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Post #1347718

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JakeRyan17
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The Force Awakens - Ridley's Edit (WIP)
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Date created
21-May-2020, 3:48 PM

I really like a lot of the edits you’re making. One thing that I was going to suggest, that I’m doing for my own re-edit of The Force Awakens, on the topic of the ending is to cut everything after the Falcon leaves D’Qar into hyperspace. Instead of showing Rey and Chewie in the Falcon and arriving at Ahch-To (I add some of this footage to when the sequence is repeated in The Last Jedi), I cut to Kylo in his TIE travelling to Exegol and meeting Palpatine at the beginning of The Rise of Skywalker (cutting out the line where Kylo mentions killing Snoke). This helps better set-up the overall arc of the trilogy, but doesn’t really change Kylo’s arc looking for autonomy (from Han in Force Awakens, from Leia, Luke and Snoke in The Last Jedi, and from Palpatine in Rise of Skywalker), but unifies Snoke and Palpatine from the beginning. To help set this up, I also changed Snoke’s line to Hux as Starkiller base is collapsing to “Have Kylo Ren come to me…”

I also add Palpatine’s Fortnite message to The Last Jedi between the Resistance not receiving any messages from allies and Luke’s arrival and a couple of lines from Palpatine as voiceover/telepathy during the final moments between Kylo and Rey on Crait.

These are my biggest adjustments to help make the trilogy as a whole more cohesive. I made a lot of other changes throughout, but I thought I’d recommend this after I read you guys talking about the ending.

Here is a link to some of those adjustments if you’re curious. I also have a #StormPilot ending to Rise of Skywalker, haha.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PC9SLgB6oweXn9o_Nm3N_e3rLbJMaKht?usp=sharing