[/URL]Hi guys new to the forum but big big fan of fan edits and after several weeks of editing and sound blending, colour correction, scene blends and sound level correction my fan edit of superman 2 is finished, and from a fans point of view I’am very happy with it, to go into detail regarding all of the cuts, trims and corrections would take me for ever, but I will give a very brief take for you.
Please bear in mind a lot of these scenes have being re’edited in an order I felt better suited the pace of the film.
used the original opening of superman the movie with Brando, didn’t like the alternate takes in the Donner cut.
Kept the Paris stuff of Lester including his bomb exploding in space, hated the ropey effects of the Donner cut.
The release of the villians from the phantom zone is a mix of Donner footage and Lester footage but with sound of the Lester score but including Zods scream of free upon the explosion.
Edits to the space centre scenes Donner & Lester.
kept the scene of Clark kent crossing the road and crushing the taxi from Lester footage but this was tricky edited out Lois Lane in this sequence with lots of minor edits and sound alteration and one optical reframing of a scene, liked this scene but Lois was wearing different clothes for the scene that was to follow so she had to go.
Next was the Donner footage of Lois jumping out of the Window edited this scene to make it look like Perry White is thanking her for a good job in Paris, was a minor edit to the lasers coming from Kents eyes.
More use of Donner footage in Prison.
Mix of Donner edits and Lester edits at Niagra Falls.with no Test scenes of Reeves and Kidder would of being nice if they had filmed if correctly but hate the test screen feel to it and the hair styles so kept Lesters reveal.
This one became a major pain for me to correct and edit due to the poor condition of the deleted footage and different music score but did it, a mix of Donner,Lester and Donner deleted footage of Lex & Teschmacher getting to the Fortress of Solitude with colour correction, picture sharpning, music blends and footage edits.
My next edit may be liked or not but but I felt it worked better due to some bad effects of the Donner cut, kept the first part of the full body scenes of Brando in the Fortress but hated the floating head of him so some major edits of Susannah York being introduced with the second crystal but with a mixture of scenes and sound lines from both the Donner cut and the Lester Cut with the villans still being seen in this sequence.
Deleted foootage again, with again attempted clean up and colour correction of Lex and Teschmacher leaving the Fortress.
major section of Lester footage with the Villans arriving on earth and causing mahem, didn’t like Donners hatchet job of these scenes.
Mix of Donner and Lester stuff at the Fortress with Kent and Lois with all the Brando stuff intact.
White House all Donner Scenes.
At the Daily Planet a mix of Donner and Lester stuff with the villans.
Deleted footage of the villans gaining entry to the fortress blended with first the Lester footage then a switch to the Donner stuff.
No artic police deleted scene didn’t like the police taking the villans away but the destruction of the fortress is there with a minor edit.
Next the Lester stuff with the Kiss not the world spin of Donner, ok in the first film but not again.
Deleted footage of Kent remembering the guy in the dinner, sound and colour corrected with Lex escaping from Prison again think this works very well and leaves it open ended its also fun.
And finnished off with the original Lester ending.
After all that I’m very happy with it from a fans point of view, would love to share my vision with fans but not in a position to know how to do that, but can maybe share a few DVDs with Fans no charge just cover postage and blank dvd costs, its NTSC region o no menu as its taken me weeks to edit the movie without starting on menu screens, but 36 chapters. just drop me a line and please let me know what you think.