The Rise of Skywalker: Vader's Legacy Edition (WIP) — Page 9

I’ve added a couple of other ideas to the potential change list:

• Use AI video software to modify the brief footage of one of the Exegol Sith cultists to be operating a machine with a severed hand in it (Luke’s hand) to match current canon. Snoke was created using many genetic sources. I also like the idea that Rey’s father escaped Exegol with the Skywalker saber and traded it off, thus why it calls to Rey when it ends up in Maz’s possession.

• Rey has a PTSD flashback of her parents flying away while the shuttle carrying Chewbacca is flying away, which is what causes her to lose her balance and unleash the lightning. This fits nicely because the ship her parents left in is right next to them; this helps the audience put the pieces together before Rey states it herself, and also shows that Rey is still insecure about her parents leaving her / seeing it manifest with her current “family”.

I think both of these additional changes should fit in smoothly. I’d still like to investigate potential Chewbacca / Kylo audio Rey could hear when she’s staring up at the Star Destroyer from Kijimi, but I’m unsure if this would land in a way that didn’t feel contrived.

Yes, what I posted above are just 2 new changes that I’d like to see implemented.

I’m planning on making more significant strides on this project come late December. Namely I want to assemble all of my AI voice lines in one place and nail down a final cut of the Vader fight. Once I have all of the resources in one place it will just be a matter of implementing it all into the cut.

Thought I’d compile all of the dialogue I’m planning on using for feedback before I re-generate some of it:

Vader/Palpy Duel on Starkiller Base memory:
Kylo: You were never real.
Vader: And yet your fear remains… we both know who is more powerful.
They fight and Kylo loses.
Vader: The girl bested you in this place. You are unworthy!
Kylo impales Vader.
Vader: You are no Sith.
Kylo: I know.

Replace Kylo Ren’s line: “Palpatine wants you dead” with “Palpatine wants us to fight.”

Luke/Kylo Scene:
Luke: The dark side has failed you, Ben… like it failed my father.
Kylo: Anakin was weak.
Luke: His love for his family saved him. I wish it could save you, too.
Kylo: Our family made me what I am.
Luke: You chose hate.
Kylo: I chose power!

Dyad Duel:
Kylo: It was Palpatine who had your parents taken. He was looking for your father. But your father was a powerless failure. So he gave the order…
Parent death flashback minus the line about Jakku since Ochi doesn’t even know about Rey yet
Rey: No!
Kylo: So that’s where you are… the Emperor wants one of us to take the throne.
Rey: No…!
Kylo: I’ll come tell you why.

Later in the hangar (while they’re circling each other in silence):
Kylo: Rey… I know why Palpatine wants us to fight for the Sith throne.
Rey: Tell me.
Kylo: Because he saw what you would become. You don’t just have power. You have his power. You’re his granddaughter. Your father was the son of the Emperor. My mother was the daughter of Vader. What Palpatine doesn’t know is we’re a dyad in the Force, Rey. Two, that are one. We’ll kill him. Together. And make a New Order.

Finn & Poe Scene:
Finn: “He was going to Exegol with Ochi of Bestoon.”
Poe: “Why was Ochi going there?”
Finn: “To bring the little girl he was supposed to take from Jakku, to the Emperor. His dagger revealed Rey.”

Ahch-To Scene:
Rey: “…I’m doing what you did.”
Luke: “I was wrong. The galaxy needed a legend to rise above its fear. What are you most afraid of?”
My goal with this new line is to not have Luke admit to being a coward by being on Ahch-To, because he genuinely believed that Jedi involvement would make the situation worse. With this new line, we’re referring to the galaxy being too fearful to show up in Crait, and only Luke and the Jedi’s legendary status being enough to inspire them. Luke was wrong about what was best for the galaxy, but he was NOT a coward himself!

Luke Dialogue to Ben (when Rey is dead):
Luke: “Refuse the hate, Ben… Breathe… just breathe.”

Can’t wait to see how this edit turns out!