Hal 9000

It’s wonderful to see you!

In watching through the first few scenes of the movie, skipping around to imitate our ideas, I think the opening feels very rushed removing Mustafar and the chess scene.

You can try it: skip to Kylo approaching Exogol, then skip the chess scene. Feels pretty breakneck. The Mustafar and travel scenes let us get into the movie for a minute before dumping Palpatine on us.

I really don’t mind Mustafar as is, so this isn’t an obvious answer. It might be best as it is, even without the meat of the scene, with or without a couple establishing shots. (Just leave it at the theatrical version so no one’s happy!) Leaving this alone could help losing the chess scene in the opening a bit more forgivable.

This finished movie just doesn’t give us much wiggle room.

https://youtu.be/DCDCWyDrLEU

2:45

The whole gag is a good 15 seconds. The thing farts and howls about it. We need to get that into 4K and back into the movie. All theatrical otherwise.

In all seriousness, I miss my ooooold TPM edit sourced from DVD, where I could mix and match from all the extended podrace bits. Couldn’t really do that while working with the BluRay since it’s so different.

Agreed. It’s best to pursue each option earnestly. I’m sure they’ll all have takers, even if they all can’t be me!

Same as parts of ROTS were about Bush. But yeah, that’s have to attribute to the top level creators of TROS with a capacity for abstract thought. 😕

Oh my God.

I just had a terrible thought.

Palpatine in TROS is about Trump. Evil came back up from nowhere but don’t worry because “there are more of us.”

Hmm. If Mustafar is kept, I wouldn’t remove finding the Wayfinder.

I dunno, maybe it’s better to just say the hell with Mustafar.

I hadn’t considered when Rey learns that Kylo had a Wayfinder. I know Lando tells her “only two were made” in his RV, but I wanted Luke to slap her and say, “Hey be careful before you just burn things!”

Makes sense that she didn’t know he had one. Opening with Exogol would actually make that moment feel better.

Palpatine and/or the Wayfinder would need to be included in the crawl.

Oh my God, you guys, how much do you expect me to be able to read during the cracks in my day? lol

I could only skim the last THREE pages for the moment, but I guess I’m of three minds about Mustafar.

I really don’t mind the film as it is, as we get a sense of “Ah, he’s chasing a thing to get to a place but they aren’t stopping to tell us about it because we infer what we need to know.”

I am okay with adding other shots to the Mustafar scene because people feel that it would be a good idea, provided it comes across well and fits in.

Since I like Mustafar just fine, I’m reluctant to remove it completely, but there’s a solid point to doing that, since it’s been eviscerated of the meat that we know was originally there.

Poppasketti, would a pan UP from the crawl fit better? The camera would then continue to to go up to follow the TIE, rather than changing directions. I wonder if another second or two could pass before his TIE enters frame, too. But that’s some good work, per usual.

I know other things were brought up, too, but I only have a couple minutes. I don’t particularly care to rescore Han or Leia’s moments on the Death Star, personally. John Williams is the best part of TROS.

Here’s the clip of the lightspeed scene removal

https://vimeo.com/419885810

Star Wars has all kinds of Deepfake potential. Once it progresses to be easier to apply, there’ll be lots of fun to be had. Not least is to mix and match Anakins all around. Shaw in the prequels, Hayden in ROTJ? Guinness in ROTS? Owen and Beru swapping between prequels and ANH?
Undo Palpatine’s monster face in ROTS?

Hmm, I’d be reluctant to cut the entire scene.

Would you PM me your new workprint? We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

JEDIT: Once you get it sorted out, anyway. Just saw your recent post.

It would be against my religion to feature it in the movie, but I’d be curious and pleased to see a well done version of the idea.

I will as soon as I can. 😃

It’s canon history now.

So did I!

Because the people here have knocked my socks off lately (and for a long time now)…

Anyone feel like replacing Alderaan’s explosion with Kijimi’s? No shockwave and looks better all around. Might need some kind of morph or blend to get the explosion started.

Hmmm… if Kijimi isn’t destroyed, could it feature in the mini-montage of Star Destroyers going down instead of Jakku?

Coruscant > Cloud City > Kijimi

You’d have a planet introduced in the first film of the first trilogy, second film of the second trilogy, and third film of the third trilogy.”

“Happy.”

I feel you, I was so discouraged early on and am grateful for such communal help.

I figure that if the TIEs follow the Falcon aaaaaand scene, the viewer would infer that Poe pulled further shenanigans to lose them (pushing the Falcon to her limits due to the FO’s new hyperspace tracking capabilities) as referenced when Rey chides him for lightspeed skipping. I got the transition to feel fairly natural to me, and I think I would have accepted it.

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Movies Remastered said:

Hal 9000 said:

I can’t encode a clip right now because ROTJ is exporting but I wipe away from the lightspeed scene after they blast through the ice wall and are followed by TIES. Skenera extended the shot to allow for a smooth transition.

I was trying to cut just before the Ties as I’ve cut them out the end of that scene. I’d like to see your edit wgen you can.

How far in from finishing a rough cut are you?

Oh, I really don’t know.

If you end up being able to remove even the TIEs, I would consider whether the later conversation about lightspeed skipping will make sense.

I can’t encode a clip right now because ROTJ is exporting but I wipe away from the lightspeed scene after they blast through the ice wall and are followed by TIES. Skenera extended the shot to allow for a smooth transition.

Partly because I have very little time, and because I trust you implicitly, almost certainly as you go with this idea, so go I.

If the helmet scene is used at the start, would there still be a place for Dominic’s Kylo vision?