26
Feb
…Yesterday's look at the supertitles was a big hit, so here's a closer look at how they evolved throughout production.
The approach to the Claw doesn't really change much at all, except that nearly every cut save for the final calls it the C.S.S. Tiger Claw. Most of the preliminary titles are also green instead of blue.
The Pegasus attack at the beginning of the movie probably morphs the most in some ways. Some of the early edits start with a flyover of a destroyed Pegasus and then flash back in time to the attack. The final cut of the film is linear and so does away with a lot of the supertitles. There were at least two alternate cuts of the opening, both opened on the Pegasus debris field after the attack.
The more straight forward version has a flyby over the debris and then jumps back in time to show the attack:
The second is a more condensed version that intercuts the debris fly-over with flashbacks