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- #1654677
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- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Special Edition
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EDIT IS NOW AVAILABLE
PRIMARY CHANGES: As usual, the sheer number of edits/microedits for pacing and to remove redundant/awkward dialog beats would make a complete changelist pretty exhausting to look at, but the bigger alterations will get noted below (and in cases where changes from prior fanedits remained as the edit evolved, the original edit will be named)
- New title card/new music (title card taken from Teaser Trailer, now scored with snippet of Jyn Erso and Hope Suite)
- Bodhi Rook’s defection/abduction scenes on Jedha have been cut/consolidated into one unbroken three-minute sequence and placed between Cassian’s intro on the Ring of Kafrene and Krennic’s intro on the Death Star with Tarkin
- Tarkin VFX replaced with deepfakes by Shamook, touched up by Burbin, integrated by Hal9000 as per his edit. This applies to all appearances of Tarkin, as well as Leia’s appearance.
- Jyn’s interrogation on Yavin IV has been cut for pacing/performance, and continuity issues with Andor have been deleted. The music cue under Bail Organa’s reveal has been changed as well.
- K-2SO “bag drop” punchline improvement, and Baze’s Stormtrooper slaughter in one unbroken take edits are via Hal9000 and DigModiFication’s Rise of the Rebellion. The cameo of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba has been deleted.
- Cassian/Chirrut/Baze’s imprisonment lightly edited for continuity with Andor. Saw and Jyn’s reunion edited for pacing/performance
- Tarkin seizing control of the Death Star lightly edited for pacing (and any less digital Tarkin, even deepfaked, is for the better). Conversation on U-Wing in transit to Eadu edited for pacing/performance.
- Approach to, and confrontation at, Galen’s lab edited for pacing and continuity. The deletion of Krennic shouting “Fire” the first time but Death Troopers not immediately shooting done via Burbin as integrated into Hal9000s cut
- Vader’s creepy butler busting into Anakin’s hot-tub time to announce Krennic’s arrival deleted. Feel free to imagine he’s hanging out in that weird mechanical clamshell thing from Empire instead. Way cooler. Ryan Golden’s voiceover replaces James Earl Jones’ line reads in the following scene with Krennic via Star Wars Story’s YouTube, re-timed and reprocessed to fit in the scene correctly.
Notes on keeping Darth Vader: This is one of the scenes I feel actually is enriched by Andor Season 2, even if it was primarily received as fanservice at the time. Firstly, as plot - Vader’s threats are why Krennic goes to Scarif and orders up all of Erso’s planning papers. But dramatically/thematically - Krennic in Season 2 tends to be deployed as THE self-consuming fascist ceiling Dedra Meero is going to smash against in the Empire. She’s going to get greedy for power, get manipulated, try to end-run that manipulation, and get ruined for it. Krennic does so with ONE finger. And in this movie, Krennic finds out he’s got a ceiling, too. Tarkin - amidst HIS achievement (!) - takes his project after over a decade, he tries to end-run Tarkin, and Vader, without even putting a finger on him, shows him how disposable he is, and maneuvers him straight to the place where he dies. It’s like poetry. It rhymes. Now where have I heard that before…
- The Alliance Council bickering and whining is lightly cut for pacing and performance. The Alliance Council probably would have gotten cut more, except Senators Jebel and Pamlo show up in Andor for one scene and they’re giant pains in the ass there, too! Fear not, that crazy dude in the Rebel Bleachers super worried about what Jyn is proposing is still here.
- Cassian and Jyn’s weird pre-boarding flirting has been deleted, as have any stray scenes where they’re catching glances and then being awkward about it. This has always seemed like leftover setup from an earlier cut where they made out on Scarif, but now even the leftover hints at it are getting terminated with extreme prejudice. Not now. Not with Bix in that wheat field holding that baby. Hell no.
- Bodhi’s indecision in naming their group, and Jyn’s confusion at being trapped under the shield, both trimmed via DigModiFication’s Rise of the Rebellion/Hal9000s edits. Jyn’s speech before the Rogues leave the cargo shuttle has been lightly edited for pace/feel.
- Mon Mothma and Bail’s “war is inevitable” scene, essentially there solely to go “Hey Obi-Wan Kenobi reference! Hey he’s talking about Leia!” and the following scene of the Rebel Fleet running around and fueling their ships leading to - and including - the Threepio and Artoo cameo, have both been deleted.
- The “Light it Up” chapter comprising the early moments of the ground battle on Scarif lightly edited for pacing to account for removal of above-mentioned scenes.
- Starfighter sequence where X-Wings bomb the shield to no effect, ending in Red 5’s death, has been deleted
- I don’t know why the Imperial Data Vault has a homicidal bathroom fan at the top of it for Jyn to climb through. It would make sense in a Metroid level. This is not Metroid One, a Samus Aran Story though. It has been deleted.
- Jyn’s line “you know who I am” deleted via Hal9000’s edit, because Krennic has no idea who she is and Mendelsson isn’t playing it like he knows her. His only time ACTUALLY seeing her was deleted prior on Eadu. Slight dialog trims throughout “Your Father Would be Proud of You” chapter for redundancies. Cassian and Jyn’s elevator ride has also been deleted because Bix is STILL IN THAT WHEAT FIELD looking beatific and amazing.
- Vader no longer requests a boarding party, despite how meme-worthy the line has become. It’s pretty clear Raddus’ ship is disabled, and Vader’s been staring at it since he showed up, and we’re about to see him go board it in 10 seconds, so now Capt. Sideburns doesn’t interrupt him, we just watch Vader stare out the window as “Your Father Would Be Proud of You” is on the soundtrack.