Indiana Jones and the Fanedit of Destiny

No thanks.

Good ideas. I still haven’t seen the official film though.

It may never be A+ Indy, but I do think we can take it from C Indy to B/B+ Indy and that would be perfectly fine.

I really will be looking forward to this. Cleaning up the de-aging scenes and adjusting Indy’s voice to reflect his age in WWII would be worth the edit alone. Also, trimming the length of time Indy is dangling from the hangman’s noose also is on my wish list. I would cut the clip of Indy running across the train at the beginning of the film; it looks really wonky. Also, some of the shots of old Indy on the horse in NYC look super fake. I think trimming the auction scene and tuk tuk car chase too. I’d have to see the film again, but this is some things off the top of my head.

Have no doubt there’ll be edits here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fanedits/

Yes, I’ve been waiting for this! I was sitting in theatre thinking about how easily this film can go from a 6 or so to a solid 7 with some really simple edits (mostly just editing down the film to a little under 2 hours like the other Indy films).
Although it’s a fairly effective scene at showing how evil the villains are, I don’t think it’s all too necessary to show them shooting the librarian(s). You can just have Indy get freaked out over the bodies as he escapes. Best advice I can give really follows that in general, keep the focus on Indy’s perspective.

I wish you the best of luck and I cannot wait to see what comes of this!!

Having just watched the film last night and knowing about the advancements when it comes to AI voice replacement/replicas, I would love to see a fan edit that makes Young Indy at the beginning actually sound like 1980’s Harrison Ford instead of Old Man Harrison Ford. I think that’s one of the many reasons why I absolutely loathe that beginning sequence so much and I feel like doing that (plus maybe adding some grain and other effects to lessen the digital uncanny valley sheen of everything) would help to make the sequence at least somewhat tolerable to me.

Currently trying to finish up my Raiders extended version, but I do plan to do an edit of Dial like my other 4 Indy movies. Here is what I had planned as far as a shot list. The AI voice fix is already done as someone on Youtube took a start at it and I added some more, but the other I need to find time to go after. It might be a while though as I need to get back on my extended Empire strikes back version 1 that has been like 90% done for awhile.

• Paramount peak/logo transition at the start added back in to be consistent with the franchise
• Fixing audio sync issues and old Harrison voice in some spots so it’s not an 80 year old voice with a ~45 year old Indy as well as mouth not moving in some spots to the voice for the CG in the beginning
• “1944, Franch” title added to intro to be consistent with every other Indy start. Also adding in “New York, 1969” since the movie is literally moving to this time (for the intro) and it was done this way for Crusade.
• Editing a shot away from Indy after he punches the driver of the car, so he hides the body under the car off screen and we return to him sitting there inside before the officer comes in the back. This allows more time for officers to get into car and not see the Indy ragging the driver out of the way on the ground or whatever he had to do.
• Fix CG when punched on the train. I am sure there are more, but that was the one I notice the most
• Slower Indy running on the train. Or reduce the scene so he is not so fake looking here
• Adding a Starwars Visual easter egg somewhere in this film to be consistent with the other films
• Adding the last movie McGuffin easter egg somewhere in this film
• Tuk Tuk scene seemed to drag out, will take out shots where needed or they are almost duplicate shots
• Possibly add the deleted shot. “Same for the God Daughter” when they are drinking in the new York Bar if I can find a copy where it does not fade to black early.
• My own personal rip of my copy did not grab the subtitles like in the theater at the end, but I kind of like no titles since no other Indy had it, so may just keep it this way or add them in not sure yet

Any update on this project? I liked your change list. I hope it is still in the works!

Saw this hasn’t been updated in a bit - I have a Dial of Destiny edit over at fanedits if anyone is interested. Didn’t do AI voice for the flashback (honestly the voice didn’t really bother me that much) - but made a bunch of other cuts that I think most people are looking for.

Full changelist and IFDB listing:

https://ifdb.fanedit.org/indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-the-fox-cut/

still looking for:

deleted shot. “Same for the God Daughter” when they are drinking in the new York Bar where it does not fade to black early.

If anyone has the full scene of this let me know

Did not have time to do a shot list yet, but here are complete edits so far for my intro

• Paramount peak/logo transition at the start added back in to be consistent with the franchise
• Fixed audio sync issues and old Harrison voice in some spots so it’s not an 80 year old voice with a ~45 year old Indy as well as mouth not moving in some spots at the end when out of river
• “1944, France” title added to intro to be consistent with every other Indy start. Also adding in “New York, 1969” since the movie is literally moving to this time (for the intro) and it was done this way for Crusade.
• Removed 5 sec of extra hanging in the noose (still hangs for 3:45)
• Added all german subtitles for the entire intro (fixed timing on many to match lips)
• Edited the shot of Indy after he punches the driver of the car, so the shot of Voller looking at his briefcase, spaces out the scene so Indy would have time (off screen) before the officers come into the car to kick the body under the car or out of the way before the officers walk right up to the car and back door, not seeing any body on the ground.
• Fixed train run slightly slower and so cuts short before his super mario bros jump which is the fakest part of that shot.
• Fixed two frames where voller get hit by the swinging hollow water pipe. Hits more of his hair and top of head than straight on making it more beliable he was simply knocked of and injured but not really defaced. Most think this was a stationary pipes, but it does try to swing back at the end just slightly.
• Removed scene on the subway with sad indy and instead it jumps to him on the street walking with slight indy music going right to the college classroom scene. I may actually add the New York date here and have that be the opening “Back to civilation” intro scene just like all the other Indy films other than Temple. This way we don’t see Grumpy Indy until the dive boat. We will get the Marion story later anyways.
• I jumped ahead to the Tuk Tuk scene even though I have more editing as that had a full minute taken out of shots where we see almost duplicate chase scenes that did not advance things forward.

…more to come…I have alot of NY editing to do.