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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 22

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I just remembered that the entire film spans the time of less than a day which is ridiculous, imagine being a random bystander hearing that Palpatine returned and is about to take over the galaxy and in a day everyone’s like “oh wait nevermind”.
Gotta get rid of that dum countdown, in “16 hours” they manage to travel to kijjimi, endor, achto and exogol…

Peace is a lie
There is only passion…

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Yeah, but without that countdown why is everyone hurrying? Even dead Luke has to hustle and can’t just allow Rey to process her stuff on her own on the island for a few hours or days.

And I don’t think I’ll end up removing Luke’s line. I know it’s a parallel to Obi-Wan’s, but we’ll see. Don’t really have a problem with it and the scene may be chopped up enough.

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I think he fact Sidious has declared his return and has a fleet somewhere is by itself cause for hurry without any need for a countdown.

Peace is a lie
There is only passion…

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https://youtu.be/YXpCns9RdAY In this TV spot Palpatine says “it is time that she learns her story” I wonder if this can replace Palpatines dialogue when he speaks to Kylo in his head ordering him to kill Rey.

Peace is a lie
There is only passion…

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Interesting idea. You would have to isolate Palpatine’s dialogue somehow.

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The scene will also have to be rearranged to before the hanger reveal on kijjimi, it works well with the idea of changing Palpatines intentions at the start of the film to wanting Kylo to turn her and bring her to him.

Peace is a lie
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Hey guys,
I’ve been sitting back observing the discussions here for a while and it’s been a long time since I’ve contributed but after seeing a suggestion made by Snooker, I thought I should share an idea for this edit:

So I heard an idea being tossed around about making the planet ‘Kef Bir’ or whatever where the DSII wreckage is settled become the Forest Moon of Endor…

We could have the shot from the end celebration be used during the falcon’s arrival…

Here’s a very rough mock-up:

https://pasteboard.co/IYrr5w4.png

What do you guys think about this idea?

It makes little sense anyway for there to be an upsrising against a Star Destroyer on Endor, because who’s flying the ships attacking it?


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Neat idea. Looks pretty seamless.

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There is only passion…

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Oh haven’t thought of that! Nice tie in, only problem is that it creates anticipation for the ewoks to get involved, which does not happen.

Peace is a lie
There is only passion…

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So cool! Would love to see an animated version of that once the blu ray drops.

I like this for a few reasons, but 1) it clearly establishes the Death Star wreckage planet as Endor, since we associate the Ewoks with Endor. And 2) When Jannah tells Finn the story of how her battalion of stormtroopers refused to kill the planet’s natives, it creates the implication that those natives are the Ewoks. And it creates this whole story in your head that the First Order came back to Endor to get revenge on the natives that helped topple their Empire, but the stormtroopers couldn’t kill those cute little teddy bears.

Speaking of Jannah, one little change I would like to see would be to give Finn one off screen line to Jannah about joining the Resistance. The film doesn’t really address if Jannah and the other troopers are actively fighting against the First Order, or if they’re just laying low. But if we could squeeze in one line where it seems like Finn is trying to get them to not hide, but fight, it would be a small, but tiny way to bring Finn’s arc full circle.

Right now, I’m thinking that during their conversation on the Falcon, Finn could say, “We have to fight.” (Taken from TLJ, when he says it to Poe on Crait), or use a similar line, and it could be during a shot where Jannah is just looking at him. The scene moves pretty fast though, so I don’t even know if there is a long enough reaction shot that can be used.

If there isn’t enough buffer to fit in a line like that, I wonder if we could insert BB-8 into the scene, and we could reuse BB-8 reaction shots from TFA, when Rey is trying to fix the Falcon, to sort of extend that scene between Jannah and Finn. And we could hear Finn say that to Jannah over a reaction shot of BB-8. It would also be a nice parallel, since the last time BB-8 and Finn were in this spot, he was trying to make a deal with BB-8 so he could get away from the war. Now he is recruiting someone else to join it.

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When the bluray comes out I will definitely make a version of the Falcon flying by on Endor.

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Great!

Maybe the star destroyer kamikaze from that shot could be reused with a Coruscant matte, if one wanted to keep the ending montage. Then, you would have one PT planet (Coruscant), one OT planet (Bespin), and one ST planet (Jakku).

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RogueLeader said:

Great!

Maybe the star destroyer kamikaze from that shot could be reused with a Coruscant matte, if one wanted to keep the ending montage. Then, you would have one PT planet (Coruscant), one OT planet (Bespin), and one ST planet (Jakku).

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RogueLeader said:

Great!

Maybe the star destroyer kamikaze from that shot could be reused with a Coruscant matte, if one wanted to keep the ending montage. Then, you would have one PT planet (Coruscant), one OT planet (Bespin), and one ST planet (Jakku).

Don’t make me remember the absolute lack of prequels material from the sequel trilogy.
Kidding, I second that.

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Your vfx skills are very impressive, you must be very proud.

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That looks great but I think rotoscoping the Falcon flying over the sand crawlers on tatooine into the Endor shot might look better.

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Very nice, very nice “rough” draft!

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