is still smooth and cohesive. Excellent Job!

Best on YT, just got done watching this. It really showcases all the good points, omits the fluff, gets rid of all the bad stuff, bye bye Jar Jar, this just makes this so kuch better. The Trilogy works as a single film here. The prequels are saved. This is what I would show others that never seen the movies.

Imagine being 16 years old when the first Star Wars movie came out. Imagine seeing it with a bunch of friends and expecting a great movie, but having no idea it would be the biggest thing ever. That was me.

15:15 At first, I didn’t like the change to Maul’s ”death” but the lethal efficiency of it and how we would have reacted to seeing Mail in two pieces as he fell changed my mind. It was a more vicious death in this version. One slip in a lightsaber duel and you’re done. It showed the lethality of a lightsaber.

I would have kept the line "Obiwan is going to kill me" in the droid factory scene

Wow my friend, great work and thank you for taking the time to do this.

LOL at Phantom Menace only lasting seventeen minutes ideally. That's so hilarious and so accurate...

You did an amazing job with this! Thank you for sharing your work. You know, if hard core StarWars fans would help make the StarWars films or had some say in the productions, the movies would be so much the better I think. Great job Sir!!!!😀😀

This was quite good.. it breezed along, too. The quick cut ending to the Kenobi/Darth Maul fight in Episode I got a quick chuckle out of me 😊

An absolute masterpiece of video editing 👌

Decent edit. It made Anakin and Palpatine's relationship make a little more sense, and emphasized Anakin's concern for Padme. A bit action-heavy for me. I would have omitted the ending where we see Padme giving birth and naming the twins. It would have been more surprising in the original trilogy to find out that not only is Anakin alive, but his children also survived. We also could have assumed Leia grew up with Padma for a time, which would have made her line about remembering her mother in Return of the Jedi make sense. That said...when all you've got is lemons, it's hard to make anything more than lemonade. Anakin and Obi-wan's dialogue in Revenge of the Sith is still painful. Anakin's inane reason for turning to the Dark Side and his apparent stupidity are still there. Still would love to see the Topher Grace edit. 😎

One thing is evident through all the ages, never trust a politician ‼️

I always thought the slanting opening summary that goes into space is unique and a noveity but it was done in Sapphire and Steel , a British tv series of the 70s . Enjoyed this.

very serious edit- makes this movie a cult classic~! congrats~!

WOW. This edit should be the standard way to view the prequels. THANK YOU for this fan edit. Much appreciated! It really highlights the core of what makes the prequels great!

I sort of wish a full length movie or 2 could be made where The First Jedi came about, how the lightsaber was adapted (almost exclusively), & how the Jedi Order was established!

Excellent fanfilm ! Never lets up for a minute ! This is how a StarWars film can be made ! And hopefully, you're got more forthcoming soon 😀 👍 😊?

I watched the whole thing. I just realize this is an edit YUB NUB LOL. Nice job you did. Good they put it back haha

This is a fantastic edit. Well done.

Thank you SOOOOOO much for editing out Jar Jar Binks & the Gungins!!! That alone was worth watching it!!!

Anakin to Padme coming out her ship "I saw youre ship" but the subtitles wrote "I saw your shit" lol

Oh thank you for sharing this with us. Very nice of you!

This is great for those who have seen the movies. It cuts the crap and goes straight to the good stuff

I like your edit a good refresher,great quality 🎞

Very good job - I thank you for showing us all " A galaxy far far away "

Star wars is the best. Big time and I grow up with the show.

Cutting out the Yoda fight cut out the heart and soul of the movie. Peace out.

Star wars fan my whole life. This was most excellent! Thank you for sharing.

Excellent movie. Very engaging. The best of the re-edits in my opinion.

this actually pretty brilliant

The Millennium Falcon can be seen landing at the bottom landing ramp as the shuttle carrying Anakin, Obi-Wan & Palpatine lands on the top ramp at 1:09:34! It's small so pause it at 1:09:34 & look where I said & you'll see it!

This deserves an Oscar.

This was GREAT!!! It took Eoisodes 1,2,&3 and consolidated them into one fantastic movie!! Any Star Wars fan should watch this and ENJOY!!!!!

This was genuinely brilliant. During the Mustafar scenes where you've edited out certain lines of dialogue the lack of music is very apparent and slightly jarring. It also sounds like there's some distortion in the last bit where Anakin is lying burning, and Obi-Wan is shouting at him; as though the volume is cutting out a little. Ultimately just technical stuff... Frankly this is FAR better than the prequels as a whole. The editing of Episode 2 that made Anakin's and Padme's relationship look more like he was being persistent to the point of gas-lighting, that was great. Makes sense that Vader would have a warped idea of love based on what his own desires rather than a mutual attraction and affection. The beginning was very quick cut, perhaps it was a little over-cut; but it ended up being an ultimately far better film as a whole than any of the prequel films alone. Well done.

I'll try re-editing, that's a good trick

"Please don't look at me like that" "Why not?" Because literally 5 minutes ago you were 9 years old!

This is good, no great, no fkn phenomenal! Thank you I am enjoying this immensely.

I particularly like the transition into Episode III, it's a really good match shot that conveys that time has passed (I also noticed the bit of the Clone Wars rendition of the main theme to make the musical transition- good use of resources, I bet that took ages to find and make work). I was disappointed with the time skip to Episode II when I saw it, but honestly there's just no good material to show the passage of time there. Excellent cutting my dude

that darth maul fight was dope.. can't wait for this to be redone in deep dream for that anime feel, gonna be sick

the video editing force is strong with this one! good video

This is Amazing. Thank You...and May the force be with you.....Always

Star Wars Legacy will Never Die our children children and then next 1000 year's will be amazed and intrigued for centuries to come

I can’t wait to see all 4 minutes of the Last Jedi’s edit

i never watched a movie on youtube i was so ecxited thank you for making this movie you are the best

My God I like the prequels now, great job

Cutting out the fluffy stuff out makes a good movie

anyone that has never seen the movies would have no idea what size going on

Honestly, I find the whole 'Young Anakin Skywalker' story contradicts what Lucas originally presented in the first trilogy and by what Obi-Wan Kenobi had told Luke regarding his father and how he knew him.

Thanks so much! Great Job! This is Star Wars! Komprende Disney?

very fast paced and much more enjoyable, well done

I love the edit, but I would’ve kept in the scene where Palpatine manipulates Padme into holding a vote of confidence it’s by far the most important scene in that entire movie and I’d say of the best parts of it. not to mention is a natural Segway to them leaving for Naboo. As it happens in the edit, they just kind of leave after arriving.

I must say that this was nicely done....Once thought one of the parts that I missed was when Darth was told that his woman was dead. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

1:45:15 to see Anakin take good care of the younglings during siege of the Jedi Temple like a Jedi that he is

Many times I thought about doing a prequel fan edit, but now I don't have to because you got everything perfectly right. This is excellent! This segues perfectly into Rogue One. The original spirit of the story is finally found from your tighter and more focused storyline. If Disney and George Lucas knew what a gift you gave, Disney would release your edit with Lucas' blessing as 3-D in the theaters.

Perfect edit of Obi Wans deadly lightsaber strike to Maul. Much better without the "cliffhanger".

Ive not seen this till now. It was ok. No commercials.

This is perfect!!! Well done!!

Awesome job on this! Thank you so much. You’ve done something I could never do. Definitely your calling. Keep it up. The force is with you.

I didn't think it possible but you managed to edit the first movie where it is actually good. I like the edits made. I love the fact you edited the final battle to the essential elements. I'm intriqued on the rest. I will have to favorite this and check the rest later. So far... nice work.

HELL of a job!

The movie started out great no stopping and a few seconds restarting but in the middle it started stopping and a few seconds restarting. And kept on the rest of the movie.

The best movies , Star war❤

I loved it. Amazing talent you have.

Even truncated to 2 hours or so, the dialogue between Anakin and Padme cringes to the depths of my soul. Now that it appears they won't take it down, I might make my own version with just action and literally no dialogue except Yoda and C-3PO.

Donna Douglas has returned from the force.....

Really good job, great edit mate. I was planning to do a marathon with my mates this weekend and i couldn't have found this at a better time. You save us all from looking at 6 hours of those god awful prequels.

I never disliked the prequels as much as most, but this Fanedit is brilliant. Great work!

Long life to the Jedies!

Enjoyed your Readers Digest condensed edit version very much! Hope you continue with updated versions! Thanks!

this is really good, id give it an 8/10 , some of the pacing seems rushed at times and a bit of extra time in space would have been good, perhaps adding an extra 15 minutes in total to smooth transitions and allowing the audio to flow a little better. however it is pretty awesome to see it all recut to a single movie

A Very Well Done Fan Edit, Thank You Editor Binks.

Thanks for the fanedit. My personal preference is starting at 45:30 onwards. Right to the action and a starting crawl can explain the background briefly enough. That's just me.

I think I remember Topher Grace best as Eric Forman on "That 70's Show".

YAASSSSS! Awesome work editorbinks. I can finally watch this without getting a stomach ache.

One change suggestion: The Viceroy and the others of his race (can't remember name) benefit GREATLY from the Anti-Cheese Edit's technique of replacing their speech with garbled alien voices and subtitles. Seriously, it makes them WAY better.

The Disney Original Trilogy with more details on how Anakin met Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon was interesting and other cut-out scenes from the Trilogy as well, however, seeing a shortened version of all 3 episodes into one was impressive.

nice attention to detail making obi wan's saber blue after he defeats Maul given your edit.

So this is how a new era of Star Wars began, with the birth of the twins. Thank you so much for posting. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍

Star Wars , no one knew how far this would go. Most of us live on Terra , but to get away from this crazy planet for a short time watching is relaxing. Scottish guys in dresses are hilarious !. Many thanks guys. Dave😮😊

This is amazing. I'm going to take my 83 year old mother, who took me to see the original at the drive-in in 1978, to see the new film. I don't want to explain everything. That way she can figure out what's going on. This very much helps by removing totally irrelevant content.

I remember watching this back years ago and thought it was great...and it still is, but I now see that some of the things from Episode I that should be re-edited into it like the pod race which is a great way to show Anakin's force abilities as well as some of the ground battle and the space battle on Naboo...not a lot but just a little for the context of the feud between the Trade Federation and the planet of Naboo. I still love the edit on the Kenobi and Maul part at the end. Kenobi was pissed and the edit shows it well. Well done by all involved over the years of this fan edit.

I used to smoke a lot of hash in the past. I don’t wanna relive it and rewatch the same stuff that I watched 50 years ago.

The first film needed to be included more, especially to focus less around Anakin. As much as I dislike a lot of the stuff in the first film, it is important to consider how it served to draw attention away from his significance for the later plot development surrounding him.

I think the failure of the prequels was that they *told* us things rather than *showing* us things. I think if we had less exposition and more things in the background, they would have been much better. What if the Republic just kind of built a Clone army because the Separatists had, instead, already built up a droid army and declared war by Episode 2? We wouldn't need to see the Kamino plot. We would just see things work well if we, perhaps, heard Clones talking about training or battles. They're Clones, but they're still people. They talk. They have relationships. A movie *following* a squad of Clones through the war would be pretty nice, or at least, a portion of a movie following certain Clones through the war would be pretty nice. The Clone Wars animated series itself was pretty nice because it added a lot more humanity to the characters we'd seen before, and that was one of the major reasons why it was so well-received, at least from what I can tell. This is an excellent fan edit, and remains loyal to things that matter. We don't see Jar Jar as a comical idiot, but we do see him take on a serious role. Jar Jar doing serious things is kind of nice. We see Anakin's emotions get the better of him, while still seeing him a bit troubled by questioning his morals and his beliefs. We sort of really do see him seduced by the Dark Side, but not in such a horrible, painstakingly long manner.

The cutter blended the stories nicely

Thank you so much for showing me the real star wars movie

Best Fan edit on youtube.

I remember when I was 15, in 1976 the first star war, Me and my friends talked about the movie for months , It was amazing , What a great movie for that year. And still like after 47 years ,, I have a book written in 1890 with very amazing information, teach that the chosen of God will travel far beyond into the Universe of God , Good book, I believe the future will bring a special day, We will see God.

I bet that they would greatly trade their light sabers for a giant can of Raid.

Very good work, well done! I made a dutch subtitle for myself and so I noticed what work was done, took me two days to complete. Thanks for the HiRes download option as well. (I will try to upload the NL subtitle and encourage other(s) to do this in English)