- The first shot of the Battle of Yavin has been trash since 1997. Impressive CG at the time or not, I find it ugly. But I feel starting the battle with the OOT version doesn’t feel right because we see CG fighters frequently throughout. Not to mention seeing a straight line of sight between the moon of Yavin IV and the Death Star. I know Adywan is tackling this part of it, but I’d love a replacement for the whole shot. Pie in the sky, most likely.
- The added CG rats (or scurriers) to the first shot of approaching Mos Eisley feel like intrusive CGI. It’d be cool to see them removed, but it sounded like it may be trickier than it sounds.
- The shot with the two mirrored sets of troopers, it’d be nice to remove one set of those troopers. (And bonus points for removing the unconvincing CG droid also.)
Stay tuned!
I also had the same thoughts as you about this opening shot and although I have not tried it out yet… For the very start I was planning to show the deleted gonk droid Death star hall way but only use the frames of people running in the death star with an Alarm removing the Frames with the blue planet. Then cut to the x-wing Special edition as the x-wing passes camera. After Red 5 Standing By change R2-D2 to cockpit shot from ESB as the S-foils are already open then cut to theatrical version of x-wings and y-wings but change the planet Matte so it comes before gold leader says put s foils in attack position. on the Special edition shot of the x-wings opening the s-foils It would be good to put the Death star back in it’s theatrical location so it matches up with the next shot of them flying in.
Fixing the Mos Eislry Entrance