Hal 9000

For safety, and PM sent.

Here is a list of things I’m currently hoping to get from others for this project, to consolidate it all for the moment:

• Lots of things from DominicCobb’s project, suffice it to say
• A crawl from Sir Ridley, once I get the wording nailed down (no hurry)
• Fixed video for the ‘squeaky wheel’ scene (be it FX wizardry to remove puppetry or cropping while processing the rough video and removing a few white film specks)
• Some sound clip or soundalike of masked Kylo Ren saying, “You were right” to replace “I never lied to you” before going on to say, “Your parents were no one.”
• More audio clips from you all of a battle cry, “For Skywalker!”
• The ghostly energy of past Jedi entering Rey, from Chase Adams
• Star Destroyer crashing over Coruscant for the finale (snooker)
• Star Destroyer over Coruscant as an establishing shot for the boardroom meeting scene
• Ben as a Force Ghost
• Faint double rainbow over the Lars homestead
• Purple blade for Leia’s saber during flashback and its use on Exegol

PM sent

Just the garbage bag full of missed opportunities.

Cast your thoughts back about 8 years. “Star Wars Episode IX” shouldn’t be vanilla.

God, this fucking movie.

The haphazard pace and sequence of the movie is what made me laugh when [Whatever his name was] looked over at the audience and asked, “Whose ship is this?”

I didn’t mind it once someone pointed out that Leia was holding Han’s medal as she died.

We will complete the mission.

Your years of experience with this are coming to bear on this final chapter nicely.

I am tempted to yell, “TAKE IT! Take it…” before real life stabs me in the back.

I don’t, but they’re available on myspleen. They aren’t accepting new registrations right now or I’d send you an invite.

lol

Once, a boy called Michael Rosen just fell over and died…

I certainly wouldn’t have noticed anything different, which is good. Anything to extend and lessen the rushed pace is welcome.

You’re leading the way, Dominic!

If you don’t mind, that sounds great. If I can get a few of those wish list items, I’d be happy to do a V3.

Does Sam Jackson say something similar in another movie you could borrow from?

(Just wanted to point out that the use of Luke and Leia’s theme at the celebration seems to serve to imply that Lando and Jannah are family.)

(And I’ll check out that clip once I’m in a place where I can, but it sounds great!)

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…Have Snap Wexley’s head explode right before he crashes.

SPACE MADNESS

Just have Palpatine’s head explode or fall off during his first scene.

While I am not committing to doing another revision of ANH, I jotted down a dream list of what I’d like to tweak further if I did.

• Remove the extra vaporators added to one shot in the SE during the sale of the droids
• Darken the sunset scene, and avoid using NeverAr’s sunset shot due to color banding
• Paint out the rats from the establishing shot of Mos Eisley
• For the narrow alleyway shot, paint out the rats and maybe one set of the mirrored troopers
  (- Or, even better, take the OOT intermediate shot of a speeder passing and add the SE dome-building backgrounds, but that’d be way out there)
• In the unplanned event that I do not go with the expanded galactic celebration at the end of ROTJ, remove the SE wide shot right after the checkpoint
• Remove the shockwave ring from Alderaan
• Give Obi-Wan’s saber a core during that one shot in which it fizzled out but was halfway fixed for in 2011
• Fix the continuity error during the SE Biggs scene as R2 abruptly jumps to a higher position during the masked optical wipe used to shorten the scene from the way it was filmed
• Do something about the shot of X-wings approaching the Death Star. It’s always looked poor, but using the OOT version wouldn’t mesh well with what would follow. The moon should be painted out, as we all recently learned causes a continuity problem, and perhaps the R2 unit seen more prominently could have its squarish blue panels made more rectangular. But this shot is unfortunate.
• I am ambivalent about the Death Star explosion shockwave ring. I would feel better about it if Alderaan’s were removed or vice versa. I could play with it if the SE Death Star element was used to replace the OOT’s as the explosion begins. (The SE Death Star element would lead into the OOT explosion, processed to match the surrounding 2011SE footage.)

I still think the current version of ANH is good, and most of these ideas probably couldn’t really be done anyway. But I have all my changes saved as ProRes files so it would be relatively easy to get it loaded again.

I can hardly tell anything was done, in that it’s very subtle. I’m okay with that, by the way. Whenever you’re happy with it let me know and I’ll include it! (No rush; you’ll end up waiting on me in the end.)

Pretty good!

Ren is insecure about the (reasons for wearing the) masks and calls attention to what is better left alone.

Too bad, in my version his head explodes during the victory celebration.

Maybe you’re remembering Darth Editous’ version?

And the squeaky wheel scene was there, but the supplemental material contained several more shots. The film version goes from Poe and Zorri to the shot where Rey smirks at DO while greasing him up.