Originally posted by: Commander Courage
This brings me to: what to do about the opening of RotJ? A pan down to Dagobah isn't exactly the most exciting way to start off the movie. The Emperor's arrival at the Death Star has been suggested, but most of the footage we'd need for that to work is to be used in ESB's opening. So I want to go back to a point mentioned WAY back when RotJ was first brought up in this thread, the arrangement of the Jabba scenes. It had been suggested that the Boush/Chewbacca scene start off the Jabba stuff, with C-3P0 edited out. This intrigued me as it would make the plan for Han's rescue make a lot more sense. However, my attempts at making that kind of re-ordering work were unsuccesful. Any ideas on how to make that work would be welcome.
This brings me to: what to do about the opening of RotJ? A pan down to Dagobah isn't exactly the most exciting way to start off the movie. The Emperor's arrival at the Death Star has been suggested, but most of the footage we'd need for that to work is to be used in ESB's opening. So I want to go back to a point mentioned WAY back when RotJ was first brought up in this thread, the arrangement of the Jabba scenes. It had been suggested that the Boush/Chewbacca scene start off the Jabba stuff, with C-3P0 edited out. This intrigued me as it would make the plan for Han's rescue make a lot more sense. However, my attempts at making that kind of re-ordering work were unsuccesful. Any ideas on how to make that work would be welcome.
ROTJ
So is the difficulty in this how to get R2 into the Palace without Luke? I know you guys want to start off Jedi on Dagobah with Luke and R2 and have Luke go storming into Jabba's Palace when the plan backfires. The movie (and more explicitly in the novel) has Luke saying to Han that Luke has 'taken care of everything' by making sure everyone got out of the palace to fight for their freedom. This has always seemed to be rather risky and hap-hazard, although it seems easier than trying to fight your way out of the palace. I never really liked it. It just doesn't seem as cunning a plan as I'd expect from Lando and Chewie.
What if we had Bib Fortuna tell Jabba that in addition to capturing 'the mighty Chewbacca', Boussh also captured or seized some of Chewie's droid pals?
Oh, and I am putting a bold ROTJ in my thread in case people want to go back and archive various suggestions for each movie. It seems like something we ought to do to better keep track of all of these changes until a better archival system can be found. If you guys agree, feel free to do likewise.