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| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:One of [[FanEdit/StarWars many options]] for those who want to experience the pre-GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion of the [[Franchise/StarWars Original Trilogy]] in glorious HD.]] |
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| 10 | Most of us can never be completely satisfied with a work. Sure, you love your favorite movie, but you've seen it enough times that you've started to notice some of the inevitable technical errors, and they irk you. Or perhaps there's that one character that [[TheScrappy just gets on your nerves]] and seems to serve no purpose for the plot. Or maybe you watch the deleted scenes and wonder why they were removed. |
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| 12 | In any case, this probably sounds familiar. Most people don't do anything about it because they don't know how, and if they did, well, it's an awful lot of work. This, on the other hand, is what happens when obsessions are fueled by motivation and skill. Fan edits are usually labors of love, whether their intention is to file down the rough edges on a beloved classic or to polish a diamond out of a rough. |
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| 14 | Fan edits (especially film fan edits) are in a legal grey area when it comes to copyright. Sites dedicated to them warn that you shouldn't pick one up unless you own the original movie, which is a good rule of thumb, though it's highly unlikely that someone who doesn't own the film would even be looking at fan edits of it in the first place. There are sources to download them, most of the fan edits themselves can be found with just a google search, but due to copyright paranoia, distribution methods are rarely user-friendly. Because of this, it's quite common for people to trade fan edits like concert bootlegs. |
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| 16 | For the VideoGame equivalent, see GameMod. Compare to FanFilm. |
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| 20 | * ''FanEdit/StarWars'' |
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| 24 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 25 | * ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' (1992 OAV series) is recut as a full-length movie removing bothersome stupidity and childish behaviour while focusing much more on the main couple. |
| 26 | * ''Anime/AngelCop'' received a Movie Recut that focuses exclusively on the main characters, removes lot of cheesiness such as random laugh bursts from otherwise down-to-earth characters and cuts the occasional padding. |
| 27 | * ''Literature/{{Another}}'' received a Movie Recut that cuts the teen drama massively making it a much more focused pure psychological horror story. |
| 28 | * The ''Manga/Area88'' 2004 anime has a Movie Recut version that removes all footage that did not help with the development of the focus character and story. |
| 29 | * The hilarious ''Manga/BackStreetGirls: Gokudolls'' received a Movie Recut that focuses mostly on what develops the main plot, speeding up by cutting padding and removing the grossest bits that at the end led to nowhere. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/{{Bartender}}'' received a Movie Recut that focuses only on the 2 most important and recurring patrons the protagonist tends to, while also swapping the ending for a Christmas Themed one. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}} Redux'' Chapters 1-4, created by by [=ApostleBob=], attempt to combine ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' with footage from ''Anime/Berserk1997'' to create a fan-made "director's cut" that follows the manga more closely while including highlights from both adaptations. ''Berserk Redux'' Chapter 5 aims to similarly "complete" ''Anime/Berserk2016'' by splicing in footage from ''Anime/Berserk1997'', ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'', and ''VideoGame/BerserkAndTheBandOfTheHawk''. |
| 32 | * The ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' Season 1 Anime has received a Movie Recut that focuses on the "Chinese SeaAmerican Army" plot alone with just a couple of secondary adventures before it, removing the "Maid Roberta"'s Arc and a couple of lesser episodes. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/BloodC'' the series received the "Blood-C Zero - Movie Recut", which cuts a lot of a massive amount of irrelevant to the end high school drama and padding, functioning as a prequel movie to the official one. |
| 34 | * ''Blood Will Tell: Manga/{{Dororo}}'' received a Duology Movies Recut that cuts anything annoying, unnecessary, padding, stupid and childish while only keeping what helps the main characters to develop and let the story develop without pointless interruptions. |
| 35 | * ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' anime has a Movie Recut that puts away all the overly excessive talking between fights, re-arranges the order by placing a flashback arc at the beginning to then start in-media res, covering up to the first half of the manga (as the rest of the anime is mostly original), working as a 1st half to the 2nd half of the manga. |
| 36 | * ''VideoGame/CorpseParty - The Animation'' has a "Movie Recut" that unites all the episodes together (including an extra OAV prologue) cutting anything that just slows the pacing to a crawl |
| 37 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a Movie Recut which focuses only on the bits about the main characters (while leaving some of the footage out to add up to the mistery around them), starts with a build up to then focus on the Vicious plot alone. |
| 38 | * ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' 1996 OAV Series has recently received a Movie Recut that removes well over one hour and half of filler that does nothing to the plot, focusing the story on Donovan, Anita, Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling, Dimitri and Morrigan only. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/DeathParade'' has a Movie Recut that includes the plot-important prologue "Death Billiard" and focus exclusively on the main plot point, with the side characters used minimally for world and lore building. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'' received a movie recut that streamlines everything, reduces the overly amount of over explaining and over talking and makes the ending much more satisfying and thematically fit. |
| 41 | * ''[[Manga/DororonEnmaKun Demon Prince Enma]]'' unites four {{OVA}}s in a single feature movie removing excessive pettiness by a female character and removing lot of padding from the 2 latter episodes |
| 42 | * ''Literature/DenpaTekiNaKanojo'' has a "OAV Recut" that uses and trims footage from the first episode alone to work as a stand-alone introduction to the Light Novel without presenting plot-points left hanging but still stimulating for more. |
| 43 | * ''Manga/DesertPunk'' the anime received a Movie Recut that focuses only on one single important story arc, cuts the overly done comedy where not necessary and changes the ending. |
| 44 | * ''Devilman - Perdition of Self'' is a Movie Recut of three ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' [=OVAs=] from the late 1980s and a couple of scenes from "Violence Jack - Hell Town" in one single movie that works as a prologue to the ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' manga by Creator/GoNagai. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/DevilmanLady'' anime (whose story is more of a reimagining of the OG Devilman than a sequel to it) has received a Movie Recut that only keeps the essentials, keeps the origins of the real antagonist more mysterious, cuts the padding and velocizes the overall flow. |
| 46 | * ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'' received a Movie Recut that removes annoying bits from the child character, cuts the padding and focuses on the main characters and main plot arc alone |
| 47 | * ''[[Manga/DragonBall Dragon Ball Recut]]'' is a rather popular fan edit that attempts to remove as much filler from the 1986-1989 ''Dragon Ball'' anime as possible, similarly to what ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' was to ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. While some filler is still present (mainly scenes that were impossible to remove due to how deeply integrated they were into the main story, such as the Pilaf gang's appearance in episode 1), the edit overall cuts out a significant portion of the anime's extra material. To put things into perspective, the original anime ran for 153 episodes, while the recut lasts only 82. The author of ''Dragon Ball Recut'' is also currently working on a filler-free edit of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and an edit of ''Dragon Ball Kai'' that tries to remove what filler did remain there. No links will be included for obvious legal reasons, but information about ''Dragon Ball Recut'' can be found in [[https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34866 this]] ''Kanzenshuu'' thread. |
| 48 | ** Another fan edited the Universal Survival Arc of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and condensed it into the 48 minutes it took in canon by showing multiple fights at the same time. The timer even freezes when Hit does his time skips. |
| 49 | * The ''Manga/ElfenLied'' anime has received a Movie Recut called "Test Subject Duality" removing anything that was not necessary and was left hanging |
| 50 | * ''[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight DEEN's Fate/stay night - Fate Route Fan Edit]]'' is a fan edit of Creator/StudioDEEN's ''Fate'' route adaptation that removes shoehorned elements from the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' and ''Heaven's Feel'' routes which also removes their major respective spoiler reveals inside of that adaptation. The first two episodes of the ''Fate/stay night's'' anime are replaced with the Prologue and first episode from Creator/{{ufotable}}'s adaptation of ''[[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks Unlimited Blade Works]]'' except removing the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' logo and the first episode of the anime ends earlier to be faithful to the ''Fate'' route's events. The only remains of the first two episodes of the ''DEEN''[='s=] ''Fate'' route anime adaptation are three scenes that are used for some of the later episodes. |
| 51 | * ''Anime/FinalFantasyLegendOfTheCrystals'' has received a Movie Recut subtitled "No Stupidity Recut" as it removes what the editor saw as padding, the excessively presence of unnecessary attempts at humour and some scenes that are too gross for an adventure animated film. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'' has a Movie Recut that cuts over 65% of content that just padded the story and adds web links to the summary of the continuation to the anime story (which is just half of the complete package) in the description of the video file. |
| 53 | * ''Flourishing Showa - A Rakugo Double Suicide'' has been recut as a short OVA by focusing the story on the redemption of the punk character alone. |
| 54 | * ''Anime/{{Freedom}}'' received a Movie Recut that speeds up the pace considerably, making everything much more gripping, while also omitting a 2 episode long filler arc. |
| 55 | * The anime version of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' (aka GTO) has received a Movie Recut Edition titled "GTO - Messiah of Young Souls" that trims everything up to just leaving two hours of footage, removing around 95% of the content by making the movie focusing on Onizuka, the main character teacher, in his quest to help the most problematic students of his (the ones that will become his friends) while enduring the bad pranks and misunderstandings aimed at ruining his loafy but good nature. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/GoldenBoy'' miniseries has been recut into a single movie that makes the main character less annoying, way less gross and much more relatable. |
| 57 | * ''Hakuouki Sekkaro'' is recut as a feel good samurai-themed slice of life movie. |
| 58 | * The 2001 TV anime version of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' has received a Movie Recut called "The Undisclosed File" that changes the plot by making it a side-story of sort to the manga by using the original anime-only footage that does not contradict the canon. |
| 59 | * The six episode long anime ''Anime/{{Karas}}'' has received a Movie Recut that streamlines quite lot of time wasting padding. |
| 60 | * ''Literature/{{Kurozuka}}'' has a Movie Recut that streamlines a lot while keeping the core action, pathos and drama intact. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/MadBull34'' has a full-length movie recut that makes Daizoburo not a wuss (except at the very beginning), is uncut and uncensored and cuts anything that just steals minutes, working as a much better introduction to the followup manga now |
| 62 | * ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' received a movie recut that uses footage from the early season 1 and from the latter part of the season 2 to create a brand new story, removing around 95% of filler content and making the story less childish. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/MezzoForte DSA'', the direct sequel series to the bloody action with bits of hentai cult classic movie, received a Movie Recut that removes anything unnecessary to the main plot, cuts overly long gags down and removes anything that would hint at a further sequel that has never been produced |
| 64 | * ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' received a Movie Recut where a massive amount of pointless to the main plot footage has been cut, focusing the story on main char Domon's quest alone by connecting the second half of the plot with a summary explanation of what happened during a one year time-skip in the mid of the movie |
| 65 | * ''Anime/MonsterGirlsDoctor'' has a "Wholesome Movie Recut" that streamlines everything while removing any amount of idiocy and gross/distasteful fanservice, only leaving what really is humorous and heartfelt. |
| 66 | * ''Anime/NightsongOfSplendor'' has been recut as a feature film, removing what the editor saw as excessive theatrics, such as the LargeHam yells and screams. |
| 67 | * ''[[Manga/OnePiece One Pace]]'' is a fan edit of the ''One Piece'' anime, which intends to cut back the filler and {{padding}} that has caused the pacing of the story to drag, especially since the TimeSkip. While not all arcs have not been fully recut, there have been significant reductions in episode count in some of the completed recuts. The Dressrosa arc? Originally 118 episodes cut down to 48. Whole Cake Island? 101 to 39.[[note]]not every episode of One Pace has a normal anime episode length. Converting the time into 22 minute episodes, then Dressrosa would be about 60 episodes which nearly cuts the original anime in half and Whole Cake into about 58 episodes[[/note]] |
| 68 | * ''Literature/{{Onihei|Hankachou}}'' has been recut as a samurai themed slice-of-life movie with a more positive, family context ending |
| 69 | * ''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Kai]]'' is a fan edit in the same vein as the aforementioned ''Dragon Ball Recut''. This series, however, also adapts ''Shippuden'', and each episode covers the same amount of content that would be found in one volume of the manga[[note]]In order to be directly comparable, ''Dragon Ball Recut'' would have to adapt ''Dragon Ball Z'' as well[[/note]]. As of writing, the series has 70 episodes, and plans to end with 72. For comparison's sake: the first ''Naruto'' series ended with ''220'' episodes, and ''Shipuuden'' ended with 500, for a total of '''[[ArchivePanic 720]]''' episodes, ''ten times'' the number of episodes ''Naruto Kai'' plans to have.[[note]]as mentioned earlier, each episode covers an entire volume of the manga and thus are much longer than a normal anime episode. Converting the total time to 22 minute episodes, including Itachi Shinden and the Kakashi Mask Omakes, and you get roughly 297 episodes. Compare that to the original anime and Shippudden where even after taking out the filler episodes you have a total of 427 episodes. Over 100 episodes saved.[[/note]] |
| 70 | * The ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' concurrency project is a fan edit that aims to splice Episodes 25 & 26 of the original series with The End of Evangelion in chronological order. Several versions of this edit exist on the web. |
| 71 | * There is a fan edit of the entire ''Literature/ReZero'' anime which removes all the time loops, giving an outside perspective of how insane Subaru looks when he resets. |
| 72 | * ''Anime/OddTaxi'' received a recut that focuses only on what is important and makes some changes so that the most annoying characters get what they deserve without going away scot free. |
| 73 | * ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth'' received a full-length recut that improves the pacing. |
| 74 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 75 | ** The series has an edit which consolidates footage from the Orange Island and Johto region finales into one cohesive narrative, Ash secures a Pokémon League victory by besting Gary Oak in a 'tournament final' and eventually parts ways with Misty and Brock, leaving him free to take the next step in the path of a Pokémon master without having to spend decades in real time trying to win the 'big one' |
| 76 | ** An edit exists that attempts to frame ''Anime/Pokemon2000'' as the SeriesFinale of the franchise, using specially filtered footage borrowed from the original Japanese trailer for ''[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Mewtwo Strikes Back]]''. |
| 77 | * The ''Manga/QueenEmeraldas'' anime has been recut as "Galaxy Express 999 - Queen Emeraldas", which streamlines everything and makes the tone darker. |
| 78 | * ''Rec!'' received a movie recut that leaves out very little but some moments where the main character gets bashed by somebody he already is intimate with |
| 79 | * The ''Manga/ReLIFE'' anime has a Movie Recut that focuses the plot only on the main character and his "Support Observer", ending while the experiment is still one with a glimpse of hope for the hero of the story |
| 80 | * ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' has received a Movie Recut that cuts around 70% of the footage and streamlines the story by cutting subplots that were pointless and by trimming overall padding |
| 81 | * ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' recently received a Movie Recut that just covers the essentials and removes lot of the plot-irrelevant episodes (even the very good one that unfortunately could not work in a movie recut) |
| 82 | * ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' has received a Movie Recut that cuts around 70% of padding (and also 3 episodes that don't continue the story) and covers the first 22 episodes (out of 39), ending in a more ambigous, sad but hopeful way (episodes 31, 35-39 that conclude the story have too much fo a stark shift in tone and genre to fit with a Movie Recut) |
| 83 | * ''Anime/{{Ozuma}}[=/=]OZMA'' is recut a full-length movie removing padding and excessive childish humour. |
| 84 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon'': The first English Dub by Creator/DICEntertainment had [[MissingEpisode a few episodes cut]] during its first run due to syndication rules. Consisting of Sailor Moon-only episodes from the first season, the OriginsEpisode focusing on Minako/Sailor Venus, as well as the [[BeachEpisode Beach Episodes]] from the first two seasons (including R's infamous beach episode). Dedicated fans have come together to give these "lost" episodes the [=DIC=]-style treatment, complete with the [=DIC=] intro, lingo, [[DubNameChange name changes]], [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong the theme song]], soundtrack and cues [[{{Retraux}} exactly like in the 90's version]], as well as their very own [[PublicServiceAnnouncement "Sailor Says" PSA's]] [[note]](Unofficially dubbed "House Of Misfortune", "Pet Shop Of Horrors", "Cupid's Melody", "A Ghastly Vacation" and "Venus' Love Triangle")[[/note]]. Fans have also come together to unabridge/de-bowdlerise the first season finale "Day of Destiny" back into a two-episode finale as it was originally with everything intact. Finally, there is an ongoing effort to [[UnfinishedDub finish the series]] and give the last season ''Stars'' a [=DIC=]/Cloverway styled makeover in vein of the original dub. |
| 85 | * ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'' received a Movie Recut Duology that cut away a massive amount of padding and development for minor characters that at the end just brought nothing to the focal plot |
| 86 | * ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'' received a 2 Movie Recuts, the first called "The Way Of Hadou" that ends at the end of the 1st arc of the series and the second called "Forever Friends" that picks up from the 2nd arc and ends with a darker and sinister ending |
| 87 | * ''Manga/TerraforMARS'' received a movie recut that cut a lot of over explaining and focuses exclusively on the most important characters |
| 88 | * ''Manga/{{Tokko}}'' received a Movie Recut that cuts off almost all humor to make it a full-fledged action-horror romp |
| 89 | * The anime version of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' received a Movie Recut called "Trigun - Phantom Brother" that changes the premise of the much different anime story by making it a prequel to the second half of the original manga and the Trigun Maximum sequel manga |
| 90 | * ''Anime/WolfsRain'' received a Duology Movies Recut that cut so much filler, padding and overtalking now it can be enjoyed in just 4 hours and half (total lenght of both movies combined) |
| 91 | * The ''[[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (pre-''Duel Monsters'') series (aka Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0) has received a Movie Recut that focuses on Yugi obtaining his split personality, the two times where Anzu is really at risk of death and the Seto Kaiba plan to kill Yugi and obtain the marvelous "Blues Eyes Dragon" card through his "Death-T" plan, removing everything unnecessary. |
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| 94 | [[folder:Comics]] |
| 95 | * ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' is the comic edited to remove its title character. |
| 96 | * ''Amazing Spider-Man: The Night Gwen Stacy Lived'', by Zarius, is a re-telling of the notorious ''Amazing Spider-Man#121'' only using pages from a vintage 1970s edition of ''What If...?'' to change the ending to well...the title is self-explanatory |
| 97 | ** ''Amazing Spider-Man: New Ways to Die Recut'', by the same editor, attempts to show how seamless it really is to integrate Spider-Marriage material into a ''Brand New Day'' era Spider-Man story without contradicting continuity. |
| 98 | * There have been at least three major attempts made by fan artists to finish ''Recap/TintinTintinAndAlphArt'', the final ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' adventure that was left {{unfinished|Episode}} when Hergé DiedDuringProduction: |
| 99 | ** The first version, by Serge Brouillet, effectively just finishes up the work that was already done on the story, and adds in an abrupt DownerEnding where Haddock and the Thom(p)sons break into the villains' workshop, but are too late to prevent Tintin from being turned into a statue. |
| 100 | ** The second version, by "Ramo Nash", expands the story out to the full length of a Tintin album, and reveals that Akass is indeed Rastapopoulos, with Allan also briefly showing up. While a more complete story, it suffers from WallOfText dialogue, and the entire last third of the book essentially just being Tintin and Haddock making their way home to Marlinspike, with Rastapopoulos being foiled off-page by the Thom(p)sons. |
| 101 | ** [[ComicBook/TintinAndAlphArtYvesRodier The third version]], by Yves Rodier, is the most well-known edition and nearly became AscendedFanon, though this ultimately fell apart due to legal issues. This version is treated as a GrandFinale to the whole series, with Rastapopoulos appearing again -- though in this version Allan only appears in a one-page cameo, having pulled a ScrewThisImOuttaHere -- and finally meeting his end at the story's climax. |
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| 104 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 105 | * A film student made ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut:'' ''[[https://vimeo.com/150483774 Outside Edition]]'', which shows the film's events from outside Riley's mind. |
| 106 | * An edit of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' added some deleted unfinished animation, including Nuka's infamous last line before dying ("I finally got your attention, didn't I?") and Zira committing suicide rather than losing her grip on the ledge, and '''completely''' removes Timon and Pumbaa from the final battle. |
| 107 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' has the Recobbled Cut, which combines deleted scenes, line art, concept art and audio in an attempt to create the film Creator/RichardWilliams originally envisioned before it was [[ExecutiveMeddling meddled with to death]]. |
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| 110 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 111 | * ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' edits usually combine it with ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' to form one epic length adventure. A recent edit, dubbed ''Endgame 3000'', takes an altogether different approach, drastically altering the outcome of the final battle with Thanos so [[spoiler:he is defeated by Steve Rogers wielding Thor's hammer]], allowing [[spoiler: Tony Stark to live]]. |
| 112 | * ''Film/BatmanForever'' has had several fanedits released, some of which have courted a large amount of press: |
| 113 | ** The "Red Book Edition", created by Scaperat, was one of the first major fanedits made for the movie, going back to 2007, and integrated several deleted sequences while integrating music from ''Anime/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin'' and ''Film/Alien3'', both of which were scored by ''Forever's'' Elliot Goldenthal. Notably, it cuts down on ridiculous moments like Chase Meridian's... less-gracious behavior, and some of the more over-the-top action sequences. It even had a 15th anniversary "enhanced" edition, from fellow editor [=INIGHTMARES=], that improved the visual fidelity of the cut and added in film grain to make it closer to a "noir" experience. |
| 114 | ** The "Virtual Workprint" (a cut that deliberately tries to simulate the look of an early version of the film by hewing closer to early scripts and integrating material from the deleted scenes and trailers) received praise when it was released in 2011, both for making the film flow more logically (the film opens with a re-ordered sequence of events that begins with Bruce's visit to Wayne Enterprises, where he meets Edward Nygma, before the bank robbery), but also integrates parts of Goldenthal's score from ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' to enhance sequences that were originally devoid of music. |
| 115 | * An edit of the 2017 Netflix adaptation of ''Film/{{Death Note|2017}}'' is currently in production by a [=YouTuber=] called Declan Corey. This edit will remove [[LargeHam most of the ham]], make it more faithful and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking even give L his iconic voice changer in one scene]]! |
| 116 | * [=LastSurvivor=] edited the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' into ''Icarus'' to remove the more ridiculous elements, such as the CGI tsunami, the Aston Martin's invisibility function and the Music/{{Madonna}} theme. |
| 117 | * The [[https://vimeo.com/525562804 "Piz Gloria Cut"]] is an edit of the ''Film/JamesBond'' film ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' by Joe Franckel which aims to improve the film by altering the sequence of a few events, such as creating an InMediasRes moment by having Bond be uncovered by Blofeld at Piz Gloria at the start of the film, and then recapping from there in order to establish their conflict earlier. Other edits include swapping the order of Bond's first two encounters with Tracy and the removal of the scene where Bond starts inspecting gadgets from past Bond films. |
| 118 | * ''Film/GameraTheBrave - [[https://youtu.be/zXur1bvOb44 Retro Edition]]'', helped to improve the original film by adding in new credits that celebrated the Heisei trilogy the film is a spiritual sequel to and, most significantly, changed some sound design to give the heroic turtle kaiju back his iconic roar instead of the generic monster noises he had in the original film. |
| 119 | * ''[[https://archive.org/details/Godzilla1985RedMenace Godzilla 1985: HD Restoration]]'' by Red Menace, helped get the highest quality edition of the US recut that had been extremely elusive for decades and synchronize it back up with the Japanese scenes. |
| 120 | * ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyWeapons'' replaces all instances of wands and magic in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' with guns, as well as changing Hogwarts to the NRA and setting the film in the United States. |
| 121 | * Creator/StevenSoderbergh put together [[http://extension765.com/sdr/16-heavens-gate-the-butchers-cut an "immoral and illegal" edit]] of ''Film/HeavensGate'' that trimmed the five-and-a-half-hour epic to under two hours. He tightens up the narrative, ditches the epilogue and [[spoiler:puts the Harvard scenes at the end as a flashback]]. |
| 122 | * ''Film/TheHobbit'''s mixed reception led to a number of these, generally with the goals of hacking down three films and nine hours of screentime into something less ponderous, and removing elements seen as unfaithful to the book or padding. The subplots of Gandalf investigating the Necromancer and Kili and Tauriel's love triangle are usually first on the chopping block, and Bilbo's character arc tends to receive priority in scenes that stay. The two most well-regarded, both clocking in at around four hours, seem to be the ''Bilbo Edit'', which tries to hew as close to the book as possible (even featuring a "chapter"-style division), and the ''Maple Films'' edit, which aims more for cohesion and pacing to create something professional. The creator of the latter even had enough footage left over to create an hour-long film about Gandalf, the White Council and Thorin's family, called ''Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery''. |
| 123 | * The Man Behind the Mask gave us ''Film/{{Jaws}}: The Sharksploitation Edit''. It was his first grindhouse edit and came before ''War of the Stars'', and turned one of the greatest thrillers of all time into a B movie. |
| 124 | * ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'': |
| 125 | ** Up until the ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' recut, a number of Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse fans loathed the modifications brought to it by Creator/JossWhedon and Music/DannyElfman during the infamously [[TroubledProduction troubled post-production]] after Creator/ZackSnyder's departure. As a result, a number of fan edits came about, concurrently with the fan calls to Warner Bros to release a director's cut of the film (the latter [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague eventually happened]]). Typical edits include the removal of quips and comedy bits (such as Flash faceplanting on Wonder Woman), removal of scenes that featured the CGI-recreated face of Creator/HenryCavill (including the opening's phone footage where he talks to a bunch of kids), removal of [[SeriesContinuityError continuity errors]], removal of the Russian family, inclusion of the few deleted scenes available as well as some {{missing trailer scene}}s, and heavy [[https://youtu.be/in1FHhD7qy0 rescoring]] with soundtracks from ''Man of Steel'', ''Batman v Superman'' and ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' (with also some additions from other Music/JunkieXL soundtracks at times). Some edits end up as short as 90 minutes, to remove as much of Whedon's reshoots as possible. Some fans managed to woven ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} (as he was supposed to appear in the Snyder version) in it using his ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' cinematics version, others darkened Superman's suit, as the famous black suit was hyped up before the film's release and ultimately not shown. |
| 126 | ** ''Film/JusticeLeagueTheEliteEdition'' is one of these. |
| 127 | ** Shortly after the poor performance of ''Justice League'', Creator/BenAffleck distanced himself from the role of Batman, putting a halt to the spin-off he had been developing with Creator/MattReeves, which led to a relaunch of the franchise with Creator/RobertPattinson in the role. Fans took to splicing footage of Affleck's existing material as Batman, as well as his ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' cameo and some appearances in other non-DC films to try and bring his Batman spin-off to life. Some of these even use fan film footage for the fight scenes with Deathstroke, who was intended to be the antagonist. Footage of the streaming-exclusive series ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' is also used to include Dick Grayson. |
| 128 | * A ''Film/{{Memento}}'' edit rearranges the scenes in chronological order. |
| 129 | * ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'': Given its status as an unofficial Bond film[[note]]Thanks to being involved in a script that became the basis for Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'', Kevin [=McClory=] gained the film rights to the story. After helping to produce a [[Film/{{Thunderball}} ''Thunderball'' film]] with Creator/EonProductions, the studio behind the official Bond series, a clause in his contract allowed him to make his own Bond film using the same material after enough time had passed, without any involvement with Eon.[[/note]], ''[[https://ifdb.fanedit.org/james-bond-007-never-say-mcclory-again/ Never Say McClory Again]]'' seeks to add in elements from the main film series the original film couldn't use. This includes adding a gunbarrel opening, Maurice Binder title sequence, and a score with the iconic Bond theme. |
| 130 | * An interesting variation is described in [[AnalysisChannel Nerdwriter1]]'s essay on ''Film/{{Passengers|2016}}'', as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU here.]] Writer Evan Puschak describes his view that the film is fundamentally both the wrong genre and from the wrong point of view, and how the film makers basically [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot dropped the ball]] by not focusing on the more disturbing overtones of the film. Instead of being a sci-fi romance from Creator/ChrisPratt's viewpoint, it should be a sci-fi thriller from Creator/JenniferLawrence's perspective. He then proceeds to demonstrate how this can be accomplished with amazing ease by just changing the order of scenes and cutting the ending. |
| 131 | * One brave soul on Website/YouTube edited the original ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' into [[http://theforbidden-zone.com/media/tzone.shtml a 24-minute episode]] of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', which makes sense, since Creator/RodSerling was one of the original film's writers. Using original ''Zone'' background music, re-tinting the episode in greyscale, and adding opening and closing narration from two original ''Zone'' episodes. It has been well received by many die-hard ''Zone'' fans, including Marc Scott Zicree, author of ''The Twilight Zone Companion'', who basically called it the 157th episode of the series. |
| 132 | * ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk:'' Creator/StevenSoderbergh has made a version which is desaturated to black and white, and replaces all of the original sound with electronic music from ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011''. The intention is to allow the viewer to concentrate on how director Creator/StevenSpielberg sets up his shots. |
| 133 | * Floating around somewhere on the Internet is an edit of ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', which restores the deleted scenes included on the home release, and changes the ending to [[spoiler:Scott ending up with Knives]]. |
| 134 | * There exists at least one edit of ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' that recuts the film down to a 40-minute TV episode length, and others that simply excise the more infamously crappy moments. |
| 135 | * The 70's[=/=]80's ''Film/{{Superman|FilmSeries}}'' films also tend to be given a lot of attention, given the controversial nature of Creator/RichardDonner and Richard Lester's different takes on ''Film/SupermanII'', resulting in many hybrid cuts. Selutron has attempted an edit of ''II'' into what he thinks would've been the version released had Donner stayed on. Selutron felt the existing "Richard Donner cut" had too many issues (using worse takes, copy-and-paste music, odd-looking effects), and sought to fix them with this version. |
| 136 | * A 20th anniversary edit of the infamous ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' was made in 2013. Another edit dubbed the "Morton Jankel Cut" came out in 2021, combining newly-recovered deleted scenes with rearranged footage from the theatrical cut. |
| 137 | * The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise attracts a lot of editors, especially those who were given ''[[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines Rise of the Machines]]'' and are looking to make lemonade. |
| 138 | * With the ''X-Men'' series, several edits exist that try to sort out the persistent continuity issues with the franchise, while others are made to help try to 'redeem' entries perceived to be flawed. To this end, attempts have been made to merge the plotlines of ''Dark Phoenix'' and ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' to create a new narrative for Jean, where she gains the Phoenix force as a teen and grows with it into an adult. |
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| 141 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 142 | %% The fanedit works of David Kern do the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' series proud. |
| 143 | * There's an edit of ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'' called ''The Señor Foggy Show'' that cuts out everything Foggy isn't privy to. |
| 144 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 145 | ** Whoflix (a subproject of superfan blogger Whopix) has edited all of the existing episodes of the Classic Series (including orphan episodes and audio-only edits of missing stories) and series 1-10 of the New Series (heavily disliking the Thirteenth Doctor). |
| 146 | ** Season 26B Productions has created 15 edits for the 8th Doctor and 2 edits for the War Doctor under the unfinished continuation, Season 26C. These projects took footage from other films and television that feature Paul [=McGann=] and John Hurt, combined them with extra dialogue and narration from impressionists, footage of monsters from the classic and modern series alike, and scenes with companions that have never been in the show, using footage with the Big Finish voice actresses for Lucie Miller and comic companion Izzy Sinclair. |
| 147 | ** There have been several efforts by fans to colorize the first six seasons of the Classic Series, which were shot on black and white videotape; while no known efforts to colorize a full serial have ever seen success (the closest anyone's gotten so far was coloring episode 2 of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' in its entirety), various colorized clips of variable quality have emerged on the internet. Perhaps the most notable and most well-done colorization efforts have come from the channels [[https://www.youtube.com/user/BabelColour Babelcolour]] ([[PromotedFanboy who actually ended up]] leading the BBC's official color restoration of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]''[='s=] first episode) and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWaWRE_qwOHc0CIo1K38Uw WhoColour]]. |
| 148 | ** Babelcolour is also working on ''The Timeless Doctors'', a full length feature edit that includes footage of all thirteen doctors and cleverly integrates them into different settings by themselves or with each other, with an original story connecting it all. The film will also include appearances from the controversial Morbius Doctors, some of which will be portrayed by their respective 'actors' in newly recorded scenes. |
| 149 | ** An edit of the twelfth series episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe Can You Hear Me?]]'' exists that deals with the controversial ending differently, and The Doctor gives Graham words of comfort rather than give in to social awkwardness. However, as this edit was created by a fan who ships Graham and 13, the new cut has The Doctor admitting she likes Graham and adds that she ''really'' likes kissing him. These bits were all done using ''genuine audio samples'' from a short film Jodie starred in a few years ago. |
| 150 | ** ''The Doctor Falls No More'' is an edit of the 2017 series finale ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]'', which removes all indications of a regeneration as well as The Doctor meeting one of his earlier incarnations. It ends with the final scene of ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]'', with the Twelfth Doctor and River Song enjoying their twenty four year stint on the planet of the singing towers. |
| 151 | * Several fans edited the last episodes of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', removing the controversial [[spoiler:divorce of Barney and Robin]] as well as [[spoiler:the mother's death and Ted's kids urging him to go after Robin]]. The official alternate ending released later on DVD made the latter canon. |
| 152 | * There's a version of ''Series/KnightRider 2000'' where [[spoiler:Devon Miles ''isn't'' killed]]. The editor recently went back and created a new version of it which can be viewed [[https://zaredit.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/knight-rider-2000-one-cut-can-make-a-difference-fanedit-org-version// here]] |
| 153 | * [[https://chronologicalonce.wixsite.com/chronologicalonce Chronological Once Upon A Time]], a fan project where all the scenes from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' are put in chronological order. The fan also skipped season 7 and some redundant scenes and added deleted footage. |
| 154 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has received some fanedit treatment, particularly where the infamous fan hoax "Scorpion Rain" is concerned, with several attempts at making the "episode" resulting in ten minute, twenty-five, and even ''forty-five'' minute versions. Most recently, the much reviled output of the Johnathan Tzachor helmed "Neo Saban" seasons have encouraged various fan remixes and edits. There are also edits that cut down several multi-parters from season two, reducing them to just one episode. |
| 155 | ** ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Turbo'' is a bold limited mini-series overhaul of the poorly received fifth season of the franchise ''Power Rangers Turbo'', it repurposes several episodes and changes the narratives (example: the rescue zords are now made by Billy), and even provides fans with the Zeo/Turbo crossover that never came be on the show. The season ends with an epic four part version of ''Countdown to Destruction'', which includes, amongst other things, a scene where the Space Rangers destroy Dark Spectre rather than a rogue Darkonda. |
| 156 | * ''Series/PrisonBreak''[='=]s first season was trimmed down into a 'movie' trilogy, its open ending tied off to offer closure. |
| 157 | * A fan of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''? A fan of the Sherlolly 'ship? Dissatisfied with series three and four? If so The B*llocks Edition (aka The Sherlolly Cut)]] might just be your edit of choice. This edit integrates Anderson's implausible tumblr bait theory from ''The Empty Hearse'' and uses it as the actual climax to the episode (Lestrade refusing to buy it as a plausible explanation is retained however), the edit concludes with [[spoiler: Sherlock proposing he and Molly solve crimes together now that they're a couple]] |
| 158 | * There are least [[https://earthprime.com/video/exodus-excised two]] [[https://zaredit.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/sliders-the-exodus-fanedit/ fanedits]] of the controversial ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' two-parter ''The Exodus'' in an attempt to remove some of the hokier sci-fi elements and give [[spoiler: Arturo's demise]] more dignity or make it look more needless and tragic. One of the edits even repurposes the outcome of the story as [[spoiler: The Sliders helping the doomed Pulsar world's population move to Earth Prime, only they choose to continue sliding afterwards in order to bring Rickman to justice.]] |
| 159 | * ''The Last Son of Krypton'' by editor Souperboyx, is a mammoth five-hour supercut merging a condensed and fresh take on key story beats from ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' with the narrative body of Creator/ZackSnyder's ''Film/ManOfSteel'', utilizing rotoscoping to impose Creator/TomWelling's face on many shots of Creator/HenryCavill. |
| 160 | * As a reality show subject to ManipulativeEditing, there's no surprise that ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' sees the occasional fan edit. The most well-known is of the ''Samoa'' season, which cuts the extraneous [[CreatorsPet Russell Hantz confessionals]] and replaces them with deleted scenes that were cut from the official edit. |
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| 163 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 164 | * Creator/StephenFry's audiobooks for ''Literature/HarryPotter'' have "Enhanced Editions" by a user who felt the barebones nature of the original audio didn't do the stories justice. The narration is unchanged, but sound effects and music from the [[VideoGame/HarryPotter video games]] and [[Film/HarryPotter films]] are added. |
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| 167 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 168 | * Fan edits exist for Volume 4 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', to separate each of the four main characters' arcs into their own mini-volume. |
| 169 | * ''WebVideo/DarkSimpsons'' takes the approach of taking unrelated scenes from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and editing into short videos that create a simple narrative. They lean towards the BlackComedy angle, and usually involve moments of murder, rape, incest, and suicide. The host site also allows fans to submit their own entries as well. They currently have two youtube channels can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLmtv4GfnEBSzxT5DNnOaEQ here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc9brmsJf8eCIeNZ0qh5QNg here]]. |
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| 172 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 173 | * Only two days passed following its premiere before the new series of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' got the fanedit treatment, as a cut exists of the first half of the premiere story "Suspended Animation" and episode five's "Good Warner Hunting", combined to form one epic 22 minute story. |
| 174 | * The feature-length 'series finale' edit of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' animated series combines the already epic five parter 'Man Or Machine' with the two-parter ''To Dare Dominion'' and some footage from the episodes ''Operation: Starfall'' and ''The Better Half'' to tell the definitive last chapter in the Centurions saga |
| 175 | * ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'': The He-Man sequel series produced by Creator/KevinSmith was the subject of a cultural firestorm for its perceived bait-and-switch tactics and deconstructive characterization. One editor, while impressed with the second half of the series, also felt all of it wasn't exactly necessary and made an edit of episode five which ends the run of the series there and then to demonstrate this. It was accompanied by an edit of episode one which tried to prove the whole thing needn't have existed at all if [[spoiler:Adam had just lived and Teela chose to be more understanding of his secret due to her love for her best friend and hero]]. |
| 176 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'': The M.A.S.K series finale edit combines the first season episodes ''Assault on Liberty'' and ''Eyes of the Skull'', cutting out both of the episodes StatusQuoIsGod endings, to create a more fitting high-stakes conclusion to the series. |
| 177 | * In a prominent case of MemeticMutation, the ''Steamed Hams'' segment from WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons episode ''Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield'' has been made subjects to various recuts and mashups with other pieces of fiction. |
| 178 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ytuQwYAgf0 This]] version makes the story exceedingly mundane and void of any conflict. |
| 179 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBTgeMV_gM This]] version makes Chalmers even more compulsively suspicious. |
| 180 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcvpj1QPp1Q This]] version mixes it up with ''Series/{{Chernobyl}}''. |
| 181 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSjAiNn8qNk This]] version turns the scene into a dark, 19-minute art film in which Skinner's mother dies in the fire and he gradually loses his grip on reality. |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has a few edits to its name, two versions of ''Brainiac Attacks'', one feature length, one the standard runtime of an S:TAS episode, which removes the bait-and-switch twist towards the end, allowing Lois to retain knowledge of Clark's duel identity, and an edit of the JL episode 'Heareafter' which uses footage from the movie ''Superman: Doomsday'' to provide more of an insight into Clark and Lois' relationship as well a 'reaction' from Lois to Clark's perceived death. |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' ended on its tenth and final season with Splinter telling his students they are now equal to him after they vanquish their Red Sky era nemesis Lord Dregg for good. Three episodes earlier, in the conclusion of a five part story, the Turtles and their past selves fought back against Dregg and their long-running enemies Shredder and Krang. Feeling as if the final moments of the finale would have been better served at the end of this one, and dissatisfied with how abrupt the end of this particular episode was, a fan editor put together ''Turtles To The Second Power-Finale Fanedit'' which adds the final scene of the official finale ''Divide and Conquer" to the end of "Turtles To The Second Power" to give more fitting closure to the epic five part event and make the story a worthy finale to the classic TMNT animated series. |
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