Hal 9000

To be fair I didn’t even realize that when I responded. 😅

I agree with you, Sherlock!

I’ll chew on that final paragraph, hopefully finding a way to gently imply that rumors are out there of something, enough to drive Kylo mad in search of.

And that would make (enough) sense of of Poe saying the intel confirms “the worst.”

TestingOutTheTest said:

“Mysterious origins of Snoke”? Come on, his backstory can already be inferred from TFA.

I would read this as sarcasm from anyone else.

I do agree with changing the third paragraph to imply Kylo is tracking down a rumored threat to his rule rather than a macguffin that would allow him to destroy any unspecified threats to his rule.

Something like “Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has investigated crap in Snoke’s desk drawer and rages in search of a rumored threat to his power…”

I wonder if introducing the idea in the crawl that all or certain systems are being silenced would help with the “making you think you’re alone” element.

“…by silencing any planetary system that supports their enemy.”

“…by cutting off any planetary system…”

“…by silencing communication between planetary systems that…”

Also, I think removing Kylo’s line “and take the throne” dovetails with the opening crawl mentioning concern about a “threat to his rule.”

At least with THAT, I would have felt respected as an audience member for at least the duration of the opening act.

I’m gonna be very picky about the crawl. I really like what we have already, aside from adjusting that one word. I don’t envision a total rewrite, and do not wish to introduce Palpatine in the crawl. Watching these platonically with no knowledge of marketing, that’s just silly to me. Might as well open with “Fuck it, somehow Palpatine returned.”

That’s a great little tweak to the crawl. Wish I’d have thought of that for V1.

And anyone want to undo Rey’s milky eyes for that one super short shot during her training vision?

As Anakin speaks with Bail Organa right before slipping away to meet with Padme in ROTS, and Bail says something like, “Well, I will do everything I can in the Senate,” add a response of, “Okay, yeah, whatever.”

NeverarGreat said:

“…your fake parents…”

Oof. Sly dig at “your real mother.”

^ I guess to both, but especially modifying Poe’s and Zorri’s conversation. I’m very much open, and hope it can work!

Master Lawdog said:

Is the VFX shot of Darth Nihilus as a background statue behind Kylo Ren being used in this edit?

If someone can send it to me it will be.

And I agree, Test: If Kijimi is to he shown rioting, we shouldn’t really see it until that moment.

I’m still not totally sold on using the idea overall. It’s great, and could totally have been done well while making the movie. I’m just still a little skeptical of doing it via fan editing in a way that would’ve worked completely if projected in theaters for real.

Anakin Starkiller said:

So his native accent then?

Yes, using random behind the scenes footage.

Give Finn a British, casual, mostly off-topic voice throughout.

^ Nice! I think something other than what in the real world would be deeply disturbing nearby huge fireball explosions with something more distant and matching their casual conversational tone.

Really cool idea! Ideally something to get at the Resistance idea without giving away “For Skywalker” ahead of time.

Really nice work, as usual.

Shaddy Zaphod said:

I think we should keep Rise of Skywalker’s bad decisions native to Rise of Skywalker, personally.

I’m inclined to agree, although I am okay with certain little exceptions.

Jar Jar Bricks said:

All I’ll say is this… no one’s being hurt by having these lines run through the AI. Even if we don’t want a specific line to be put in this edit, it would still be nice for it to be done for others. So I’d appreciate it if it isn’t too much of a bother for “No one’s ever really gone” to be run through for those who want it. Like I said, doesn’t have to be in this edit, but let’s play nice here.

Right. Keep the options open.

sade1212 said:

Kylo Ren’s voice is just Adam Driver’s normal ‘Ben Solo’ voice with a filter, no? It’d take some effort to duplicate the filter but it’s certainly possible.

Right.

I don’t really feel the need to add anything to the scene, but it’d be good to get some quotes of “Rey,” “no,” and things like that to play with.

I’d be most interested in the dyad line. Maybe request the complete sentence as well as various pieces of it.
“What Palpatine doesn’t know if we’ve become a dyad in the Force. Two that are one.”

“We’ve become a dyad in the Force.”

“We’ve become a dyad.”

“We’ve become…”

“Become a dyad…”

Etc. Just to have slight variation of the AI delivery.

I was kind of hoping to see something like Dave Bowman in 2010, in order to involve Hayden while leaving room for Shaw.

And MR, I’ve never noticed anything but apparent perfection in the clips and I suspect you’re being far more critical than any viewer will be. That said, take all the time needed.

Gotcha. Thanks for letting me know, though.

Nah. With the saber, there was a distinct sound that it always had. In ROTS there were two times it had a distinctly different sound effect, and once in TLJ. I believe the DVD for ESB bafflingly changed one of them to be wrong, too.

To me that’s noticeable and at least somewhat meaningful, whereas the turrets were just expanded upon. I’m sure it would’ve been pretty limiting to only use 40 year old foley from ANH.

EDIT: And I’d say ProRes would be ideal, if that’s possible.

Yes! Isn’t that wonderful?

I haven’t gotten the final render but as far as I am aware it’s done, visually and sonically.

I don’t notice anything on the 1080p and TinyEncode. What version are you watching and can you describe further?

Yeah, we should only train a Ben Solo AI on “ow.”

If my life were the way it was six years ago, I’d totally devote a whole week to attempting to get something like this to work, but alas. For our purposes for this specific project, though, we’d only really want to coax a few things out of it.

Now, for FUN, there’d be no end to what could be done. Deepfake ROTJ Jabba onto ANH? Why the hell not? Redub Ben Kenobi with Ewan McGregor? You bet. Swap all possible combinations of Anakin/Vader across the films? Leave no stone unturned!