It's the American release that shows Darkness right away, spoiling his more dramatic entry later on in the film.

There was an old issue of Video Watchdog (No. 29) that had an article “Reconstructing Legend,” which broke down the differences between the American and European cuts of the film using the existing laserdisc editions, which was very informative. Obviously this doesn't take the Director's Cut into account, but given that most web resources will, this might be your best guide to the divergences between the original theatrical versions.

It may be VERY difficult to match footage up from the variant versions of the film as each are different transfers with different color timings from different eras (the DC looks pretty raggy by today's standards), but I'd be interested to see what you can do with it.

Could anything be done with the sound? The DC sounds a bit flat.