mrbenja0618 said:
Nothing about this will be easy I'm afraid......
I'm trying to figure out how to make this work, but also work in a storytelling sense... And hopefully meet Trooperman's approval...
But, I won't show off anything until I think it looks ok.
New thought.... I thought I read someone say that they thought it would be interesting if Maul were to fall into something energy-based.... something hot.
What if Maul was scorched? Much like Anakin would be later.... What if we took small snipits of Anakin being constructed into vader, and give the guys some charred horns... His tattoo would be burned off, we could be more subtle about it I think... Motion tracking horns may not be too difficult... And then maybe we could give Grevious Maul's voice... General Grevious to me was supposed to be a precursor to Vader anyway, why would it be so hard to have it look similar.. We could change the mood with some mild color correction..... This may be stupid, because I'm not sure a scene like this even belongs in ep. 2... Thoughts?
Sorry, Mrbenja. I didn't mean to ignore this. I think this sounds good. First off, I would be shocked if Lucas had tried to say Maul got out of that chute without being chewed to ribbons and scorched. As has been said, it's a chute inside an energy plant-- it certainly didn't have a feather bed at the bottom of it for catching people.Do we have to see fire or energy in the pit to believe he gets scorched in the fall? I don't think I do. maybe I should rewatch it.
Can you say more about this idea? Let's say Maul is scorched and this could go in epII-- where would this go, after Dukoo arrives at Sidious' lair? That sounds good to me. So what would we see? A few bits of Sidious building Grevious? Would we do a reveal? It might be cool to have the reveal be simply a close on Maul's eyes opening in the Grevious mask. Music sting. Cut away.
As for changing Grevious' voice, I'm all for it-- but that's an epIII edit issue. It's not necessary for me. After all, Darth Vader sounds not one little bit like Anakin. I don't remember enough about Grevious' voice to say I need it changed. Naturally, some of his lines could become more powerful and appropriate if they were rewritten with this idea in mind.