Batman Forever: Dark Knight Edition

[myway]

Here's a link to a thread from another site that I frequent. The thread is about a fanedit of Batman Forever called "The Dark Knight Edition." The reason I'm posting it here is to rally interest and hopefully get some intertia goin.

 

[Two-Face]

No link.

 

[myway]

O, sorry about that; here ya go:

http://www.faneditforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1602

 

[Two-Face]

Very interseting, I like how opening is much better then original.

 

[Rezzo]

Looks interesting

 

[Man on Fire]

Indeed, Very intrieging

 

[Superwoman Prime]

Awesome. I would like a BF that better flows with its two predecessors.

 

[Noir]

sounds like a load of BS.
Infact google search only shows this link.

 

[Spider-Bat]

I like Batman Forever as it is but, I would have liked it if it was a bit darker like the first two, but it was darker than that horrible part 4, it would have been better with a few tweaks, if Tommy had researched Two-face and didn't just take the part 'cause his kid liked him and had the toy, if Jim had toned down his Riddler a bit and didn't have pink hair, and if Gossip Gertie had not been so frickin' campy, it was Bob Kane's wife that played her, she should have respected her husband's creation a bit more and tried to play the character better than that although I'm sure that's how Joel idiot told her to do it.

The stuff with Bruce's past and Psyche was nice though. I saw alot in this film I wanted to see ina movie for a long time. Stuff I wanted in the previous two.Although I love those as they are.

 

[turtlefocker]

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=8039&STARTPAGE=1

May 24, 2007:

This is a "Remix" of Batman Forever using the deleted footage available. The goal was to help it flow better with Burton's first two films and be the end of a trilogy. The edit was screened for a few lucky comic fans last week in L.A. . 10 two disc dvds were given out, it is up to those fans to share the work. The editor does not want to be named.

Full Specs:

Disc One
Batman Forever - Dark Knight Edition
-Animorphic widescreen transfer
-2hrs 5 Mins
( The film has had scenes added, scenes clipped/deleted or reworked, with a new musical score added. Most the music is taken from the cd " The batman trilogy ".
Which provides alternate versions of the Elfman themes. Some, but very little original Batman forever music is intact )
-Isolated Score
- optional "Dune tv edit-eqse" 5 min prolog to take the story and conect it from Batman/Batman Returns to Batman Forever. This uses film footage aswell as images from the movie adaptation comic books. Interesting concept. Goes into detail on the history of Batman/Two-Face. Film footage from the client is used for Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent.

Disc Two
- Dark Knight edition Teaser and Trailer
- 1995 HBO Making of 15mins
- 1995 E! Red Carpet premiere coverage
- 1995 E! Behind the scenes
- Photo gallery ( includes complete 1995 fleer cards )
- Seal " kiss from a rose " music video
- U2 " hold me thrill me kiss me kill me" music video

The film opens with the WB logo from 1989, the opening is similer to that of Batman Returns. From the logo we fade into the shot of Arkham, I think this was a shot taken from Batman and Robin. It is a panning shot that moves up into Arkham. It has had it's color tweeked though, to have a more bluish tint. Infact the whole film has a bluer tint to it. It was the editors way of toning down the neon. The two-face escape scene is edited very well, music and sound effects work great. After we realize two face has escaped, we cut back outside of arkham as the frame fills with heavy blue smoke/clouds for the title seq. Which plays over elfmans music.

After the credits the clouds disperse to show the Gotham city screencap:

Did anyone else receive this DVD? Has anyone seen this edit?

 

[ShaneHelms]

I like the cover.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

I've heard about this. Neat stuff ... I find this to be most intriguing:

- optional "Dune tv edit-eqse" 5 min prolog to take the story and conect it from Batman/Batman Returns to Batman Forever. This uses film footage aswell as images from the movie adaptation comic books. Interesting concept. Goes into detail on the history of Batman/Two-Face. Film footage from the client is used for Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent.

 

[Dope Nose]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=276569

 

[Mr. Socko]

This looks cool. I really wish I had a copy, hopefully it gets on the net soon. I like that they've inserted the Arkham scene at the beginning and added a score to it. My biggest concern is that Two Face will still be goofy as they say a 2 hour 5 minute runtime. Not much could have been cut out from that length, even with the deleted scenes added.

 

[SHADOWBAT69]

definitely sounds interesting and I would really like to see it. But why go to all this trouble if only a handful of people may actually view it?

 

[Mr. Socko]

10 two disc dvds were given out, it is up to those fans to share the work. The editor does not want to be named.


From my understanding, the editor of the DK-Edition doesn't want anyone to know who he is, so he just gave it to a few people in hopes of them posting it on the internet for the masses to view.

 

[CFE]

Are any of those said fans members here?

If we're not able to get in touch with them, then we have nothing...

CFE

 

[Superwoman Prime]

We're crossing our fingers that those select 10 are a generous lot. I know I want a copy.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Not that I disagree with this project, but to try and make Batman Forever into something it isn't (the third part of the Burton trilogy) seems illogical to me. Grasping at straws.

I'm editing Batman Forever, but I'm not taking anything out. I'm trying to reconstruct the movie as it was originally. The whole story. But I'm not trying to apologize and/or pretend it's not a Schumacher movie.

 

[CFE]

Not that I disagree with this project, but to try and make Batman Forever into something it isn't (the third part of the Burton trilogy) seems illogical to me. Grasping at straws.

I'm editing Batman Forever, but I'm not taking anything out. I'm trying to reconstruct the movie as it was originally. The whole story. But I'm not trying to apologize and/or pretend it's not a Schumacher movie.

I agree though it'd still be intriguing to see.

But yes, if anything needs to be done to "Forever" as far as re-edits are concerned it's just to add in the "Notebook" backstory with Bruce suffering amnesia and returning to the cave. Had that been left in, the film would've been tied up far more neatly than what it ultimately was.

CFE

 

[Two-Face]

Nice, Would they release it on DVD?

 

[CFE]

Bootleg.

Unless those lucky 10 decide to start burning copies for conventions, I doubt we'll ever get to see this in any form.

CFE

 

[Catman]

Let me know when this gets on YouTube.

 

[turtlefocker]

I've heard about this. Neat stuff ... I find this to be most intriguing:

- optional "Dune tv edit-eqse" 5 min prolog to take the story and conect it from Batman/Batman Returns to Batman Forever. This uses film footage aswell as images from the movie adaptation comic books. Interesting concept. Goes into detail on the history of Batman/Two-Face. Film footage from the client is used for Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent.

Where did you see that?

 

[Rockbottom]

Sounds really good actually, if this guy has done a good job and made it look extremely pro, then i would love to see it. Weather we will ever get the chance is another story.