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Ooh. Fascinating to see how this actually pans out! Colour me intrigued.
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DigModiFicaTion said:Here's my pitch
Yam'rii the Huk: From a Certain Point of View
The bio pic
DigModiFicaTion said:
Interesting little article. Looks like Rian Johnson just finished the crawl. He said the process of writing a Star Wars crawl was extremely hard, but fun. I think a few of us here would agree with him
http://movieweb.com/star-wars-last-jedi-opening-crawl-details/
addiesin said:However, I think the crawl for Episode 9 will be even trickier, and more important. Since they chose not to recast, use deleted footage, reuse old footage, change episode 8, or create a cgi double (assuming Disney and Lucasfilm told the truth in all their announcements), the crawl for Episode 9 will have to do the heavy lifting to explain Leia's departure in-universe.
addiesin said:They already said she's got kind of a big role in 8, which they aren't changing in light of her death, and was going to be even bigger in 9. I really do think the crawl is the most practical, logical, and respectful place to deal with the loss. I really don't want to see something where they treat her like she's there but just barely off screen busy in her office, like the Avengers in Agents of Shield.
Instead, I'd prefer a slight time jump and a little epilogue for her, then carry on with the movie as you would. They might kill her off, like blowing up the planet or ship she's on but I think that might be disrespectful.
DigModiFicaTion said:The old issue with the old age death is that she really wasn't/isn't that old.
DigModiFicaTion said:The only issue with the old age death is that she really wasn't/isn't that old.
iridium_ionizer said:I would say space plague (possibly a First Order bioweapon), but yeah if SW was more sci-fi you could say cancer or kidney failure. As it is in the SW universe, everything must be a little weird compared to reality.
addiesin said:Not sure what you mean. You wouldn't see the character's sudden death by "space plague" as disrespectful to the actually dead, real person who played the character, and that person's family? I don't think Disney would touch that idea with a ten foot pole. Killing the character off at all could easily reopen those emotional wounds and may even hurt the public perception of the brand.
addiesin said:I really don't want to see something where they treat her like she's there but just barely off screen busy in her office, like the Avengers in Agents of Shield.
iridium_ionizer said:I agree that it could be seen as disrespectful, but compared to the abruptness of a space ship or planet explosion, maybe not at much. It could be seen as she was suffering with the rest of the Resistance - of which we could see the aftermath. It could be mentioned in crawl. It avoids the question of her not being quite old enough to die of old age. Does anybody have a better idea for Leia's character death?
Or is it better to have her launch on a starship off to regions unknown for retirement (ala Paul Walker)? The thing is that it was stated in Episode 7 that she wanted to keep on fighting - it was a way that she coped with grief.
Gaith said:In short, Fisher's passing would be so significant that it would be the only time the Episode format of "A long time ago", STAR WARS title fanfare, crawl, movie would ever be broken.
addiesin said:Again, I don't think killing her off at all would be wise.
I was thinking it'll be more like, she's off for a diplomatic mission that just doesn't play into the plot. So it could be explained in the crawl or in dialogue when Rey comes back expecting her, she's simply taken on her own journey elsewhere. While we'd hear mention of her, and one or two "she wanted you to have/know this xyz" at the low point of the second act, and probably an emotionally scored ("I'll miss her." "Me too.") in the third, we wouldn't actually spend much time lingering on it, but it would be acknowledged and integrated into the plot. It's something tasteful and short, without having to actually portray the death of a beloved character or scrounge for unused footage or cgi doubles to fill holes.
That's the kind of thing I'd expect Disney Lucasfilm to do.