Change of plans.
I’m trying to re-add the first Falcon scene, and use it as the opening of the movie. Then cut to Rey’s training.
Kylo will find Palpatine later, just after the meeting with First Order officials.
Problem is… I don’t know how to start the movie after the camera pans down post-crawl. I tried a linear soft wipe from the starry background to Falcon-in-hyperspace, but I don’t really like it.
Any ideas?Whatever solution you come up to for bridging the crawl with the hyperspace shot (I stand by Starkiller’s suggestion) I’m totally onboard with this. It would be strange for a Skywalker Saga film to not open with a starship. Even TLJ kept the tradition.
How do you plan to edit the First Order boardroom scene? Because half of the dialogue is about the fleet. Are you going to trim it, or pretend the FO knows about the rumored fleet and that encourages Kylo to go searching for it?
Actually, I’m going to state in the opening crawl that there are rumours about an old Imperial fleet hidden in the unknown regions. And that’s why the First Order wants to go there. It was snooker, if I remember correctly, who came up with this idea.
It’s not definitive, though, because I’ll have to manage the fact that Kylo talks to Rey about Palpatine, and I don’t know how to make the Resistance find out about him being alive.