I wonder if there’s a way to do the Colin Trevorrow script of 9 somehow.
Deepfake technology is better than ever.
Audiobooks have lots of unused dialogue.
The actors like Driver or Daisy have other roles to get lines.
There’s movie quality video game and other sources of media.
It’d be incredibly hard, but I think it’d be doable to do the script from all the material out there.
We’re never gonna get the whole script in there, beat for beat. However, we can probably loosely adapt elements from it.
I’d love to see the space horse scene redone as Finn leading the Coruscant uprising. That would require moving the climax from Exegol to Coruscant, though, to avoid the disjointedness of the climax being on two planets at once, which reportedly was fixed in later drafts. Maybe it’d be better to just have it be a stormtrooper uprising on Exegol? It’d certainly save us a lot of FX work.
I really want a way to integrate Hux’s lightsaber seppuku as it’s such a striking shot in the concept art. This would require a ton of new shots, though.
One thing I really liked from Duel of the Fates that I knew someone as derivative as Abrams would never do was give the other Knights of Ren lightsabers. I think they should all have lightsaber. Red and crackly, but no crossguard. They’re knights, ffs. This should be trivial for an FX expert to accomplish in their battle with Ben using a little rotoscoping. As a bonus, having more than three lightsaber wielders takes us one step further from the ST being an OT ripoff, which is always good.
I can’t think of anything else I’d want to take from Duel of the Fates. That Rey/Poe romance definitely belongs in the grave (casual reminder to all editors to remove their introduction to each other from TLJ since their romance was removed and this was Trevorrow requested seen to set up just that).