Hello! I have just recently finished a rough cut of what I am calling TFA: Special Edition. Although I am like most of my fellow SW fans who cannot stand what had been to the original theatrical versions of SW, ESTB, and ROTJ, I couldn’t help but take a little inspiration from their SEs and decided to “augment” TFA a little.
No, I did not add in new, pointless VFX because A) I don’t have the time or skills to do that shit and B) I wasn’t going for that anyway. To be honest, I didn’t do a real restructure to TFA. I just took the deleted scenes that I thought would be interesting to see and reinstated them.
I didn’t try to play around and remove the timecode from the extra scenes and that’s because they didn’t bother me. I actually use the timecode as a “footage marker”, like the Alien boxset where you can turn on the markers for the alternate versions.
Only four minutes were added overall, but I enjoy seeing the film with these moments included. If anyone would be interesting in seeing any previews, let me know.
CHANGES:
- “Finn and the Villager” reinstated
- “Jakku Message” reinstated
- “X-Wings Prepare for Lightspeed” reinstated
- When Kylo Ren meets the First Order officer after Rey escapes, his “Han Solo” line is removed and the scene trimmed.
- “Kylo Searches The Falcon” reinstated
- “Finn Will Be Fine” reinstated
The only scenes I did not include were the Snow Speeder Chase, because of the un-finalized VFX, and the Tunnels Stand off, because it’s just silly and unneeded.
If enough people get interested in it, I’ll get a link up.