There wasn’t music in that portion originally but since the dialogue had to be moved from later, it fortunately has a musical cue attatched that starts and ends in just the right places. It’s the same cue we hear as Kylo picks up the Wayfinder on Mustafar.
Hmmm, I’d be skeptical of that. Might be too weird.
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I think this works pretty well! Good idea, RogueLeader!
I don’t see why 3PO’s comment would need to go. Anakin mentioned going to Mustafar, then 3PO clarifies that he returned to the Jedi Temple.
Wow, that’s incredible. I’ll sit tight, then! Makes me a little nervous since I like the Mustafar opening and grabbing Vader’s Wayfinder, but that’s an interesting idea…
Well, the Mustafar opening is Just an awesome scene, but both possibilities look great. Maybe you would consider realeasing versions of the film with two different openings?
Or maybe the scene on the Mustafar could be somehow reused as a flashback or something? I know its not crucial to the film, but its Just Such a badass scene 😉
Well, I’m planning two: Rey Palpatine and Rey Nobody. Any more and it’d be out of control. I’ll have to decide whether to go with Coruscant if that’s an option or a spruced up Mustafar. I’m curious about the former but warmed up to the latter already.
And whichever goes unused by me will surely be used by others! I’m totally cool with using this whole project, tweaking it to someone’s liking, and distributing as another option.
Would love to record myself saying “This is the Mandalorian fleet, reporting in”
And maybe a “for Mandalore!”
Fixed that for you. 😉
I like keeping the first scene with Kylo and Papa Palpatine to:
“You’ll die first.”
“I’ve died before. Kill me, and my spirit will pass into you.”
It registers as a threat, and makes sense why Kylo would back down somewhat and demand he answer his previous comment about giving him “so much more.”
Then, when Rey comforts him he says “You want to kill me. That is what I want… You will be Empress. We will be one.”
Also… I think RogueLeader’s idea about moving the idea of Palpatine’s spirit moving into others into his first scene would work well.
Even though the mechanics aren’t made explicit to Rey during the climax, we the audience know them, so it might be forgivable. It is hinted at and she seems to have had plenty of psychic episodes throughout the movie.
Yeah, my only reason for asking this is that his introduction is gone, so those couple shots and one other short one that can be edited out are all that remain and he’s never introduced.
Here are three brief shots of Klaud that would ideally see him removed since his introduction is gone as a byproduct of moving the chess scene. If anyone wants to tackle this, it’ll help it feel more legit. It’s okay as is, just that there’s this thing back in the doorway.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u0x-OMfTBZ0dpnVflTzKSRjsxOp9uU6l
Or Vader never had it because Palpatine was holding out on him.
Wow, that’s incredible. I’ll sit tight, then! Makes me a little nervous since I like the Mustafar opening and grabbing Vader’s Wayfinder, but that’s an interesting idea…
If that can be executed effectively, I agree it’d be an improvement. It could also imply the dagger is what opened the door adjacent to the throne room, rather than… Rey’s Palpatine DNA or something. (I doubt there’d be any real way to make that moment any clearer with footage of the dagger.) That’d be good anyway, but especially welcome in a Rey Nobody edit.
Unrelated: Since we have clips of both traditional blue and yellow lightning destroying the transport thought to contain Chewie, it’s possible to use either for each of Rey Palpatine and Rey Nobody variations of this project. Yellow adds some distance from Palpatine, and blue is just what we expect Force lightning to look like when anyone uses it (only seen by Palpatine and Dooku). In Legends canon (for neeeeeerds!) there is a precedent for light side Force lightning that is yellow. In the context of a Rey Nobody TROS edit, yellow can represent the darkness she fears within herself, and speak to a sense of balance when she uses a yellow blade she constructs. (A Rey Nobody version also wouldn’t have that little crackle between Palpatine’s hands as he speaks with Kylo, which is there to tie into Rey’s lightning moment.)
So, in a Rey Palpatine edit, shall the yellow lightning stay or be replaced with the normal blue? I think the hand crackle would stay in this version, as it has a purpose. Though it could be removed without causing an issue, perhaps not making it more obvious than it already is.
I don’t know the scene well enough, but there’s that moment when Rey resolves to not even hate Palpatine.
It’s something I’m going to have to give some real thought. Would it require jettisoning Rey about to do a ritual sacrifice of Palpatine?
That’s the only thing at the moment keeping me from rendering out a completely coherent, albeit incomplete, version of the movie. Since Ewoks are seen earlier in the movie now.
Where’d you pull the additional establishing shot of Ach-To from?
All right, here’s what stands out as far as big changes that remain unrealized. There’s plenty else to tend to but these are the more important things:
Mustafar. Does anyone have the high quality clips to use! LILLIAN posted a clip recently in her (?) thread, which used these. They are an arial shot of a patterned lava flow, lava eruption behind trees, and video game footage of troop carriers landing with troopers dispersing. And, if anyone wants to really knock it out of the park, add illuminated specks between the Destroyer and the planet in the film’s opening shot and troop carriers in some way to the arial shot of the lava flow (perhaps passing by camera closely so as not even to need a model).
Dominic’s version of the vision during Rey’s remote training, once he finalizes it
The squeaky wheel extension needs FX work, but is hardly essential
Luke’s haircut, if jonh gets it to where he is happy with it
Relacing Endor with Coruscant in the celebration montage (and Jakku with Kijimi, in a perfect world)
Final scene: adding Ben’s ghost from jonh, possibly add light double rainbow to homestead, and alternate take of Rey’s line from poppasketti
Is the frame in part two right after the ghosts fade away? If so I won’t downloa again because I just caught it and fixed it.
And for part one, is only Obi-Wan’s first close-up shot different? I think I like the former one better so will stick with that.
Yes, I agree. I hopefully will be able to get the audio into better shape whenever I circle back around to it.
Things fall apart… and are rebuilt, which is boring to watch, so they fall apart.
EXACTLY
Yeah, and it works better to remove the now redundant buildup with Pryde and Hux talking about a ‘valuable prisoner.’
I’ve only been editing the sequel trilogies for now, but TFA stayed there same run time (after cutting and adding), TLJ got longer (tiny cuts, lots of adds), and Rise is getting a lot chopped out… but not nearly everything that made me roll my eyes.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Sequel-Trilogy-Special-Edition-StormPilot/id/75425
Very interesting! And coming out of the woodwork all finished.
I wonder, since I’ve had some trouble with it, if you’d mind posting a clip of removing the lightspeed skipping.