New cuts are, more or less, finalized.
Original theatrical length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Original Fanedit length: 1 hour 48 minutes 22 seconds
Remastered Fanedit length: 1 hour 45 minutes 47 seconds
Timeline
Cuts list:
1) Removed Bond quipping about the Cigar Girl's body
2) Trimmed Office Fight.
3) Cut Moneypenny
4) Trimmed Bond attempting to stop the MI6 bombing
5) Cut the second shot of the Cigar Girl shooting
6) Trimmed Boat Chase. Removed Cigar Girl crashing into pier, cut down on grenade launcher usage.
7) Cut M's line "We'll chase them to the farthest ends of the world if needs be." Little over the top there, Judi.
8) Cut Q Lab scene
9) Trimmed M's conversation with Bond. Less sentimental, more business.
10) Cut briefing
11) Cut Elektra's line about losing loved ones
12) Trimmed Ski Chase
13) Removed line "See you back at the lodge"
14) Removed one of Bond's "Look in my eyes"
15) Cut long pauses in Elektra/Bond conversation about feeling alive and such.
16) Cut line "I'll be back soon"
17) Cut Bond looking up at end of conversation
18) Cut line "Chill out, James!"
19) Small trim in Bond/Valentin conversation
20) Cut "Where's Davidov" conversation
21) Cut second conversation after sex
22) Davidov gets shot again. Just once. I couldn't find the neck breaking sound effect I wanted (ie one that didn't sound like carrots snapping), so this will do.
23) No Russians with sneakers.
24) Bond's into to Christmas gone and all references to it as well
25) Cut line "He caught a bullet, instead of the plane"
26) Cut Bat-Watch
29) Cut Christmas jacking the control box
30) Cut line "Seal the door! Close it!"
31) Cut Elektra calling M
32) Cut Bond confronting Elektra
33) Cut M's homie head nod to Elektra
34) Cut Elektra confronting Bond in the control room
35) Cut line "Sit tight"
36) Cut conversation about stripped screw heads
37) Cut Bond shielding Christmas from bomb
38) Cut line conversation about Bond's present status with Elektra
39) Cut line "There is one critical element I might be forgetting
40) Cut line "Yes"
41) Cut Elektra answering phone
42) Small trims in conversation between Bond and Valentin
43) Trimmed caviar fight. No BMW, half the length
44) Trimmed Valentin in the caviar. Cut differently than Original
45) Cut line "It's time for you to die"
46) Cut line "James Bond'
47) Cut shot of Christmas
48) Cut conversation about movie title
49) Cut M from Elektra death scene
50) Cut remorseful cuddling of Elektra by Bond
51) Cut line "So, we're going up then"
52) Readded line "James, it's too risky"
53) Cut drowning Brozzer
54) Cut down end fight, Bond does not save Christmas until after he kills Renard
55) No Jon Glen Moment
56) Movie ends at Bond and Christmas kissing with fireworks background
57) Only Myself To Blame over end credits
58) JAMES BOND WILL RETURN moved to end of movie, with the very of beginning of Die Another Day playing as the sound.
Unless is there is a issue with the surround sound, this should be the final cut list. It isn't perfect, but it's an improvement on the original cuts and more than I had initially planned to do. This was just supposed to be recutting the movie for surround sound and better video quality, but ended up being a better cut altogether.
To be released 03/27/09 as a 2CD .avi and 04/03/2009 as a DVD5.
EDIT: Oh, and people are welcome to make cover art for this. I tried doing something in GIMP, but I'm just the shits at compositing.