NeverarGreat

chyron8472 said:

HerekittykittyX said:

J0E said:

bromeo said:

I just hope Disney pulls the plug on EA’s Star Wars license in the future. I’d love to see a new KOTOR from BioWare (or a new RPG from CD Projekt Red).

I’ve lost what little hope I had for a KotOR 3. Even with EA owning Bioware, having exclusive rights to the Star Wars license, KotOR being made available on Xbone and KotOR 2 having a massive update a year or two ago on steam. Setting aside that the game series is over a decade old and it’s no longer considered “canon”, what really made me lose hope was EA shutting down Visceral because of the “linear single player” Star Wars game they were developing. I still had hope. After seeing Deus Ex get a sequel after over a decade I had hope for KotOR, but no longer. It’s a shame because it is one of the finest role-playing experiences out there along with Ultima Underground, The Elder Scrolls chapter 2: Daggerfall and Baldur’s Gate.

OMG I need CD project red Bethesda to work on a Star Wars new Elder Scrolls game that would be amazing long overdue.

This was one of the most jarring transitions in the theatrical version as well, since Rey doesn’t answer in this scene. The new shot actually provides more of a buffer between scenes, which is why I put it there.

The other option of having it fall out of Hyperspace between Rey saying “Help me with this, quick!” and “What’s going on?” breaks the scene up even more.

I agree that there could be a louder breaking sound just as it exits hyperspace.

I suggested at one point having some sort of sound effect (ANH Star Destroyer flyover?) but I don’t know what SirRidley’s cooking up for that.

Yeah, it’s been really fun contributing to this endeavor the past year and a half, and I’ll probably be missing it come February 😉. Congratulations, Hal!

ChainsawAsh said:

If V2 could be ready by the 10th I’d be a very happy camper. 😄 (I’m planning a TFA viewing party that night.)

I think that’s a reasonable deadline if we’re planning on getting something together before TLJ. SirRidley, if you don’t think you can get all of the things finished by then I’m sure we could find a stopgap solution for a December 10th release and put the rest in the next version (if it comes to that).

RogueLeader said:

Great! So since Ridley has pretty much completed his incredible work on the Leia deleted scene, and the opening crawl text has been decided on, does that only leave Ridley’s Maz’s castle scene, and possibly this Snoke scene?

From what I’ve gathered we still need Ridley’s exported crawl and Maz’s castle.
Apart from that the Snoke scene of course, but other than that I can’t think of anything super essential that’s still MIA.

It would be good to have a hard deadline for V2, if only because some people might like to make plans to see this before TLJ 😉

As stated in my first post, this edit will be reducing the Rathtar action, but not removing it entirely. It wouldn’t make much sense for Han to abandon his much larger spaceship if he was not forced to escape, and this scene also shows Rey making a very human mistake (“Oh no…wrong fuses”).

It’s not really the purpose of the edit to add or remove character moments unrelated to the Starkiller Restructure, but I always read this exchange as Finn almost ready to admit that he wasn’t a part of the Resistance, at least until they were distracted and he changed his mind.

Jump St version 2:
https://vimeo.com/245234854
Password: jump

“George always intended nine movies.”

Except when he “always intended” twelve. Or three.

Some of the TFA ships look a bit low contrast to me, so here’s an attempt to get it closer to the OT photography where some of the shadows were just black: http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/WDPNNN8X

screams in the void said:

love these vhs cover creations , I took my dvd copy of force awakens and played it through my old apex dvd player hooked up to an old portable tv/vcr combo and made a vhs copy of it . Might do the same for Rogue one and display with all my other vhs star wars movies.

This is the most hipster thing I’ve ever heard of.

But not bad.

I’d probably go with the restructuring approach for Starlight, but at least the new Snoke scene keeps everything else in place.

The Fishmanlee soundtrack has a lot of unreleased tracks, you could try that if you want something different.

Posting the Hyperspace jump from Jakku here as well as in the Restructured thread:

https://vimeo.com/245069381
Password: jump

Just as a reminder since I don’t bump this thread for every update: The first post is a current list of all clips related to this project (and by extension some of the Restructured project).

Hal 9000 said:

I love it!

Excellent. Though the intervening scene could use some background hum to indicate that it’s in Hyperspace.

Here’s a thing:
https://vimeo.com/245069381
Password: jump

Luckily the Starkiller shot is quite static, which would, only in theory mind you, make any timeshifting slightly less heretical. 😉

Looks like all these transitions would work well - I think the TIEs over the mountains establishing shot would help with Rey’s introduction though, and the transition from Han to the base is a little odd. Too quick, maybe?

If everyone’s okay with being away from Rey for a while, the scene reordering becomes more simple:

Resistance Base
Weapon Charging
Battle Plans
Farewells
Interrogation
Snoke

Not knowing what’s happening with Kylo and Rey may be a good thing, since the focus would be on Finn and his plan to get Rey. As it is, Finn concocts a desperate plan to save Rey when we know she’s already escaped and is in the process of finding a ship to escape.

So if we wanted to make this a more dramatic rescue (Read: ignore because I get carried away), the next scenes could play out like this:

Snoke
Landing at Lightspeed
Rey’s Failed Mind Trick
Lowering the Shields
Preparing to Storm the Detention Block (ending with “Are you sure you’re ready for this?” “Hell no.”)
Rey’s Escape
Hangars on Lockdown
Rejoining Rey

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

SilverWook said:

I’m sure some sculpts or molds for classic Yoda still exist and could be used to replicate a new puppet. Even if they were too fragile to cast from again they could be digitally scanned and 3D printed?

The Harmy of Yoda puppets:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/how-one-star-wars-creature-maker-is-trying-to-130454474.html

savingyoda.com

Fascinating. The first prototype is a bit odd, so hopefully they’ve honed the design.

The scene in the original version is actually shorter, so it really comes down to the music tying it together. It really needs a final note when Rey and Finn exit the oscillator, and a beat before Snoke starts talking. I think that would make it sound like there was more of a time difference between the scenes.

First of all, good job on the scene, it’s as good as I could imagine it getting with the resources at our disposal.

However, the reason I abandoned that short Snoke scene was because there were too many weird things about it, such as the complete lack of acknowledgement about the Republic’s destruction, further keeping Snoke in the dark about First Order information (when were they going to tell him about that reconnaissance ship?!), and the brevity of the scene makes it seem too perfunctory and ad hoc. It’s certainly serviceable though, so it’s better than nothing if it comes to that.

JEDIT:
I’m glad people like the Starlight mockups. I’m a big fan of keeping the focus on Rey as much as possible, and trying to imply that she’s learning over an extended period of time through Ren’s interrogations. Even though the discussion has moved on a bit, I had made this mockup just this morning:
https://vimeo.com/244699807
Password: rey

This follows the sequence:
Resistance Base
Weapon Charging
Interrogations
Snoke (reconnaissance tracking)
Failed Mind Trick
Battle Plans
Farewells
Successful Mind Trick
Landing from Hyperspace

Of course, the necessity of keeping the charging-Battle Plans connection renders this rather moot.

Here’s the sequence I’m looking at:

Resistance Base
Weapon Charging
Battle Plans
Farewell
Rey’s Interrogation
Snoke
Rey Escapes
Landing at Hyperspace

Since the bolded sections must stay together, Rey’s interrogation must fall on one side of them or the other. I feel like we’re away from her almost too long in the Theatrical version, so at least part of the interrogation should happen before the weapon charging. However, since Snoke’s scene should happen after the charging, there’s no natural way to include her in this section of the film. That’s a problem if Rey’s still supposed to be the main character.

So either the bolded section must be split somehow, or Rey’s interrogation must be split into two sections, with one before the bolded section.

Here’s an old mockup of how such a split could happen, just disregard the sequence: https://vimeo.com/214598035
Password: learning

So, has anybody ever seen a Star Wars movie?

pleasehello said:

NeverarGreat said:

That Porg shot really shows the awkward side of practical effects.

What part of that porg shot looked awkward to you? I’m not a huge fan of the porg design, but I thought that shot looked incredibly realistic.

The mouth looked rather strange, as well as the wings looking like they were on simple hinges. It will probably be better in context.