The rancor rampage can actually be cut by having Boba v Bane be the climax. Then cutting to the Fennec assassination scene.
I like that, but logistically you’d need to keep Grogu on Tatooine otherwise there’s no existing reunion between him and Mando.
Technically you don’t really need to maintain Grogu on Taooine to have a Mando and Grogu reunion. CarboniteSolo give this idea for a sequence of events, what I think could work for the final:
-Have Din arrive and spend time talking with Ahsoka, Luke training Grogu, but omit the scene when Ahsoka talks about Grogu’s training being interrupted if he sees him.
-Luke asking Grogu if he wants the lightsaber or his friend’s gift.
-Then we see Din’s ship flying off the planet.
-The last scene is Grogu tapping on the glass and Din pushing the button to accelerate.
Plus, you could take the central lines of their reunion and paste somewhere in this footage, maybe in the scene where Din’s ship is flying off the planet.
Managed to cut this together this evening. Actually didn’t take too much work and the result is really good.
Here is the sequence:
- Final scene of BOBF Ep7 where the shot pans from Mos Espa up to space to the N1 Starfighter. Use the full shot until it cuts to Grogu (that is cut).
- Cut in the scene aboard the star liner with the Rhodian child as he sees the N1 straighter move past. Keep the shot of Mando nodding to him (works as a great pointer to where Mando is going).
- Cut in an onboard shot of Mando on the N1 and a shot of him punching in the booster.
- Cut back to the Rhodian child as you see the N1 speed off in the glass reflection.
- Wipe to the N1 Starfighter exiting hyperspace above Verdant (I may cut in an on-board hyperspace exit shot of Mando on the Razorcrest from S1).
- The scenes on Verdant then play out with some cutting done.
- Edited so that Mando doesn’t leave after he hands Ahsoka the beskar vest.
- Altered Luke’s line “the Mandalorian was here” to the “Mandalorian is here”.
- Run sequence as Luke ponders what to do with Grogu and cut in shot of Mando looking up at them (Zoomed to cut out Ahsoka). This reminds us that Mando is still there.
- Wipe from Mando shot to the completed hut.
- Run the Grogu “choice” scene with an extended close up shot of Grogu at the end.
- Hard cut from close-up of Grogu in the hut to close-up of Grogu on the N1 Starfighter. Switch to the wide shot of the N1 and then run the sequence, ending with the Iris-out.
Boom! Works so much better than I expected and this is how I will now edit it.
Last tasks are to tighten up the middle of the Boba-Tatooine storyline and then decide on how many and how much to put into Boba’s flashbacks. Current runtime is 2h 55min, but I’m hoping to trim it back to 2h 45mins.
Its all coming together really nicely.