Ronster said:
The only problem my brain keeps coming up against is that we have 3 cuts away so if it starts with the original opening you cannot have the emperor to pad luke travelling to tattooine as you leave a gap when they leave tattoine. And I don't think you can open the movie with the meditation chamber....
Perhaps a better opening might be this... We see a star destroyer go overhead like all the other movies. We then cut to a bridge shot of Vader looking out the window and see either Endor or another planet and then cut away to surface of the planet Tantive attempting to escape. (Reversed footage of Organas landing and a flight shot on the surface atmosphere).
Back to the bridge and Vader "I want that ship!" Resume the Pursuit using footage of 1st shot of ROTS composited Tantive but in space and not the one in a new hope, but re-use the footage for the capture of the tantive suicide destruction and escape pods. basically finish it off there atleast that would feel much different from ANH somewhat? I dunno Could cut this down further and make it more ambiguous.....
No reused footage. Lightning, quality and vader's suit change all the time. Always something from scratch unless other movies can provide altered footage for desired shots.
-Angel