Anakin Starkiller

Why do I picture that as an old school LEGO SW cutscene?

My question is what can we spray paint on the side of the pig.

Just have Luke put down his blaster during the Death Star chasm shootout and take out a Coke and just calmly drink it then turn to the camera and say “There’s nothing like the refreshing taste of Coke during a firefight.” then pick up his blaster and start shooting again. The stormtroopers keep blasting the whole time but never hit him.

“It is a time of Legends.” feels like it could only really open TFA. Maybe TLJ. Definitely not RotJ.

Yoda’s swamp soup.

Actually, I think they might’ve made an official recipe for it for Galaxy’s Edge, but don’t quote me on that.

Actually, there’s a worst change: add the in-universe Coke and Sprite bottles from Galaxy’s Edge.

Idk, my college website was pretty navigable.

Wtf is wrong with my university’s web design? It’s so insanely convoluted and non-functional. You have to jump through so many hoops and completely broken systems to even hope to get anything done. I swear it’s like they don’t want me to register.

Idk why you guys think the final battle is so complicated. While yes there are four different storylines, they all basically amount to “everyone fights the droids while infiltrating the palace and hoping the air force can take out the control ship to make the infiltration trivial easy”. Ultimately the battle hinges on Padme’s party and the pilots, with the Gungans and the Jedi going off on tangents only to give her party a chance. Plus plenty of SW films have done intercut battles. Remember Exegol, Endor, and Starkiller Base? It’s really just a function of wanting the climax to include a ground battle, air battle, and lightsaber battle.

Oh and while the execution is seamless, I don’t like the idea of Jar Jar being a planetary representative from the start. It robs him of his entire arc from lowly buffoon to much more important buffoon and redemption in the eyes of his people. If being a buffoon is the issue, this doesn’t fix it, it just makes him a bumbling authority figure like Marcus Brody in The Last Crusade.

Fwiw, if you guys really wanna simplify things, you could try moving the Gungan Battle to the start of the film, with Jar Jar being one of the only survivor of a Gungan massacre when he meets Qui-Gon. That said, the scene no longer serves any real narrative purpose without the greater context of being a distraction so the Naboo can infiltrate Theed.

But hey, that’s just my two cents.

I think these are promising ideas. Anything to get us to Luke’s arrival at the palace ASAP. You think we can get away with Leia and Chewie’s capture being addressed solely in the crawl?

I could not make it through the Jabba stuff without dozing off. It did make me think that Act 1’s pacing could potentially benefit from intercutting between Vader/Emperor, Luke on Dagobah, and Leia’s failed rescue attempt.

This 100%. I think it might be worth skipping Leia, Chewie, and the droids entirely and starting with Luke’s arrival.

https://youtu.be/mlFjSE4QFks

Btw, does this thread replace the Worst Edit Ideas Thread or is it just reserved for ideas you’d genuinely see people implementing unironically?

Pretty smooth! The slow-mo looks iffy though.

Well it’s always been the Saga, Skywalker or not.

EddieDean said:

Here’s a little thing.
I think it’s a little too fan-edity though, because Anakin doesn’t really react.

That’s actually not bad.

Shoot, you’re right.

I agree with Spence. I think what amobex is trying to do is handle him like a movie monster where you don’t really get a good look at them until the end of the film to build up the mystery. That said, I’m not sure that really works with a character we’ve already seen in previous films. Yes, he looks a little more decrepit, but if you build it up like that people are gonna expect a lot more. Spence’s approach would give holding off his face reveal a purpose.

On an unrelated note, John Williams composed a wonderful theme for The Rise of Skywalker simply titled…The Rise of Skywalker. It’s a great theme that plays a bunch of times during the film but never really represents anything as far as I can tell unless you wanna argue it vaguely represents the Resistance’s sense of unity. What if we instead took that theme and sprinkled it throughout the trilogy to serve as Finn’s theme? He’s the only member of the main trio who lacks one. Even Rose got one and she’s only important in one film!

Oh and you know how the last film in the Saga closes on a Binary Sunset? Well we’ve heard the Force theme loads across the film so how 'bout get a bit of closure on that minor key with a major key rendition instead?

I feel like the “Are we the baddies” conversation would work best as a conversation between the stormtroopers Ben maneuvers around to deactivate the tractor beam. They’re already chatting about something in the movie, and it’s funnier yet more fitting when it’s low-ranking personnel asking these questions.

Oh yeah, it becomes a sort of fanedit buffet.

But being a schlocky villain is what makes him so much fun! He’s evil and he loves it!

EddieDean said:

The GALACTIC REPUBLIC is failing. As
its Senate becomes more complacent,
QUEEN AMIDALA, elected ruler of the
planet Naboo, stands as a vocal champion
against corruption.

With the Republic’s ability to protect
its worlds diminished, the greedy TRADE
FEDERATION have invaded her home system,
in an attempt to force her compliance.

The Jedi Order, mystical wielders of
THE FORCE and defenders of the Republic,
have dispatched Jedi Knight QUI-GON JINN
and his apprentice to bring the Queen to
safety on the capital planet of Coruscant.

This crawl is excellent! I’m gonna use it, but swapping the last paragraph for the one in the official cut. The Jedi don’t know they’re going to rescue the Queen yet (at least in my cut and the official one), so it wouldn’t make sense to mention and I feel like this takes too much time elaborating on what a Jedi is. I’d rather use that time to say the chancellor sent them.

A couple things I’m particularly interested in:

• Classic style starfighter UI
• Dooku

I know there’s been a lotta talk over the years about Dooku being on the Council or at Qui-Gon’s funeral, but I’d much rather set him up as already being a villain. I remember years ago experimenting with splicing together the deleted scene from AotC where he offers Padme to join him with the Queen escaping Naboo thinking it could be a holographic conversation. Really, I think it would take a lot of effort to set him up as the big bad behind this film. For one thing he’d have to replace Sidious in most hologram scenes. Idk if you guys consider that worth it.

The concept that Padme wins because of the destruction of the control ship is a really nice touch.

Wait, that isn’t how it happens in the actual film?

I’m a little confused why you’re killing off Leia early.

I disagree with cutting away right before the RotS quote instead of right after, but I’m guessing you really wanna save Palpy’s face reveal for later. Idk, it feels like a bit of an awkward point to cut away from.

Thank you everybody!

If you’re combining the Saga and spinoffs anyways, dropping the “Episode” part from the title is the absolute first thing I’d do. I’m tempted to say the crawls too, but I suppose you can keep them if you really want to. They probably help tie everything together more cohesively and explain cut or underdeveloped plot points as is often the case in edits.

I 100% expect most episodes to be around 40-60 minutes, just like Mando.

Actually, we could use Ex Machina as backstory for both Poe and Hux.