FYI for anyone looking to change things about the Rey Palpatine reveal, the two scenes with Kylo - the Force duel and the hangar reveal - are basically just him exclusively talking under a mask and Rey reacting (“No!” “Stop talking” “Why?” stuff like that). I’m pretty confident this was done on purpose because they knew these were crucial expositional scenes and wanted the latitude to change after the fact. But it also means editors should be able to mess with them pretty easily.
Yeah, that’s why I’m planning on cutting all of Kylo’s masked dialogue during the hangar scene. It should be relatively easy to do by using the “Join Me” track on the official soundtrack.
More than that, you can have him say something else if you want.
If someone does end up pursuing a fan edit that removed the whole ‘Rey Palpatine’ thing, they’d have a good opportunity to make the final scene free of dialogue, ala the other 8 films.
I don’t think removing Rey Palpatine requires removing Rey Skywalker. I actually think Rey Skywalker would feel better without Rey Palpatine, since it would show that Rey has finally found the family she searched for all these years.
Yeah, same. Honestly you might have to keep it, as it’s sort of the only scene that explicitly shows her coming to terms with her parentage one way or another.
Also, if you lost it, you’d probably have to change the title as well.