The Top 8 Director's Cuts I Want To See

Hello everyone and welcome to another countdown. This time I'm doing eight films that I would like to see a director's cut. Now I know at least a majority of these aren't going to happen but that doesn't mean I still shouldn't be curious about what could have been. But enough of that let's get started.

What is a Director's Cut?

Now for any of you don't know what a director's cut is, let me explain. A director's cut is an edited version of a movie that better represents what the director of said movie wanted to show. Typically these don't get a release because most film directors don't have "final cut privilege".

#8. Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon

Event Horizon is a 1997 sci-fi horror film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The movie is about in 2047 a crew of astronauts are sent on a rescue mission after a ship named Event Horizon just appears in Neptune's orbit. When they get on the ship they soon see that it's an absolute nightmare. Now the original film had a grand total of 130 minutes, that's a total of 2 hours and 10 minutes of footage just cut away from this film. The whole reason for the movie being trimmed the way it was was because Paramount saw that it was clear that James Cameron's Titanic wasn't going to meet it's original release date. So because of that Anderson had to rush both filming and editing to release a movie that wasn't what he wanted it to be.

Now I would like to see the original cut because I don't at all like the version we were giving, so it really makes you curious if that 130 minutes would have made the film better. Sadly the chances of a director's cut being made probably won't happen because the footage has either been lost or destroyed. But that doesn't mean people like myself just can't help ourselves but want to see that original cut.

#7. Wes Craven's Deadly Friend

Deadly Friend is a 1986 sci-fi horror film directed by the late great Wes Craven (best known for 1984's A Nightmare on Elm and 1996's Scream). The story is after Paul's friend Samantha has been killed, he tries to save he life by putting a robot's brain as a replacement for her damaged brain. It goes successful but after awhile things get deadly. Now believe it or not this wasn't Wes Craven's original plan. What he wanted to do was make it a sci-fi thriller that would have focused more on plot, character development, as well as dark romance between the main characters. However test audiences were left disappointed that the film didn't contain enough gory. So Warner Bros. demanded Craven to re-shot and re-write Deadly Friend to be more like his more famous movie A Nightmare on Elm Street. That way the film contained more violence and nightmare sequences just like Elm Street.

I would like to see this original version solely because it would have been such a different yet interesting concept compared to the theatrical cut. I mean that dark love story aspect would be quite a sight in Craven's original cut. Sadly I don't see happening because the film's not as famous as his previous works and I'm pretty sure not even Warner Bros. knows about this film. But there is a petition on change.org and hey if Apocalypse Now can get a "final cut" why can't this flick get a similar treatment?

#6. Josh Trank's Fantastic Four



Fantastic Four (or as it's stylized Fant4stic) is a 2015 comic book based on the Marvel Comics' team Fantastic Four. The story is a team of four individuals are studying another dimension called. One day there's an accident on this other reality and the four of them gain superpowers. Things get worse when a friend of there's become their biggest threat. During an interview with Screen Crush one of the writers (Jeremy Slater) revealed the original script which was as he put it



"In addition to Annihilus and the Negative Zone, we had Doctor Doom declaring war against the civilized world, the Mole Man unleashing 60 foot genetically-engineered monster in downtown Manhattan, a commando raid on the Baxter Foundation, a Saving Private Ryan-style finale pitting our heroes against an army of Doombots in war-torn Latveria, and a post-credit teaser featuring Galactus and the Silver Surfer destroying an entire planet We had monsters and aliens and Fantasticars and a cute spherical H.E.R.B.I.E. robot that was basically BB-8 two years before BB-8 ever existed. And if you think all of that sounds great...well, yeah, we did, too. The problem was, it would have also been massively, MASSIVELY expensive."



Now yes, that does sound awesome but he does have a point about it being massively expensive. So I can understand wanting everything toned down to just be an origin story first then getting into the more crazy stuff for sequels. What I can't stand though is the way they went about it. I mean the reshoots were so obvious. I mean pay attention to whenever Kate Mara's hair changes to it being dyed to a wig and whenever Michael B. Jordan goes to clean shaven to sporting a little bit of facial hair. It's really distracting. So yes I would like to see what Josh Trank planned for this film before 20th Century Fox dicked with it. It's probably not going to happen because this movie got ripped to shreds from reviews to the point where I don't think Fox wants to back to it and it also didn't help that Trank tweeted (and then later deleted) this before the film even made it's debut...

"A year ago I had a fantastic verison of this. And it would've received great reviews. You'll probably never see it. That's reality though".


And then there's the most recent report of him saying he wouldn't mind erasing the film from his film history.

#5. David Ayer's Suicide Squad



Suicide Squad is a 2016 comic book film based on the DC Comics' team of the same name. It tells the story of criminals who are forced to go on missions for Amanda Waller. If they don't follow orders they will be dealt with permanently. Now I will be honest I don't mind the versions we got both extended cut and theatrical cut. However I still want to know what David Ayer really wanted to do with this movie and of course there's the whole thing with Jared Leto's Joker being cut out and that guy also deserves some justice. But going back to my point about what David Ayer original intended, if you watch the teaser trailer it's clear Ayer wanted to do something darker. However after the backlash that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice got due to it's dark tone, Warner Bros. was like "Oh Shit! Guys we gonna make our next movie more fun!" But by doing this you do get a version that while still entertaining it does leave a big group of audience members wondering what could have been. The issue with this director's cut is #ReleaseTheAyerCut is nowhere near as popular as #ReleaseTheSnyderCut but if Warner Bros. was to release that original cut. It would be something amazing. Especially since we'll finally get this scene...






You want to know what this scene was about. Well according to Mr. Ayer himself, Joker would have made a deal with Enchantress to where he is the "King of Gotham". Yeah...that doesn't sound like something people would want to see. Not at all (for the record I'm being sarcastic).











#4. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3



Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 comic book film based on the popular Marvel Comics' character Spider-Man. It's also the third film in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy. The story is Peter Parker has a new black suit, everything seems to be going while with this new suit but Peter soon realizes that this new suit has a dark secret. Now during production Sony kept giving Sam Raimi a list of demands. They kept telling him to do things that he really didn't want to but still decided to stay on and finish the movie. Now looking into this film's history, we would have gotten a totally different film. For instance a Twitter usher named @WilliamD1123 showed a bunch of things that were cut from the film, then you go on to the Spider-Man films wiki and we see more things that got cut such as...

Peter sees Venom in the mirror (although this probably wasn't going to be in the film, considering this is an early design of Venom).

During the finale battle the symbiote would have tried to get back onto Peter.

This freaky Venom skull (well we possibly would have gotten this. This was made for an alternate ending but you knows maybe we would maybe we wouldn't).

And last but not least this final swing, which in return would have continued the tradition in the film series of Spider-Man having one last swing.

Now when this movie had it's tenth anniversary we did get what was called an "Editor's Cut". But that doesn't count. That's essentially still the theatrical cut but with some scenes cut, rearranged, removed, and one extended scene. Now yes that cut also includes new scenes but it's still not Raimi's vision. But you knows if Sony was willing to give this film an new cut on it's tenth anniversary maybe we'll get a new cut for it's 15th or 20th? Probably not but hey stranger things have happened.

#3. Shane Black's The Predator

The Predator is a 2018 sci-fi action film and the fourth film in the Predator franchise. The story is the Predators have got wind a an alarm sent from Earth and set out to find it. Now a rag team group must stop the Predators or the whole world will suffer. When the movie first came out in my review I mentioned the editing was off. Then ScreenRant posted an article where they revealed so many things got cut. Things such as an entire sequence with more hybrid Predators, most of the characters personalities were changed, and of the course the entire third act was changed (although this is something we all know but still worth pointing out). Now you knows how much of the original cut was finished but none the less I'm still interested in what Shane Black's original plan was for The Predator. But much like Ayer's Suicide Squad I don't see a #ReleaseTheBlackCut being popular, I mean there's a petition so there is an audience who would like to see this.

#2. Simon Kinberg's Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix (or X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is a 2019 comic book film and the twelfth film in the X-Men main series. The story after Jean Grey was hit with a solar flare her powers start acting up and she isn't her usual shelf. During this crisis among the team, an alien race notices this and wants to control her. Now I understand there are a lot of people who liked the theatrical cut I even said in my review I liked it, however after seeing articles from both Cosmic Book News and XMenFilms it really makes me irate of how we could have had an even better version of the movie. Cause there are many things that are changed or cut. For instance this picture where Magneto is all jacked up not in the movie

Then during that same Cosmic Book News with that Magneto pic, we learn stuff like this got cut

- Scott and Jean get a more fleshed out relationship.

- Jessica Chastain's character talking about her alien race, the phoenix force, and mutants was extended.

- The inhabitants of Genosha were first scared of Jean Grey when she arrives.

and so fourth.

Then XMenFilms showed us pics such and this is a big one

This is a picture of UN security, reporters, and official facing an alien invasion.

So yeah we would have gotten a huge movie way bigger than what we got. Now there is somewhat of following wanting a Kinberg cut (including a petition) and I'm hoping 20th Century Fox or Disney will release this version of the movie, because like I said before I do enjoy the theatrical cut but this feels like a movie that sounds like you could watch it on repeat.

and the number one director cut I want to see is...

Yeah, yeah, I know. BIG SURPRISE!

#1. Zack Snyder's Justice League

Justice League is a 2017 comic book film, a follow-up to 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the fifth film in the DC Extended Universe. The story is after Superman's death, Batman and Wonder Woman have formed a team with Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. With this newly formed group they must stop an invasion from a powerful foe named Steppenwolf. Now I previously talked about my history with this cut before so that should really tell you about how much I really want to see this movie. But since then we continue to get more info about Zack's original film. I gotta say the more information that comes out you can clearly see that this was going to be a completely different movie than what we got. For instance

- More Cyborg scenes because he's the "heart" of the film. And just to make that statement even more clear Snyder shared this pic on his Vero

Yeah...Cyborg was gonna put us on an emotional roller coaster ride.

- Batman would have had a significant role in the film's third act.

- Uxas (aka Young Darkseid) was going to be in the history lesson instead of Steppenwolf.

- The "Knightmare" sequence in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice would have been further explored.

And so much more of this stuff. So yes, there was so many things cut from the original version that the theatrical cut of Justice League is with a shadow of doubt a completely different movie. And there is a high demand for this movie. You have the actors such as Jason Momoa (the actor for Aquaman), Ray Fisher (the actor for Cyborg & he said he would absolutely release it), and Ciaran Hinds (the actor for Steppenwolf) wanting to see this movie, film directors such as Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, etc.) and Steven S. DeKnight (director of Pacific Rim: Uprising) wanting to see this cut, Jay Oliva (the storyboard artist of Justice League) wanting this movie, comic book writer Jerry Ordway (best known for his writing for Superman) wanting this movie, comic book artist Rob Liefeld (aka the creator of Deadpool) saying "hey give us this movie", and of course the numerous amounts of fans using #ReleaseTheSnyderCut because they want this movie. Hell there's even a film editor by the name of Chris Dawson (@CDawsonAuthor) busting his ass making his own fan edit of the movie titled Justice League: Black Suit Edition just to give fans something that's just about close to Snyder's vision and there's also a fan named Fiona Zheg (@fukujang0627) who created a website called forsnydercut.com dedicated to this cut of the movie. And with all of that support is what makes the Snyder cut of Justice League my number one director's cut I want to see.

Well that's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, July 11th when I go back on the Road to Rambo V: Last Blood with my review of Rambo III. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.