Lol, snooker was gonna do Coruscant to replace Endor, which is seen earlier now. So it’d be a planet from each trilogy.
I don’t remember but he customized things heavily.
After Palpatine bids Kylo to “become what [his] grandfather, Vader, could not,” would it work to cut to the original last shot of the scene?
There’d be more time for a wipe transition, and it’d imply Palpatine arrogantly things he’s “got” him, like he has the hooks in his jaw ala Anakin in ROTS, but with a touch of being off the money ala Luke in ROTJ.
Hal, Dom, everyone… I’m about to release a workprint of my edit, TROS: Resurgence. But I need help with generating the opening crawl. Is there some kind soul on the forum who already has something like an After Effects template loaded and could render it?
Sir Ridley did the ultimate crawls for my prequels and TFA. And they’re perfect in every way.
For a not-perfect-but-still-great approach, smudger9 released a template project for FCPX.
And Jackpumpkinhead did a blender template.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Custom-Crawl-Creator-Revisited-v20-RELEASED/id/51773/page/1
I just realized. When the saber flies into Rey’s hand, it’ll be that much more satisfying to visibly be Leia’s, right after we hear her very first posthumous word.
Resistance headquartered on Naboo, the Death Star wreckage on Endor, Leia having a purple blade, Jedi ghosts joining the fight, Rose’s theme bringing some resonance to Finn, and other things. None of these “solve” issues with the movie, but each are great to see. This is gonna be special, and hopefully a good note for this interpretation of the saga to go out on.
The shitty thing is that no matter what we can change or alter with this film, there’s no way we can really give Rose more of a presence, without any deleted scenes. Rose goes from a prominent character with her own theme in the last film, to a background extra in the last film.
But… this conversation did give me an idea for one small change. For awhile I’ve had this idea of altering the scene between Finn and Jannah, and replace a part of Finn’s schpiel about the Force to something about joining the fight. Basically, we want to get the idea across that Finn is recruiting Jannah to join the cause by sharing how he had his own change of heart in the last two films. It would be nice if we could rescore the last half of that scene, and replace the overused Force motif with Rose’s theme, instead. So the conversation would go something like:
Finn: The Force. The Force brought me here. Brought me to Rey and Poe. We need to stop the First Order. I wasn’t sure then, but I am now.
Maybe you could change it some more, but if you can change the context of the scene to make it seem like Finn is convincing Jannah to stop hiding on Endor and join the fight, with Rose’s theme playing over it, we can feel Rose’s presence and impact on the story more, even if she doesn’t have much screen time herself.
Here is that scene for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jRscLcf3bA
Is there dialogue already of Finn saying “We need to stop the First Order” that you have in mind?
Fair enough. I’d be happy with a 40ish Hayden! Pretend like he actually filmed. With or without his long hair.
I’d like to see every character ever portrayed two different ways be DeepFaked.
Lol. “We’ve been expecting you.”
I’d support that, too.
It would at least nod to a potential answer to where the hell everyone came from.
Have you thought about trimming the scene of Rey killing Palpatine? Maybe to make it seem as if Rey deflects the lightning very quickly so that he barely has a chance to react. Just something to keep someone from complaining that he could’ve stopped using lightning, and hopefully make him seem less dumb. Just an idea that could work.
No, I haven’t. I think for a dramatic climactic moment the way it is works fine, and I don’t think shortening it would be a positive change. At least, in the NLE inside my brain.
Ah, thanks. Yeah, it’d be a subtle difference when mixed into the scene but I’d feel a little better for it.
EDIT: Now just give him Shaw’s combover. Just kidding.
Or am I?
Even though it’s been all I can do lately to check in once or twice a day here and push words around, it makes me happy to have such wonderful ideas and help with this.
We’re gonna pilot this thing to victory.
Agreed. Superbly executed.
I can’t get the password to work.
I love this place, too. I’d love a mock-up of a Frankenanakin.
STUNNING! That looks exactly the way it should. That’s some very good work!
I believe with that and the flashback earlier, that’s all of the blade’s appearance! Could you send me a lossless or highest possible quality output of this?
I suppose that’s reasonable: 2019-ish Hayden approximation or Shaw. (Or 2005 Hayden.)
Don’t wanna change ROTJ though.
I agree, having him appear at least a little older would help. Everyone else consistently appear as they did when they died.
I was thinking about semi-aged Hayden in the context of having him come in and film. If it’s a fan edit anyway, why not mock up Shaw and see how it plays?
What about something like this for Anakin?
Minor necro but here’s an amusing little thing I did with the ageing technique I was messing with. Forgive my lazy masking.
Wow, that looks really good!
I must have missed the music discussion. I agree, having been brought up to speed.
I finally got the chance to put together an update to this project to sync with D+80. Look for it on the 'spleen or the Google Drive in the same place as before. I included the lossless audio output this time, rather than making it a separate download. So be aware before downloading the whole thing.
I was wondering, if it were as powerful whether it would be good to consider.
Did John Williams record something for the moment in TFA that ended up using ‘Burning Homestead,’ and if so, do we have it?