Star Trek Into Darkness Fanedit, Work In Progress.
Hey everybody. Very recently I released a fanedit of Star Trek 2009 and the reaction to it overall was pretty strong. Tonight I ended up watching Star Trek Into Darkness and I've begun the early development process of an edit for this one that would very likely be a much more complex edit than that of the 2009 film. I haven't completely solidified the whole idea yet, but I'm kind of "finding it in the edit" right now.
As such I threw together this clip of some of the work I did tonight and I thought I'd share it. In hopes of maybe getting some thoughts and ideas for things that people may want to see in such an edit, and also getting some feedback on the general direction so far. Keep in mind this is all work in progress and not fully polished yet.
This clip is the meeting with the Klingons in attempt to apprehend "John Harrison." Some of the major things I've done here.
1.) I cut down Uhura giving a speech to Kirk about speaking Klingon in order to simplify the dialog a little and lessen the "soap opera" effect that some of the writing has in this movie.
2.) I wanted to have John Harrison's assault on the Klingon's interrupt Uhura's attempt to negotiate. In the movie as it exists the Klingon's essentially immediately reject Uhura's attempt, thus rendering her a total failure. I wanted to give the impression that she may well have succeeded in her negotiations had Harrison not interrupted the proceedings with violence. This required shifting the order of events a little to move Kirk and the Crew coming out shooting until a little later, and removing Uhura stabbing the Klingon leader.
3.) Significantly cut down the action. Watching this movie the "chaos" of it all really stands in stark contrast to the much more even handed and comparatively subtle 2009 film. I don't need to see Harrison jumping 30 feet in the air, doing twirls, and firing endlessly on an army of Klingons. A quick burst firefight feels much more effective to me.
Anyway, hope you enjoy! This one is a little ways away from being finished but getting a start on developing it has been fun so far.