What else would you do with your edit?
There’s 3 major changes with several minor edits that could be added to enhance the change, but they are not completely necessary for the idea to work.
- Vader hires Boba to capture Luke
1a. Using ESB footage, create a newly constructed scene after the opening where Vader calls up Boba on his meditation chamber screen. Dialogue would be something like-
Vader: Skywalker will come for his friend, Captain Solo. I want him alive, bounty hunter.
Boba: As you wish.
That is the simplest version. Would be achieved by reusing existing dialogue, voice AI, or hiring voice actors. I would like to make 2 versions, one Boba voice that sounds like Morrison, and the other sounding like Wingreen’s original performance.
1b. Again, using footage from ESB, show Boba in the Slave 1 cockpit, then a shot of his ship flying off screen. Will be altered to look distinct from the ESB shots.
1c. This would then transition to the wide establishing shot of R2 and 3PO walking to Jabba’s palace, but would add the Slave