I've been thinking about one thing; How could I make Jean more conflicted, easy answer, re-add the deleted trailer dialogue of her telling magneto "when I lose control bad things happen, to people I love, but it feels good"... that last bit is key... she feels conflicted, we get that in X-Men TLS I think but not in Dark Phoenix... I want that, I want a hero we struggle to root for, we go from scared girl to "manipulated by a space entity" but we need that ramp to the manipulation..., I also have one question: I don't know VFX but I do know Captain Marvel has a space flight sequence and I almost wonder if... could you realistically, construct a 3d model of Jean flying and rotoscope it onto Captain Marvel (change colors and such) but make it look convincingly like this is Jean defeating the space intelligence? Obviously you still have to come back down to earth... but you could have her go from the train, fly up fight the space entities with epic music then come down and fight the last remains for the final climax with Vuk... maybe a new VFX shot there so its not just spinning purple particles... but hmm... But wait the original ending had her succumbing to the Phoenix and aliens and sending out a blast... so wait... that would require VFX but that could also reuse footage of her in Appoclypse... hmmmmm I'm getting ideas now... I'm gonna edit a crude concept of this and see how it flows (obviously no music fixes or anything... but I've got an idea.) I might have an idea... (obviously would still need VFX to make it convincingly work and music and some cast shots... but... Hmmm

What about adding a bell like with fe.org? Just so I can easily see if I got a notification - I don't always check my email :) lol

Discussion for this fanedit.

The edit has changed a lot since last posting here Dandy98 has been resourceful in realizing I could cut the entire first 30 mins pretty much and still end up with a good opening. So I let him do that, and then messed with it and we constructed an opening where Ethan wakes up from a nightmare (after having been knocked out by Gabriel's members.) We have the scene of Gabriel and Ethan & Grace, and then cut straight from that to the credits once Ethan & Grace fight it out, to Ethan running to save Luthor... where's Grace? We'll just say she went with the rest of the team. I've moved aorund a lot of scenes, the Ethan team at the House comes earlier, and so does the team briefing, with assistance by Spence & Wraith. The latest edit has been the entire firehouse fight, where they fight in the house and getting that to transition without the dumb aircraft fight (the fight's great, storywise unneeded. So I chopped it. - Last night I fooled around with the audio, and got it so the House Fight ends... more smoothly, not perfect. But it's better, and I re-arranged shots of the President's convo with her team so we start on the countdown, then go to the conversation. (used Spence's dialogue separated) ending to the scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbpWeOcina4 The video here is the edit in my timeline, you can see my cuts, I admit I noticed one where I forgot a fade (whoops!) but otherwise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_lXGQouI4 How does this sound? My edit clocks in around 2:09 (2 hrs obvs) maybe 2:15 but its pretty short, I want to make it longer.. but idk how, so you might get a shorter finale! Which I don't like... but I guess once I smooth this, to move onto reconstructing the ending.

I've realized through talking with triad how self-centered/focused I can be when pitching edit collabs, or in general: So I'm going to say this; I'm gonna shut up, and leave this open. If someone wants to help - come to me, you tell me what you want to do, and then we can try and meet in the middle, an actual collab of ideas. Thank you.

triadne wrote:It seems to me you're asking for a stooge. I'm not going to pledge my time and effort to be a busy body for someone.  If you want to be a producer you need to have a budget and employ pe... Pleading poverty is not an adequate excuse for asking people to do stuff for you.

It seems to me you're asking for a stooge. I'm not going to pledge my time and effort to be a busy body for someone.  If you want to be a producer you need to have a budget and employ people.I think y... Explain to me how...? I don't have Fox / Disney billions... I just want someone to help with ideas and do Visuals for a fan-edit (IM aware thats a lot...) Can you suggest how you'd go about it?

My first plans are this: 1. How can we make the ending more grand? Can we change the villains to make them skrulls / aliens that actually have a language and logic. 2. Make Jean more conflicted: Theatrical cut "I hurt someone..." I feel bad, 30 mins later, I'm now corrupted by the villain being told "they fear you" Original Cut: had "It feels good" her saying to Magneto, I did bad things, bad things happen, but it feels good, where's that? Where's that conflicted person? That girl that has this phoenix force and struggles morally with what to do: Also opening credits were completely different, where'd those go?? Cut for time, but can we put them back? Would require a lot of work. Even if we had to make something shorter fine, but c'mon the final "X-Men" titled film has "Dark Phoenix" on a black screen... seriously?