The Terminal List: Dark Wolf
The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025)
 
Synopsis: "Navy SEAL Ben Edwards' abrupt discharge from the military lands him a new job working with a mysterious CIA operative. As he delves deeper into the world of covert intelligence he struggles with the moral gray areas of clandestine operations."
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Wednesday
Synopsis: "Follows Wednesday Addams' years as a student, when she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a killing spree, and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents."

Edit summary: Cut parents day and Uncle Fester, and a bunch of secondary character scenes to keep the focus on Wednesday's story. Numerous dialogue tweaks to remove political writing, and fix some rough writing and delivery, cut a couple aborted storylines like psychic training, and remove some common tropes about needing friends and love that try to moralize the character rather than leaning into her weirdness. Also re-trim the ending to be a lot less corny, both in terms of acting and writing, it was by far the weakest part of the original series.

Season 2 is heavily cut down to match the style and tone of the first season, mainly focusing on a side plot from the season rather than the main storylines, which didn't seem to add much of worth while consuming most of the screen time.

Ver5: Remastered
2001: A Space Odyssey
Synopsis: "When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins."

Edit summary: This is an experimental edit that takes the space exploration scenes from the film and turns them into a silent film set to the tune of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. It isn't really narrative driven, more of a vibe or series of vignettes than a coherent 16 minute short film.
Cashback
Synopsis: "After breaking up with his girlfriend, aspiring artist Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) develops insomnia and takes a night-shift job at a supermarket to pass the hours. He soon discovers that he can freeze time and begins fantasizing about pretty checkout clerk Sharon (Emilia Fox). When he's not dreaming of Sharon -- who may hold the key to resolving his sleeplessness -- Ben roams the aisles disrobing beautiful customers and sketching them."
(Synopsis compliments of Netflix)


Edit summary: This is a minor edit to de-censor a couple sections of the film using the Short Film version that came out a couple years prior to the film itself. Both can be found on the BluRay (only released in Japan under the name Frozen Time). Many of the scenes in the 18 minute short film were used shot for shot in the full film, with regraded color and DNR applied.
Andor
Andor (2022)
Synopsis: "A story from the Star Wars universe, starring Cassian Andor, a no-name thief that stumbles his way into working with the Rebellion."

Edit summary: This is an experimental cut of Andor that focuses primarily on the more intimate human elements of the series, the rebellion at home and the relationship with Bix. It cuts all the scenes of the Empire perspective, keeping it very rebel-centric. And although it's movie length it isn't meant as a replacement for the series, since it does change the story in certain areas.
The Way Home
Synopsis: "More than 20 years after leaving home in a small Canadian farm town, life-changing events prompt Kat to return with her daughter Alice. Although the reunion with her estranged mother isn't what Kat envisioned, a magical pond on the property changes the life of the family forever."

Edit summary: This edit cuts a lot of the slower at-home moments, particularly Del's scenes, and other romance drama that isn't particularly magical in any way. It focuses heavily on the pond and the mystery surrounding it, although the old-time scenes are trimmed down to just the essentials since they seem lower quality than the rest of the plot/acting. That leaves a fun summer adventure that has some depth to the personal drama without getting too bogged down in the angst.
Yellowstone
Synopsis: "A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land."

Edit summary: This makes some very large cuts, trying to tone down or add context to some of the more dramatic parts of the series, and removing some of the soap opera level drama. It gets rid of both Lee and Jamie - and any plots related to those characters and makes Jimmy less of a comic relief character, also removing most of his later season scenes to keep focus on the Dutton family.

A lot of the mob-type violence - the train station, the yellowstone brandings are removed, but some of the more raw gunfights are kept and reworked into a darker narrative. This also streamlines the multi-season fight over land into one plot arc, to keep the story moving to new places rather than revisiting the same one multiple times.

You could call this edit An Ode to Cowboys, since the focus is really the ranch, and the people on it, rather than the various political machinations and personal infighting the original series featured heavily.
Atypical Family
Synopsis: "Bok Gwi Joo's family has supernatural abilities. He can revisit happy past moments. Depression causes him to lose this power. His family also loses abilities due to modern issues. Do Da He joins their household, instigating change."

Edit summary: This changes the ending and rearranges the flow of the story a bit. Originally I wanted to bring the show down to movie length, and although it is easy to cut quite a lot of time off due to the slow pacing, it isn't really possible to get it down to the 2-3 hour range without losing a ton of good scenes due to the non-linear nature of the story.
Ondine
Synopsis: "An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie."

Edit summary: Cut the "realistic" backstory for Ondine's character and some of the family drama to make the film a bit more like a fairy tale, also changing the ending to be less saccharine.

Ver5: Remastered
Keanu Reeves Universe
Synopsis: "Multi-movie fanedit challenge"

Edit summary: This combines 14 films into a rather esoteric edit, using mostly Keanu Reeves films with a couple Jennifer Connelly films to flesh out the new narrative.

Please note, this does have some adult content from Generation Um, and also contains quick flashes of scenes which could potentially cause problems for people with epilepsy.

Ver6: Remastered
Drops of God
Synopsis: "A woman discovers the world's greatest wine collection that's left by her estranged father and competes against his protege to claim her inheritance."

Edit summary: Cut this into a film length, strengthening the ending which felt quite scattered, removing one of the competitions, the blackmail, along with most of the flashbacks and most of the romance and affairs that had a rather dominant flavor over the whole show. This gives it more of a laid-back feel with a focus on wine, family, and the competition itself, removing the dark underbelly of the story.
Harry Potter
Synopsis: "An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world."

Edit summary: This edit heavily slims down the eight-film series into a trilogy, please note that anything prior to version 5 is a rough cut that is significantly different. The rough cut is very unbalanced, but version 5 makes some deep cuts that create a better narrative arc.

The main goal was to fix the rather poor ending films and focus more on it being a fun magical-school adventure rather than a story fixated on a particular special boy. So I cut everything related to the details of the parents murder, mothers love, and any special abilities resulting from that aside from his scar warning him of impending danger. I also removed all mentions of mudblood or any other racial implications to keep the mood a bit lighter.

This heavily alters the timeline in places, so don't expect a story that's true to the books. I also toned down the teen angst of the later films, removing most of the romance, school dances, etc.

Ver5: Heavily recut and remastered
Into the Badlands
Synopsis: "A mighty warrior and a young boy with supernatural powers search for enlightenment in a ruthless post-apocalyptic America controlled by feudal barons."

Edit summary: Toned down MK's "special boy" plot and removed the magic powers and monks from the series. Made Tilda more tolerable, and reduced Veil's story a bit so it's a supporting story rather than overpowering the action with her repetitive plot.
House
Synopsis: "Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way."

Edit summary: This heavily culls the episodes down to the most interesting cases, as well as smoothing out the overarching plot and cast changes. Disposed of the antagonistic cop, billionaire, most of the romance plots, some of the new team recruitment, hostage plot, etc. The ending is also completely different since this edit focuses far less on House's drug addiction.

This brings the series to a svelte 18 hours, and although it's a heavier cut than I normally do at only 14% the length of the original, I think it does a good job at reducing the procedural feel and making it more of a quality and enjoyable rewatch.
Winter's Tale
Synopsis: "A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her."

Edit summary: Cut most of Will Smith's role, toned down the fantasy side slightly, and trimmed/refocused the start of the film to seem less scattered. Removed the majority of the voiceovers.