I think the difficulty is we no longer have an opening shot from space to end the crawl on. All 9 films start with a ship travelling by or to a planet in space.
Isn’t Hal’s version supposed to begin with Mustafar? Though maybe someone could repurpose or edit a shot of the planet from space, for any edit that seeks to begin with Rey’s training.
General thoughts
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Lando is supposed to stay in Pasaana for like 15 years. Granted, one shouldn’t be looking at extra material to fill these kind of holes.
Yeah the premise of the Lando subplot is strange, but that´s because Lando’s reasoning to stay on the planet was supposed to be to cope with the loss of his daughter and that was cut from the film. I have mixed feelings about cutting Lando’s entire screentime on Pasaana. I know it’s too convenient and makes the overall sequence drag a bit, but we would need to work around the references to Ochi, his ship and his relation to the Wayfinder. And Lando’s cameo at the end wouldn’t have any buildup. -
Moving the Falcon sequence to after Rey’s training course feels like a better choice pacing-wise. In that case, would the chess scene still be moved to the epilogue?