Okay, I watched the latest version today after finishing Andor last night, and here are my notes/thoughts:

To match the other spin-offs, should an opening crawl be added? Andor doesn’t have one, but it seems like every other entry will have one moving forward.
- Here is a test I put together and posted not too long ago using Hal’s last crawl (and a track from the Andor soundtrack):
- Rogue One - Opening Crawl
Restore the Cassian intro.
- If rolling from Andor into Rogue One, it is essential. It helps to also cement Cassian as a co-lead of the film and make it more of Jyn and Cassian’s story than just Jyn’s. I think it also helps slow the pacing which seems a little fast in the beginning of the current edit.
Mon suggests Galen will testify to the Senate, but given the events of Andor, what’s the point of this?
- “Given the gravity of the situation and your history with Saw, we’re hoping that he will help us locate your father and return him to the Senate for testimony.”
- Given Krennic and Tarkin’s later conversation about systems “flocking to the Rebellion” if the rebels get word out of the Death Star project, maybe some AI can be used to extend Mon’s line. It could be added over when the room gets silent to look at Bail Organa and notcing he looks different from how he did in Andor 😄
- “and return him to the Senate for testimony. People will wake up when truth is restored to that chamber.”
Restore showing the audience Cassian’s instructions to kill Galen Erso, but just the intital one on Yavin.
- I think this adds more weight to Cassian’s decision later NOT to kill Galen and also shows us the inner conflict that Cassian is going through earlier in the film.
Restore the announcement on Jedha about the missing cargo pilot.
- With the removal of all the other Bodhi intro scenes, and restoring Cassian’s intro, this helps to remind the audience that they need the Imperial defector pilot to verify the story and locate Galen. Otherwise, he seems kind of useless because Saw is just leading them to Galen, why is Bodhi even needed?
Change Cassian’s line of “This is a first for me.”
- Narkina 5
- “We’ve been in worse cages than this one.” “It’s all the same to me.” “There is more than one sort of prison, Captain. I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.”
Not essential, but use Ryan Golden (or AI similar to what was used in Obi-Wan Kenobi) to make Vader sound younger and more like how he sounds in A New Hope
Mon has been resigned from the Senate for several years at this point, but the radio guy on Yavin still chases after her yelling “Senator!!” to inform her of rebels on Scarif. It’s not too major, I just assume he’s calling her that out of respect.