People would likely salivate over the return to Mustafar
In name only. I’m still pissed about that.
You missed my point. The concept art suggests a return to Mustafar that fans would salivate over, but the final execution is such that who cares. This could easily have been the case with some of the Trevorrow concept art.
The least he could have done was add Vader’s castle covered in vines or something, but JJ decided to remove all recognizable elements of Mustafar because he hates the prequels with every fiber of his being.
I mean that’s stupid. There’s nothing to suggest that JJ feels that way (in fact the are a number of prequel references in the film). More importantly, it’s just a weird, complicated situation. The reason they even have the scene on Mustafar is because of Vader’s castle, which obviously wasn’t even in the prequels. And it seems the castle was, in fact, in the film, but cut late in the game. Why everything looks so different it’s hard to even say with so little information. What came first, the shooting location, then they decided it’d be Mustafar? Totally possible.