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Batman and Robin: Deep Freeze by Musiced21

Musiced has made us believe in the same way Donner enabled us to have faith in a man who could fly. Here, a Bat has earned it’s wings!

Deep Freeze is a tidy, focused 90 minute forraye into the themes of lust, loss, age, vulnerability, teamwork, and family. It feels very much, through the use of the atmospheric and gothic filtering and editorial course corrections, like a natural end point for the Batman of '89 in his middle age if he had allowed himself to be more open. The performances are more dialled in, their stories make sense, there is strategy to the cuts that sees Freeze at his absolute, with Ivy helping his arc along. Ivy isn’t forgotten in the crosshairs either.

The choice of music also brings the film more in touch with the earlier Burton movies without being beholden to them, and the scores bring out the more humane and sombre touches, bringing to life every character action, reaction and motivation.

It’s often said you can’t polish a turd, but somehow Musiced has manged to thaw our hearts and made us revaluate this little popsicle Batman and Robin can be made ideal in an unideal world, which means there’s hope for the rest of us.

Updates on the current workprint (I’ve sent a copy to stretch09)

-Edit length is 3 hours 6 minutes with credits.
-Film now opens with Gwen’s death from Amazing Spider-Man 2
-First time we see Toby’s universe is the rescue of Raimi Gwen
-The aftermath of Mysterio outing Holland’s Peter is trimmed down significantly (example, when Peter is told not to say anything without a lawyer, we cut immediately to Matt Murdock clearing up the charges over the phone)
-Harry dies early on and without redemption, consumed by his hatred for Peter and his devotion to revenge. This lines up with what Peter tells Ned later about his friend dying in his arms.
-MJ’s love convinces Peter to reject the symbiote, but despite their love, Peter is convinced he’s hurt MJ through his actions with Gwen, and thus isn’t ready for marriage.
-Peter confronts Flint in the black suit the same night as Flint gains his powers
-Eddie is now ‘humbled and humiliated’ by Symbiote Spider-Man smashing his camera. His request that God kills Peter Parker is cut.
-We switch from SM 3 to No Way Home while Peter is in the shower, we cut to Holland’s Peter on the highway confronting Doc Ock. His initial meeting with Strange is cut and we learn from Strange later what he actually did.
-Inserted the line “I Forgive You” from Spider-Man 3 after Peter assures a cured Flint they’ll be going home.
-Tom Hardy’s Venom used for the final scenes, just because he looked comics accurate.
-Film ends with Peter wanting to talk to MJ but can’t find the words so takes his leave, he finds out Venom is on the rampage and the last shot is of him looking at his Spider-Man costume. Nothing ever ends, the power and responsibility remains.

While working on the full-length version of this project (the ‘real one’ is well over three hours), I decided, as a fun challenge, and for a bit of a laugh, to see if I could condense it down to a two hour 28 minute ‘studio’ cut. This follows in the footsteps of other parody ‘executive meddling’ edits such as “Last Jedi: The Coward’s Cut” and “How A Studio Can Ruin Jurassic Park”…imagine a world where Sony greenlit a dream combo, Spider-Man 3 merged with No Way Home, and proceeded to make a slew of bone-headed decisions with it all the way through to the final product, all to quicken the pace and get people in and out of the theatre in no time at all.

Won’t spoil much in this cut, suffice to say the three hour version will give everything much more room to breath…also, if you’re looking for the three hour cut to simply be this one only it’s longer, forget about it, it’s practically an entirely different cut. This is Josstice League to the inevitable Snyder take.

…Though, who knows, maybe you’ll end up enjoying it despite the intention, and may come to think it has merit on it’s own, it’s not like I went on to make an intentionally bad parody edit.

Whenever fans think of No Way Home and the Raimi verse, sometimes their minds drift immediately to make the next “Spider-Man 4” and leave the first three alone…but I think there’s so much to mine out of the existing third film that it only makes sense to turn any sort of Toby focused take on NWH into a much more improved Spider-Man 3.

Everything largely clicks for me in my current timeline, except the Sandman. He needs to figure out who Peter is beore the spell can affect him, but I’m gradually beginning to piece together the story.

Tweeked the edit to remove the trailer after some discussions

This is the Rescue Rangers movie trimmed down to 88 minutes.

1. Chip and Dale’s meeting as kids cut, film starts with the launch of the Rescue Rangers TV Show.

2. Added Avengers: United They Stand theme to Tygra cameo

3. Chip now listens to the original Disney Afternoon intro theme on his way home instead of brutal metal

4. References to Gadget and Zipper married with kids cut

5. Scalded down the ‘rapping’, Chip and Dale inform the audience later so it doesn’t matter how we learn of it.

6. Added a hint of the Filmation MOTU theme to He-Man and Skeletor scene.

7. Gadget and Dale’s meeting shortened to remove her family with Zipper. Tried to imply Gadget chose Dale

8. Gadget and Zipper’s flirting cut as the Ranger Blimp travels to Sweet Peter’s lair. Dale doesn’t talk to his agent.

9. Original full length Rescue Rangers theme song plays instead of the ‘super serious’ cover.

10. Darkwing Duck outro theme added to the end credits after the mid-credits scene

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Came up with another idea for Superman and Lois and all the fun you could have with Clark’s early years

How about we establish that Clark had a ‘year one’ as Superman, and use Brandon Routh footage from Superman Returns? And he meets Lois when she’s younger also? As for the aging up, we could use some of the plot from Superman Returns, shortly after his first year, Clark hears word Krypton’s remains have been discovered and he leaves Earth, use the Return to Krypton deleted scene, and when he comes back, he and Lois are Tyler and Elizabeth, much older. There’s even a scene in episode 11 of Superman and Lois where Martha asks Clark if he found what he was searching for.

Squeeze in Kara’s origin from the SuperGirl pilot as well as their first team-up in season two and you’re good to go…and for extra bonus ‘elseworld’ goodness, end the new pilot on a canon-breaking cliffhanger with Kevin Spacey Lex!

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Cloudcity said:

Very slick editing tricks… props… where can I get link to view entire edit?

I’ll PM you the link, thanks for the interest. It’s appreciated.

Before reading, watch this Hexagon Overview By Youtuber ‘The 6th Ranger’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5VctJxs5t8&t=93s

Back around 2002, there was a proposed plan for a multi-Power Ranger season called ‘Hexagon’, which would have seen Tommy Oliver head up an organization made up of various Rangers over the last decade or so of the programme, battling the remnants of their greatest enemies as well as some new threats. The series would focus on a group of young teenage Rangers recruited by Tommy’s organization who would be gradually caught up in Tommy’s ongoing ‘disagreements’ with the Phantom Ranger and former teammate/rival Jason.

Eventually, there was to have been a mass Ranger civil war, ending with Tommy disbanding his organization.

It is my intention to create, to the best of my ability, my own version of the Hexagon season, though it will not be beholden to the original notes. In total, I have put together seven episodes thus far with this story. Here are the key differences

-The backstory for the villains is the same as Power Rangers In Space. Zordon is captured and the Turbo Rangers have been defeated

-The original Hexagon would have had the Ninja Storm Rangers as the heroes. In this version, it’s the Dino Charge Rangers

-Main villains are Mesegog and Astronema. For now.

-Forever Red is used as a two-part set-up

-The ‘evil Trent’ arc of Dino Thunder will be removed.

-Various PR fanfilms, such as Bat In The Sun projects as well as ‘Shattered Past’ will be used.

-In time I hope to bring the PR civil war to life using various Sentai vs Sentai sequences.

So far, I’ve put together seven episodes, a few of them have had minimal changes as some will be ‘filler’ character-focused stories about the core team of Dino Rangers.

Both versions are now released

Now working on an alternative cut of the film, this one ditches the Ferry scene and focuses on Peter turning down Tony’s offer of being an Avenger, and ties things together by having Tony propose to Pepper.

Timeline is as follows for this cut:

-Paramount Logo
-Old Marvel Studios Logo
-1991, Bucky kills Tony’s parents
-Tony chewed out by bitter Sukovian mom
-The first we see of Steve, Sam, Bucky and T’Challa is when they being brought in after being arrested, this allows us to get to the Steve and Tony argument quicker.
-‘A Film By Peter Parker’ added, Peter is the co-lead of this film so we largely follow his journey to Germany
-Most of Civil War plays out as normal after this
-After Cap beats up Tony, we cut to Peter raving about the trip to Germany and the car ride back with Stark and Happy.
-‘Two Months Later’, Peter on train
-Cut to the A.I constructs of the Starks and Tony addressing the student crowd (parts of this are used for the beginning also, but this is meant to be yet another group of students he’s granting money to)
Peter turns down being an Avenger, Pepper accepts Tony’s proposal
-Tony and Pepper jogging in the park, we learn they’re now engaged, Doctor Strange interrupts them
-Post credits: Peter at school, change into his ‘own’ suit and responds to a police chase in progress (Footage from Amazing Spider-Man 2)

Thankyou sir, happy holidays

I was recently reminded of an old Iron Man 4 I made for the disgraced SDN Edition’s defunct website last year, upon reviewing it I feel it’s much too long and I wish to approach it with fresh eyes, I believe if you focus chiefly on Tony and his supporting characters you get a tidy 100 minute or so movie that still tells the story of Civil War just as clearly along with much more

Movies used would be

-Civil War (the bulk of it)
-Spider-Man Homecoming (scenes on the boat can work here as a climatic moment for Peter and Tony)
-Infinity War (for the ending)

And when it’s released on DVD:

-Spider-Man: No Way Home (for a post-credit scene)

Poster

https://zaredit.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/5c8ceb103065841.5f45183039e8f-2.jpg?w=936

A prototype version is current available. This is not final by any means. It has a placeholder sequence for post-credits using Homecoming footage and some web swinging from either the PS4 Spider-Man video game or Amazing Spider-Man 2

-Paramount Logo
-Old Marvel Studios Logo
-1991, Bucky kills Tony’s parents
-Tony chewed out by bitter Sukovian mom
-The first we see of Steve, Sam, Bucky and T’Challa is when they being brought in after being arrested, this allows us to get to the Steve and Tony argument quicker.
-‘A Film By Peter Parker’ added, Peter is the co-lead of this film so we largely follow his journey to Germany
-Most of Civil War plays out as normal after this
-Boat scene from Homecoming, Stark takes the suit from Peter
-Cut to the A.I constructs of the Starks and Tony addressing the student crowd (parts of this are used for the beginning also, but this is meant to be yet another group of students he’s granting money to)
-Tony and Pepper jogging in the park, we learn they’re now engaged, Doctor Strange interrupts them
-End credits
-Post-Credit scene (when No Way Home becomes available): We find Peter is now a drop out, but is still committed to being Spider-Man despite Tony’s doubts, he suits up in his freshly-sewn together classic costume and swings out into the night.

Post-Credit Scene (Placeholder Version): Peter tries in vain to text Happy, trying for a second chance, and we track him heading to school. We eventually see him skip school and swings off into the city in his new custom-made costume

This is now complete and released.

Another sample (not the final version, the current draft does hold on to Hank and Raven a little longer)

https://vimeo.com/656511537

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The goal of this project is to stitch some, but not all, of Harry Osborn’s story arc from season one together. This film would use the trilogy where Harry becomes Venom as well as odds and ends of other episodes such as the pilot, “Exclusive” (just to give us some Peter and Mary Jane interaction), and “Attack of the Beatle” for the final scene, giving Agent Coulson and Aunt May some development and ending the film on an upbeat note.

I had the idea of also using the live-action alternate ending to Iron Man 1, where Fury is talking to Tony about radioactive spider-bites among other things. He makes mention of a ‘spoiled brat who has difficulty playing with others’. He’s referring to Tony in the deleted scene, but he may as well be referring to Peter in this version.

This does not rock the boat as far as removing the comedic side-gags or fourth wall breaks, so if you weren’t a fan of those, you’re going to have to grin and bear it

Most commercial fades have been cut

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Here’s a sample

https://vimeo.com/656018856

password: fanedit

CamSMurph said:

Not gonna lie, I think Dark Phoenix would have worked better if all the newly shot footage for Once Upon a Deadpool was used for the former instead.

Some of the linking material really has no business working as well as it does for this. Only a few minor nips and tucks are required.

A year or so ago, I released a fanedit called “X-Men: Dead Phoenix” which attempted to insert Deadpool into the narrative of X-Men: Dark Phoenix using footage of him at the mansion in Deadpool 2. The results were…mixed to say the least, some ‘got’ it and some didn’t, plus there were some technical errors.

A year later I’ve revised my approach…now, instead of being integrated into Dark Phoenix, Deadpool is telling the story of Dark Phoenix to Fred Savage. Some of Fred’s comments actually work for a few key scenes from this movie.

Changes/Cutlist so far

-Remove any references to the story being Deadpool 2

-Remove Fred being censored by the beeper.

-Fred and Wade’s conversation about romance now moved to after Scott and Jean’s kiss. References to Vanessa kissing Wade removed.

-Trimmed ‘Fridging’ conversation so it fits in with Mystiques death and not Vanessas’. Deadpool now recognises the trope and reacts immediately to it while Fred explains what just happened.

-After Magneto is informed of Raven’s death, we cut to Wade and Fred discussing Matt Damon

-Added in voice overs from Wade at random parts of the movie, including Deadpool laughing at Xavier being forced to walk.

A simple, very minimalist edit of Avengers: Endgame. This will come bundled with a 'Final Curtain" edition of Infinity War, which takes the opening act of Endgame with the Avengers confronting Thanos and Thor beheading him and uses it to conclude the IW portion of the story. Endgame begins with a reprise of the Hawkeye and Daughter archery lesson pre-snap (it’s also included in the IW cut) and then after the Marvel logo we cut straight to ‘Five Years Later’

From there, Endgame proceeds as normal until after Steve declines to tell Sam about his marriage to Peggy, we cross fade to New York’s Broadway and tie the film’s climax back to Clint as he watches Rogers: The Musical, which takes us to the end credits.

When all is done, the edit will be available in the following formats

-A specially filtered ‘VHS’ Turner Entertainment Home Video version with both episodes playing back to back (approx 40 minutes)

-Standard, unfiltered episodes that can be download individually.

“THE CONQUEROR”
“DON’T DRINK THE WATER”

GO PLANET

By Your Two Episodes Combined…I am Your ‘Season One’ finale!

Captain Planet, being quite episodic in nature, had about six or so seasons. Arguably it’s best years were probably the original 65 episode or so run, but none of those seasons had proper ‘finales’…but they came ever so close to one. Arguably the best of those was ‘Summit to Save Earth’, where the original spirt of the Earth Zarn pretty much wipes the floor with the Planeteers with the help of the eco-villains and takes over the planet. By the story’s end, the Planeteers vanquish Zarn and COP 22 turns out to be a success (lol)

So while season two has that, the first season has a couple of candidates for a strong finale…the original Mission to Save Earth (introducing Captain Pollution), Two Futures Parts One and Two (a ‘for want of a nail’ scenario), and Heat Wave, which sees Doctor Blight attack Hope Island.

I watched some of them lately, Heat Wave really is the best one despite being so short, but the others I felt suffered from having little to no real ‘finality’ to them with the eco villains. At least you can make the argument Doctor Blight could have died at sea in Heat Wave.

Two episodes from earlier in the first season however, work pretty well at providing the ‘big kicks’ of season finales…high stakes, the feeling the heroes could be tempted with absolute corruptible power, and the villains coming together for a big gamble and getting all caught at the end. Those were “Don’t Drink The Water” and “The Conqueror”, the first is the show’s first real multi-villain crossover with a plot far superior to that of “Mission to Save Earth”, the latter is the first appearance of Zarn, my favourite CP villain.

Both parts currently clock in at 19 minutes, both include “Planeteer Alert” (the same one) and end credits.

For the sake of a title, I’ve used the title cards for parts one and two of “Mission to Save Earth” even if the edit has nothing to do with the original story, but I think it fits it far better as Zarn is tempting them with the power of the iron fist and sends them on a mission to ‘save’ the planet from nuclear armament.

Hopefully this serves as a worthy candidate for a season one finale, and if not, at least a rollicking good bit of 90s cheese.

Volume two of the controversial MOTU: Revelation has dropped and all things considered it’s a marked improvement over the first five episodes. I admit I got caught up in the drama of volume one’s divisiveness, not always siding with either Kevin Smith’s camp or the ‘Clownfish’ camp. Truth be told I think both parties handled themselves just as poorly. The second volume only proved Clownfish ‘right’ in one respect while at the same time totally exposing their ‘scoop’ as a half-truth and everything else projection and paranoia.

But let’s not dwell too much on them or the merits of Smith’s honesty. What matters is part two was a much better half and really what the show should have been all along.

But was it ever truly needed?

Part two hinges on Skeletor being alive to make everything move along, Evil Lyn was redeemed at that point, having lost her love in Orko and vowing to do right by his memory, the power sword had been reclaimed and reforged and Adam restored magic to Eternia. You could easily have ended the series there and then.

So why not do that? All you have to do is remove any references to Teela being the Sorceress and you have a perfect send-off.

Ah, but I didn’t stop there. I decided to pull a similar trick with the FIRST episode, to show that the ‘revelation’ need not have affected Teela negatively at all. I truly feel that if she loved Adam as much as she did, considering him her hero and always believing in him, she would truly understand why he kept this secret from her and would be more readily accepting of being left in the dark . Adam surviving, fresh off of saving the universe, allows Teela to see how much he was willing to sacrifice, in this case, the power sword, and certainly wouldn’t kick him while he was down.

In time, I might revisit the first episode and add a few more things to it, but I wanted to give this version a bit of closure, in many respects finally giving the classic MOTU series a ‘true’ series finale without you needing to go through an edgelord adolescent’s idea of what a ‘mature’ MOTU series looks like

For Eternia!

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