Red Dwarf: Back To Earth – The Editors Cut
by Father MerrinTo focus purely on the story & make a tighter version. As a result scenes I have taken out weren’t down to whether I thought they were any good or not, but because I didn’t think they were necessary to the overall story.
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Original film name: Red Dwarf: Back To Earth – The Directors Cut
Film studio name: Grant Naylor Productions
Edit name: Red Dwarf: Back To Earth – The Editors Cut
Date Original Film Was Released: 2009
Date Re-Edit Was Released: Nov 2009
Original Runtime: 69 minutes
New Runtime: 48 minutes
Amount of time Cut: 21 minutes
Cuts Removed:
- Annoying Rimmer Scene
- Hall Scene Scene
- Kryten & Rimmer Hall Scene
- Elevator Scene
- Toilet Story Scene
- Sofa Scene
- Underground Scene
- Kids on Bus Scene
- Carbug Scene
- Corrie Scene
- Lister Meets Craig Scene
- In The Elevator Scene
There are also minor cuts in the remaining scenes, but I’m not listing those cause there’s too many to list.
Cuts added:
- New Opening Credits
- New Holly Intro
- New End Credits
New Scene Listing
- 1. Garden of Remembrance
- 2. New Titles
- 3. Monster in the water talk
- 4. Diving bell
- 5. Katerina Bartikovsky
- 6. The Replacement
- 7. Dimension Cutting
- 8. Earth
- 9. They Walk Among Us
- 10. The Bus
- 11. The Big Fish
- 12. The Creator
- 13. Death Chase
- 14. Typing Back
- 15. Time To Choose
- 16. Back In The Red
Fanedit Details
1.78:1 PAL
English Audio 5.1
2 Audio Tracks – 1 With Audience Laughter & 1 With Without Audience Laughter
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original edit:
Back To Earth seemed to divide Red Dwarf fans as much The Phantom Menace divided Star Wars fans. When a movie is this divisive there is no way one edit could satisfy everyone. As a result I have in no way made this edit to please anyone but myself. But, I am sharing this edit on the off chance other Red Dwarf fans may enjoy it too.
The only concession I have made for others is to produce 2 audio versions. The fact there wasn’t a studio audience seemed to be one of the most divisive factors of BTE, so 2 audio tracks have been made. One with a Laughter track & one without, the edit it self is the same but now you can watch it with the audio version that you prefer.
Personally, I felt there was as good in BTE as there was bad. So I decided to focus purely on the story & make a tighter version. As a result scenes I have taken out weren’t down to whether I thought they were any good or not, but because I didn’t think they were necessary to the overall story.
Also, a special mention to Harman. This edit hit the buffers because of terrible audio glitches & I was very close to not releasing this edit as a result. But, Harman kindly offered to do the audio for me & as a result of the months of hard work he put in this edit can now be released.
Time needed for the re-edit:
- Planning: 3 days
- Editing: 1 week
- Sound editing: Months
DVD layout and features: Menu with 2 Audio options
Persons involved: Father Merrin & Harman
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Just finished watching this and enjoyed it. The story is fully intact, minus some of the more Series 8-ish forced humor/cheap laffs that bugged me about the original version. (Rimmer ramming himself into the table over and over still makes me laugh, though. Poor guy!) The audio and video are top notch and the option to have a laugh track is kinda neat. I watched it without, then watched some with it later. Makes it feel more like a true episode for sure, especially in the opening scene where Cat is describing his encounter with the squid. The new opening, closing and Holly intro were a nice touch as well.
All things considered, I’ll give this one an 8 out of 10. Very solid and entertaining.
Review by Ripplin — November 20, 2009 @ 10:51 pm
Thank you for taking the time to share your views Ripplin. I’m glad you liked it.
I have to admit I’m flirting with the idea of adding the sofa scene & a voice over during the Lister/Kochanski car scene at the end.
Review by FatherMerrin — November 30, 2009 @ 8:39 pm