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TROS Expanded - The Movie based on the Book based on the Movie (WIP)

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For as long as the movie has existed, I’ve wanted to see an extended cut of The Rise of Skywalker.
Though there have been several fan edits that improve the movie’s pacing, and several that incorporate fan-made or behind-the-scenes shots, I haven’t seen anyone try to make an edit that is purely additive. That’s what I aim to do here; and, to keep it canon-compliant, I’m basing it on the film’s novelization, The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition by Rae Carson.
As this edit is still a work-in-progress (I’m only up to Pasanna), I don’t have a complete list of changes, but the rules I’ve set for myself are as follows:

  1. Add as much to the movie as possible, as long as it doesn’t look obviously fake or contradict the book.
  2. Change the order of events in the film to match the order of events in the book, unless doing so creates an obvious continuity error.
  3. Do not remove anything from the movie unless it’s not in the book.

The sources I’m using to extend the movie include:

You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Am I making Carrie Fisher’s ghost proud?”
Well, are ya, punk?