John Marat said:
With the Dvd release on Nov 12, anyone planning to make an edit of this? After being a lurker on these forums for sometime now this film makes me want to get into fan edits.
I plan to make an edit called: Superman Genesis.
This is my cutlist from the "Man of Steel - The Fan Edit" forum.
A couple of months ago I went and saw 'Man of Steel' again, however this time with a pen and paper. I was near the end of it's run at our local cinema, so no one was there besides me. I took notes and what can be used and how things could be re-structured. Here's my basic timeline:
- Start with the oil rig blowing up, have it like the start of an Indiana Jones movie with Supes being introduced when he breaks open the door.
- Falls into the water and the movie continues into the flashback of Clark at school, "world's too big" scene. However now we cut to Clark being a teenager in the car, reading Plato. Clark gets pulled out of the car and gets beat up. Cut Pete Ross helping him up. Jonathan Kent's "you have to decide what kind of man you want grow up to be Clark... whoever that man is good character or bad he's going to change the world". Now we have the bus scene, Clark decides to be the good guy. Continues into showing Clark the spaceship. Cut Clark's winy "Tell Me!"
- Cut back to present showing Clark in the dinner/pub, movie continues as normal until we meet Jor-el.
- Huge exposition dump, not sure how to counter this. Show prominent flashbacks to Krypton. Show Kal-el's birth with Jor-el's lines "you were the first natural born in centuries" show the whole setting-up Kal-el ship scene after Jor-el's line "that's why we risked so much to save you" Cut back to present after the space capsule closes.
- Move flying scene to later. Maybe.
- Move shot of Jonathan Kent's headstone, till after the flashback. Remove Jonathan disappearing into the hurricane, just have Clark's expression.
- remove military tracking Zod's ship, have the scene centre on Clark and Lois' reactions to Zod's broadcast.
- Talk to priest scene, remove the flashback, because we saw it before.
- Possible, Superman suit up and fly if we don't use the learning to fly scene from earlier.
- Add flashbacks to Krypton in Zod's dream/explanation scene. Zod's trial, quick shot's of Jor-el stealing the codex. Clark wakes up show condensed version of Zod killing Jor-el after Clark mutters "you killed my father?" and Zod returns "I did"
- Remove shitty cg shots of Lois in the pod.
- Supes does not smash Zod through a brick tower thingy.
- Remove long shot of civilians witnessing the petrol station explode.
- Zod escapes, Faora and Non rip-off march towards Supes, inter-cut between Zod discovering that the codex is within Kal-el, "does he need to be alive to extract the codex?" his doctor dude says "No" hard cut to supes smashing through the ihop. Faora throws him into the bank vault. Cut to Zod releasing the World engine. Remove the military seeing it.
- Supes flys at Faora, fights both her a Non, troops helicopter in all proceed as normal. Cut Supes fighting with Non (helps remove Supes punching Non into the trains) while Faora toys with the Colonel dude. Surprise! Supes saves him and then... Surprise! a train hits Supes.
- Supes overcomes the terraforming device as discussed.
Originally Posted by Sunarep
The only thing i would change is already show the flashback in the first act so that the audience understands what is happening to Zod. There was some argument that it would come as a surprise to the audience but I think it would be the same problem as the codex has: withholding information to add confusion.
But if the audience already knows this scene supes can fight the terraforming machine and we hear his heartbeat.
then we hear all the destruction of metropolis and people screaming. *Alter Jor-el's "you can save her Kal" to "you can save THEM Kal, you can save all of them."*
add voiceover "the world's to big mom"
"then make it smaller"
we then see young Clark running around with the "cape" which inspires supes and gives him strength to destroy the world machine
on top of that (as i noted before) this would probably make the final scene with his father much more powerful because we have already scene this moment as an audience and then we learn that Jonathan Kent saw the very scene which inspired supes in the final fight.
- cut down military fiddling with the pod and shit, Try and remove Lois if possible?
- No kiss.
- No Supes letting the oil tanker blow up the parking station.
- No fighting in space
- No Lois when Supes kills Zod.
- Cut the final scene between the military and Supes "I know you're trying to find out where I hang my cape"
- End as normal, Clark goes to Daily Planet. Or if we cut the learning to fly scene, use the available footage to have Supes final flight into space and circling the Earth.