SomethingStarWarsRelated said:
This is quite nice, Sir Ridley. However, I don’t think this single line spells it out to the audience. I hope Adywan will consider this for his edit:
This is canon.
An update on the crawl:
Password: fanedit
This uses the custom font (I still need to find a more authentic font for the title) and applies a rather aggressive method for disintegrating the letterforms as they march into the distance. Probably too aggressive.
I’m not 100% happy with the text as per usual (too wordy, etc), but one thing I do like is having IMPERIAL FIRST ORDER take up an entire line, something which hasn’t yet been done in an official crawl.
Now we know where the design for the Naboo Star Skiff came from!
While the latest version sounds pretty good, there’s no escaping that his reading of ‘mother’ is too fast for the scene. I did a search of all instances of the word ‘mother’ in the New Testament and came up with 92, some as the last word of a sentence. Surely there’s a slower reading in there?
Anakin, I don’t understand Bubble Comedy.
It’s got some nice movement, very dramatic, but that part feels quite video-gamey. I mean, how are they controlling the platforms? Are they just hoping they stay close enough for the fight?
Remember when all the fanart for 7 showed the rusted husk of the Falcon?
I wish we got that movie.
The Knights of Ren are revealed to be the surviving members of Kanjiklub, out for revenge against Rey for setting the Rathtars on them.
The Rathtars are also revealed to be on a quest for revenge against Rey for killing one of their number via windshield lightspeed ramming, which has become a War Crime in the months since the battle of Crait.
The festival seen in the latest trailer is actually happening on Dantooine, when they arrive to the scene, Poe will turn to both Rey and Finn and enthusiastically proclaim “Don’t let anybody say Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration!” before running to join the crowd.
I appreciate the dedication to this bit.
I was 13 when TPM came out and remember liking it, and was especially interested in where the story could go next. Then AOTC was released, and I remember thinking, even at such an age and without the help of the internet, that GL had lost the plot. By the time of ROTS, the trilogy was an exercise in completionism more than anything else.
Just for fun, I tried correcting three of the trailer images with a global adjustment:
What if it was hyphenated? Kylo-ren.
Or Ben-kylo-ren.
Or Kylo-ren-ben.
Or Obi-benkylo.
Or Sheev-ren.
Holy heartbreak, that’s great.
I have a feeling a lot of TFA edits are gonna have a bit of a continuity issue on their hands, as I’m sure they’re going to use the Leia “I don’t care” scene in TROS.
But how? Since the Republic has been turned into a planet-sized bowl of cocoa pebbles, they would have to change everything except that line.
It’s much more likely to me that they would use a scene that was shot but never released, like the one where Maz gives Leia the lightsaber.
That would be excellent!
JEDIT: Not that I dislike what you’ve put together, but you know how I can’t leave anything alone until it’s been approached from 3 different angles and gone through at least five revisions. 😉
I think it works.
I do still really like the theatrical transition from Finn to the island though. Maybe it’s enough to go from the original wide shot of the island to the small figure of Rey already climbing the steps.
It’s also a shame to lose the overhead shots of Rey approaching Luke. An ideal version for me would be to have Rey bypass the huts on first approach, then paint Luke out of those aerial shots and have Rey approach the spot where she saw him in the vision, then look slightly confused and walk down to the huts. That’s probably too involved though and I’m not even sure if it would work.
It was a few pages back in the thread that I talked about the TLJ scene, and how to better reconcile the image of exiled Jedi Luke from the end of TFA with depressed hobo Luke from TLJ.
The concept is that Rey’s ‘vision’ of Luke as the mysterious savior in his Jedi robes standing at the edge of the cliff is little more than a dream on her part, so when she actually arrives on the island expecting to find Luke there, he’s gone. She then goes looking for him, finding him hiding in his hut in his hobo robes, having never worn his Jedi duds at all.
It’s definitely more involved than a simple splice or two, though the scene would technically work if it was just the end of TFA spliced onto the scene from TLJ.
That would be awesome! My ideal TLJ edit would again use your edit as the base Hal, so making an alternate version of that with Rey trekking up to the island summit and finding Luke gone would be perfect! I imagine her trek being a shortened version of the TFA scene using the shots discarded from my edit along with some rendition of the Jedi Steps, and she would get up there and look confused as the music fades away.
Thanks Omni (and Hal, and Jarbear, and…). it’s heartening to hear that all this work may have some real value to others. So many projects get abandoned and it’s such a shame, I really want this one to live up the expectations you have for it.
Ridley, I recall you were trying to incorporate the BTS footage of Han’s dice at one point, did you ever manage to get that to work?
I’m trying to get something released before Episode 9 comes out.
Thanks, I’m quite pleased at how things are flowing right now 😃
Updated and organized the OP cutlist.
