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#1615215
Topic
Doctor Who Unbound season 22+
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What if the 6th Doctor became a Hermit like in the Twin Dilemma?

A while back, I used the first BBV Stranger film and made it an alternate 6th Doctor intro story because the Twin Dilemma is an awful first impression of him (thread here: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Doctor-Who-alternate-6th-Doctor-intro-story/id/105206), and originally, I was just going to leave it there.

But then I discovered a series of fan films made in the 80’s which features an alternate 7th Doctor and is the 1st time in any media the Doctor was played by a woman, and I thought they were really interesting (and much better than most of the Chris Chibnall era).

And so I thought, could I edit together the BBV Stranger films (at least the 1st 3, as Nicola Bryant left after the 3rd film and they became clearly not Doctor Who and their own origianl idea) and a proper 6th Doctor regeneration story to lead into the barbara benedetti films (which has the Doctor regenerate into her companionless)?

And so I got started on Unbound season 22 (Unbound is the Doctor Who equivalent of What if? Big Finish have done quite a few audios around various what if’s):

SUMMONED BY SHADOWS

Read my original post for the full breakdown of what I changed. Since I managed to get a free ai voice clone site, I was able to give Peri a few inner monolouge lines to make Twin Dilemma and Stranger material a bit more compatible (like why Peri now has an english accent).

GARDEN

The original title of this was More than a Messiah (adapted from the DW Audio Visuals story of the same name), but I changed it to Garden because I felt it was more appropriate.

I made the 1st scene a pre-titles sequence (I’m trying to keep things consistent) before I added an ai line to establish where the Tardis was (this is important for later).

I got rid of the scene where the Doctor and the titular character are naked (as it didn’t really fit the story and the fact it proceeds fine without it should tell you everything).

The confrontation between everyone in the cave took the most work to get right. First I redid the effect when the titular creature dissapers so it looks more smooth, then I flipped the footage of the planet exploding everytime you see it (so it looks less like reused footage) and I used a bit of behind the scenes footage to extend the shot of the old woman along with some cave footsteps so that it sounds like the Doctor and co make it back to the Tardis in time before the planet explodes (unlike the original, where they survive with no obvious explnation).

I also added 1 last ai line as an inner thought at the end to explain why the Doctor stops dressing how he does in the 1st 2 Stranger movies.

I also took the oppritunity to add a post-credits scene, using footage from the Airzon Soloution. You might be a bit confused as to why, but given the themes of the story, and it’s importance later to a character explanation later, then it will make sense. Also added the Tardis interior sound effect to hint at where the characters are.

IN MEMOERY ALONE

This is without doubt the best Stranger film. The only edits I did (aside from add the Doctor Who titles and credtis), was combine both sources of the spaceship crash and make it a pre-titles sequence). I did think about adding a post-credits scene where the Doctor and Peri teleport back into the Tardis, but I’m not a special effects guru and I couldn’t quite find shots of the unconsious Doctor and Peri I would have used for it. Besides, it wasn’t really neceassary, so I decided to make do without.

RETIREMENT

A friend of mine pointed out I could use footage from the 5th and 6th Strnager movies to make a minisode to deal with Peri’s departure, so I did.

It was mostly just combining clips from episode 5 showing the Doctor (having retired and working a regular job on Earth and going by the name Preston as part of a new beginning) and Rose together. That and it’s a nice WTF for the audience for a few minutes before I used a clip from the 6th and last Stranger movie of the Doctor sitting down and thinking about Rose (the Earth woman whom he’s working for), but this time, I used a few clips of the Doctor and Peri instead, with the Doctor (using more ai lines) explaining what happened between them and ultimately resolving to quit his retirement and go back to saving the universe (and fortunatly for me here, there was no inner thoughts here in the original, so I didn’t have to repalce the rather fitting sound effects and music).

And now, onto the regeneration story. You might be wondering how I could put 1 together since 6 has no solo stories and never got a proper 1 on TV due to various behind the scenes issues, wel…

THE TIMELASH

Yes, I used the awful Timelash as the regeneration story. Why? Because I watched the Whoflix edit and realised that Peri spends most of the story locked up and since ai clone voices were now a thing, I could remove her completely without too much issue.

And don’t worry, I used the new effects from the blu-ray because they look so much nicer than the originals.

After making the arrival Vena a pre-title sequence (to make it consistent with the rest of Unbound season 22)

We open with the Doctor arriving on the planet (so that means the 1st 20 minutes of part 1 are gone because they are completely pointless to the narrative (and they featured Peri a lot in them, so getitng rid of them made my goal much easier), I came across the only shot which featured Peri in it I couldn’t get rid of, which is when The Doctor exits the Tardis. Fortunatly, it was a still shot, so a friend of mine replaced Peri in it with the Tardis interior.

Another benefit of getting rid of the 1st 20 minutes, was that I had plenty of shots of the Borad to use, so I could have him listening in to conversations or saying something (and since they hide his face prior to his confrontation with the Doctor, I didn’t have to worry about lip-syncing).

I followed the structure of the Whoflix edit for the most part, so that made it pretty easy to figure out what I should cut out. I did have to do some rearranging of the material to make it work without Peri, and added a few music cues from other 6th Doctor stories to add some atmosphere.

I also want to thank my friend for giving me a clean view of the Board’s screen so that I could get rid of the fake Borad (since he’s gone in this edit) and add footage from Revelation of the Daleks to help explain the Board’s new plan (since Peri was part of it originally). I also added a computer voice in a few parts to help make it more coherent.

The ending is the most different part. Since I couldn’t have the Doctor negoatiate with the Bandrills to stop the missle (since Peri is in it), now the Doctor says there isn’t time to negotiate with them and immediatly goes to the Tardis to stop them. I used a clip from the Sontaran Fix to show the Doctor piloting the Tardis and cruically, pushes the wrong button, which in this edit, causes his regeneration (because this allows the radiation from the missile to enter the Tardis, forcing the Doctor to regenerate).

The final scene is mostly various clips on the Tardis scanner while the 6th Doctor clone explains everything (along with a short clip of the Doctor at the Tardis controls from Mark of the Rani) before he collapses and regnerates (want to thank my friend again for editing the regneration, using a modified screenshot from Vengence on Varos and a publicity photo).

DM me if you want to see this. You can find the Barbara Benedetti films here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJZWk_PDnWo4p35aAa6Bb4MHoYBSeCqgM (which is Unboud season 23. I don’t feel the need to edit them at the moment, only the regneration at the end of the 4th film, which I have done at the start of Unbound season 24).

Yes, I’m already at work at the next season of this series, using a fan film Doctor who was in both 4:3 and 16:9 films. Not sure when they;ll be done, but hopefully sooner rather than later.

If there’s any fan films you would like to see me use, here’s the criteria they need to match:

-In 16:9 (and preferably HD)
-Doctor is a man (which is stated in the Unbound season 24 regeneration, which cuts off before we see it fully)
-Doctor is travelling alone at the start.
-the series has ended.
-the series isn’t connected to other DW fan films.
-has the Doctor regenerate at some point (and preferably companionless).
-at least 4 stories at 17 minutes minimum

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#1545773
Topic
Kill Bill Volume 3 (spoilers for 1 and 2)
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WARNING: If you clicked on this thread, I’m going to assume you have watched Kill Bill volume 1 and 2 and are aware of everything that happens in them. If you haven’t watched them, turn away now!

Anyway, it’s been confirmed that Tarintino’s last film will not be Kill Bill volume 3 and I wondered: would it be possible to edit together a volume 3 using other movies?

The plot would be that Nikki (the daugther at the start of volume 1) would seek revenge on the Bride and that she would have to hunt down multiple people to go find the Bride.

I’m just wondering, who should be the daughter and what footage is avalaible (and if it would be possible to edit together a fight scene with Uma Thurman).

And how should the Bride’s daughter be involved? I’m think that since Nikki is killing various bad guys to try and find the Bride, they will try to kill the Bride first, so the daughter will go kill the bad guys before they have an opprinuity to do so.

Let me know what you think.

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#1539688
Topic
Doctor Who - alternate 6th Doctor intro story
Time

The Twin Dilemma is considered 1 of the worst stories of the shows history and I wondered, how could it be made better? There was no point doing a proper fanfix because Whoflix had already done it, but there was something that I could do.

In the early 90’s, the infamous fan film production company known as BBV, made a series called the Stranger. The 1st 3 installments were about the Stranger and Miss Brown (played by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant) going about adventures in time and space. A.K.A. copyright-free 6th Doctor and Peri Brown.

Anyway, in the behind the scenes features, it’s mentioned that the writer was inspired by the twin dilemma and ‘what if the Doctor really did become a hermint?’

And since this is a fan-edit and I’m not making any money off of it, I don’t need to worry about copyright shenannigans, so, I decided to put them together.

1st thing I did was put a recap of the 5th doctor’s regenartion at the end of the previous story ‘Caves of Androzani’ and then combined all the early Tardis scenes from the Twin Dilemma (sometimes using simple cuts, and other times using footage of the Tardis travelling in time and space from other stories). The trickest section was when the Doctor presses the button to cause the Tardis to go crazy, so I used some footage from ‘Attack of the Cybermen’ to make it work.

The Doctor then exits the Tardis using footage from later in the story and then after a title screen transistion, we go to the Stranger (and yes, Peri has changed accents, nothing I can do about that).

The only real changes from then (apart from new opening and closing credits), is some effects a friend of mine did. There’s different footage on the Tardis scanner and there’s a few new effects.

It might not be a great story, but at least it’s a lot more bearable than the Twin Dilemma.

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#1539171
Topic
Doctor Who - alternate 6th Doctor intro story
Time

The Twin Dilemma is considered 1 of the worst stories of the shows history and I wondered, how could it be made better? There was no point doing a proper fanfix because Whoflix had already done it, but there was something that I could do.

In the early 90’s, the infamous fan film production company known as BBV, made a series called the Stranger. The 1st 3 installments were about the Stranger and Miss Brown (played by Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant) going about adventures in time and space. A.K.A. copyright-free 6th Doctor and Peri Brown.

Anyway, in the behind the scenes features, it’s mentioned that the writer was inspired by the twin dilemma and ‘what if the Doctor really did become a hermint?’

And since this is a fan-edit and I’m not making any money off of it, I don’t need to worry about copyright shenannigans, so, I decided to put them together.

1st thing I did was put a recap of the 5th doctor’s regenartion at the end of the previous story ‘Caves of Androzani’ and then combined all the early Tardis scenes from the Twin Dilemma (sometimes using simple cuts, and other times using footage of the Tardis travelling in time and space from other stories). The trickest section was when the Doctor presses the button to cause the Tardis to go crazy, so I used some footage from ‘Attack of the Cybermen’ to make it work.

The Doctor then exits the Tardis using footage from later in the story and then after a title screen transistion, we go to the Stranger (and yes, Peri has changed accents, nothing I can do about that).

The only real changes from then (apart from new opening and closing credits), is some effects a friend of mine did. There’s different footage on the Tardis scanner and there’s a few new effects.

It might not be a great story, but at least it’s a lot more bearable than the Twin Dilemma.

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#1459212
Topic
Red Dwarf Back to Earth: No Corrination Street edition (Released)
Time

Red Dwarf: Back To Earth was OK. But the main problem to me was the coronation street scene. I hate coronation street so I want to cut it out, along with some other stuff:

New opening titles to better match the classic show.

Replaced all the shots of Red Dwarf with shots from series X to maintain continiuty, and because they looked better.

Removed Lister annoying Rimmer because it’s more gross than funny, and to remove the terrible CGI scutter.

Trimmed the Dwarfers talking about the squid for pacing and to remove a jump cut.

Trimmed the squid attack to get rid of average CGI and Rimmer acting out-of-character.

Combined 2 scenes of Rimmer and Katerina Bartikovsky to remove scene that references a scene I cut out and to remove Rimmer to find some dirt on Katerina.

Trimmed pre-portal opening to remove Kryten reporting to Rimmer and combined 2 shots so that Kryten walks into frame (not perfect I know, but until I get Adywan skills, it will do).

Removed the jump cut in portal scene by slowing down the footage.

Removed elevator scene because it was pointless.

Trimmed DVD scene and inserted a Kryten voice-over from later so that they go straight to the shop, cutting out the bed scene and the Dwarfers getting money.

Heavily trimmed shop scene for pacing.

Cut out the bus scene completely and Katerina being killed.

Reversed shot of sign for better translation.

Trimmed scene with Swallow so that he now knows where the creator is.

Removed the entire Coronation Street becasue I hate Coronation Street. So Carbug goes straight to the creator’s Blade Runner place.

Various trims during scene with the Creator for pacing.

Trimmed Kochanski scene at the end for pacing.

2 versions of the closing theme to cover the credits from the director’s cut, to make it more interesting.

Edit is in SD (since I made it before I got a blu-ray drive, might do a HD upgrade someday, we’ll see). PM me if you want to watch.

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#1451781
Topic
Idea: The Expendables prequels
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I recently watched all 3 of the The Expendables films. I didn’t like 1 and 3, but loved 2. And I wondered, what if we expanded the franchise?

How?

Well, what if we took the films that the actors playing the main characters (both heroes and villains) and turned some of their standalone action films into prequels of their Expendables characters?

For example, We could use the many films of Chuck Norris to see how he became the unstoppable badass we see in Expendebles 2. use the Missing in Action trilogy to show him surriving various perils, and maybe use his earlier films to show him as a drifter that gets into all kinds of trouble before he’s recruited into the army, who have been following all his escapades.

I’m just spitballing ideas, but I think I’m onto something.

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#1419761
Topic
The Breakfast Club: No Cringe edition (VFX help needed)
Time

The Breakfast Club is quintesenntial 80’s teen movie, but there are aspects that have aged pooly. So far, I’ve cut 11 minutes and I’m ready to ask for some help.

I’ve never liked Allison’s transformation and only recently, I thought of using rotoscoping to remove it entirely. I’ve cut down the shots that need to be reotoscoped down to 2. If anyone is interested in helping me, please let me know (and some other VFX work is needed as well).

As for the cuts, here they are:

1: Claire no longer interrupts Vernon while he’s talking about the rules of detention (used a shot of Andrew shaking his head from slightly later in the scene to cover the transition).

2: Trimmed Vernon telling Claire there will be no talking.

3: Brian no longer stands up and sits back down again (used shot of Claire I cut out from cut 2 to cover the transition).

4: Bender no longer insults Vernon’s clothes (I have never heard of the guy Bender compares his clothes to anyway).

5: Trimmed Allison biting her fingernails and the Club’s response to it.

6: Vernon no longer leans back telling the Club to be quiet.

7: Bender and Brian look at each other for longer.

8: Bender no longer pretends to go to the toilet in the room, (now Andrew gets annoyed at him because he’s making annoying noises).

9: Cut out a close-up of Bender (as his face and head position changes in-between shots).

10: Trimmed Bender telling Claire she couldn’t ignore him if she tried (used a close-up of Allison from later to cover the transition).

11: Bender no longer suggests they impregnate Claire (used a close-up of Allison from later to cover the transition, now Claire and Andrew get pissed off because Bender suggests they are lovers).

12: The characters look at each other for less longer after Vernon tells them to shut up (used a shot of Claire I cut out from cut 10 to cover the transition.

13: Trimmed Andrew telling Bender nobody would miss him so now Bender interrupts him earlier.
14: Bender doesn’t ask Brian to repeat the fact he’s in the physics club.

15: Bender asks Brain quicker what happens in the physics club.

16: Brian responds quicker to Bender insinuating the physics club has sex.

17: Andrew no longer uses a gay slur (used a shot of Brian from earlier to cover the transistion).

18: Brian responds to the tights comments quicker.

19: Trimmed club saying they have no idea what happened to the screw.

20: Vernon no longer threatens to beat up Bender to get the screw.

21: Fixed continuity error of the chair changing positions between shots by simply having Vernon grab the chair off-screen.

22: Trimmed Vernon giving Bender extra detentions to remove the reference to cut 4 and having the music fade-out earlier to reflect the anti-climatic end to Bender and Vernon’s argument.

23: Vernon stares at Bender for less longer.

24: Removed Bender whispering ‘fuck’.

25: Trimmed Bender and Andrew talk about language.

26: Trimmed party talk (moved a shot of Bender to cover the transition).

27: Trimmed Bender asking Claire which of her parents she likes more.

28: Trimmed Bender asking Andrew if he gets along with his parents.

29: Trimmed Bender and Claire’s talk so now he’s less harassing her and more like he’s making her realise how much she’s missing out by being a virgin.

30: Andrew gets up sooner after telling Bender to leave Claire alone.

31: Fixed continuity error of the knife changing positions between shots by trimming the knife stab into the chair.

32: Trimmed argument between Bender and Andrew.

33: Vernon picks Allison to accompany Andrew quicker.

34: Trimmed conversation between Andrew and Allison.

35: Trimmed conversation between Bender, Claire and Andrew.

36: Trimmed talk between Bender and Claire about sushi.

37: Fixed continuity error of Claire’s arm moving between shots by having Andrew get out all his food during their conversation.

38: Cut out a shot of Allison to fix continuity error of having captain crunch just appear in-between shots. Now the sound suggests that she got them out of her bag.

39: Bender no longer sits back down, only to get up again, while impersonating Brian’s (and then his own) parents.

40: Bender no longer put his face in between Claire’s legs (with some rearranging of the material).

41: Trimmed Carl blackmailing Vernon.

42: Trimmed Bender and Claire questioning each other.

43: Used a shot of Allison from earlier to cover up a continuity error.

44: Trimmed shot of Allison for cut 43.

45: Trimmed conversation between Carl and Vernon.

46: Trimmed group therapy session.

47: Zoomed in on a shot of Claire to fix a continuity error.

48: Trimmed Club chastising Bender.

49: Trimmed Club talking about parents.

50: Trimmed Club talking about Monday.

51: Allison no longer gets a makeover, and all shots of her are either removed, or altered.

52: Trimmed Bender and Claire in the closet.

51: Got rid of Carl goodbye.

I do have somebody making the deleted scenes look less terrible for a special workprint edit I’m planning, so there’s that. I do plan having a deleted scene in this edit.

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#1418038
Topic
Now You See Me: Hybrid Cut (Released)
Time

Now You See Me is a great movie. It’s very tightly written and is very smart and logical. When I saw that there were 2 cuts and half an hour of deleted scenes, I decided to create a hybrid cut. Here’s a list:

-Used theatrical cut for the opening as I thought the title cards from the extended cut were unessecery (although I did use a different line from Merritt from the extended cut to fix a continuity error. Also trimmed Merritt scene to fix contiunity error.

-Used a zoomed in and reversed shot of Merritt to fix a contnuity error in the apartment scene.

-Used a trimmed version of Alma’s introduction from the extended cut.

-Used Bradley’s introduction from the theatrical cut because it was easier to follow dialouge-wise.

-Trimmed the interagtion scenes (and zoomed-in when the cuffs fly off Atlas).

-Trimmed scene when the Horsemen steal Tressler’s money.

-Trimmed and zoomed in on parts of Dylan/Alma’s make-up conversation.

-Cut out all images of young Dylan and his father.

-Used flashback opening from the sequel near the end.

-Used a deleted scene as a post-credits scene.

P.S. I posted this on Reddit a while back and decided to share it so more fans of Now You See Me could watch it.

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#1382017
Topic
SALT: The Hybrid Closure Cut (spoilers) (Released)
Time

SALT is a 2010 film directed by Phillip Noyce. It’s a pretty standard spy movie, except for 1 thing: there’s 3 cuts: The theatrical cut, the extended cut and the director’s cut. I’ll go over the differences quickly.

Theatrical: Pretty light on the violence, boyfriend is killed by being shot, Orlov is killed on the boat, the president stays alive and Salt escapes from a helicopter to set-up a sequel.

Director’s: Heavier on the violence, boyfirend is killed by drowning, Orlov is killed on the boat, the president is killed, and Salt escapes from a helicopter to set-up a sequel, while a voice-over implies the new-president is a Russian sleeper agent. There’s also a few light scene extensions and more flashbacks.

Extended: Same as Director’s except Orlov does not die on the boat, instead, Salt escapes from a hospital rather than a helicopter, goes to where she was trained as a child, kills Orlov there and blows up the building, meaning their’s no sequel set-up.

From my reaserch, the extended cut was the original before they did reshoots to set-up a sequel. But it’s 10 years and it looks like that isn’t happening, so I want to avoid the sequel tease.

My version (The Hybrid Closure Cut), starts of with theatrical and stays with it until Salt kills Orlov. This is because I didn’t think much of the scene extensions and new flashbacks (with the exception of Salt saying she needed a pee, as it explains how she gets out of the intergation room).

When Salt kills Orlov, we switch to director’s cut because of the extra violence (even if it meant having to replace a shot of the boyfriend being drowned with the one of him dead on the floor for pacing reasons) and stay with it until we get to the point of Ted pointing the gun at the president.

At this point, we switch back to theatrical beccause it means the president only gets knocked out (and make the sequel set-up less likey, because the president could prove that Ted was a bad guy and clear Salt’s name). That and I couldn’t be bothered to switch between the different cuts to keep the president alive and include the extra violence (which was about an extra second so it wasn’t worth it.

Once the theatrical cut ends, we switch to the Extended ending before the theatrical credits roll with a simple fade and we include the establishing shot of the school and the children being trained in it, before cutting to the school exploding (since I couldn’t include the stuff with Orlov because he was killed on the boat because it would be easier for Salt to get her name cleared and avoid a sequel set-up) and credits.

It also brings the runtime to 1 hour, 40 minutes and 47 seconds, 47 seconds longer than theatrical, 17 seconds shorter than extended and 4 minutes shorter than director’s cut.

That and if I ever need a sequence of Angelina Jolie killing while dressed as a nun, and escaping from a hospital/interragtion, that will be useful.

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#1349508
Topic
The X-Files Mythology collection (Released)
Time

Making The X-Files Mythology more consistent. Episodes done so far:

Requiem
-New pre-titles sequence
-Cut scenes of the 2 teenagers.
-Trimmed a few dialogue scenes.
-The abduction scenes now happens off-screen, so it’s a surprise as to who the abductor is.
-Got rid of most of the fade-to-blacks.
-Added a neck snap for when #spoiler# dies, just to make their death more definitive.
-Added a post-credits scene.
Runtime: 39 minutes.

Gethsemane and Redux 1 and 2.
-Trimmed dialogue scenes.
-Rearranged Redux 2 so it makes more sense and it allowed me to get rid of the fake Samantha.
-Got rid of most of the fade-to-blacks.
-Cut out a few scenes that don’t have Mulder or Scully in them.
-Trimmed CSM’s supposed death so that his survival is more believable.
-Cut out most of Bill Scully JR because he’s such an unlikeable character.
Runtime: 97 minutes.

Red Museum
-Get rid of pre-credits scene.
-Get rid of alot of things.
Runtime: 29 minutes.

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#1349506
Topic
The X-Files: Final cases (Released)
Time

WitchDR said:

bob79519 said:

WitchDR said:

Any update on this?

Yeah, I’ll have a full cut/change list soon!

Awesome! Can’t wait!

Finished, here’s the changes (most of which have been for pacing unless specified elsewhere):

Movie 1: Lost (Within, Without, Via Negative and Per Manum).

-WITHIN

-Removed pre-title sequence to use in edit of ‘Requiem’
-Trimmed conversation with Kersh
-Trimmed first meeting with Doggett to remove anti-Mulder and Scully talk.
-Got rid of as many fade-to-blacks as possible.
-Get rid of Doggett confronting Scully in Mulder’s apartment, the thing with Mulder’s pass card, the thing with the gravestone, the retcon brain disease and the whole scene of Scully, Skinner and Doggett arguing over how far Mulder
would go, along with Skinner’s flashback.
-Cut out Doggett mentioning missing files and incorrect dates.
-Cut Scully dreaming about Mulder being tortured in car.

-WITHOUT

-Cut out pre-title sequence for because it ruined suspense.
-Zoomed in to remove on-screen credits in most edits.
–Reverse footage of downwards pan of cliff so that when Skinner looks at it and comments on it, it looks like a POV shot, and it reduces amount of zooming in required.
-Trim Scully telling Doggett that what he thought was Mulder, was actually an alien bounty hunter, to reduce amount of zooming in required.
-Trim phone conversation between Kersh and Doggett.
-Removed scenes of the alien bounty hunter to keep the audience guessing who the alien bounty hunter is.
-Adding establishing shot of FBI from another episode with a ‘48 hours later’ to help audience keep track of time. Time stamps added throughout the movies to keep audience to keep track of time and avoid issue of 'Scully being pregnant for a year. The new timeline is this:

-May 2000: Scully gets pregnant after having sex with Mulder in All Things.
-July 2000: Mulder goes missing.
-October 2000: Mulder is found dead.
-January 2001: Mulder comes back to life.
-February 2001: Scully gives birth.

-Adding establishing shot of FBI from another episode with a ‘2 weeks later’ timestamp to give time for Scully and Skinner to be released from hospital.
-Use part of a scene from ‘Patience’ for transition purposes.

VIA NEGATIVE

-Trim conversation between Doggett and Skinner on the dead cult members.
-Trim first scene in Kersh’s office.
-got rid of first scene with homeless man, drug dealer making drugs and scene where Skinner and Doggett establish the murder weapon.
-Trim second scene in Kersh’s office.
-Insert pre-title sequence from Nothing Important Happened Today 2, with establishing shot of FBI building and footage from ‘Release’ for transition purposes.

PER MANUM
-Got rid of pre-title sequence because it gives away the plot a bit too much.
-Trimmed first office scene with Duffy.
-Trimmed first flashback.
-Got rid of Scully being caught in lift by Doggett.
-Trim Doggett confronting Scully.
-Trimmed second office scene with Duffy.
-Cut out entire scene of Scully and Skinner lying to Doggett.
-Trim scene of Doggett seeing Skinner.

New post-credits scene.

Movie 2: Found (This is Not Happening, DeadAlive and Three Words).

This is Not Happening
-Got rid of pre-credits sequence.
-Trimmed Scully and Doggett talking.
-Trim scene with Gary.
-Cut out Jeremiah Smith showing up at the hospital and disgusting himself as the Doctor.
-Trim first encounter with Monica Reyes.
-got rid of Jeremiah Smith healing Teresa.
-Trim scene of Scully and Monica talking about feelings.
-Got rid of Scully seeing a vision of Mulder.
-Trim interrogation.
-Used footage from Release, Patience and Providence to transisiton to the funeral.

DEADALIVE

-Get rid of Kersh offering Doggett a promotion, and Scully and Doggett talking in the X-Files office.
-Trim car scene between Doggett and Skinner.
-Trim Doggett not letting Scully see Mulder.
-Trim first office scene between Kersh and Doggett to remove reference to cut job offering scene.
-Trim first encounter between Skinner and Krycek.
-Trim Scully arguing with Doggett.
-Trim Scully and Doggett arguing again.
-Trimmed encounter between Kryek and Doggett encounter.
-Used footage from Providence for transition purposes (along with 2 weeks later timestamp).

THREE WORDS

-Get rid of everything from the pre-title sequence to Mulder and Scully going to Mulder’s apartment, so now the first piece of footage from the episode is an exterior shot of the prison.
-Trim Kersh office scene to remove references to Mulder’s home.
-Cut scene of Skinner, Mulder and Scully in Mulder’s apartment.
-Inserted footage from ‘Sixth Extinction 2: Amor Fath’ to cover-up fade-to-black.
-Trim office scene between Mulder, Scully and Skinner.
-Get rid of Lone Gunmen questioning who the baby’s father is.
-Trim scene between Mulder, Scully and the Lone Gunmen.
-Used scenes from ‘Nothing Important Happened Today 2’ to cover-up fade to black.

New post-credits scene.

Movie 3: The End of The End (Empedocles, Vienen, Essence and Existence).
EDITS FOR: Empedocles.
-Cut pre-title sequence
-Add tagline from The End.
-Remove jealous pizza man routine, so with an establishing shot of Scully’s apartment, the pizza man just shows up.
-MAYBE get rid of scene of killer failing to commit suicide.
-Trim Mulder and Reyes meeting and get rid of fade to black.
-Remove Doggett visiting Scully the first time.
-Trim Reyes visiting Mulder.
-Add scene from Release of Doggett visiting his ex-wife.
-trim Monica visiting killer’s wife.
-remove killer arriving home.
-Get rid of pizza man reference.
-Use footage from ‘Nothing Important Happened Today 2’ and ‘Release’.

Edits for: Vienen;
-Get rid of pre-title sequence.
-Remove Mulder getting mad at Kersh for wanting to send Scully to the oil rig (he should be smart enough to figure out that’s not the case).
-Get rid of shot of Taylor being infected with the black oil after Mulder and Doggett leave him.
-Get rid of Taylor murdering communication transmission.
-Get rid of Scully being surprised that Mulder is on the rig.
-Get rid of Mulder telling Scully to tell their child that they went down swinging.
-Trim Mulder and Doggett arguing.
-Get rid of scene of Kersh threatening Scully and Skinner.
-Add shot of Washington D.C. from The Truth.
-Cut to first scene of Jump the Shark, but re-edited so that Morris Fletcher is killed (with a Wilhelm Scream sound effect to prove this).
-Cut to trimmed version of the first scene of Alone, where Scully goes on maternity leave.

Edits for: Essence;
-Get rid of pre-title sequence.
-Get rid of baby shower, Lizzy in the toilet and Billy Miles killing scientist.
-Trim Mulder at Doggett’s house.
-Get rid of Lizzy leaving Scully’s apartment.
-Get rid of Billy Miles visiting Doctor Parenti.
-Get rid of Scully in shower.
-Get rid of Lizzy calling guy Duffy.
-Trim Skinner asking Mulder who the father is.
-Delay revelation that Crane is a super-soldier.

Edits for: Existence;
-Get rid of Scully and Monica in the car.
-Trim discussion between Krycek, Doggett, Mulder and Skinner.
-Get rid of fade to black after Skinner is injured.
-Trim discussion between Mulder and Doggett about super soldiers.
-Trim Mulder and Doggett talking about the future in the car.
-After screen fades to black, re-edit audio from Chinga, so that Mulder proposes marriage to Scully, and she says yes.

New post-credits sequence to resolve the story.

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Danacky said:

Looking forward to seeing these

Here are some preview clips (ignore colours on the first clip, I was having some rendering issues that I have fixed since) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyZ1jtgQYPI&list=PLJZWk_PDnWo67WEQD4NQt_27BO8kBFw8f&index=7&t=0s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkVZPiz89Dg&list=PLJZWk_PDnWo67WEQD4NQt_27BO8kBFw8f&index=9&t=0s

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Let me tell you a story: last year, I got Amazon Prime and watched the X-Files. I loved it: from the atmosphere, to the story, to the amazing characters I loved it all. But then I got to season 9, and I started to not like it. The plots were stupid, the writing was terrible, the mythology episodes became boring, and the finale was one of the worst I have ever seen. Then I was almost bored to death with I Want to Believe, season 10 would have been a complete disaster had it not been for the Darin Morgan episode, and while season 11 was a bit better, the mythology was worse then ever and the finale was awful.

Afterwards, I retreaded into the world of fanfiction. And while I read some amazing X-Files fics, I wondered: what if the X-Files ever got the grand finale it deserved? So, as my opinions above indicate, I think season 8 is the last good season, so that would have to be the final one.

Now, I actually really like the X-Files season 8. The mythology has been the best it was since season 5, and the episodes were pretty good and there was a sense of direction (unlike the second half of season 7). I think people tend to hate the season just because Mulder is absent for half of it, which is kind of understandable, but still. However, there’s still problems. There is some stupid reveles (like Mulder’s retcon brain disease, or John Doggett’s skepticalness not really making sense after a certain point), the reveal of who the father of Scully’s baby is increadly obvious and it takes a bit too long for Mulder to show back up.

So, the intentions of my edit is this:
1: Get rid of as much stupid stuff as possible.
2: Give as much closure as possible.
3: Make the events of season 9 and beyond impossible.

I will not be doing these:
1: Include the Gift. I know it’s a mythology episode, but it relies on the retcon brain disease, which I’m getting rid of, so I can’t use it. Plus, cutting Doggett dying and coming back to life makes him being a skeptic more believable.
2: Include most of the stand-alone episodes. Most of them are pointless anyway, and just delay Mulder coming back.
3: Include footage from the revival. Not only is it completely devoid of atmosphere, but it also looks increadly different to the rest of the series. Plus, I’m not going to waste money on 2 terrible seasons of TV, just for a few seconds of footage.

Now, season 8 is going to be split up into 3 movies: Lost, Found and the end of the end.

Lost:
-this will be comprised of Within, Without, Via Negativa and Per Manum. It will be less than 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Found:
-this will be comprised of This is Not Happening, DeadAlive and Three Words. It will be under 2 hours.

The end of the end:
-this will be comprised of Empedocles, Vinen, Essence and Existence. It will probably be over 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Now I will be using footage from other episodes and there will be some unpredictable stuff in here.