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Original Film Name : Alien 3: Special Edition
New Film Name : Alien 2: Q2 Edition
Film Studio Name : 20th Century Fox
Date Original Film Was Released : 1992
Date Edit Was Released : February 2011
Original Runtime : 145 min.
New Runtime : 113 min.
Amount of time Cut/Added : 37 min. cut/5 min. added
Fanedit details:
Intention (why did you do it): I originally set out to just streamline Alien 3, but during the process someone requested a version that asked the question "What if Aliens never existed?" That person also made the comment that it should be "fairly simple, just cut some footage here and there." The idea sounded interesting so I thought figured what the hell.
Cuts removed/added/extended (add list of what was changed):
Too many to list them all, but here are the biggies:
- replaced 20th Century Fox logo
- cut the alien being introduced during the credits (credits had to be reconstructed from scratch) (Special Thanks to ThrowgnCpr and Zeppelinrox for pin-pointing the font and its settings)
- reorganized and trimmed the opening
- cut all scenes with Andrews in contact with the Company
- cut all references to Hicks, Newt, Bishop and events from Aliens (including, but not limited to, the autopsy, the funeral, etc.)
- replaced the special edition ox scene with that of the dog from the theatrical cut
- cut Ripley waking next to Clemens (I always disliked this and felt it was forced)
- tweaked scene where Ripley scans herself for the alien (the alien isn't revealed right away)
- cut Ripley's dialog "It must have... violated me..." when talking to Dillon
- cut Ripley screaming "NOOOO!!!" when Clemen's stays behind (I mean really... have you ever seen someone screaming "NOOOO!!!" to the heavens? Have you ever done it yourself? I thought not.)
- replaced Ripley jumping with the one from the theatrical cut
- many, many little cuts throughout to trim scenes, cut dialog and just speed things up a little
Tech Info:
Hardware and software information (what did you use to create your fanedit): Core i7 2.66GHz, 6GB RAM, Adobe Premiere CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, multiAVCHD, VirtualDub, Audacity, Ripbot264, tsDemuxer
Release details (describe available version(s)):
DVD: DVD-SL @ 3900Kbps, Dolby Digital 5.1, Chapters
AVCHD: 720p DVD-DL @ 8900Kbps, Dolby Digital 5.1, Chapters
xVid: 720x405 @ 1800Kbps