Wow, every morning when I wake up there’s too much to respond to just from my phone!

The Falcon as the final shot will absolutely be welcome, and it looks like that will inevitably be perfected by Poppasketi and Snooker. (Sorry for capitalizing your names.)

Ben’s ghost is similarly shaping up nicely! I agree about the lower body feeling like Luke’s, but its sound overall. It really feels like Adam Driver changed his clothes and became a redeemed Ben in that moment!

DOTF music. I’m not totally sure I’ll go that route, because it doesn’t feel diegetic. I wonder if the piece has been recorded again aside from what’s on the album, which we’ve all heard a million times, just to feel a little different.

You guys are the absolute best, and I’m very pleased to be “MC’ing” another one of these projects. My computer is old, and FCP7 barely runs on it at all. It’s an extremely cumbersome process demanding a great deal of patience in order to do anything. This project will run it into the ground for me, but I will leave the door open for the OT because I should be able to just rebuild the video stream using whatever sources are good at the time and leave the audio.

And about Rey Nobody. I expect that I will probably end up putting out a Rey Palpatine version and a Rey Nobody version. Feel free to devise your own mechanism for having your video player randomly select one in order to surprise yourself when you watch.

Here are the scenes or pieces that would be affected, unless I miss any:

Opening crawl (I think it’d be cool to have the Rey Palpatine use the title font seen in TFA and TROS, and Rey Nobody to use the one seen in TLJ)
Palpatine’s little fingertip lightning crackle during the opening, and tease of “she is not who you think she is”
Rey’s use of lightning (changing it to yellow helps distance her from Palpatine, and will probably be used even in a Rey Palpatine version)
Kylo and Rey fighting in his room (“I know the rest of your story” scene)
The hangar (“You’re his granddaughter.” This one needs to have something dramatic enough not to feel hollow)
Palpatine’s side room opens as Rey approaches (probably not a super big deal; it’s not like biometrics just let any relative pass)
Rey and Kylo’s conversation just before their duel on the Death Star references an apparent failure of Rey to demonstrate her goodness to Leia and demonstrating “something else.” This could work in a ‘Rey killed her parents’ edit, maybe.
Rey talking with Luke (Dominic handled this. It’s a little unfortunate that Luke sits down only to stand right back up, but it works okay)
Rey and Palpatine meeting (should be easy to handle through just deleting lines)

Having Rey kill her parents would fill the dramatic void left by her evil heritage, shown through visions and maybe even Rey saying to Finn “I killed my mother… and my father.” She tells Kylo Ren she knows what she must do when he reveals this, which I would think should lead into her self-exile rather than continuing the mission of trying to get to Palpatine.

It’s a good idea, just making sure it can be implemented effectively in a fan edit. It really brings the whole ‘ruling together on the throne’ upward, making them equals in patricide and making the audience feel Rey’s fear of her own darkness. It also extends a bridge to make Kylo Ren’s redemption more worthwhile. Hmm… I’m coming around on it.

Guys, I have so many barriers to actually doing anything creative with this whole thing, at least inside my NLE. Your mockups and things are immensely helpful with this. If we hash things out and have a plan, i can absolutely take time when I can find it to enact them in my NLE, making it all smooth and integrated.