New scene! As promised - I’d like to preview my new take on the Board meeting.
Does anyone else think it’s really dumb that Alien Mark Hamill is apparently the only lead the First Order has towards discovering the mole within their forces, and yet Kylo responds by… immediately killing him, before he can reveal his contact? My idea is to have the Knights of Ren kill him instead. This has two benefits: 1) It allows Kylo Ren to pass the Idiot Ball to someone else; and 2) It establishes the Knights of Ren early on as being an actual threat, rather than just set decorations.
A surprising amount of work went into making this happen: We’ve got new dialogue - both spliced “character” dialogue, and all-original dialogue - which also means all of the music and foley (doors opening, footsteps, etc.) had to be replaced in order to get a clean background track. The Palpatine Theme that plays here doesn’t exist on the soundtrack, so I had to find a creative way of rebuilding a clean version of it. There’s also a new shot of Kylo and his posse entering the room, which meant all new color grading. With the additional time, I was also able to add the Knights of Ren motif to the score - after all, this scene is essentially their introduction.
Hope you like it! Let me know if you have suggestions!