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Post #1280542

Author
Hal 9000
Parent topic
Star Wars Episode III: Labyrinth Of Evil (Released)
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Date created
9-May-2019, 9:42 AM

There’s going to be a V6! The impetus for this is the presence, to whatever figurative or literal degree, of Palpatine in Episode IX. Whether he’s found a way to ‘cheat death’ or it’s just a mirage, I think its worth including a bit of dialogue that hints at his interest in immortality in Episode III.

Changes for V6, planned and under consideration:

  • Reinstate “to create life” and “to cheat death…”

  • Move ‘plot to destroy the Jedi’ deleted scene to before Anakin coming in after missing a briefing

  • See about augmenting or removing Chewbacca

  • See about removing the droids from the birth of the twins

  • Consider reinstating Palpatine prompting Anakin to kill Dooku (still shortened; no “dew it”) (LOE, perhaps even moreso than ROTS, has a throughline of Palpatine manipulating Anakin and him suggesting Anakin kill Dooku is in keeping with this)

  • Really try to reincorporate some Yoda lines about failure, maybe even dialogue from Rebels

In order to do anything further about Chewbacca, I would need some visual FX help. It had been determined previously that it would be extremely difficult to remove his bandolier. I wonder if a second bandolier could be added, to imply its a different wookiee. Most of Chewbacca’s shots have been removed, though a few remain. Luckily (?) his face looks nothing like the Chewbacca of the OT and ST.

This one should be much easier, but I would love to have someone assist by removing R2 and 3PO from the birthing of the twins (and shot of them leaving the ship to follow Padme to the medical center). This would avoid R2 and Yoda’s only onscreen meeting before ESB.

I will attempt what I can to extend the scene with Yoda and Qui-Gon, but there’s really only one shot to work with. If anything else can be contrived visually to extend the scene plausibly, I would welcome ideas or FX shots. (Rear shot of Yoda with asteroids floating in the background?)
The dialogue for the scene could go something like this:

Y: “Failed, I have.”

Q: “Yoda, my old friend… Do you feel responsible? Forgive yourself.”

Y: [Dialogue about him being too blind to see things or that he failed the Jedi.]

Q: “Come to Dagobah. You must complete what I could not.”