New test clip: the Hosnian destruction and Holdo’s Escape Redux!
https://vimeo.com/691641417
Right before I made the thread for this project, I did a mockup for the idea of having Holdo and The Raddus barely escape the destruction of Hosnian Prime. This would, in my edit and in most Sequel edits I think, introduce a glimpse of the character before her appearance in TLJ material and tie things together slightly more than before. This clip is the updated version of that idea now slotted in with the rest of that material in the current edit. Feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Like the previous clip, this is more of a test than even a workprint version, so there are things to fix/change/finish at every level. But it helped me work out some pacing issues, start testing Force-tinting again, and made me come up with a hopefully simple solution for the idea that Hux broadcasts his “last day of the Republic” speech to the galaxy before firing the weapon.
As for the workprint for THE NEW ORDER as a whole - my spreadsheet tells me I’m 86% done with it. Getting the workprint done would probably be a score of 95% or so, so that 86% feels kinda about right. I’ve got three or four more sequences to lock down before I’m ready to start sending things out: (1) the Senate report, (2) Rey’s extended flashback, (3) Galen’s explanation of how this new threat works, and (4) the weapon firing & post-fire debate from this clip. Probably sounds like a lot, but everything already has a mildly rough edit in the timeline, and I have notes/thoughts for each one that I just need to implement. So without screwing myself by mentioning an actual deadline for this, I’ll say ‘getting sooner every day’ and leave it at that.