Possessed said:
Yes but I can't use the crawl unless the starfield matches that of the opening shot of rotj.
And like I said we could just remove mention of them already being on tatooine, and then I could use the menu shot without rotoscoping. Because that's not going to happen.
The new text doesn't mention anyone but Han being on Tatooine, so that's covered.
The starfield problem is beyond me, except to say that I've seen edits where a cross-fade is added during the "pan-down" so that the new star field dissolves into the original starfield. It has never bothered me, though it is obviously not as elegant as it could be.
If we see the Falcon and the X-Wing fly down to Tatooine, then park in the desert, and then see the droids walking-- does that give time for Lando to insinuate himself into Jabba's guard?
It might be appropriate to use a "clockwise wipe" to the droids or even a fade to black between-- to indicate they didn't just land and push the droids out the door. There is at least one fade-to-black in ANH.
RE: YOUR EDITED REPLY -- I agree that the ANH shot is good. Have you tried "flipping" the image so the moons appear different in the sky?