- Post
- #1657167
- Topic
- Loki: The Pruned Cut - TV to Movie Edit of Season 1
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1657167/action/topic#1657167
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I’ve been wanting film versions of all the MCU Disney Plus series for a while now, so I thought I’d start making my own. Loki was one of my favorite series of the bunch, so I’m starting there. The goal is to make a feature film that feels like it could have been released in the theater alongside other MCU films. My rough cut is sitting at 154 minutes with credits - I’d like to get below 150, though.
Broad changelist:
Episode 1
- Removed log of everything Loki’s ever said
- Removed temporal aura machine
- Removed Mobius cathedral introduction
- Trimmed Loki’s trial
- Removed Loki and Mobius walking to elevator
- Various trims to Mobius and Loki’s convo
- Removed Loki escaping, he now stays in the room and watches his reel while Mobius steps out. If anyone is skilled at VFX and would like to try removing Mobius’s baton in this scene that would be great.
- Removed 1850s Oklahoma attack
Episode 2
- Replaced Oklahoma attack with Renaissance fair attack
- Removed all indication that this is set in the 1980s, including rescoring fight from I Need a Hero to a track from the score
- Cut from Loki getting his jacket to Mobius taking Loki to look at documents
- Cut Loki talking to librarian
- Trimmed Loki’s salt and pepper metaphor
- Cut from Pompeii to Mobius and Loki retrieving Kablooie wrapper
- Cut from Loki finding the hurricane disaster to them arriving in Alabama
- Cut B15 and Mobius bickering about who takes Loki
Episode 3
- Cut from Loki entering portal to him exiting on other side
- Cut C20 dinner scene
- After Loki and Sylvie leave for the town, cut to Mobius and Renslayer scene from opening of episode 4
- Cut the Lamentis town and go straight to the scene where Sylvie tells Loki that everyone at the TVA is a variant.
- Trimmed slightly since it’s coming earlier in their relationship development
- From here, Sylvie and Loki go to the train - removed Loki and Sylvie approaching
- Cut Loki asking about enchantment since Sylvie already told him
- Cut mention of couple from Lamentis town
- Trimmed Loki singing
- Cut all mention of the ark - after the tempad breaks and Sylvie screams/walks away, cut straight to scene in episode 4 until they get saved
Episode 4
- Cut Sylvie flashback
- Cut third Sif kick
- Cut Mobius and B15 scene
- Cut Loki’s speech to Sif
- Trimmed Loki’s interrogation
- Cut scene where Renslayer goes to retrieve Sylvie
Episode 5
- Follow Loki in the void until they reach the bunker
- Cut to Sylvie, trimmed and combined both of her scenes
- Cut Classic Loki’s backstory
- Cut everything with Sylvie and Mobius until they meet up with Loki
- Cut Renslayer and B15 scene
- Trimmed Loki and Sylvie’s chat
Episode 6
- Cut Miss Minutes in the castle and her scene with Renslayer
- Cut from He Who Remains showing the time logs to Mobius confronting Renslayer
- Combined both Mobius/Renslayer scenes, cut scene where B15 finds her variant
- Cut HWR realizing that he no longer knows what is going to happen. Now he lets Sylvie kill him willingly because he’s tired of running the TVA
- Trimmed some of the HWR fluff - he repeats a lot of exposition here
- Trimmed some of the fight between Loki and Sylvie
- Cut “Loki will return for season 2” since this is a movie now
If there are any other suggestions of what more to cut I’m open to ideas. I also admittedly have not watched season 2 yet, so if anything is cut that is important to the next season that would be helpful to know too. I’m working on audio now so this should be ready soon.