Hal 9000

Ben mystically impregnates Rey as he heals her with his hand on her stomach.

Yeah, baby!

Wasn’t it Kasdan that reacted that way, with JJ jumping in to clarify he was “just messing with you”?

krausfadr said:

Moving the Falcon chess game to the end is a brilliant idea! Also the coolest transition is from Chewbacca yelling-- to Rey leaving the ship, but this clearly is not working. And another establishing shot is probably not the best way to fix it. The problem going on is there are no audio or visual cues telling us that they’ve landed. We’re watching them play chess on a ship that sounds like it’s cruising through space, then suddenly in the next scene Rey is walking off the ship.

In this rough clip I’ve started with a shot of the Falcon flying and later inside the ship added some sounds and movement giving cues that the Falcon landed:

https://youtu.be/-5iy3sz0e-o

That’s good, and helps sell it. I haven’t tried it yet, but I imagine this sequence:

The Resistance reunion scene quietly fades to black.

Cut to the Falcon in hyperspace, then to the interior as the chess game is going on.

After the line, “You’re 200 years older than us, of course you’re gonna be better at this,” cut to the Falcon flying over Jawas. (Or even a new FX shot of exiting hyperspace within a binary system, possibly borrowing or augmenting TPM footage.) The alert sound can be heard before the cut, signaling their approach toward their destination.

Rey exits the ship, does her ritual, changes her name, and heads back into the Falcon to ride off into the sunsets. (No footage exists, but it would have been good for Rey to make eye contact with the rest on her way over and be welcomed back inside.)

I think the ‘Reunion’ or friendship theme is better for Rey sensing Chewie is alive. It plays as we see he’s alive, also.

If I’m given frosting in lieu of cake, may as well add sprinkles.

I dunno, it’d make some sense in light of other potential changes to have Ochi die on Jakku…

JEDIT: Aaaaand, there’s already a reason for Rey not to be familiar with the festival, since it takes place once in 42 years.

Octorox said:

I’m split on the Jango Clone thing. After seeing all how they were used and abused in Clone Wars I kind of don’t want to put them through any more suffering lol

Don’t worry, the originals are all long dead. Each clone only suffered at most the maximum of a single human being. Even less if you factor in their sped up lifespan.

Replace it with “melancholy” and “exuberant.”

Now you gotta fill it out again.

Replace D-O with an augmented Rian Johnson voice making meta-comments directly about the movie.

Good idea.

Of course many of those things stand or fall together, but I also answered based on what seems feasible.

Right. They continue their chess game while Rey does what she does.

Hit me uuuüp. I like the idea and am curious to see how it ends. In my head working broom boy into the end of a Star Destroyer montage sounds good but who knows.

I still think Snoke is Plagueis.

Palpatine cloned his former master, who only ever operated in the shadows anyway as did all the Sith the past thousand years, in order to use HIM as a puppet and get some payback.

I question whether it’d be a good thing anyway. But… while I wouldn’t ask anyone to (and sincerely don’t have a strong preference), I can’t imagine not using it if someone did (and it was good).

I may not care about it, but if someone did enough to execute it effectively, fair enough and I’d use it. I would even do the audio. Maybe adding in some Kylo Ren-ish crackling throughout. Not all the time nonstop but where you’d expect to hear it in movie parlance.

I guess we could use the original hyperspace establishing shot, then interior, then Tatooine. Their continued conversation can fade out as we fly by Jawas.

The ST doesn’t have any sex or gore. The PT has Anakin and Padme and Anakin burning alive. The OT had romance, Leia in her slave outfit, charred skeletons and blood when an arm is cut off in the Cantina.

Hux should be shot in the head with a graphic explosion. And maybe when Kylo Ren picks up the Wayfinder on Mustafar it shows him a psychic vision of boobs.

Nah, I don’t think that’s really necessary. 😕

I imagine the Falcon interior could be placed after the establishing shot with the Jawas. Or before that, but yes I agree that should remain. We don’t need arrivals on planets to be any more abrupt.

Could be. That shot would need to be the new start of the sequence, immediately after Palpatine, whether hyperspace or no.

And yeah, I don’t wish to remove Klaud but I think it’d be cleaner that way.

We start a kickstarter to hire Weird Al to record a Van Halen cover so that as Rey and company arrive at Burning Man, we hear a diegetic performance of “Pasaana.”

If the Falcon chess scene is moved to the end of the movie, it gives something of a tangle with Klaud.

Either the earlier scene begins with “hey Klaud hows that air conditioner coming,” or with the better starting point of Poe in the cockpit directing things. The shot of the Falcon heading toward the iceberg could be extended to serve as the longer, take a breath establishing shot that the hyperspace shot used to provide. Without that initial intro of Klaud or his continued presence in the lightspeed skipping sequence which I will not feature, he’d be too weird to have just in what’s left. I guess he could still appear at the end as a weird rando for Merry to hug, though.

Since krausfadr has removed Klaud anyway, that material can be used to just cleanly remove him.

JEDIT: Sorry, looks like krausfadr removed him via editing rather than FX. I know there’s someone out there who has, so perhaps that could be obtained.

Awesome!