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That’s certainly a questionable change. I’d understand if the film was up in your face with some steamy, long-drawn make out scene between two random characters. That would feel extremely forced and cringe. But it’s a blink and you’ll miss it moment, really. I think JJ actually did a good job here making it feel organic.

Besides, why should it necessarily be interpreted in a sexual way? How do we know that in a galaxy as large and diverse as Star Wars that it isn’t their culture’s way of celebrating with each other? Yes, the novelization states that they are in a relationship, but the film itself never actually makes that clear.

I’ve got nothing bad to say about the second one. You’ve just gotta fix the typo “In its wake…” 😃

Not a bad rough draft. I’d be wary of placing the 6 years time frame in the crawl, because most of the movie takes place 19 years after ROTS. We shouldn’t want that smaller figure to stick with the audience. I’d get rid of the mention of timing entirely.

The second paragraph I have no complaints about except the grammar. Should be “Fearing for the safety of his family…” Scientist should be lowercase. The word “small” might also be redundant.

IDK why but it feels weird having Krennics full name there haha. I’d also avoid name dropping the Death Star. Deserves to be spelled out first in ANH. I think I’d completely rework the final paragraph. Especially since I don’t think he’d be “sent” to do anything, he’d see this as a personal matter.

Just forwarding the news you put onto the Episode X thread. I think of all Star Wars movies going forward will have a crawl it may be worth putting one onto this movie.

That tool is going to be insane for creating new VFX for fan edits. Very exciting stuff.

Hal 9000 said:

The best one is Ascendant.

Which is getting a v3… right… right???

Lol

DominicCobb said:

Maybe there will be a way to do a 2 in 1 edit with this and TROS to make a better Episode IX, or replace IX completely.

I had a similar thought. A 16 year time gap from TLJ to this wouldn’t be completely unprecedented. Episodes 1 to 2 have 10 years, for example. If you removed TROS, you’d just need the crawl for the new movie to do the heavy lifting. Something about the First Order getting toppled thanks to Luke’s final stand.

The biggest problem for a 2 in 1 would be giving a satisfying finish to Kylo Ren. And obviously the First Order wouldn’t exist in this new film. Maybe you could cut all of Palps out of IX, and use some AI dialogue to have the characters be after something else. Let the film play out all the way to Rey and Kylo’s duel on Exegol and his redemption. Then we could have Rey go to Ahch-To, but instead of having her go to Exegol to defeat Palpatine (who wouldn’t exist in this edit), we would use footage from this new movie intercut with the TROS finale. Idk, I’m just spitballing.

Ah, that’s fair enough. But seeing as how they’re departing from the traditional episodic titling, they may also depart from the standard naming conventions of the films. It might be two words, for example, which definitely wouldn’t work.

Some other ideas I’ve got are “Path of the Jedi” and “Balance of the Force”.

Hal 9000 said:

I’d suggest relegating this thread to fan edit ideas, or other aspects of this as a project. Otherwise it’s gonna be a long, overwhelming ride now to then.

But I agree with you. Hopefully they don’t just say, “Oh, he died on a mission or something.”

I’d be more worried about it being some throw-away line like “Oh Finn? He’s in the Outer Rim helping ex-stormtroopers.”

I agree though, a speculation thread might be better for this particular discussion.

In relation to this thread, I like the WIP title you currently have. It’s a nice mirror of ROTJ. I actually kinda like the sound of Legacy of the Jedi. I suppose it depends on what the actual plot will involve.

Since the film is supposed to be about the new Jedi order, it’s concerning that John Boyega hasn’t been announced to be returning, as well. I think he’s previously said that he’s done with Star Wars, but hopefully enough of that Disney money would bring him back.

I realize the Lego Holiday Special and the like aren’t necessarily canon, but I think it would be awesome to see Finn as Rey’s Jedi apprentice just like in those shorts. I’m not sure that a film with just Rey being the only Jedi would be all that interesting. I guess we could see “new” characters such as a grown up version of broom boy since it’s 15 years later. Grogu might be there, too.

Yeah I haven’t seen Kenobi since it first came out, and definitely not all episodes consecutively. Seeing this project is going to be a very new experience for me in many ways. I’m sure this is the case for others, too.

The only problem with that one is you can see the wreckage of the first ship behind Vader in a shot despite him never actually destroying it. Plus, I actually thought it was really cool seeing Vader absolutely rip that first ship to shreds.

We shall see what PixelJoker decides in the end.

I’m not sure how closely PixelJoker is planning on following the Kenobi show’s plotline, but I thought the following change was seamless and really cool:
https://youtu.be/OOGffGecPJI

I applied a negative dB gain to the “echo” effect which produces the signature robotic 3PO sound. This gives it a more subtle effect, perhaps more in-line with the film. Provided it isn’t too long, I think this should be a nice fit for the scene:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13z4agN3MprM1wpB02H2wlgjbK7qBU-4J/view?usp=sharing

It would be possible to do that for Finn, at least audio-wise. But I seriously doubt there is suitable footage for such a thing. Which is a shame, because I agree that it would be incredible.

Yeah, it seems to work pretty damn well:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bavjN656gZUwZyVbM8S2ftLxo77m7LB2/view?usp=sharing

If we want a more subtle effect I can reduce the delay length.

This is probably the fastest and easiest way of doing it:
https://youtu.be/I7rcMeQOikA

I like this take the best from my previous post:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10N4amzeS56chTS2frTmNP1h0WKxnDToE/view
Although I do wonder if it might be too long.

By far my favorite change I’ve seen so far was him putting Qui-Gon’s crystal in Kenobi’s saber chest. I can finally have my fandom explanation that Luke is using Qui-Gon’s lightsaber crystal in episode 6.

Crossvader said:

There is an obi- wan edit being developed at the moment by a guy called pixel joker ( check out the trailer on YouTube) it’s called kenobi trials of the master and looks really professional, the cgi actually looks better by this guy 😂

So if anyone was to revisited the prequel trilogy, I reckon pixel joker is the man for the job.

But we will see.

His work looks very promising. Although he said he isn’t planning on doing another edit until he is able to take a break with his family for a while.

Here it is as a question (because somebody on the last page recommended it):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fMOnH4WT55h-Zy6J2xpE8_kkr4qgApIo/view?usp=sharing

And here a bunch of general alternatives (some of which have that emphasis you mentioned):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1asFMBoUJS6_U6lWLIYPiy4gAIuSNHZH9/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10N4amzeS56chTS2frTmNP1h0WKxnDToE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15B5F6ZnAStyZ86LwKsP6Q_vp6fq-KR3P/view?usp=sharing

This is probably the best we’re gonna get for “I had hoped that you might tell me!”:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m-ajmXVcbVuz60MUiiW-H4RPerlpOx2i/view?usp=sharing

Here is a different reading of the second line (although I personally still prefer the first):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fZLkEPyXGkVhR7HqFS70WnVXfP9NNbHM/view?usp=sharing

I think no matter what we go with it will need some voice modulation effects placed on top. The results the AI spits out sometimes have the effect down but other times it’s a clear voice.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I thought they sounded very similar to Anthony Daniels and his character.

DZ-330 said:

For the first line, I think if we can have him sounding more like he is asking a question it might sound even better.

I’ll post some alternatives later tonight.

Here is a really good take of that first line:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZ20wjEcRhpyVaEN3F4kyR_EB1vtitvk/view?usp=sharing

As for the second one, here is an extremely good take, as well:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-TcvUJ4TZUOCwi3Mcm4mg27y-XvcyRBE/view?usp=sharing

I have plenty of alternatives for both of these that sound just as good but with different emphases. Let me know if you want to hear those as well. I just picked out my favorite ones.

I’ll get to those when I can later today. I think that is a better response, for sure.

My problem with that line is that it presumes 3PO was able to pick up on a lot of information about himself, rather than the situation he finds himself in. Previous scenes seem to indicate that people are mostly ignoring him because they find his new state annoying. That line would work well if he had asked somebody like Poe who he was and he said, “All you need to know is that you used to be a highly-trained spy who worked for the Resistance.” Thus, it would be funny when 3PO repeats that same information to a stormtrooper. Alas, we obviously don’t have the resources to produce such a thing.

The line “I am on a mission for the Resistance!” is much more believable since he could glean all of that information from the others. He obviously knows he’s on a mission to rescue somebody called “Chewie”, and we can assume somebody mentioned the Resistance by name off-screen.

Here is a really solid take I got of it, although I have some alternatives: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1skny-Is5lOJW2RHW7v8yuYDc1NwfdJ69/view?usp=sharing