UPDATE: Coming close to the home stright!
So I did a fair bit of polishing up the first two hours and moved on to the back end of the edit. This is now fully laid out. There does remain one final major piece of restructuring I need to now address for Glass. Despite being the longest of the 3 movies, there is not a lot of padding to remove when viewed as a standalone. There are however expository and reminder scenes and dialogue which are not needed when viewing this edit as a whole, so they will be removed. I also had some issues with the whole Black Clover thread, which will be getting some overhauling too. I've just done the closing scene, in fact closing shot, and needless to say, it's not like the theatrical version.
I also started to tackle the CUTS/ADDITIONS list. This needs to both be informative to a casual viewer and detailed for the geeks, while minimizing spoilers since I would like everyone to enjoy this. Knowing what happens in the source material does not mean that this won't have new ways to make the reveals. So to assist readers of the CUTS & ADDS I have divided the list into 3 sections. Spoiler levels increase as you go to the next section. Sections A-C deal with each source movie’s changes as a whole since the non linear structure of this edit does not permit an easy representation of the changes in a way that would be easy to understand (or document)
Overall, virtually every scene is in a new position or altered in some fashion.
SECTION A - Materials removed or added from all 3 movies
SECTION B – Light Spoilers - Highly altered or new scenes created from all 3 movies to facilitate the new narrative
SECTION C – GEEKS ONLY - Heavier spoilers - More detailed list of changes and impacts to the narrative with rationale.
There will be a BIG warning in the Submission to not read Section C if people want to not have it ruined.
I watched Pulp Empire cold, and it was a delight despite knowing the source material inside out. I'd like to convey the same experience to viewers of this edit.
It may still end up being a car crash in some peoples eyes, but I like it, and that's ok too.
I may rename this
SPLIT UNBREABABLE GLASS: AN EXPERIMENT
Oh, and where are we on run time? 3hr 40 mins, with trimming still to do. That works.
Here are some movies over 200 minutes: No one had an issue sitting thru these I imagine.
- The Godfather: Part II (1974) 200 mins
- Fellowship of the Ring: 208 min
- The Two Towers: Blu Ray Extended Edition: 235 min
- Return of the King: Blu-Ray Extended Edition: 263 min
- Titanic (1997) 210 min
- Ben Hur (1959) 212 min
- Ryan's Daughter (1970) 206 min
- Gettysburg (1993) 271 min
- Giant (1956) 201 min
- Seven Samurai (1954) 207 min
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 216 min | 227 min (restored)
- JFK (1991) 189 min | 206 min (director's cut)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 229 mins
CIAO
" I believe there are unknown forces out there, tryng to stop us"