I would also suggest throwing on a subtle 35mm film grain overlay to help mask the fact that it’s a video game. The sequels were shot on film after all, so it’d fit well anyways. That + 24fps + color grading/adjusting exposure are all that I can think of to make a video game look like real footage.
This.
I’ve both worked with that exact footage in a trailer before ‘and’ have experimented with these types of filters to fairly good effect on some of the non-Star Wars upscale projects I’ve done.
Our brains are so deeply trained to expect film grain from certain sources that using a small amount of it appropriately can absolutely trick them into believing an artificial shot like game footage is real.
Having said that, what Hal’s currently got with the castle still looks quite good. The shot of the troopers landing is neat, but hardly necessary to bridge the scene and establish better pacing.
Of course, nothing would beat Disney releasing the actual Eye of Webbish Bog scene. I don’t care how ‘weird’ it was to an audience… strange creatures like this often were what made the Lucas era of Star Wars feel more like a living world, both in the PT and OT.
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Release the damn deleted scenes, Disney, and give us somehting more to work with.