Here is a rough markup of my restructure idea, audio and video needs work but I don’t think this is anything that the amazing team of editors here cannot accomplish. I do think the first shot of the Falcon flying by can be cleaned up a lot (looking at you @poppasketti haha). But overall, I feel like this structure allows for a better crawl on the state of the galaxy, not as fast of pacing at the start, and allows for the Mustafar scene to stay in. I wouldn’t also mind switching up Rey’s vision to eliminate Kylo, but that allows him to communicate with the Vader mask before the Mustafar and Palpatine scenes. Let me know your thoughts on this!
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Hey man!
So we’ll done for trying something different!
I quite like the new opener. Straight to the heroes and a fun chase sequence.
It’s after that it all gets a bit muddier…and through no fault of yours! Just the overall flow and edit of the source material.
My primary issue is that there’s no introduction/re-establishing of Kylo in this version.
He is just intercut with Rey.
There’s no geography and no context for him like this and therefore no motive for him to next be seen fighting on Mustafar.
I do agree with you, this movie is so over edited in it’s original form that it’s really hard to cut around it’s failings and massage it into something more effective than what it already is.
I still think the strongest counter edit lies in JonH’s contribution where Mustafar has been cut altogether and we jump straight into Kylo arriving at Exogol in his TIE.
It might rob us of the cool lightsaber slaughter, but otherwise it’s by far the tidiest launch point for the movie.