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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released) — Page 628

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Really helps that shot of Rey which we have intercutting with Kylo from behind the scenes footage feel finished.

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It’s incredible to me how similar those are to Anakin’s Sith eyes in the prequels.

Once the Mark Hamill audiobooks come out I’ll try to figure out a way to record it so that I can put it into ElevenLabs. Hopefully we’ll be able to modify his flashback monologue however we want. As for the Leia lines, which ones are you interested in, Hal? Probably not the lightsaber one from the sounds of things, but “he’s too dangerous” and “I sense a great deal of uncertainty in you, Rey” are lines I haven’t heard any negative feedback about.

For the record, when I first heard “Rey, never be afraid of who you are” in theaters, I instantly recognized it as being edited in. So I guess none of these really bother me that much because I’m willing to give that one a pass, too.

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Are you familiar with the website, Behind the Voice Actors, Jar Jar? It’s what I use to help guide me to finding who played who in a movie, TV show or video game.

The name’s Lawson. Noah Lawson.

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That’s a cool resource, for sure. My main concern is having to extract voice lines from the rest of the sound in a show. I don’t have enough time for that lol.

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JJB, would it be easy to send me all these bits of audio you’ve done? And I can see which work and select from there?

Honestly even if it’s just the Kylo lines and “he’s too dangerous” it’ll be a marked improvement to the project.

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Hey, Hal. Would you still be interested in having Kylo Ren say to Palpatine, “You’re just a clone” before saying, “What could you give me?”

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I shot you a PM, Hal.

Master Lawdog said:

Hey, Hal. Would you still be interested in having Kylo Ren say to Palpatine, “You’re just a clone” before saying, “What could you give me?”

I tried “You’re just a clone” with my Adam Driver model a while back. Due to the fact that it’s based on his TED talk, it doesn’t sound good quality-wise. Adam’s audio book doesn’t sound much like how Kylo speaks in the intro scene, either.

Plus, I agree with what somebody else said about this particular line. Without Palpy’s response “More than a clone, less than a man”, it would confuse the audience into thinking this dude is literally just a clone and not the actual Palpatine in a clone body.

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Jar Jar Bricks said:

I shot you a PM, Hal.

I tried “You’re just a clone” with my Adam Driver model a while back. Due to the fact that it’s based on his TED talk, it doesn’t sound good quality-wise. Adam’s audio book doesn’t sound much like how Kylo speaks in the intro scene, either.

Plus, I agree with what somebody else said about this particular line. Without Palpy’s response “More than a clone, less than a man”, it would confuse the audience into thinking this dude is literally just a clone and not the actual Palpatine in a clone body.

I think poppasketti’s shot of the Palpatine clones in the vat says it all.

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Yeah, it might be clumsy to try to shoehorn that in. We’ve moved away from the answer simply and directly being “somehow,” so I’m good with that.

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Good news everyone! Mark did a really good job making these audiobooks. I currently have 1 downloaded (an hour long of him speaking) that I can synthesize into a voice clone. I’m thinking it should turn out good. If it doesn’t sound quite right for some reason, I’d be willing to download a second audiobook in this series to get 2 hours of content. That’s about how much I put into the Leia voice clone.

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Sounds great!

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YAY! It sounds perfect. What did we want him to say again? About Leia choosing a different path?

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This sounds great! How did you decide which ideas to incorporate and which other ideas to ignore?

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YAY! It sounds perfect. What did we want him to say again? About Leia choosing a different path?

This is what I posted before:

Luke Skywalker:
“It was the last night of her training. Leia sensed that she could do more good following another path. She surrendered her saber to me and said that one day, it would be picked up again by a Jedi who would finish her journey. A thousand generations live in you now. We’ll always be with you, but this is your fight.”

The Star Wars Saga:
I · II · III · IV · V · VI · VII · VIII · IX | Rogue One · Solo
What was first just a dream has become a frightening reality…

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I’m not so sure about replacing the whole thing. Mark does a pretty darn good job delivering the other lines. A lot better than what this bot could ever do. It might be better to just slip in the one line to replace the one about her sensing Ben’s death.

“Leia told me that she could best serve the galaxy in other ways…”
Delivery 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10GD8VqcZSUu7yWWt1KcGnAQy0vzlfnE1/view?usp=sharing
Delivery 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UUDV4GuQZUfWx-O_T0ubg9Zu0Z1kODw/view?usp=sharing
Delivery 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GH5G8G6P6wny9ZwfTPb8d3yqnuxLe5fM/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: I also like your line because it suggests the Force is what led her to make her choice. So I can also generate that. It’s up to Hal what we pick.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/180jQ6w8QikSeF5QcduW6zT3O9hSZ7rUH/view?usp=sharing

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That’s great, man!

I know when discussing it before, we had floated “birth” of her son instead of death. Might be good to generate that line, as I’m sure someone or other may want it even if I don’t.

It’d also be good to get a few readings of “Lesson three.” Not sure I’ll use it but, again, there’ll be interest.

I’m not sure if something could be done to replace a bit of screen time around the “Leia knew it too.”

Luke: “Because you’re a Palpatine. __________.”

Rey: “She didn’t tell me.”

Luke: “…”

Rey: “She still trained me.”

Luke: “________. Your heart. _________. Some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi…”

I bet this will help the Rey Nobody version even more.

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I still think it would be worth having it so that Luke tells Leia who Rey is as a ghost. So it could go:

Luke: “Because you’re a Palpatine. I told Leia after I joined the Force.”

Rey: “She didn’t tell me.”

Luke: “She wanted you to believe in yourself.”

Rey: “She still trained me.”

Luke: “Your choices define you. Your heart. Rey, some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi…”

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Hmm, I don’t know about that. Makes it sound like he’s saying when a Jedi dies they can essentially perform an intel raid and report back.

When I first saw TROS, when Rey said she destroyed Ren’s ship and didn’t have the Wayfinder so she cannot get to Exegol, I anticipated Luke responding with, “Well, you see, when I died and became a ghost I gained omniscience so I can simply tell you how to get there.”

I know Ben Kenobi imparted new, plot-related information to Luke in ROTJ (or just narrowly avoided it, since technically Luke produced the key bit), but I don’t think this is proper for a spirit like this in a story like this.

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Okay, how about this then:

Luke: “Because you’re a Palpatine. Leia had sensed your pull to the dark side.”

Rey: “She didn’t tell me.”

Luke: "Leia knew your strength.”

Rey: “She still trained me.” (Rey mistaking mental fortitude for physical strength)

Luke: “Your choices define you. Your heart. Rey, some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi…”

This allows you to recontextualize the conversation between Rey and Leia at the beginning. Leia did know exactly what was going on with Rey, but she didn’t think she needed to say it aloud.

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I’m crying. I think that works well, at least written out.

A couple potential alternates:

“Leia sensed the conflict within you.”

“Leia sensed your struggle with the darkness inside you.”

Something to sound less like she is facing an inevitable pull toward darkness which she will never master. I do wonder, though, why this should be news to Rey, given that Luke also sensed her pull to the darkness in TLJ.

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I edited my last post. Just making sure you see it.

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It would be news to her that Leia also sensed it in her and kept the fact that she knew away from her to keep her happy. Rey thought she’d managed to lie her way out of letting Leia know the truth in the hangar scene.

Conflict line: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bzWcP93WLDpEFnRVpwqloiitA_QOVZba/view?usp=sharing

EDIT: To make this more clear, how about “Leia knew about your dark visions”?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rzfYqFzBtk0DCkiBeHuIsoKerwBOVVku/view?usp=sharing
It would need the following line modified a bit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11EQ8uHXiEJBgntwghxnnmqogN6EJpA2S/view?usp=sharing

Luke: “Because you’re a Palpatine. Leia knew about your dark visions.”

Rey: “She didn’t tell me.”

Luke: "Leia also knew your strength.”

Rey: “She still trained me.” (Rey mistaking mental fortitude for physical strength)

Luke: “Your choices define you. Your heart. Rey, some things are stronger than blood. Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi…”

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Yeah, I like that! I would imagine we’d get away with it more cleanly if we left “because she saw your spirit” alone instead.

But I like the train of thought! It sort of implies that Leia had a sense of danger about Rey as somehow related to the Emperor. Not necessarily as a blood relative but as a potential occupant of his throne.

That or have Luke say, “Well technically you father was just a clone of the Emperor, so you aren’t really related to him, Rey. I think you’ll be fine.”

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Yeah, I just assumed you wanted that gone so the viewer can decide what is stronger than blood.

But I think these new lines also help clarify that the vision we see in the film isn’t the first one Rey has. The novelization explains that they’ve been going on for a while, thus why Rey thinks if she tells Leia about them that she’s gonna ditch her as an apprentice.