Hal 9000

The voices of the Jedi that guide Rey during the climax of TROS are replaced by a pointed monologue from Yarael Poof.

I just happened to notice that this thread now has a little over half the number of posts as Adywan’s 14 year old ANH:R thread.

That’s pretty fucking crazy.

EDIT: Me when I show off clips of this project IRL: https://youtu.be/Nv-FcxlEMaw

Papa’s_rod said:

Hal 9000 said:

And this project is waiting on a few things from a few people, and that may take some time, but that’s pretty much it!

Those few people include the scenes for the Nobody version or those parts are already done?

Good question. The regular version is waiting on a few things, then will be released. After that, whenever the needed scenes are completed by others, the Rey Nobody cut will be completed.

Yes, that’s a good example of what I mean! I don’t mean any offense to Cinefy whatsoever. I just don’t share a specific goal of wanting to add prequel music throughout, so I’m going to decline anything that doesn’t seem like a slam dunk. But y’know, if Cinefy would like to do an alternate audio track with any or all of those ideas, I can send him the audio output once the edit’s sync is locked.

And this project is waiting on a few things from a few people, and that may take some time, but that’s pretty much it! Once I have those things I will do a color pass using skenera’s LUTs and get all the other stuff ready. That may take some time in its own right. I’m not sure about the commentary. It will be difficult for me to find dedicated time out to record even a solo commentary, let alone coordinating a group one. I might have to just do a solo one in chunks. I’m tempted to just skip it!

Isn’t that Jar Jar’s motif? When I hear that I remember him feeling petty okie day after his brisky mornin’ munchin’.

I think that little scene is better without music. In this movie, having points like that to just have a little gag outside the main action without music helps a little to slow the pace. I hope I’m not being petty but I think it was a good call not to score that moment in the first place.

Clone army would have clones of multiple people, leaving doors open for options.

Yeah, like I said, I’m pretty set on the music being what it is at present.

And that’s an interesting idea to use Ben’s clothes! Not sure how doable it would be, I really am not sure.

I feel pretty settled about the level and method of including DOTF in the duel. It’s noticeable but subtle, brief, and leads into existing music after a gap with no score.

Well, there’d be that snippet followed by a long gap with no music, another DOTF snippet, then the existing score. I think it’d be better with just what you’ve already done.

Great job!

I was just saying that if one were somehow moving the funeral to be a few years later, then it would be reasonable to try to insert Leia somehow.

Already been done. It doesn’t even serve as a legitimate comment on the maneuver as depicted in TLJ. Worthless line.

Not sure how one would move the funeral to a few years later, but if…

Yeah, I know, but if you want the funeral to be a few years later it’d make sense for Leia to be seen.

Ay carumba. Let’s move this elsewhere.

Deepfake or augment the little girl to be Leia? Or something

NeverAr has it exactly right.

I think skenera’s recent clip is the best I’ve seen so far. He’s not sure how to finish it up, as the existing footage snooker presented as explosion flashes that reach across the frame.

Probably not.

Bugs me to keep seeing that mislabeled. It’s Reese Withouterspoon.

Seems like they’re skimming for a landing spot.

I’d prefer not to add the palace. It probably would have made me gently roll my eyes in the theater.

Maybe add TV’s Frink’s speeder bike and probe droids flying by.

I don’t know about Jabba’s palace. It would imply it’s around the block from the Lars homestead. Prior, it could be on any part of the planet. I don’t think it’d be good to squish it into frame here.

Just like TLJ!

We’ve certainly augmented a few things in light of TLJ, but I do not share the appraisal of TROS ignoring TLJ. It clearly wanted to retcon some stuff, though.

The best example is poppasketti’s change for this project to tweak a Kylo Ren line. Rather than telling Rey, “I never lied to you,” he says, “You were right.” Because, in TLJ Kylo never told Rey her parents were nobody. She did. It rings more true this way.

Another is removing the idea that Leia (and, more puzzling, Luke) somehow knew Rey was granddaughter of Palpatine. TLJ seems not to leave any room at all to suppose Luke knew who she was. In this edit, we aren’t told when Luke found out, so I would think one would assume he learned it at some point after dying, and it doesn’t matter much by the time we see him on Ach-To with Rey.

Kewlfish’s crackling saber effect seems to add a layer of meaning to TLJ breaking the Skywalker saber.

Added comm chatter sort of implies that word of what Luke did on Crait has continued to play an inspirational role.

I’m sure there’s more that I can’t think of right now. About the only thing that has been done to TFA and TLJ in light of this movie has been to sprinkle in a few very subtle Palpatine hints. And I guess to partially reinstate lines about ‘cheating death’ from Palpatine in LOE.

If one had the entire saga to reboot, surely the story would be quite different. You could seriously iron out the kinks and apparent retcons.
Would one be obliged to stick to certain key points?

Only one Death Star. ROTJ’s battle centers around a fleet or an attack on the Emperor’s person on Coruscant. No Starkiller Base, either.

Anakin’s origins are shrouded, with no virgin birth stuff. Prophecy is fine, but it would later be subtly implied to be a sort of ongoing thing, like anyone can be anointed as a chosen one by their actions.

Rey Nobody, to go along with the above.

We get to know the Sith with exposition and seeing them scheme, perhaps with Plagueis being the shadowy villain for TPM. We should have some sense of their history.

The third trilogy would delve into mystical aspects of the Force and balance, perhaps letting us know the Whills. Something to elevate them thematically over what we already saw in the second trilogy.

Really, though, if I had 9 guaranteed films to sketch out, I’d let 1-5 be similar to what we know of the existing saga at their basic plots, and then replace 6 with a 6-9 worth of stuff as Luke finds his lost twin and faces Palpatine in an Ep9 showdown.