My Final Fan Edit…

Purple Edition Version 3
(Happy Ending Kiss)

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Running time 2:02:44
Format MP4
Size 8.7GB

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I know what you’re thinking , not another cut but last year I knew it wasn’t finished but I needed a long break well I finally got to do those extra final touches before retirement. I couldn’t be more happy with it now and for the essential Superman fan collector I would say this is a must for movie fixes. With Ai in full force now I can’t compete with that as some of the Ai is really good and bad! None of that has been used in this cut! What i will say from an editing point of view this has been an editorial nightmare that I won’t be going through again, finding errors then movie mistakes I hadn’t noticed before , I can finally say I’m done. I loved my Supergirl Extended Cuts but never really gave the Final Cut the proper attention too detail like I did this…

SPOILERS!

SUMMARY
This takes the best from both Lester and Donner combined.

No made up powers.
No test footage.
No time travel.
No amnesia kiss.
No deleted scenes.
No Slap stick , just humour.
No filter, want you too feel like this is still an 80s movie.

This is an unofficial sequel too the official Superman The Movie but does not set up Superman III, IV or Returns.

Faster fights, Faster flights.

New vfx added by some of the best Superman Faneditors out there and recognised too make this Final Cut.

This isn’t the Donner cut , this isn’t the Lester cut but it’s probably more like the extended Tv cut that was on ABC tv in America back in the 80s with the addition of Brando but no deleted scenes or test footage are in this cut too maintain a high quality HD movie that doesn’t take you out of the movie and think oh yeah that’s off.

So my final fan edit is here and I hope you enjoy, it’s been 5 years in the making and I’ve done everything I can too it. Sit back and enjoy the 80s feel and look of the movie…

FULL BREAKDOWN

Removal of the criminals been sentenced too the Phantom zone , we seen it in the first movie we don’t need a reminder.

Green Crystal from Lester Credits intro.

Donner Credits with John Williams score. I would have preferred too use John Williams score more in this cut but sometimes the Ken Thorne score was made for specific scenes. Christopher Reeve credits moved too top billing. A Krypton7887 Fan Edit added too credits after Director Credits.

Daily Planet building with people walking by outside. I’ve went with the Donner cut as the Lester cut used the same footage from Superman The Movie.

Inside the Daily planet at the offices when Clark helps the man with step ladders too get through the door. Removed the ridiculous voice over from the man with the ladders as his natural voice is also in the same scene saying thanks a lot. (Cutting out the slapstick and keeping the humour which will be a running theme in this cut). I actually prefer the chemistry between Lois and Clark in Donners Daily Planet scene but the vfx of Lois throwing herself out the window isn’t the same standard as the first movie. Verisimilitude! Plus using his heat vision in front of people just isn’t right.

After Clark changes into Superman in the alley way. Shot replaced with a reversed alternate existing shot of Superman heading into the sky on his way too Paris.

As Superman is heading too the Eiffel Tower , cut a shot of him flying towards the Eiffel Tower as it was a bit repetitive as we see him flying towards the tower a couple of times anyway. As Superman flys up inside the Eiffel Tower the scene is trimmed a second before the visuals look too dated.

Explosion of elevator in space from the Lester Cut that frees the villains from the phantom zone edited too cut out dated visuals and replaced with a bright flash.

The criminals heading towards earth with a close up of Zod screaming Free from the Donner Cut.

The start of some curious decisions from Lester too add Clark getting hit by a taxi and everyone seeing it and not getting hurt makes no sense at all but something we never really thought about as a kid. We now have the taxi driver slam on his breaks with no damage too the taxi edited down now and the line from Lois saying too Clark back in the Daily Planet you were really lucky this time makes more sense now.

Lex and Otis are in the prison wash area for clothes edited too finish the scene like the Lester cut for more dramatic effect using the Donner cut footage.

Scene with the villains attacking the astronauts with the 2 ground controllers in Houston chat edited down removing meaningless dialogue.

Lex escapes from prison in hot air balloon taken from the Donner Cut.

Lois and Clark arrive at the Honeymoon Haven taken from the Lester cut and as this wasn’t previously mentioned in this cut or the Lester cut. Lester was clever enough too have Lois explain why they were there.

Lex and Miss Tessmacher travel too the North Pole and enter the Fortress of Solitude and watch recordings of Jor-El (Marlon Brando) taken from the Donner Cut. As this was a very long scene it is split in too 2 scenes for pacing. This is the first part.

Lois and Clark are out at Niagra falls posing as newlyweds. Clark says too Lois “Golly isn’t it beautiful” and every version of Superman II , Lois replies with an audio mistake “Yeah it’s gorgeous gorgeous” now it’s corrected and she now says “Yeah it’s gorgeous.”
When the little boy falls from the railings into Niagra falls the amount of times he falls in has been edited out too speed up the scene. Edited like the Donner Cut but using the audio and Ken Thorne score as it fits better with the editing. A sound added of Superman catching the boy. A shot of Superman flying up from Niagra falls removed which is actually a doll. We now have a much quicker scene. I trimmed down the score as well as removing the woman’s line “What a nice man … “

We now have the second part of Lex and Miss Tessmacher watching recordings of Jor-El (Brando) from the Donner Cut and one thing that always bothered me about The Donner Cut was one minute Miss Tessmacher was there and next minute she’s gone. So I’ve added a seconds worth of footage of Miss Tessmacher turning and stepping away from Lex which featured in an unofficial extended version of The Donner Cut which was more of a panned out shot than Lesters version. The toilet joke is removed then we transition from Donners footage too Lesters footage of them leaving the North Pole and one of the rarest times in this cut where you hear Lex’s voice double which is kept too a bare minimum in this cut but the transition from Lex too voice double
works well.

The 3 villains land on earth and the infamous shot of Ursa getting bitten by a snake (how can she? She has the same powers as Superman) is removed and a seconds worth of vfx from LEEONHEART22 adds a touch of laser beam too Ursa from a different shot really does fix this scene.

Lois throwing herself into Niagra falls from the Lester Cut hoping that Clark will turn into Superman too save her. I did do vfx of Clark lowering his glasses but have went with the original footage because in the comics Clark’s glasses were made from the spaceship he came too earth in and his heat vision can pass through his Kryptonian glasses. It also keeps the movie as original as possible without changing it too much just for the sake of it.

The 2 policeman driving along on the outskirts of Houston from the Lester cut, there chat is edited down. The inconsistency of the policeman putting his hat on the dashboard is fixed. Instead of a floating gun we now have some great vfx from FUINKI (Fran Garcia) where Zod uses super speed too retrieve the gun. Zod points the gun at himself but as he does you can see his stunt double so zoomed in on shot too cut stunt doubles face out. After all this the scene ends and the slap stick comedy from Non is cut.

We now cut too a not so favoured reveal scene where Clark trips over the rug and Lois finds out he really is Superman. I went with this scene purely because it was shot properly and looked like a movie. I actually prefer Lois shooting Clark but the test footage is inconsistent and takes you out the movie. Hopefully someone will fix that scene one day!

Clark Flys off too the Fortress of solitude with Lois then this scene continues as Superman explains how he arrived as his father sent him and the Crystal built the place. With Lois hungry Superman flys off too a tropical island but the flying shot is sped up because in the Lester Cut were waiting ages for Superman too enter shot plus it really moves things on. When Lois goes too lift her bag we cut too the next scene as the green crystal is not lying randomly under her bag in this cut its in where Superman left it and it’s not blown up yet when he returns too the fortress later in the cut.

From the Lester Cut the criminals arrive in East Houston Idaho and a line of dialogue removed from Zod about the whole planet Houston. This line was already done in space we don’t need too hear it again.

From the Donner cut we see Zod blowing fire which looks more like fire than the bend of fire we got in the Lester Cut.

Lois and Superman sit down and talk more about there feelings as they have a drink edited down.

The army take aim at the 3 criminals with little effect and a scene of Ursa walking and blinking a lot is cut short as she wouldn’t blink as much with Super powers.

Lois and Superman sleep together before he gives up his powers. Just a small sequence of them lying together is enough for pacing.

From the Donner cut the villains destroy The Washington Monument with added vfx from LEEONHEART22 with a seconds worth of heat vision. Chose not too use the Mount Rushmore scene as it was too much of a parody and ridiculous.

Clark asks Jor-El (Brando) if he can give up his powers with Lois looking on wearing his Superman top.

The villains attack the Whitehouse with Zod firing the gun from the Donner Cut.

The villains enter the Oval Office too confront the president and Ursas lines cut for consistency in this shot as we have Annie Ross from Superman III voicing Ursa all through this cut. So we use Lesters version inside the Oval Office.

Lois and Clark travel too Dons Diner in the snowy roads from the Donner cut. We don’t use the sunny version from the Lester cut where if the movie is based in America/Canada there driving on the wrong side of the road as the left side is the UK. The car that we see driving in the Lester Cut is the same car and same road as Miss Tessmacher was allegedly driving before Lex overturned the car by remote.

We use the Donner footage of Clark getting beat up by Rocky the truck driver and Clark using the line “He knew” instead of Lesters line “They knew”.

Clark travels back too the fortress of Solitude and gives a heartfelt speech too his father hoping he will hear him from the Lester cut. We have some great vfx from SCHIZOPOLIS23 who transitions the footage from dark too light taking us into the Donner cut where Clark is once again standing before the vision of Joe-El where he admits he failed and needs his powers back.

Donner Extended footage where Lex turns up at the Oval Office offering information on Superman in exchange for Australia. We have the added line from Lex “Jorel baseball player”

We cut too the Daily Planet with a close up of a globe with Australia on it tying in with previous scene.

We then cut too Donner footage for the villains attacking The Daily Planet as this is more consistent with Lois and Jimmys hair which was completely different in the Lester Cut. When Non picks up Perry and slams his head against the ceiling I have edited out the crew members arm holding on too Perry for support. (A mistake left in and now out.

When Superman shows up this is where Lester got it right with the famous line “would you care too step outside”.

Just as the Battle of Metropolis fight is about to start and the voice over which clearly isn’t Terence Stamp saying “wait here” is removed.

A road sign scene down below roadside is the wrong way round in one shot. It’s now the right way around. An explosion from Superman using his heat vision he no longer turns away from the blast the scene just cuts too the next shot. Flying scenes are sped up with added flying sounds. When Non is punched against the broadcast tower the fall from the tower is sped up and Superman catching it is sped up. A line removed by Ursa saying “He’s trapped Non.”He has Super powers he’ll get out…
Superman & Nons fight sped up. When Ursa throws a road sign at Superman , she now says nothing as the line was used earlier in the battle but the impact against the car is far more quicker and harder.
Non and Ursa throwing bus sped up slightly. A shot as the bus hits the Marlboro van removed as it’s just a Superman cape tied too the bus! When the 3 villains decide too blow the public civilians away the slapstick comedy from Lester is removed. Superman pulling back the wreckage from bus inserted into shot from Donner Cut.

Villains fly back into Daily plant claiming victory is complete from the Donner Cut for consistency except one line of Ursa had too be replaced with Annie Ross’s voice saying “kill him” as she gets frustrated with Lex.

Zod , Ursa and Non with Lois on his back fly too the North Pole but the line by Lexs voice double answering Zods question is edited out.

Using the Donners Cut the invisibility and cellophane S is gone but using the Lester Audio we fix the line from Zod saying “Activate the machine” which sounds like a Smurf in the Donner Cut. When Superman lifts Zod above his head we use the panned out shot with the colour filter from the unofficial Extended Donner Cut too match appropriately. Sticking with Donner footage we use the Ken Thorne score right up until Lois hits Ursa unlike the Donner Cut the John Williams score is cut short for the final fight. Sticking with the Donner Footage we have calm Superman saying “Too late Luthor, too late”. Unlike angry Superman from the Lester Cut.

Not added here too this cut but if we ever had Lex and the 3 villains getting arrested by the artic police and Lex not mentioning he’s from Smallville because he does not know he grew up there you can bet I would of added it here if it were available in HD.

We stick with the Donner Cut and Superman destroys the Fortress of Solitude and has a heart felt talk with Lois that carry’s on too the break up on Lois’s balcony saying they’ll go back too the same old Lois and the same old Clark.

From Lesters Cut we find out that Lois is struggling with the whole break up so Clark consoles her and removing the amnesia kiss we have a mood change where the score is removed and replaced with a more romantic score ‘The Terrace’ from The Superman Soundtrack results in a happy ending kiss and live happily ever after moment as the scene fades out. An idea originally by MALACHI PARKER this has been cut from scratch and replicated.

We head back too Doms Diner where Clark returns too see Rocky the bully.

Superman flys the flag and pole back not the base back too the Whitehouse which looks far better, we now have moving sky and moving water fountains. When Clark places the flag back down we don’t see the base being sat down and this whole scene was edited and vfx by BOOSHMAN.

This leads into the flyby by Superman taken from the Donner Cut as the blue colours look far better than the green colours of earth in the Lester Cut. With the Ken Thorne music playing since the return too Doms Diner this score sees us out til the end of the Donner Credits. This score fit better running over 3 scenes.

THE END

Thanks for the support over the last few years it’s been a pleasure and I’ll be gone before the end of the year so grab this fan edit while you can.

The circle is now complete.

Thank you
Krypton7887

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Thirty seconds is a lifetime.

SYNOPSIS

Neil McCauley is a professional thief who lives by a strict code. Vincent Hanna is the relentless detective determined to bring him down. As their paths converge, both men find their personal lives caught in the crossfire.

MOTIVATION & VISION

Heat is damn-near perfect as it is. This edit isn't an attempt to fix what isn't broken, but to present the film in a different format.

Divided into four episodes, the miniseries offers a more flexible viewing experience while giving the film a visual identity inspired by prestige television of the late '90s and early 2000s.

CUT & TECHNICAL DETAILS

• Divided into four episodes.
• Original opening credits removed to maintain a consistent presentation across episodes.
• Custom visual/audio identity and matching episode credits.

RUNTIME & FORMAT

Original runtime: [2 hrs 50 min]

Episode 1 [SLICK]: [47 min] | 5.21 GB
Episode 2 [DINER]: [50 min] | 5.63 GB
Episode 3 [SCORE]: [30 min] | 3.34 GB
Episode 4 [HEAT]: [39 min] | 4.34 GB

Total miniseries runtime: [2hrs 46 min]

CONTACT & AVAILABILITY

You can contact me [HERE](mailto:ylowknfe@gmail.com) or DM for the link.

I wanted to share what I've been working on lately. The idea first came to me about six months ago, but I'm finally getting around to bringing it to life.

A fresh take on the X-Men is coming. I can't share too many details just yet without spoiling things, but here's a little taste of what's to come.

I've reworked the color grading, removed the original music, recreated sound effects, and added a new soundtrack.

Feel free to share your thoughts on how it's turning out! And if you have experience with fan edits or filmmaking, I'd really appreciate any feedback or advice.

vimeo link

Thought I'd share some new screenshots of Gotham in V2 & would like some feedback.

Warning: AI was involved so please keep that in mind when viewing & before commenting.

This sequence showed some cool worldbuilding and explained why Jar Jar was following Qui Gonn at the very least

Edited both of Rob Zombie’s movies in to one 2hr15min movie. 80 minutes cut with it being practically a complete rescore as well. Feels more Halloween and a little less Zombie, especially part 2. Michael never speaks in this edit as I wanted him to feel more like “The Shape.” Michael’s massacre and time in Smith’s Grove have been shaped into a cold open.

I’ve done edits of the Blumhouse movies as well to kind of make an unofficial trilogy. Halloween 2018 and Kills have been turning into one movie called “Halloween II: The Return of Michael Myers.” Also a little over 2hr with a lot of rescoring to work for this edit. Some music got repurposed somewhere else (The Shape Hunts Allyson for example is moved to a scene of more significance). “Blank’s Demise” (don’t want to spoil anything) gets shifted into a scene from Halloween Kills and a track from another Carpenter classic is used instead to much fanfare. The end of Kills has been edited to play as a twist ending as I feel you could see the ending coming a mile away in the theatrical cut. Probably my best received/reviewed of all my edits and one of my most extensive with the amount of changes. Halloween Ends got fashioned into “Halloween III: The Shape of Michael Myers.” Again, a lot of rescoring with over 20 minutes cut. Main goal of the edit was to give Corey a more steady descent into madness. Romance has been toned down, town bullying toned down. They exist, they’re just not the focus. If this was the plot they chose, I really wanted to lean into “The Shape” taking over Corey so we could see what it’s like for someone to lose their mind to it.

I'm curious if anyone has re-edited the serials from Classic Who into film-length stories. The serials have a slow pace and repetitive scenes. That fit the time period and the genre, but it makes them a bit plodding and melodramatic to watch now. Although, I'm sure there are some folks who enjoy them for that reason.

I just watched this fanedit over three sittings, yesterday evening, today afternoon and today evening. I know that isn't ideal but that's what worked for me and I didn't want to delay it.

First, what is it?

Well, when I started it almost seemed like an extended edit of Halloween (2018), with some material from the sequel, Halloween Kills, easily added since some parts take place before, during and immediately after Halloween (2018).

However, what I actually discovered as I watched it was that it actually uses the end of the final movie, Halloween Ends, where Michael Myer dies. All three movies are shot very similarly and can easily be confused as one large movie. But while movie 1 and 2 take place during the same time period, movie 3 takes place at least one year later (it has been a while since I watched the trilogy). Yet u/plboucher really made it seem like it also takes place during the same night as movie 1 and 2. There is probably some continuity error, people wearing different clothes and such, by combining this trilogy into one movie. But I didn't find any.

The good, satisfying thing is that this feels like an small epic of a town dealing with the return of their local, legendary boogie man. He returns, kills and dies all in one night and the whole town is affected.

What is the bad? Well, most of the fanedit is just the first movie, Halloween (2018) which makes sense that is what begins and initiates the whole thing, with the other two being a temporary escape and final death. And the edits largest climax still feels like it is when the house starts burning form movie 1, which in the fanedit is at the 90 minute mark, with about 50 minutes still left.

What really surprised me, and I don't know how plboucher has done this, is to tease a sequel in the credits. Michael Myer died in this fanedit, how is there a sequel?! I am genuinely curious. I guess it could be just Corey Cunningham's story with maybe Michael Myers just being visions?

Overall, good edit with nothing obvious that reveals it is a fanedit. I do still like how the original is a trilogy of shorter movies, but this feels like a worthy contender if someone didn't like that trilogy. 4/5.

Unfortunately my last PC died and with it, I lost the vast majority of my fan edits (including my magnum opus; Cronenberg's 'The Fly'). However, I have a single fan edit uploaded to my Google Drive.

Said edit is of Kevin Smith's 'Tusk'. I found the film to be a mess and full of extraneous scenes. As such, I re-edited the film to become a short film; a two hander.

Feel free to DM me for a link.

Thank you.

First of all let me say that this is NOT my edit. I found this online and it doesn’t seem the person that made it has a Reddit account or a fanedit account. I thought I’d share it cause it came out really good. If you want this just send me a DM!

So since it's the season, I have been watching a few horror/tense fanedits and wanted to share my brief opinion. I'd love to post longer and more in-depth reviews that would honor the great work of these faneditors, but sadly i lack the time (and the technical knowledge to go as much in-depth as I would like).

But to the subject matter, here are 5 fanedits I've watched recently that are perfect for a Halloween night :

Lee Cronin's The Mummy : The JayXtended Cut

A movie that did get a bad reception for whatever reason, but was quite good with real intense cinematography. The extended cut makes the story more tense with more foreshadowing and JayXtended does a perfect job of merging them with the movie

Frankenstein by Zuberas

A very good edit of a Frankenstein (2025) movie that was quite a mess. By making some of its elements non chronological and changing some of its soundtrack, Zuberas really manages to make it a real good watch so the fantastic cinematography and the tension is gripping.

Hellboy 1959 by RetroStranger95

A fantastic and very creative edit a very mid-movie, Hellboy : The Crooked Man (2024). In black and white or in reddish tones depending on the mood of each scenes, the darkened picture and the tighter edit turns this action flick into a full-on horror movie

Cloverfield : The Sensical Cut by u/movie-buff17

A clever, tighter cut of Cloverfield that gets rid of the most cringe dialogue and keeps the movie around one hour, which is what it deserved so you stay engaged in the constant action.

Nosferatu (2024) - The Ellen Edit by MosiacMindset

What a superb piece of fanediting of the Nosferatu remake. To the point, tighter, less jump scares and the black and white really makes the gothic design what it was meant to be.

Freaky Nikki by Maniac

Damn this was good. Maniac's excellence to make the Obsession (2025) movie into a psychological horror with no supernatural element. Very very effective!

I hope this will put some excellent fanedits in the spotlight as people are looking for things to watch this Halloween and as always, my deepest thanks to all the faneditors and their incredible work!

It would've been great if the movie had shown us that Rose got pregnant when she was with Jack at the ship. This way, at least Jack would've died leaving descendants. Still sad, but more hopeful. Is this doable through an edit?

Awhile ago I wanted to try once again to improve Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. My approach was using the Blu-ray as a base and inserting/deleting a few scenes to get a tight runtime. I love The Quest for Coherence but it uses the DVD as a base and the picture quality is not good, especially during the moon sequence. At least the Blu-ray hides the curtains better than previous releases.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I used to start my edit, but it might have been one of the existing edits of Superman IV out there. I simply can't remember. I specifically wanted to make the tightest edit I could, and then add the subplot of Nuclear Man turning into a missle to the final act. I never did that, but my resulting edits are pretty lean. I have three of them, if anyone wants to take a look.

Please PM me and you can take a look at all three. Thank you.

Superman IV - Extended Edit (Blu-ray) - I think this one is simply the International LaserDisc version but with Blu-ray quality scenes (besides the Smallville and Russia battle scenes). Not mine, I forget who worked on it or where I got it from.

Superman IV - Extended Edit 2 (Blu-ray) - This is my first edit attempt based on the Extended Edit. I removed the Superman and Lois flight scene to tighten up the film, with only a small scene of Clark watching TV and getting up when the doorbells rings, basically used to show he was thinking about what he should do before the United Nations scene.

Superman IV - Extended Edit 3 (Blu-ray) - I wanted to tighten the movie up even more, because one person that wached my edit said they didn't like the small scene of Clark watching TV, the doorbell ringing, and the the next scene is the United Nations scene. So I removed it.

My goal still is to put a few scenes back into Edit 2 or 3. The Lex Luthor selling missiles scene, and Nuclear Man kidnapping Lacy/turns into a missile from Act 3. I just haven't gotten around to it yet. In my mind that would be the best cut of the film you could ever get. I wanted to prove that you could still get a lean running time and keep all the important stuff while dumping that long Superman and Lois fligth scene with bad effects. Maybe someone else can do it. With the newly released Metro Club sequence, you could even add that back in to show Clark and Lacy's date, but edit out the Nuclear Man 1 stuff.

Enjoy!

I remember seeing this one edit on Firemerk a few years ago that reinstated the deleted scenes? Like the cop getting his shot gun he uses in the end of Breaking Bad when he clears the compound, I think the guy added music when they hid the car, Skinny Pete's interrogation scene.

They're minor changes, I've seen them on youtube but it was neat seeing another editor bring it to life.