I’ve reviewed all the feedback in the thread about Book 4, and the consensus changes I’m tracking are:
- Couple visual/audio transition adjustments
- Add a brief scene in the forest village of the citizens being abused
- Add the tracker scene that was removed from previous film
- Remove Mayfeld’s apparent familiarity with Grogu
- Rescore the “victory” music after the TIE’s save Din and Mayfeld
- Extend the Officer at the cafe conversation a bit more
Maybe a couple of other very minor adjustments Kypo suggested, but this one was close to being good to lock as it was.
As I work on those few updates, I’m also going to deploy the final fixes on Book 1 & 2.
Book 1:
- Extend the blue guy scene on the Razorcrest to not end so abruptly in carbonite. For some reason the line of “Do you guys take off your helmets?” straight into the carbonite was jarring, so I let the conversation play out a little longer before that transition and the timing works a bit better now.
- Remove the duplicated Razorcrest arrival shot on the mercenary space station.
Book 2:
- Extend Fennec-Rookie conversation
- Cut down the head injury scene to the bare minimum
- Cut the whole Greef betrayal plot and nighttime bird attack…? (I’m taking a look at this right now, want to see what these 3 changes to to the total runtime/pacing)
Hey Acbagel,
I went back and checked regarding my previous comments in regards to continuity. I believe I was referring to the end of Book Two where Boba is talking to Fennec about how you can only gets so far without a tribe by the fire (2:25). His robs are acid burned, but he does not visit the sarlac pit to retrieve his armor and get the acid burns on his cloak until book three (0:25). Not a big deal, but just wanted to point it out.
Ah gotcha, that’s a good catch on the details, but I don’t think it’s anything worth moving scenes over. Since this is a costume difference in between whole movies I think there are multiple in-universe explanations for why the robes might look more or less tattered over time.
In terms of Moff Giedon’s facial hair I was say I was prepared for it to be jarring since his look is different in season two and season three. I went back and watched the new book three for a second time and I can so those fears are unfounded. You did a great job with the face. I just wasn’t a 100% sure you had tinkered with it since the hologram scene is not 100% clear image of his face and the stinger is a long shot from far away. Also it has been some time since I watched the original presentation of those scenes. Look forward to book four!
Great! Yeah, a lot of the close-ups are now removed anyway with the new tracker scene placement, so his appearance is good to go across the films as it doesn’t ever change within the same movie.
Also, I think I am for extending the Fennec being shot scene and keeping the Greef/ Mando conflict scene. I think it is important to see his change of heart and while I know many do not like the sequels, I think it helps reinforce force heal in the universe as we see both Grogu and Rey use it more than once. I would trim the Mando head injury if one needs to be cut as I feel without the helmet removal included, the scene is not that important and he is back with the gang only like a minute later so that gets my vote for the trim.
I can’t keep those two lengthy scenes in, the film just goes on for too long. And the more I look at it the more I like the total balance of the film to have the longer Act 2 with the Fennec scene and trim down Act 3 with the cuts. That just helps the pacing of Boba’s story in general anyway. Missing Greef’s change of heart over being healed is the toughest part to lose, but they don’t really bring that up ever again in the entire show so it’s sadly unimportant overall. I think we can get away with Greef’s demeanor toward Din and Grogu being a natural result of their shared experiences rather than the whole “I was going to kill you until I got poisoned by a bird and you saved me” explanation. I have completely altered the Rey force healing to not occur like that in my Sequels trilogy anyway as that type of force healing power completely broke Legends lore, so I’m actually glad to be able to cut Grogu doing that as well as I want these edits to feel as Legends friendly as possible. I always thought there’d be some sort of explanation for Grogu’s unique healing power, but then it’s just never addressed at all and then poof Rey was doing it in the theater a couple of months later and I hated it there too. But alas, I think the cuts help the pacing in general as Eddie suggested.
Book 3 seems good to go as is, so I’m still on pace for the Book 4 release this week!