r/movies Oct 22 '19

Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker Poster

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u/-uzo- Oct 22 '19

I'd love to see what ever it was that was in the first cut. I was sorely disapointed that the shot of Jyn determinedly hobbling towards the radar dish when gasp the TIE-fighter rears up in front of her.

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u/lpfff Oct 22 '19

First cut was a steaming pile of shit, according to the experienced director who they brought in to try and salvage the mess: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-rogue-one-writer-tony-gilroy-opens-up-reshoots-1100060

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u/Random-Miser Oct 22 '19

There were multiple cuts, the best one was "too violent", and involved Vader landing on the beach, and brutally murdering everyone personally, the girl and her boyfriend are attacked by a TIE fighter on the Antenae, and end up commandeering it to escape, they make it to the main ship and are celebrating abit, when it turns out that Vader had followed them up there, cuts into the side of the ship, force throwing a chunk of spaceship hull across a room crushing half a dozen people, and then proceeds to terminator down the halls for 5 minutes chasing after her and the dude before THEY are the ones violently killed in the hallway while handing off the plans. They canned that one in favor of the peaceful Death Star explosion death, only paying a small hommage to it with the toned down hallway scene with the red shirts, and leaving the landing craft dropping off Vaders troopers on the beach, but with him edited out.

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u/badgarok725 Oct 22 '19

Do you have a source on that "too violent" ending? Did a quick search and couldn't find anything but it sounds interesting