Didn’t realize you were involved in the production and in the know about what Disney requested, cool, my bad.
Was not saying that. I was merely wagering a guess as to why scenes were changed.
Considering the scenes in question had humor added to the version that was released, it stands to reason the people involved saw the rough cut and said there needs to be a humor beat here.
I think your first mistake is thinking those scenes were changed. Seems like those deleted scenes were in addition to, not instead of what’s there in the theatrical.
(second mistake would be assuming that if something got changed it had to be someone other than Rian making that decision)
I’m not assuming anything. I’m taking an educated guess based on my own industry experience and a knowledge of Johnson’s previous work. He’s not known for the kind of humor presented here, whereas its present in every new Star Wars release thus far, so it’s reasonable those kinds of decisions were made at a corporate level. And many scenes were very clearly alternate, if not necessarily the ones in question.
No, Rian has stated in multiple interviews that he wanted to put a lot of humor into the film.
Only because the Corporate Suits at Disney made him say it.