RUMOR General Star Wars: The Last Jedi News & Rumors Thread

I never understood the panic about re-shoots either. They've been going on with most every movie. It's part of the process.

 

Reshoots are awesome. None of my publicity stuff ever has budget for any kind of reshoots, so you end up making do with what you filmed. Whenever you edit something, you always end up wanting to change things a bit.

 

I look a re-shoots as an opportunity to fix up some scenes you are not happy with instead of going " ah well that will do"

 

Yes, or you can see it as fine tuning. I'd be more worried if a film didn't have reshoots.

 

As long as these "reshoots" aren't being done by Stormtroopers, all should probably be well.

 

Some of the reshoots could be to pull a few moments of Leia out of TLJ that could be used in Episode IX to lessen the storytelling impact of her unfortunate early jump to lightspeed.

 

there must be tons of footage of her for that to happen .

 

They started with a cut sequence from TFA where she contacted the New Republic, I believe.

I know there's some leftover footage from TFA, but what I think that person is referring to is what I've theorized they will do for TLJ and EIX


You take Leia footage (not extra footage) that was shot for TLJ and needed for TLJ, but you then do reshoots that fulfill the needs of TLJ and then take the previous footage of Leia, and you either just pull her out digitally from the scene and use her performance and dialogue from TLJ in a different context in new scenes from EIX or use the scene with different dialogue and cutaways in EiX.

That would take very careful writing in the EIX to avoid being awkward and obvious, but it could work, especially if she was able to see Kylo via video communicator or from afar like Han did, but actually cry out.

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If the reports about Leia getting hurt are true, they could come up with a way that Kylo could gain entrance to wherever she is recovering and have him contemplate killing her, but unable to do it, and that would be the beginning of his redemption.

They could do that scene in EpIX using footage from TLJ, and push her "wake up scene" from TLJ to EIX, and the reshoots can quickly revise the story in TLJ so that it doesn't include her recovering in the movie.


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The reshoots were going to happen regardless, but if they want to lift certain parts of TLJ out to use in EIX and plaster that over, obviously reshoots will allow them to do that.

I think we'll get much less Leia in TLJ than they planned to have because some scenes will be pushed to EIX. You don't need a ton of extra footage to shift part of her story into EIX.

I do think they'll try to use every bit of footage they have from TFA & TLJ to give her character a completed arc while keeping the process smooth and logical onscreen.

 

even less than with tfa?

 

That's not something I'd really thought about at all.


I would say I think we still get more Leia in TLJ than in TFA, but less Leia in TLJ than they originally planned to have in TLJ.

I would absolutely say Leia will appear less in E9 than originally planned, but whether her screen time in EIX is less than in TFA would be extremely difficult to guess until we see TLJ and get a better idea where things are headed in EIX.

She was in TFA for 8 minutes...that might be all we could hope for from Leia in EIX, but again that's a WAG based merely on her being no longer with us.

 

WAG??

 

Wild @$$ guess

 

I never understood reshoots to be a big deal. I remember hearing about them for The Lord of the Rings trilogy and thought that it was a really smart idea. I feel like every big budget film should have reshoots to echo others here - for fine tuning, fixing up a scene, whatever needs to be done to create the best story that they can.

 

Yup they're also used because sometimes actors aren't available for later or some locations they wanted weren't available either.

 

A lot of reshoots lately are adding funny asides or exposition (in the case of SW, many reshoots are cockpit shots with essential dialogue to blend the effects shots with stuff from principal photography).
A lot of the TFA & RO reshoots were cockpit dialogue

All major action movies like TLJ & Marvel movies, etc have reshoots now.

They are scheduled in advance (often as a range of time) and explicitly written into actors contracts.

The Dr. Banner/Black Widow scene in Ultron's hideout that appeared at the end of Avengers 2 comes almost exclusively from reshoots and if you look closely SJ & Mark Ruffalo never appear in the same shot. They couldn't get the actors back on the same day, but the scene totally works. And you need that scene for several plotlines in the film to make sense and end logically

Don't ever worry about reshoots happening, people. If you have a good team in place, the movie will improve.

If the creative team on a movie isn't right, the movie never had a chance, but reshoots could lessen the damage.

I think TLJ has a great creative team and things have gone well. Principle photography is a first draft. Even the best first draft is better after a little polishing.

 

Idk if this is a real q and a but what is a "reshoot lady"
?

 

reshoot ladies appear via Apple iPhone autocorrect and are so prim and proper they don't stick out and aren't noticed even when an author attempts to remove them where they aren't supposed to exist during a proofread.

They are instantly noticed by wiseacre (no matter how good natured they might be in discovering them) readers.

 

What are "wiseacre readers" ?

But yes, reshoots for the win. Unless beards are involved. *cough* Obi Wan on the elevator on Coruscant AotC *cough*

 

Astromech was asking a smart@$$ question about something he read in my post, in a nice way.

I'm from the Southern US, and "wiseacre" is something I grew up hearing from people who didn't want to cuss. I know the mods want these boards as clean as possible. I'm trying.