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James Bond 007 - Never Say Never Again - 40th Anniversary EON Cut

ccateni said:
Which software in Runway? There only seem to be a photo object removal, but not a video one.
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Sign on to their website and there are multiple features you can use. You have to upload video first in order to use the features.
 
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Rocky 3 has the logo intact on its HD release and even the recent 4k has the logo intact if you want to use it from there.

As for the length, you could always slow down or speed up the footage to fit the music if you don't have anything to add. I did this with No Time To Die's opening to fit the song replacement.

Other than that, its looking good so far.
 
UPDATE: The video editing is complete. I'm halfway done and only have the audio left to finish. I've abandoned the White House sequence entirely, couldn't make it blend with the rest of the film unfortunately.
 
UPDATE: The edit is now 90% complete. Just finishing syncing up the remainder of the new SFX and Music tracks for the final render. I'm hoping to have it out by late September.

VFX CHANGES

  • Burnt-in titles have been removed with AI.
  • New Main Title Sequence.
  • Added Muzzle Flashes to Bond's Machine Gun during the PTS.
  • New Colour grading to the Cruise Missile POV for a more computer-like rendering
  • Added new shot of Bond firing his pistol at Fatima from the Balcony.
  • New End Credit Sequence with Union Jack waving in the background.

NEW/EXTENDED SEQUENCES

  • Extended Pre Title-Sequence. Jet flies over and Bond parachutes near the location.
  • New footage of Jack trying hit the brakes when Fatima chucks the snake in his car. Car screeches off course before crashing.
  • New footage of the Cruise Missiles crashing into the sea
  • Added footage of a Jet Fighter flying over Palmyra fortress and bombing the fortress instead of being shelled by the Submarine.
  • New Sequence of White House exterior, cut to a close up of bomb counter before ending on a close up of the ‘Oval Office’ floor.
  • Added footage for extended shots of the Tears of Allah caving in and being destroyed by subsequent explosions.
Footage sourced from Bat 21 (1988), The Appointment (1981), Firefox (1982), Iron Eagle (1986), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) Hunters of the Golden Cobra (1982) and Juggernaut (1974).


AUDIO CHANGES

  • Main Title Sequence with different theme song, 'Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang'.
  • Michel Legrand's score has been 100% removed and replaced with John Barry soundtrack cues from 'Thunderball'(1965), 'The James Bond Suite'(1972), 'Raise the Titanic'(1980), 'The Golden Child'(1986), 'The Specialist'(1994), 'Star Crash'(1978) and 'Deadfall'(1968).
  • Dialogue track has been EQ'd for more clarity and gained up in the audio mix.
  • Enhanced SFX has been added to key action sequences.
  • 'Psycho Killer' by Talking Heads plays on Fatima's radio when she disposes of Jack.
  • 'Never Say Never' by Romeo Void plays in the background when Domino dances with her trainer and plays again when Largo spies on Bond and Domino talking.
  • New Stereo Mix of the original 1962 James Bond Theme from Dr. No added to End Credits.
  • New End Credits Theme, 'The Best Man in The World' from 'The Golden Child'.

CUT LIST

  • New Establishing shot of Bank sign from The Bourne Identity (1988)
  • Similar truncated edit of Spectre HQ meeting like the NSMcA fanedit.
  • Added Establishing shot of MI6 from A View to A Kill (1985).
  • Truncated M watching the video playback of Bond's Wargames Assignment. M doesn't wince before Bond gets stabbed.
  • Cut Bond's line, "Not too shabby, sir.
  • Cut M's line, 'You're dead, 007. Dead!'.
  • The M scene ends with Bond saying, 'Then I shall cut out the white bread, sir'. The rest of the scene is superfluous as it's better to show Bond going to the Health Clinic as it soon becomes obvious why he’s there in later scenes. It plays better for humourous effect with Bond coming across as somewhat insubordinate to the new M.
  • Cut Moneypenny's reaction after Bond's line, 'I'm to eliminate all free radicals'. We jump cut to Shrublands.
  • Cut Patricia's line, 'Mine'.

  • When Bond is in his room, we now see the contents of his secret briefcase of fancy food and drink before Pat arrives.
  • Cut after Bond opens the door, Pat says, 'I thought I might surprise you, James'. It's better to imply that Pat has come to Bond's room to spend the night with him rather than the farce exchange that followed in the original.
  • Cut Bond awkwardly standing outside Jack's room when the blind rolls up and reveals Bond at the window. Bond slides away faster this time.
  • Changed the colour grading of Fatima's Night vision goggles to reflect a blue tint.
  • Cut Bond exchange with doctor.
  • Cut Bond investigating Jack's room and picking up the matches with Largo's insignia. As Bond sees the same insignia on a bag from the night before, we learn nothing new here.
  • Similar to the NSMcA fanedit, Count Lippe doesn't choke the janitor or throw him around later thinking it's Bond.

  • Add close up of Bond before he kicks Count Lippe's face, correcting the bad jump cut.
  • Some minor trims throughout the Bond/Count Lippe fight to speed up the sequence.
  • Bond doesn't awkwardly wait for Count Lippe to run down the stairs.
  • The Chef leaves the kitchen immediately when Bond is thrown through the window and doesn’t stand around awkwardly watching the fight.
  • Cut lines from Bond and M exchange, 'A man did try to kill me, sir'...'Oooh, caught you seducing his wife, did he? ‘...’No, sir, not at all' etc
  • After M's rant about the damage to Shrublands, Bond just replies with, 'But in fact, I lost four pounds and God knows how many free radicals'. Plays better to end scene with joke. Jump cut to Swadley Air Base.
  • Minor trims to Jack in the computer terminal sequence.
  • Minor trim with the warheads being loaded onto the plane.

  • Cut Fatima pointing at the road to distract Jack, Fatima just throws the snake at Jack.
  • Cut Fatima planting a bomb and detonating it. It makes no sense. There's no mention of a bomb (Realistically, ballistics would discover this). It's referenced later that Jack was killed in a car crash, no mention of a planted bomb. So… no bomb.
  • Cut Scene with Henchman and Kovacs. Kovacs' dialogue is badly dubbed and not the actor's actual voice. Plus, it's unnecessary exposition about the Missiles coming.
  • Minor trims to Missiles flying over, cut shot of Missiles flying over the beach and the kids not reacting. (Stupid, so stupid).
  • Cut ‘out of focus’ shot at Swadley Air Base as the Cruise Missiles go off trajectory.
  • Truncated General Assembly meeting with Blofeld’s demands. The sequence ends with shot of Blofeld’s skull camera retracting back and closing after he says, ‘revenge…’. The rest of the sequence is cut out. Too many histrionics from the delegates and Air Force General. Overall, bad dialogue and unnecessary exposition about reinstating the Double-O section at the end too.

  • Added footage from Firefox (1982) for Establishing shot of London before we cut to James at the Computer researching Largo.
  • Similar edit to the NSMcA fanedit with the M briefing scene taking place before Largo returns to his yacht.
  • Largo and Domino scene ends with Largo’s line, ‘Then I’d cut your throat…’ and he leaves the room. Cut Domino’s reaction because she doesn’t come across as disturbed.
  • New establishing shot of MI6 from Licence To Kill (1989) leading up to the Q scene.
  • Bond doesn’t meet Nigel in the Bahamas (exposition we don’t need and bad humour we can do without). Instead, we go from Bond meeting the lady at the dock scene to Bond inquiring about Largo’s yacht at the bar.
  • Minor trims to Fatima waterskiing.
  • After Bond and Fatima kiss, jump cut to them diving into the ocean. Like the NSMcA fanedit, no tacky sex scene.

  • Minor cuts made to speed up underwater shark attack sequence. One moment was slightly edited to remove a bad jump cut.
  • When Bond is rescued by the lady he met at the dock from earlier. No dialogue. She just reacts by looking aroused. Plays better by not repeating the same joke from earlier.
  • Bond and lady are not interrupted by Nigel phoning Bond. Again, bad humour, awkwardly ruins the tension of the bomb supposedly underneath the bed.
  • Minor trim of establishing shot of the French Riviera and plane landing.
  • Cut brief shot of Felix clutching cricket ball.
  • Cut Nicole standing awkwardly before running over to meet Bond at the airport.
  • Cut crossfade from airport scene to the ocean view from the villa. Also cut crossfade of the car pulling up to the villa.

  • Cut Felix saying, ‘Patachi’ similar to the NSMcA fanedit.
  • Cut Nicole saying, ‘That’s right, he was her brother…’
  • Minor trims to Domino arriving by boat. No crossfades.
  • Similar cut to Domino massage scene like the NSMcA fanedit.
  • Bond arrives at Casino. He chased after by the Bouncer. We hear Bond punching him off-screen. Jump cut to Bond pushing him into the backroom with the gun. Faster edit, makes Bond look more professional. No awkward looking around and stupid joke as Bond pretends to be aiding a sick friend as the bouncer wheezes in pain.
  • Minor trims to Bond introducing himself. He looks more confident here. The original version, he looks almost pained before and after he utters the line.
  • Minor trim to Bond and Largo meeting scene.

  • When Bond retrieves his cigar case from the Bouncer, the Bouncer doesn’t faint after Bond leaves.
  • Similar cut to the NSMcA fanedit when Bond chases after Fatima in the villa.
  • Bond shoots from the Balcony but misses Fatima as she drives off.
  • Minor trims to Bond preparing the motorcycle as he pursues Fatima.
  • Faster cuts to speed up the Motorcycle chase.
  • Similar cut to the NSMcA fanedit when Bond is ambushed in the tunnel.
  • Moved forward Fatima’s line, ‘Don’t touch him he’s mine!’ to correct a massive jump edit when Bond is wedged between two cars over the bridge. This line precedes that cut. Some slight editing to change the framing of the sequence.
  • Similar cut to the NSMcA fanedit when Fatima confronts Bond.
  • After Fatima blows up and Bond quips, ‘Not perfected yet….’, the sequence ends on the shot of Fatima’s shoes smoking. No Felix turning up, doesn’t make sense.

  • Minor trims to Bond and Felix investigating Largo’s yacht underwater.
  • Truncated Bond and Largo scene. Bond says, ‘I’m at your disposal’. Largo sniggers. End of sequence.
  • Cut Felix coming out of the water. Instead, Felix looks on as the yacht sails away.
  • Cut pointless scene of Bond and Domino trying to talk to each other before being interrupted by the steward.
  • Largo smashing Domino’s workout studio is trimmed. As Largo smashes the record player, we cut to Bond smirking back. Jump cut to M’s assistant with Bond’s message.
  • Minor trim to Palmyra sequence. Largo does not make Domino drop the statue. Instead, she drops it when he forces a kiss on her. Cut Largo whistling at her.
  • Cut Largo’s line, ‘You’ll see….’ After mentioning the view.
  • After Bond asks where the second bomb is located, Largo reacts with a ‘shhh’, turns away from Bond and leaves. Largo doesn’t compliment Bond on being a great secret agent and then awkwardly farewells him.

  • Minor trim to Bond’s escape from the dungeon. The guard doesn’t look around the room when he enters. He opens the door. Cut to the broken bars, the guard runs straight to the window and Bond pulls him out. No jump cut either.
  • Trimmed the horseback sequence for a faster pace. Cut the silly wide shot of the model horse with Bond and Domino falling. Plus, it makes out that the fortress is higher than it should be.
  • The submarine does not fire missiles at the fortress. Instead, an Air Force jet flies over and bombs the fortress. Also merged two fortress explosion shots as one edit as they were actually the same take from different angles.
  • When Felix rescues Bond and Domino, he does not say, ‘Bond, you’re a hard man to keep up with….’ Instead, Felix is heard saying, ‘Come on…this way….’ And ‘Good show, James’. As they drive away, Bond then says, ‘clear the line to Washington, Felix….’
  • Brief sequence of bomb underneath White House.
  • Establishing shot of Submarine underwater, when a voice announces, ‘Commander Bond, the Washington bomb has been located and defused’.
  • Cut Bond and Domino having a shower together and their conversation – completely cut. Bad writing, bad acting. Kim looks and seems visibly uncomfortable during this scene. Plus, good excuse to cut more of Edward Fox’s terrible performance as M when he comes through the Tannoy.

  • Minor trims to submarine sequence when tracking Largo and searching for the Tears of Allah. Less exposition.
  • Minor trims to Largo’s underwater fleet making their journey to the Tears of Allah.
  • Cut dialogue - Commander Peterson, ‘That’s top secret, how do you know about them?’ Bond, ‘from a Russian translation of your service manual, sorry about that’. Instead, Bond asks about the XT7Bs when Commander Peterson nods and Bond follows behind him.
  • Minor trim similar to the NSMcA fanedit, as the XT7Bs land near the coastline.
  • Minor trims as Largo and crew arrive at the Tears of Allah.
  • Cut Bond signalling Felix that he’s going up through the cave and Felix awkwardly holding his weapon.
  • Cut Largo and Kovacs face-timing (lol) Blofeld.
  • Trimmed Largo dialogue, ‘Huh! Kovacs!’ after talking about the Tears of Allah.

  • Trimmed scene with Bond as he pushes Statue head over the cliff edge. The edit is smoother as the statue head falls to the ground, the original edit was messy.
  • Fixed edit with Felix shooting the two spectre henchmen. The original was awkwardly paced. This time they fall as he shoots.
  • Truncated the henchman that gets caught on fire for a tighter pace.
  • Bond doesn’t just sit around, he exits much quicker than the original edit.
  • Truncated Largo and Kovacs arming the warhead and Largo escaping.
  • New destruction scene of the Tears of Allah. The original was very underwhelming. This time more explosions, fire, lava and rocks cave it in.
  • Similar edit to the final confrontation between Bond and Largo like the NSMcA fanedit.
  • Cut Domino reaction shots, Domino doesn’t wave goodbye to Largo or flail at him.
  • Bond and Domino turn to each other and swim up.
  • The film continues as normal, Nigel turns up and asks Bond to return to service. Bond refuses, winks at the camera and we jump cut to the end credits.

ORIGINAL RUNTIME: 2hrs 14mins.
FINAL FANEDIT RUNTIME: 1hr 50mins.
 
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TheWorld ofJamesBond said:
There will be some additional cues from the Thunderball soundtrack, specifically the 'Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' flourishes as the new title song will be 'Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' by Shirley Bassey.
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That reminds me; for some reason, I have thought ever since I first heard it that the Agnetha Faltskog song "Mr. Persuasion" would make a good James Bong title song.


That's probably just me, though.

I'm not a fan of Edward Fox's M or his histrionics, parts of his dialogue and his facial reactions will be trimmed.
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On a similar note, I wonder if there's a way to imply (maybe with dialogue generated by ElevenLabs) that the movie's "Algy" is an assistant to Desmond Llewelyn's Q, who is sick or on vacation?
 
hbenthow said:
That reminds me; for some reason, I have thought ever since I first heard it that the Agnetha Faltskog song "Mr. Persuasion" would make a good James Bong title song.


That's probably just me, though.



On a similar note, I wonder if there's a way to imply (maybe with dialogue generated by ElevenLabs) that the movie's "Algy" is an assistant to Desmond Llewelyn's Q, who is sick or on vacation?
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If I was any good at deep fake, I would replace Moneypenny with Lois Maxwell and Q with Desmond Llewelyn. For the moment, they are still in the film as those characters.
wilhelm scream said:
This sounds exciting! If only there was a way to have Bond hijack the missiles and redirect them to SPECTRE headquarters
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If I had a budget, I would reconstruct the lost Blofeld death scene, reconstruct the wide shot of Palmyra featuring the mansion in the foreground and some of the lost action scenes with Bond swinging from a rope and then firing a machine gun killing two henchmen in the Tears of Allah sequence.
 
TheWorld ofJamesBond said:
If I was any good at deep fake, I would replace Moneypenny with Lois Maxwell and Q with Desmond Llewelyn. For the moment, they are still in the film as those characters.

If I had a budget, I would reconstruct the lost Blofeld death scene, reconstruct the wide shot of Palmyra featuring the mansion in the foreground and some of the lost action scenes with Bond swinging from a rope and then firing a machine gun killing two henchmen in the Tears of Allah sequence.
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If only they released the deleted scenes...
 
wilhelm scream said:
If only they released the deleted scenes...
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That would be Christmas for me.😊 I've only seen one partially deleted sequence in a promotional featurette called, 'Sean Connery Is James Bond' from 1983. The special is on Facebook but in appalling quality. I found a somewhat better quality version of this clip. Perhaps in a future V2 edit, I could with some help from AI reconstruct it and add back into the film.

This is the deleted scene:
https://i.ibb.co/wBv4g9s/ezgif-3-9cba32bdfd.gif
 
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I'm slightly annoyed I didn't see this earlier as I'd been planning to do an EON edit of NSNA myself. This cut is probably a little more ambitious than what I'd have done as I know virtually nothing about restoration, and I'd planned to use bits of Barry's score from Raise the Titanic myself, among other things. I think the biggest difference is that mine'd be set up as a direct sequel to Thunderball and have Max be Emilio's illegitimate son recovering the missiles from the wreck of the original Disco Volante. There'd be no SPECTRE, no Blofeld (Bond chucked him down a chimney, remember? Yes I know it was Roger Moore and he's never mentioned by name, but it still counts and everybody knows it's meant to be our Ernst), no Chuck Cunningham, and I'd probably also be cutting out those daft hovering things. Oh, and the title song would be the rejected Phyllis Hyman song, because it's bloody brilliant and doesn't get enough love.
 
Cero said:
I'm slightly annoyed I didn't see this earlier as I'd been planning to do an EON edit of NSNA myself. This cut is probably a little more ambitious than what I'd have done as I know virtually nothing about restoration, and I'd planned to use bits of Barry's score from Raise the Titanic myself, among other things. I think the biggest difference is that mine'd be set up as a direct sequel to Thunderball and have Max be Emilio's illegitimate son recovering the missiles from the wreck of the original Disco Volante. There'd be no SPECTRE, no Blofeld (Bond chucked him down a chimney, remember? Yes I know it was Roger Moore and he's never mentioned by name, but it still counts and everybody knows it's meant to be our Ernst), no Chuck Cunningham, and I'd probably also be cutting out those daft hovering things. Oh, and the title song would be the rejected Phyllis Hyman song, because it's bloody brilliant and doesn't get enough love.
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One of the great things about fan editing is that there's always going to be more than one version of a fan edit. There's nothing to stop you from doing your own version. It sounds interesting and has a completely different approach too. I'd love to see it.
 
TheWorld ofJamesBond said:
One of the great things about fan editing is that there's always going to be more than one version of a fan edit. There's nothing to stop you from doing your own version. It sounds interesting and has a completely different approach too. I'd love to see it.
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Thanks! I'm definitely still interested and I certainly appreciate the interest. Once I've got my plate cleared, I might make a start on it.
 
hbenthow said:
That reminds me; for some reason, I have thought ever since I first heard it that the Agnetha Faltskog song "Mr. Persuasion" would make a good James Bong title song
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I can think of lots of songs that would make good James Bong title songs...

1. Who's Got the Hooch by Everything

2. Stoned and Reeling by Far Too Jones

3. Anything by Cypress Hill
4. Anything by Cheech and Chong
5. Anything by SnoopDogg
 
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