Or… Make Exogol and star killer the same planet.
The resistance destroys the weapon but not the planet. At the end of the film we see the destroyers rise from the ground. A cliffhanger.
Maybe after the pain has been blunted by time…maybe. 😉
Anyway, on this project I’ve gone back to an earlier concept for the Starkiller Infiltration. The previous iterations all felt too choppy and stitched together, so I’ve consolidated the Mind Trick scenes back into one. The workprint version of the Kylo Falcon scene came after the X-wing attack, which felt strange because it pulled focus away from that action for too long. Besides, it was originally supposed to take place before the fighter attack. Here I’ve returned it to a previous spot after Rey avoids the guards. With the addition of extra dialogue and that establishing shot, I think it works a bit better.
Password: fanedit
Amazing, all of it.
Only think to nitpick is that the smash cut from Kylo inside the falcon to appearing outside the falcon feels a little abrupt.
Oh, and please tell me you’re cutting the scene in Ep1 when Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon use force speed to escape the Droidekas, which isn’t used again in Star Wars, and especially not used when Obi-Wan needs to move fast through the closing forcefields to get to Qui-Gon to save his life.
Correction: Luke uses it to escape the carbonation shaft in ESB.
Personal note: PLEASE DONT
Well this is coming out in December, so maaybe there’s a chance they re-release TROS with the deleted scenes then?
Darth Vader #8 cover shows Vader and the eye of Webbish Bog on Mustafar, perhaps connecting some threads to Ep 9.
I have a feeling the overall plot of this season will revolve around the search for Luke’s hidden jedi academy. The only possible place where the “sorcerer knights” could reside. I’d imagine Ashoka is searching for the same thing and so they team up, ending the season on Luke Skywalker’ amazing face 😉
Has anyone considered just removing Kylo’s revelation scene entirely? Rey and co. rescue Chewbacca and get back to the ship. Maybe Kylo watches them take off, but that’s it.
As a plan B, yes.
Sounds cool, would love a link
I say axe Lando’s scene on passana completely, it’s contrived and brakes the pace. If we save his introduction to the scene where Poe is talking to Leia’s body it would be more impactful.
Here’s what cutting the scene would look like.
https://vimeo.com/416400559
Gad: Have you been keeping Rey’s secret from the beginning. Did you know about the parentage?
Ridley: No. At the beginning there was toying with an Obi-Wan connection. There were like different versions and then it really went to that she was no one.
What’s interesting to me is that there could be alternate cuts of TFA were Rey is explicitly Obi Wan’s granddaughter. I remember it being reported in the trades early on when they were shooting the film. There’s also the fact that Han and Leia seem to know who she is,with the information being deliberately hidden from the audiance. “Who’s the girl?”-cut.
Daisy Ridley on the evolution of Rey’s lineage
https://youtu.be/6ELygTJL8Xg
Gad: Have you been keeping Rey’s secret from the beginning. Did you know about the parentage?
Ridley: No. At the beginning there was toying with an Obi-Wan connection. There were like different versions and then it really went to that she was no one. Then it came to Episode IX and JJ pitched me the film and was like Palpatine’s granddaddy and I was like “Awesome!” Then 2 weeks later he was like “Oh we’re not sure.” So it kept changing. Even while we were filming I wasn’t sure what the answer was going to be.
Edit: This puts the line uttered by Kenobi in TFA into perspective, “Rey…these are your first steps”. It is likely that there were versions of TFA were Rey was explicitly related to Obiwan, and that this line is a remnant of that.
And yeah, it actually looks plausible now that the whole “You are a Palpatine” thing could have been recorded a few weeks before the release in Adam Driver’s closet…
Let me shamelessly plug my 3 in 1 general ideas thread😉
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/The-General-3-in-1-Redux-Ideas-thread-/id/74457
Fabulous.
I think it would be awesome if we could have the force ghosts watch as the falcon flies into hyperspace. The cherry on top!
Boohoo I was a nobody until I won the jackpot and got the chance to be in Star Wars, making me a world star and multimillionaire. Poor me😥- John Boyega /GQ magazine
Random, but I’m watching the workprint now.
With the removal of the light speed skipping, Poe says, “How thick do you think that ice wall is?” and then boom, instant light speed and the scene ends. Can we get a shot of his hand on the accelerator or an interior shot of them jumping to light speed or something? It feels way, way too rushed without showing them making the jump.
+1
Double that
In Revenge of The Sith when Anakin is playing on that Nintendo wii u looking thing, can we make it look like he is checking on Ashoka in the siege of Mandalore?
For the Deathstar battle and other sequences, what if we integrated some tracks from the Old Republic games that where done by orchestra.
Here’s a few that come to mind.
https://youtu.be/QF7ROkpzQ1c
https://youtu.be/cXx7UJhz3iM (1:25 onwards)
https://youtu.be/BwsMYJdmutQ
STAR WARS Reimagined: The Empire Strikes Back
Since Hal wants to maintain the majority of the reactions to after the message cuts off, I think the solution would be to include the scene from later where they decode the message but instead of the sith language being played you have “the work of generations is complete” cutting “the great error is corrected” and going straight to "the day of victory is at hand, the day of the sith.
I think the most important thing, in this case, is to convey the most with the least amount of words possible.
I think that if you reduce the lines to “The work of generations is complete, the great error is corrected, the day of victory is at hand, the day of the Sith” you wouldn’t have to use the shot from later. Also the choppiness would be removed by the broadcast sound affect.
So… do people prefer Palpatine’s message here to what’s in the workprint? We get one additional line, but lose the impact of the concluding static immediately preceding the crowd gasping and clamoring. Personally, I prefer what’s currently in the workprint. https://vimeo.com/449495094
I think that if you are to overlay a Palpatine line over the characters reaction than you might as well include more of the message like in IIFaneditor’s version: https://vimeo.com/399876146
(which I’m totally a fan of!)
Yes, because it was from the film prior and is tied to that moment, whereas Burning Homestead is a callback to an analogous moment which itself is no longer anchored to a specific moment. Not saying it’s logical anyway.
Here, compare this to what’s in the workprint for the message moment: https://vimeo.com/449495094
Certainly an Improvement!
If you want you could try replacing “The great error is corrected” by “the work of generations is complete”, just because that line gives the most context. If you wanted to have both, You could move Chewie and Finn’s reaction shots up alongside Rey and Leia’s reaction.
Re-watching the message I don’t think the average viewer would get the impact of what was happening or who was saying it right away just from the two lines “day of revenge, day of the Sith”. I think it would be more obvious that it’s Palpatine and more impactful for the audiance and the trilogy as a hole if the first part “the work of generations is complete” and “the great error is corrected” were included. Only thing you’d have to do is play the extra lines over Rey and Leia’s reaction, which I think works better because that way the audience’s reaction bounces off the characters’ reactions to hearing his voice.
Yes! I really like that addition. I also like it as a musical parallel between Anakin leaving his mother physically, and Ben returning to his mother spiritually (at the very least, Ben realigning himself with his mother’s ideals).
+1 gave me chills. Just the transition needs more work.
But the Prophecy!