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[navi tasan]

Could one use:
1-Unlike his other projects, I hope that he will finish his new script.
instead of:
1a- I hope that unlike his other projects, he will finish his new script.

[billmcd]

Could one use:
1-Unlike his other projects, I hope that he will finish his new script.
instead of:
1a- I hope that unlike his other projects, he will finish his new script.

I would go with 1a. #1 would suggest that you didn't hope that etc.