iridium_ionizer said:
jrWHAG42 said:
So now that this edit is getting an official release...
Anyone have some future predictions as to when fanediting goes from grey area to full-blown corporate business model? Considering how easy it would be for studios to monetize multiple versions and host them for digital distribution, I think it's soon. 20 years.
What do you think?
You mean as a standard practice or just sometimes? If you mean sometimes, we're already there. As a standard, I think it'll come in waves, similar to how some directors who have only wanted to shoot on film are finally trying out digital (Tarantino in Sin City, albeit only one scene, and Coen Bros in Ballad of Buster Scruggs). I think some editors and directors will remain real sticklers about one cut being the definitive version and wanting no alternative cuts, but some will likely jump on board and not care at all.
I think the biggest hurdle is probably whether the potential audience will be confused or overwhelmed by choice, so the presentation would have to be well thought and well-marketed. Blade Runner would be my example there. I think most movie goers don't know or care what the Directors Cut or Final Cut or European Cut are or what's different about them.
Even then, officially released fanedits are always going to be more along the lines of basic scene removals and scene extentions, maybe rescores. You're not going to see tv to movie edits, combination edits of multiple films, anything with new effects or new scenes created just for the edit, the higher concept stuff. Simply because of the legal issues that would have to be resolved for something like that to be sold.