The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 407

Agreed. Personally, I don’t think Luke looks bad in the final scene. Also, did they change the ghost effect partway through post production? Luke And Leia don’t look as obnoxiously blue as Luke does on Ahch-To. What’s up with that?

sherlockpotter said:

Okay, I’ve done it. I’ve finally cracked Ahch-To. I think we can all agree that this is the version we should use: https://streamable.com/1enw0o

YES! It’s perfect! hahahaha!

EDIT: Still laughing. Oh man.

Here’s the current list of changes for V2:

Completed or nearly:

• Make Kylo say “we’ve become a dyad in the Force” (sherlockpotter)
• Depict the Ach-To scene as taking place largely pre-sunrise (NeverArGreat - nearly finalized)
• Adjust Leia with Han’s medal insert shot in terms of placement and lighting (sherlockpotter)
• Remove Finn’s line “He wanted her alive.”
• Remove Palpatine’s lines “I never wanted you dead, I wanted you here” and “…for my grandchild to come home.”
• Add Vader’s Castle establishing shot to opening as well as add the castle to background in later shot (21C Peasant, Movies Remastered)
• Due to popular demand, switch to Vader’s TIE for Kylo’s transport from the DSII (poppasketti)
• Remove 3PO’s line “from the Southern shore.”
• Gently restructure opening of final space battle (DominicCobb)
• Remove Rey’s mother calling her by name

Outstanding:

• Recolor the two lights on Rey’s yellow saber to blue and purple
• Depict the blue saber as fizzling out at end of DSII duel (to come, from Movies Remastered)
• Depict the two sabers as kaput after Exegol climax (to come, from Movies Remastered)
• Replace the Pasaana puppet show with visuals referencing Luke on Crait (being worked on by poppasketti, Movies Remastered, Rogue Leader, and/or snooker)
• Move Poe’s line “T minus 5” to before exiting hyperspace (possibly, if Movies Remastered can improve it, otherwise not)
• Depict Rey’s blue saber with a crackly visual effect (being worked on, will include work from kewlfish, Luka Frik, and Movies Remastered)
• Cut Luke’s hair (to come, from jonh or whomever wishes to correct issues with existing clip)

I am so hyped for V2 and the Rey Nobody version. The Fan Editing Community truly is amazing when it comes to saving movies in franchises we love.

Hal 9000 said:

• Recolor the two lights on Rey’s yellow saber to blue and purple

Finally! One of my ideas made it on the changelist. Wooooo!!! Hopefully one of these special effect geniuses here can make it a reality. 😃

I will admit, I don’t understand the change in recoloring the lights on Rey’s saber to blue and purple. Why and how will it look in the end? Just a little confused.

There is a blue and green color in the theatrical version when she ignites her blade. Changing it to blue and purple assumes she used Luke and Leia’s crystals from their now broken lightsabers to create her own.

DZ-330 said:

There is a blue and green color in the theatrical version when she ignites her blade. Changing it to blue and purple assumes she used Luke and Leia’s crystals from their now broken lightsabers to create her own.

Okay, but blue and purple don’t create yellow when following how colors are made. Unless the color of the blade will be changed too.

Green and blue do not make yellow either…
We are going for symbolism here more than anything else.

End Saber Sparks are finished. I’m just tweaking the sound.

T minus 5 is also finished.

Crackling Saber is on hold as the effect in the cave scene took so much time to get right but I think I’ve sorted it but I’m currently moving studios so I’ve had to pack up all my computer stuff. I should be back on things by next week but I still have my phone to check here in the meantime.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

TestingOutTheTest said:

Hal 9000 said:

Remove Finn’s line “He wanted her alive.”

So… you’re removing how Palpatine wanted Rey alive before her parents abandoned her and he had to switch to Ben Solo? ,':I

Not entirely. Finn still says that the Emperor wanted Rey brought to him on Exegol if Ochi caught her. We simply made it up to interpretation whether he would do the ritual or kill her at that point. Imo that ambiguity works much better because it makes Palpatine’s plan easier to follow along for the average person.

Not just average person … like … anyone/everyone. So bad. Lol.

Hal 9000 said:

Here’s the current list of changes for V2:

Completed or nearly:

• Make Kylo say “we’ve become a dyad in the Force” (sherlockpotter)
• Depict the Ach-To scene as taking place largely pre-sunrise (NeverArGreat - nearly finalized)
• Adjust Leia with Han’s medal insert shot in terms of placement and lighting (sherlockpotter)
• Remove Finn’s line “He wanted her alive.”
• Remove Palpatine’s lines “I never wanted you dead, I wanted you here” and “…for my grandchild to come home.”
• Add Vader’s Castle establishing shot to opening as well as add the castle to background in later shot (21C Peasant, Movies Remastered)
• Due to popular demand, switch to Vader’s TIE for Kylo’s transport from the DSII (poppasketti)
• Remove 3PO’s line “from the Southern shore.”
• Gently restructure opening of final space battle (DominicCobb)
• Remove Rey’s mother calling her by name

Outstanding:

• Recolor the two lights on Rey’s yellow saber to blue and purple
• Depict the blue saber as fizzling out at end of DSII duel (to come, from Movies Remastered)
• Depict the two sabers as kaput after Exegol climax (to come, from Movies Remastered)
• Replace the Pasaana puppet show with visuals referencing Luke on Crait (being worked on by poppasketti, Movies Remastered, Rogue Leader, and/or snooker)
• Move Poe’s line “T minus 5” to before exiting hyperspace (possibly, if Movies Remastered can improve it, otherwise not)
• Depict Rey’s blue saber with a crackly visual effect (being worked on, will include work from kewlfish, Luka Frik, and Movies Remastered)
• Cut Luke’s hair (to come, from jonh or whomever wishes to correct issues with existing clip)

This all sounds amazing, Hal. Thanks for keeping track of everything!

And a massive thank you to everyone working on these shots! It’s seriously just incredible work.

To quote Grandpa Sheev: “Look what you have made.”

Jar Jar Bricks said:

jarbear said:

Jar Jar Bricks said:

TestingOutTheTest said:

Hal 9000 said:

Remove Finn’s line “He wanted her alive.”

So… you’re removing how Palpatine wanted Rey alive before her parents abandoned her and he had to switch to Ben Solo? ,':I

Not entirely. Finn still says that the Emperor wanted Rey brought to him on Exegol if Ochi caught her. We simply made it up to interpretation whether he would do the ritual or kill her at that point. Imo that ambiguity works much better because it makes Palpatine’s plan easier to follow along for the average person.

Not just average person … like … anyone/everyone. So bad. Lol.

Yeah haha I worded it that way because I was pointing out that we aren’t contradicting canon by removing that line. So the lore nuts get their way, and so does everyone else.

EDIT: Should clarify that I consider myself a nut

I agree!

Hahah just playing. Good work y’all. Making a … erm … movie into something tolerable for me. Thanks!

Movies Remastered said:

End Saber Sparks are finished. I’m just tweaking the sound.

T minus 5 is also finished.

Crackling Saber is on hold as the effect in the cave scene took so much time to get right but I think I’ve sorted it but I’m currently moving studios so I’ve had to pack up all my computer stuff. I should be back on things by next week but I still have my phone to check here in the meantime.

No rush at all, man. Will continue to look forward to the awesome stuff.

The last ‘T minus 5’ clip I recall seeing had the angle of the starlines sort of janky given the angle of the shot. Has there been a revision since then? And at any rate to be certain, would you mind sending me the most recent (unless there was only ever the one version anyway)?

To call up a not-totally-resolved idea from a little while ago, does it seem like there are any workable alternatives for the line “they sold you to protect you”?

It would need to be replaced with something that would still make sense in context of the scene, as its part of the flow of conversation. Without this specific line, it’s much easier to headcanon the retcon as her parents perhaps paying Unklar to watch Rey for a while. When they never returned he eventually stopped. Then, Kylo Ren gets Rey to “admit” to herself what she long suspected… they sold her to him rather than entrusting her to him and ditched her.

I know there’s Kylo dialogue from video games and stuff, but… any ideas? Maybe something like “They were trying… to protect you.” Or something.

This is how I’ve managed to get around that line: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b7m-2Zr8B_0USRM27MO1xQSdNxbFtgiV/view?usp=sharing

Granted I’ve spliced that entire sequence together without cuts back to Finn and Poe, but I think it the dialogue works
OK in context as is, just with removing the line. “Your parents were no one. They chose to be, to keep you safe[…] It was Palpatine who had your parents taken. He was looking for you, but they wouldn’t say where you were. So he gave the order.”

I do want to try and change that line to “had your parents killed” instead of taken (all of the dialogue on this ship reeks of re-write salad) but other than that I think it’s relatively satisfying.