I am beginning to gear up for updating the ‘Rey Nobody’ version to reflect changes made since V2. I’d like to compile which bits and pieces will differ from the main version in order to gather any feedback and perhaps capture creativity from others that I may not know about before splicing it all together.
Components for a ‘Rey Nobody’ alternate version:
- Move the ‘Force essence trasfer’ threat back to where it originally came from, directed from Palpatine to Rey in the climax on Exegol (easy enough; fine)
- Remove dialogue about Rey’s mysterious identify in the opening Exegol sequence (easy enough; fine)
- Rey’s parents are removed from her vision while training, replaced with hints at her fear of inner darkness as established in TFA and TLJ (easy enough; fine)
- Removed dialogue that establishes Rey has familiarity with Ochi’s ship (easy enough; fine)
- When Rey lashes out with Force lightning, it is now yellow both to distance herself from Palpatine (in movie parlance; I realize we’ve seen Count Dooku use it as well) and to tie into embracing what she feared as illustrated by her yellow lightsaber at the end of the film (easy enough; fine)
- Restructured and switched up dialogue throughout the duel between Rey and Kylo Ren on board the Star Destroyer, moving a few lines from an earlier scene (what Spence provided works fine, but the scene doesn’t have any heavy hits and merely bridges to the scene in the hangar)
- Restructured and switched up dialogue during the hangar scene to remove Rey as a Palpatine and replace it with fear that she will take the Sith throne (what Spence provided here works fine, hinging on Rey being fearful about placing herself on the Sith throne)
- Removed Rey reflecting on the deaths of her parents (what Spence provided here works fine, but the scene seems to put Rey in a headspace of leaning into what she fears as an act of defiance)
- Restructured the scenes surrounding the Ach-To sequence to work around the lack of a dramatic punch about Rey and Exegol (this works fine, but loses a little bit of punch since there’s no reveal)
- Removed dialogue about Rey being a Palpatine from her conversation with Luke (easy enough; fine)
- Removed various snippets of dialogue from Palpatine during the fim’s climax that relate to their shared lineage (easy enough; fine)
So, am I missing anything?