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Wing Commander: Countdown to Invasion

Countdown to Invasion mini-frontby Lewis886
What is it about? Most of the “Top Gun meets Melrose Place” aspects were removed and the focus of the the story
was moved more on defeating the coming invasion. The climax of the film back was changed to on stopping the Kilrathi fleet and not on saving Deveroux.
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original film name: Wing Commander
new film name : Wing Commander: Countdown to Invasion
film studio name : 20th Century Fox
edit crew name : lewis886
Date Original Film Was Released : March 12, 1999
Date Edit Was Released : August 19, 2007
Original Runtime : 100 min
New Runtime : 71 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : 29 cut

Cuts removed/added/extended :

  • -Removed “tiff” between Marshall & Taggert on way to Tiger Claw
  • -Removed hangar scene where Blair sits in dead pilot’s ship
  • -Removed mess hall scenes where Marshall introduces them & later with argument about dead pilot, & hallway scene after
  • -Removed “fancy flying & landing” scene with Forbes & Marshall
  • -Removed “girl talk” scene with Forbes & Deveroux
  • -Deveroux does not question Blair about whether the Kilrathi spotted her
  • -Removed last half of Blair & Deveroux scene where Deveroux talks about parents
  • -Removed bedroom scene with Marshall & Forbes
  • -Removed Forbes & Marshall turning back to fight more, & Forbes crashing, & confrontation scene with Deveroux after
  • -Removed celebration and “ssshh” moment in bombing scene
  • -The hull breach is sealed much faster and Blair doesn’t almost get sucked out, & Marshall doesn’t get hurt saving him
  • -Removed talk with Blair & Deveroux about Marshall
  • -Removed “confidence booster” scene with Deveroux & Marshall
  • -Removed scene where Blair turns back from mission and talks to Deveroux in escape pod
  • -Removed Kilrathi ship chasing Blair after jump and getting sucked into pulsar (there are no pulsars in our solar system)
  • -Re-arranged many scenes in the final battle to place emphasis on blair getting info to fleet, & fleet stopping kilrathi
  • -Tried to put climax of movie back on the destruction of the kilrathi fleet by slowing down battle shots & splitting them
  • up to make it seem longer, and by putting main theme music in final battle
  • -Trimmed down “saving Deveroux” scene at end to try to make it seem less important than final battle

Fanedit details :

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  • Scene Selection Menu
  • Trailers for this and 8 other fanedits.

Your intention for this fanedit:

  • To remove most of the “Top Gun meets Melrose Place” aspects and focus the story more on defeating the coming invation. To move the climax of the film back to on stopping the Kilrathi fleet and not on saving Deveroux.

Your way to achieve your intention:

  • Cut out the Mess Hall scenes where pilots are bantering and then fighting.
  • Remove the sideplots and badly done love story aspects. Mainly removing things that don’t contribute to the main plot of stopping the Kilrathi invasion.

Hardware and software information:

  • AMD 2500+

Persons Involved: lewis886


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Filed under: Lewis886, Science Fiction, True Fanedits / Reviews (6)

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  1. It has been a while since I have seen the original film. I picked up a copy of it to compare the cuts, but have yet to rewatch the original. I think that lewis has achieved his goal here in making the movie focused on the invasion. We all know that this was not a great movie to begin with, but it is now more enjoyable, or at least more tolerable. Most of the cheese has been successfully cut out. There were a couple one-liners that I would have still chopped off, but all in all very well done. Without watching the original recently, the edits were unnoticeable to me, so the editing was well done imo.

    video quality was very clear and not milky at all, and the audio seemed well mixed too. I am not a fan of the score for this film and would have like to seen (or rather heard) a change here, but that was not the intent of this edit.

    well done. i highly recommend this for some light enjoyable sci-fi action, and I look forward to more great edits by lewis886 in the future!!

    video editing 5 of 5
    audio editing 5 of 5
    overall concept 4.5 out of 5

    Review by ThrowgnCpr — September 26, 2007 @ 4:28 pm

  2. who would have thought that polishing this turd would reveal an actually decent movie? more than decent, it’s actually OK, maybe even *GOOD* ! :)

    entertainment 5/5
    fanediting 5/5
    video 5/5
    audio 5/5
    orginal 2/5
    fanedit 4/5

    4/5

    Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 9:30 pm

  3. thanks for the comments, guys. glad you enjoyed it. :)

    Review by lewis886 — March 4, 2009 @ 8:52 pm

  4. I just got around to watching this tonight. I have never seen the original movie so I don’t know how it compares. What I can say is that this was a fairly enjoyable movie and I did not feel as if it were missing anything except for one thing. A small scene foreshadowing the kiss between the main character and the female pilot at the end would have not been out of place. I don’t know if such a scene exists but from the list of cuts above, it seems a lot was cut and something useful could probably have been found. However, that small defect, if it is one, does not detract at all from the overall viewing of the film. From the description of what was cut, I think the editor did a very good job. This feels like a war movie, not a teen romance, and I appreciate that. The pace was good and the story made sense. What more could you ask for?

    Technically, I thought it was excellent. The picture was a bit dark but I’m sure this was how the original was shot, not a product of the edit. Other than the darkness, the picture was good as was the audio. The edits were not noticable by me. I also liked the DVD authoring.

    Review by Blackhawk — December 28, 2009 @ 9:53 am

  5. I just watched this and I have to say this was great. I always loved the games and did rather enjoy the original movie’s potential. I thought you brought out what was lacking and what Chris Roberts may have wanted. The edit was marvelous except for one section when Blair jumps to Earth, I thought the cut was a little sloppy and the music, silence, and music didnt quite gel, you could definitely tell there was an edit there. I would liked that to have been better.

    However on that note, this will go on my shelf as a compliment to the games and original movie. 7 of 10.

    Thanks.

    Review by mntpowder — August 6, 2010 @ 10:44 pm

  6. Just saw this edit and to be honest it came across as rather bland. Not a lot of drama left in the film. I got the sense that it was more like a “series of fortunate events” rather than a compelling war movie.

    Granted the source material was not all that forgiving to an edit, but maybe a bit more thought into how to integrate existing story lines should have been considered. The cheese was gone, which is a good and a bad thing, Mathew Lillard delivers his lines so well, you kind of miss a few. I have to agree that the lack of any romantic indications between Blair and Devereaux made the final kiss a really dumb moment and totally out of context with the film as we saw it.

    The story was tighter and a bit more focused, however it was a few cuts shy of a theatrical documentary and that’s not really a good thing.

    Technically, I had no real issues, the work was outstanding. Creatively, the editing decisions needed more work, IMHO.

    Unfortunately the editor couldn’t fix the fact that Devereaux was played by an Englishwoman and not a French woman. Taggart was played by a Frenchman when the name is Welsh and the games had an English actor in the role. The Kilrathi were very poorly made puppets that made the Hobbs character in WC3 (a guy in a cat suit) look like ILM work!

    Unfortunately the film was ahead of its time with the wrong script to work with. With a better story and SFX, the film could have been quite amazing. The WC universe is quite well put together.

    Review by zinjo — August 9, 2010 @ 9:24 am

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