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Agreed 100%! Fantastic work.You're on point with most of that, there is a bit if a hard bump between "love" and "er" but the "Rey" bit is solid as is what Kylo says. Another top notch idea, keep it up
WOW. @Zarius is right. This is next-level!For those who are wondering how I'm going to approach the Ahch-To without Luke, I've put together the hardest edit of that sequence. I've decided to include a cameo for Mark Hamill in this edit after all—at least his voice anyway and probably his hand when I next edit this.
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The FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and taken control of the OUTER RIM. Building a new army on the KYBER rich world of EXOGAL, they intend to strike at the heart of the NEW REBUBLIC.
As they gather their fleet to fend off an attack, GENERALS POE DAMERON and CHEWBACCA have set up a RESISTANCE in the Outer Rim near a Jedi temple. Learning of a defector who has stolen plans, Poe travels to TATOOINE to meet with the spy.
Meanwhile, surviving the destruction of the Jedi caused by her former lover KYLO REN, the last Jedi REY SOLO desperately searches for the secret journal of LUKE SKYWALKER hidden on his homeworld....
Fantastic!Just finished watching it and... it works! Plot wise, It holds better than I thought it would and maybe even better than the source material! It is a cohesive story and I think a great representation of what the sequel trilogy could have been had they not felt constrained by delivering as much nostalgia as they could muster.
The issues now have to do with all of the details and a lot of execution. Some scenes abruptly stop, some of the audio is a mess, and I realized (hilariously) that I'm missing the final battle between Rey and Kylo at the end... and the ending itself might have to be rebuilt from scratch now that I have a better grasp on what I'm doing with it and whether I can add a bit more of Poe's journey.
Basically, I've really Frankensteined this story together and, right now, those stitches and bolts are really showing. But it's alive and walking around! I just need to get it a plastic surgery appointment. Huh. This analogy took a turn.
Can't wait to see it!Mostly, I just thought I had more story in there than I had which is what surprised me that it was so short! As I refine it, however, I've found I need to put more story back in so I'm pretty confident this will be in the 2 hour range when it's done.
The initial idea came from what I call the Han Solo problem. I couldn't figure out where to put him in a 3-in-1 narrative without having both Starkiller Base and the Sith fleet (and I only wanted one planet killing MacGuffin). So I thought about getting rid of him which made me wonder if I could get rid of all the legacy characters which THEN led me to question the whole idea of legacy vs. nostalgia vs. deconstruction in the sequel trilogy. Abrams relied on nostalgia which was completely at odds with Johnson's deconstruction that really created an uneven legacy for those characters and overshadowed the new characters. Abrams even reset both Leia and Han to their ANH personas.
So the only way I figured I could remove most of the OT characters was to push it another generation forward and assumed they got their happily ever after. Rey Solo initially came because I wanted to make her Ben's younger sister but I quickly realized was more footage to imply a previous relationship. I liked the idea of an obsessed ex-boyfriend as Rey's foil and it makes their fight more interesting than family against family again.
I kept Rey Solo to easily explain why she has the Falcon (family heirloom) and continuing the tradition of a main character in the Skywalker family line.
Wait till you see the new coda... a simple addition of two shots to a scene really ties it together and brings everything to a satisfying close! I'm staying mum on that though.
Nice! We appreciate your passion!Wait till you see the new coda... a simple addition of two shots to a scene really ties it together and brings everything to a satisfying close! I'm staying mum on that though.
Wholly agreed. I am very excited about this particular edit.Oh wow, that was so good. I feel like I'm watching these for the first time all over again.