darth_ender said:
Something I realize I forgot to mention earlier was whether it would be easier to show the Interactive Board Game footage of Darth in the Death Star hall or if it was easier to film a guy in a Vader costume and composite him into a Death Star hall. I personally feel using the old footage sounds simpler; we wouldn't have to find a willing participant, the actor would truly be in the hall and would therefore likely look more realistic, and I don't know where we'd find a good empty Death Star corridor shot to composite the actor into.
So I'm getting ready for the third and final vote, thanks to Johannus. He was kind enough to gather ideas for me. This is your last chance for additional idea submissions.
A couple of points I want to make as I prepare for the new vote: I personally really oppose TIE bombers and a forest fire on the Endor surface. I mean, we do want the good guys to win, after all. I don't see how it could be a real victory, even if I find the idea extremely fascinating. How could the Rebels take out the bombers? I don't think Chewie's AT-ST could shoot down three spaceships. And in spite of the Rebels' success at taking out the shield generator, so many Ewoks would die to make the ending especially bitter. I want it to be an uphill battle for the little boogers, but not a sheer cliff.
Again I will mention the Eclipse, as I will include it in this voting round. It's definitely not necessary, but rather an interesting visual idea. I don't mind if it gets shot down, but I'm really interested to hear more people's thoughts.
Automatic re-entries for the final vote include: Duel of the Fates motif during parts of the space battle, including the alternate version suggested by MrInsaneA, even including a Bothan scene/any spy scene, and which suggested version, Luke kills/decapitates Boba Fett (expanded idea through Ronster's newest mockup, Anakin showing up at the funeral pyre instead of with Obi-wan and Yoda, an extended Dagobah opening with Yoda giving Luke a green crystal and showing some training, and the title Last of the Jedi. I'll post the vote in the next day or two, so please provide suggestions if you want one of your ideas that was shot down a second chance or if you have some other new ideas to mention. It might help to look through the ESB and ROTJ Wishlist thread as well as the How Would You Remake ROTJ thread (which I can't find in spite of OT.com's excellent search function) if you want to seek out new ideas. Anything that doesn't get used this time around can be put in a new post or thread that compiles all the good ideas for further radicalizing the edit when this first version is completed.
Some more good news: I have been in communication with TMBTM, who has agreed to "try" to colorize the black and white female pilots for our edit (he can't promise success, but I understand that is a big challenge). It's only a very few seconds, so he will give it a shot. I know it seems a bit late to be asking this, but what is our source so he knows what colors to match? I believe we should go with Harmy's Despecialized Edition as he offered. Obviously we may need to pull bits from other sources, but that should be our primary source and efforts should be made to match. Thanks so much for helping us out TMBTM!
Finally, here is the best Star Tours footage I have. It's 4:3, about 20 seconds cruising over the Death Star surface and entering the trench. I think we could put about 10 of those seconds in the Falcon cockpit window and thereby make an effective additional shot. I really feel it's worth it, and the quality is decent enough to be useful (might still need a little color correction, but I'll let a pro handle that).
All good stuff D...
About Vader and including the walk down the hall... I have actually realised it is better to not show him walking down the hall at all before the deleted scene and contacting luke via the force or telepathy because he gets in a lift and then all of a sudden he is in his chamber... Better to re-use the shot from ESB where his chamber opens just saying what I have come up with... Use any walks down the hall... later on for Jejerod or whatever else you may come up with..
To show ties launching from DSII we could show the interior docking bay in 1 shot (CGI) then use the shot of Vader leaving with 2 ties from ANH Yavin but mask Vaders Tie-Fighter out perhaps..
I will do this shot of the falcon cockpit today and an x-wing cockpit shot too... I will also try to colour correct star tours footage myself also.
So here goes nothing...