Excellent work adding that footage in. I love the idea of having more alien characters in the fighters. Unfortunately it makes the Mon Calamari on the freighter seem less special. Same thing with Niem Numb on the falcon. Too bad they didn’t dust off a Greedo or Ree-yees mask when filming those. I’m curious to see how this progresses
Yeah, it would have been awesome if there were even more aliens!
I actually don’t think the Sullustan and the Calamari pilots take away from Ackbar and Nien in the scope of the whole film, because we’ve already had several scenes featuring the hero characters in the build up to the battle. The other benefit of adding in the Calamari pilot as “Red 2” - is that you get a hotshot confident Mon Cal to cut against Ackbar’s fretting. (I’ve got “Red 2” kinda filling in the role Wedge played in the other OT films as the most featured secondary pilot.)
Yeah, still a good bit of work to do on the sequence. I need to fine tune the color grade, and Phase3 is working on a cleaning pass of the Alien shots to bring them in line with the rest of the footage. Now if I can just find someone to redub “Red 2”. . .