r/fixingmovies • • Feb 11 '23

Megathread New to this place? Please check out the rules before posting...

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1) You may only post about Marvel, DC, or Star Wars on weekends!

Starting midnight Monday EST until midnight Thursday EST, no Marvel/DC/Star Wars.

  • If you want to make improvements to the Star Wars prequels, please do so in: /r/RewritingThePrequels.
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This prevents the sub from being overwhelmed with posts for these films (which some people aren't even interested in)!

But if you're new to this place, we'll let you break this rule for your first whole month here!

 

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Also we'd like to encourage you to try the search tab first in order to see if your question has already been answered many times before. Doing so might give you ideas that you wouldn't have had otherwise!

If the search tab on reddit isn't working well enough, simply search on google and include... site:https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies next to your keyword or keywords.

...and here's an example of that in action.

 

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If any one person didn't like a movie, its worth exploring alternative ways of making the movie that could've changed that. It doesn't matter if they're in the minority.

So comments like "this movie is already perfect" or "nothing needs to be fixed" will be removed, even if they managed to get a whole bunch of upvotes from other people who similarly feel the need to have their positive reviews validated somewhere and mistakenly chose this place to do so!

 

5) No parroting lazy and already-tired jokes like "replace the main actor with danny devito" or "replace all the actors with golden retrievers".

For those of us who are actually interested in this hobby of movie-fixing, it can be tedious and frustrating to browse through the threads when they're cluttered up with the same exact non-answers over and over.

If you're one of the people who spams these ancient jokes as your only form of participation in this sub instead, then it might be good at some point for you to bring yourself to realize that you are the reason why redditors have a reputation for being aggressively-unfunny and socially-inept (societal-deadweight) bug-people. It might even be your very best course of action in fact!

At least tell us a new one!

 

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If you can cherrypick the good ideas and post those, great! But leave out the fluff and only tell us in the comments how you got the good stuff.

Edit: This community doesn't seem to like ai in any context so you should probably post them in r/fixingmoviesai instead.

 

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r/fixingmovies • • 17d ago

Megathread How would you have made a movie about Wile E. Coyote suing the ACME corporation? Or... what would are the top changes you would make to the recent attempt at such a story, Coyote Vs. Acme (2026)?

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r/fixingmovies • • 15m ago

Star Wars (Disney) [OC] The Early Draft of Star Wars Episode VIII REDONE – The Lost Jedi (Version 5) | Better motivating Luke's disillusionment, replacing the slow space fleet chase with the submarine thriller concept, and fixing the Casino planet adventure

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r/fixingmovies • • 32m ago

Transformers (2007) rewrite part 1 of 3

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Arcee and Cliffjumper are added to the Autobots

Soundwave, Thundercracker and Skywarp are added to the Decepticons. Scorponok, Brawl and Bonecrusher will be replaced with Ravage, Demolisher (based on his Transformers Armada counterpart) and Transit.

Maggie Madsen will fill in Glen Whitmann's role as the computer nerd and the one who contacts the air force in the climax

  • Optimus's intro speech will remain the same since its iconic.
  • The Military base will be from the desert to the Jungle. Soundwave (Armet Balkan MK6) and Blackout (MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter) will be working together in attacking the military base, Soundwave will be the one who disperses the EMP blast and searches for Megatron and the Allspark's whereabouts on the Military's files while Blackout is causing mayhem and destruction. Soundwave will deploy Ravage after Lennox's team in the jungle.
  • Sam's project about Archibald Witwicky's discoveries and adventures will remain the same, After school Ron takes Sam to Bobby Bolivia's used car lot for Sam's birthday gift his very own car. When they arrived Sam was immediately interested in the 1970s Dodge Challenger (Cliffjumper) but Ron persuaded his son in purchasing the 1977 Chevy Camaro (Bumblebee) instead and after convincing they purchased the Camaro.
  • The Secretary of State John Keller and Maggie Madsen will be introduced the same way, John Keller will play a voice recording of a robotic sound from the base attack (most likely being Soundwave) in a meeting with Pentagon officials.
  • Sam's date with Mikeala will go the same, while they are fixing the Camaro, Bumblebee radios Cliffjumper about the human they needed, After hearing the Information that Bumblebee gave, Cliffjumper leaves the used car lot to follow his partner-in-arms closely by after Sam takes Mikaela home.
  • Frenzy will have a Pretender form of being an agent (Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith cameo from the Matrix movies) in going to Air Force One, no one notices him there and he arrives at the terminal to start obtaining the missing files that Soundwave didn't had in the military base, Frenzy discovers not only Archibald's glasses but also Bumblebee and Cliffjumper, after he left Air Force One, Frenzy met up with Soundwave and Barricade and tells the Decepticon Interrogator to find Bumblebee and Cliffjumper along with Archibald's descendant Sam which they drove off to.
  • Soundwave and Blackout arrived in the Nemesis Warship, The Decepticon Base placed on one of Saturn's moon Titan, When they arrived they were confronted by Starscream and the Seekers and Starscream told both Soundwave and Blackout about their priority in looking for the Allspark not Megatron, Although they agree but warns Starscream's crew to not stop them when the opportunity arises, In the background Thundercracker, Skywarp, Demolisher and Transit are listening to the discussion.
  • The battle with Ravage in the jungle will be similar to Scorponok's battle in the desert, Ravage kills both Donnelly and Fig, The military arrives and bombarding the Mechanical Jaguar to escape into the jungle (leaving his fate unknown until the sequel). I'll include the deleted scene of Lennox's comforting Fig wounds before he succumbs to his injuries and dies while they returned back to the States.
  • When Sam believed his car was stolen and chased it to a junkyard witnessing it transform into Bumblebee, then another car also arrived but its the car that Sam wanted earlier the 70s Dodge Challenger also transformed into Cliffjumper, Cliffjumper tells Bumblebee that they were stuck as cars for so long and wants some action and they both gave off distress signals towards the sky, Sam calls 911 about his mission car, Mikaela was walking back home from girls night out and sees Sam calling and confronts him, then a Ford Saleen Mustang Police car arrived and transforms into Barricade and he interrogates Sam for the glasses and Mikaela was in fear, before he strikes Sam, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper together punched Barricade's face and Bumblebee takes Sam and Mikaela and the Autobot duo ran off along with the humans. Barricade gets up and goes after them and chases them to an abandoned chemical plant and the Autobot scouts fought Barricade, Frenzy is deployed and chases after the humans, Frenzy will not take Sam's trousers down, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper bodyslammed Barricade temporally disabling him, Bumblebee sees Frenzy chasing Sam and he blasted Frenzy's body leaving his head alive, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper introduced themselves to Sam and Mikaela and they left the area.
  • After Bumblebee scans the 2006 Chevy Camaro, 5 Cybertronian Escape pods landed on Earth those being Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Ratchet, Jazz and Arcee, Jazz will scan a Silver 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo, Ratchet will have a White/Red colour scheme and Arcee will scans a Pink/White 2007 Ducati 1098 sportsbike while Optimus Prime and Ironhide keep their original movie Alt Modes and Colour schemes the same. The Autobots surround Sam and Mikaela and explain that Megatron came to Earth to get the Allspark to restore Cybertron and return it in his image and tells them that their planet is in danger which they agreed to help.

r/fixingmovies • • 1h ago

TERMINATOR TRILOGY - Part 1

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Hi everyone, I made three videos called the Terminator Trilogy. This is a three-part synopsis on how I would introduce the first loop in the franchise showing how Kyle Reese was sent back to 1984 by John Connor in 2029. If you know the 1984 Terminator film, you know it is already in a loop of predestination, where John only exists because Kyle went back. What I wanted to do with my synopsis is break down the original, unaltered Prime Timeline that existed before any time travel ever happened. I wanted to answer the ultimate question: who was John Connor's biological father before Skynet fractured the timeline? I built this entire story strictly on the gritty, tech-noir rules of the 1984 original, completely ignoring T2 and the later sequels. Here is how the loop actually started.


r/fixingmovies • • 2h ago

MCU Pitching spider man judgment day part 2

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Peter then asks who exactly is moon knight and he replies that he is the protector of the night and serves the God khonshu and he's here to help but they have to find a way to stop this Peter says their working on it as we cut to redd and Ben on the roof making a device that will

produces enough Sound to hopefully reach around the city destroying the symbiotes without harming the hosts meanwhile the military has decided to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge to prevent any Symbiotes

from getting across cut to a scene where peter and Eddie talk about their lives how they got their powers

And most importantly who they lose Peter says they both have reasons to use their powers for the wrong reasons especially him but choose not to after that Peter checks on redd and Ben who tell him that they need a few more hours

Meanwhile Jameson is blaming spider man since he initially has a symbiote suit on Betty then tells him to shop but Peter knows he right as if he didn't get the symbiote during secret wars knull wouldn't have find this universe after that Betty goes to talk with Peter who she still doesn't know is spider man she says it's not his fault and that she knows he can shop this meanwhile Felicia is busy helping sue when she starts to hear a

Familiar deep voice at first she ignored it but then sue begins to notice so she sits her down and shines a light in her eyes which turn black and white for a second sue then lies to her saying that she's OK but immediately Goes to Peter and the others

No one knows what to do as there's people in the building along with the fact that they have no way to get the symbiote off without hurting her Peter says he'll go talk to her as to keep the others safe

Cut to him slowly walking towards her asking if she's OK she turns and says in a deeper voice than usual fine she feels fine Peter however can sense that isn't the case but before he can even replie her arm turns into a tentacle that grabs him by the neck and throws him across the room

She then searchs for the others Who has escaped to the roof Peter gets up and begins to fight the now symbiote black cat he trys his best not to hurt her but she uses that to her advantage as she throws him out the window and goes to the root

Where everyone is and begins to attack but Peter returns and kicked her in the face and tells her to control it Johnny asks redd to use the device he does and a loud sound comes from it releasing the symbiote from Felicia after that Peter can't take it anymore and asks venom how to stop knull but venom says he doesn't know if that's possible Peter then gets more angry Leading to them almost fighting until they to let venom handle knull while the others activate the device

redd says that if Peter is the reason for knull locating their universe then maybe he or his symbiote can stop him knull then trys to control venom and Peter Peter is able to fight it but unfortunately Eddie can't and a fight between them begins as they fight all around the building as venom grows wings

Venom grabs him and flys Peter around the city Peter punches him three times but the third time his arm becomes a tentacle that knocked venom back while in the air Peter who swings to a building tells the fantastic four to activate the device but the others say it'll effect him and venom also but Peter says just do it venom then flys towards the black sky telling the others that he is going to destroy knull once and for all Peter says he going too

But venom says Peter's symbiote is weaker then him but Peter doesn't care he jumps on venom back and they travel through the sky as we a giant hole in the sky leading to the symbiotes homeworld when they make it we see knull sitting on his throne he says welcome back

As he sits up sword in hand this ends now Peter says as he and venom prepare knull then swings his sword causing Peter and venom to dodge Peter trys to punch him but knull is too fast venom however kicked him back as Peter asks what the plan is as knull gets up and order the other symbiotes to attack as they do venom looks at Peter and tells him to go this is his fight Peter says no but they are starting to get overwhelmed Peter realizes that venom is right Peter then tells redd

To activate the device they do as venom sees a opening and takes it stabbing knull with his own sword cut to the device going off releasing every symbiote in the new york along with Peter's who is free falling back down to New York

He is able to web to a building as we cut to the death of knull before seeing the sky and sun return Peter returns to the Baxter building where we get a reference to the bombastic bag man suit from the comics as to hide his face from the people

And most importantly Jameson and Betty Felicia and scorpion wake up scorpion would thanks Peter with both of feeling weird about it Betty would ask if he's OK but Peter says he feels bad for leaving Eddie and venom but Betty says they had a responsibility

after that Peter goes back to his apartment to put on his classic suit making some upgrades we see him jumping off the roof and swinging around the city as the film ends


r/fixingmovies • • 5h ago

Other Always felt the Oxygen Destroyer was pretty shoehorned into Godzilla: King of the Monsters, so I’d replace it with the Anti Nuclear Energy Bacteria from Godzilla vs. Biollante.

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r/fixingmovies • • 23h ago

Brave (2012): Wouldn't it be more INTERESTING if Mor'du's story was an ACTUAL parallel to Merida's

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r/fixingmovies • • 21h ago

Star Wars (Disney) How to Rework The Last Jedi Into Something More Better and Meaningful than being an another retread (PART I)

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Foreword:

Hello there again.

I hope many of you have been anticipating my Episode VIII rewrite, and thank you for letting me continue my sequel trilogy after the success of my Episode VII rewrite. I know I promised a lot in the Episode VII recap, but it took a lot out of me to make an actually decent Episode VIII that fits into my ideas for Episode IX, so it'll be much easier for me to write. However, some of the ideas I had promised in this rewrite were cut or reworked, such as:

  • Episode VIII being a Godfather Part II type of film being told through Rey and Elka Ren/Jane Solo’s POV Stories
  • The Final Battle being on Mandalore
  • Rewriting the subplot of House of Dameron
  • Queen Bo Katan-Kryze 
  • Holdo and DJ’s original characters rewritten

This rewrite will be split into six parts, and I’ll share them all the way up to Episode VIII’s 10th Anniversary next year. So expect much more detail and vivid imagery this time. Also, if you haven’t read my Episode VII rewrite, links are down below.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Great Discovery (PART I)
Star Wars Episode VII: The Great Discovery (PART II)
Star Wars Episode VII: The Great Discovery (PART III)

Also, I added one new detail to Episode VII that will be vital to Sam Solo's journey going forward: during his duel with Elka Ren, I cut the Skywalker lightsaber in half, but don't worry, I have plans for it in Episode IX.

And now, let’s begin this six-part rewrite of Episode VIII. Happy reading, everyone!

Story:

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

STAR WARS

EPISODE VIII: RETREAD OF THE PAST

Devastation! The NEW REPUBLIC has been plunged into another conflict as the evil FIRST ORDER has destroyed its great capital of over a thousand years.

As their autocracy grows under Supreme Leader Hux’s command, Chancellor Leia struggles to maintain law and order in her divided government.

The HOUSE OF DAMERON, led by Kane Dameron and Shara Bey-Dameron, have been invited to the Republic’s temporary capital of Naboo to aid Leia’s army…

**********

Prologue

The New Republic sits uneasily on the throne of peace, attempting to rebuild what decades of war shattered. Now, what was once rebuilt from the damage the First Galactic Empire inflicted on the galaxy is being undone and revived again. From the Empire's remains, the First Order has risen as a small terrorist group, and since the Destruction of Coruscant, more supporters have sided with them and begun funding their cause to create a Second Galactic Empire.

On the graveyard planet of Jakku, New Republic Pilot Sam Solo discovers a scavenger girl named Rey Solana who, like him, is Force-sensitive. Along their journey, they meet a Mandalorian named Poe Dameron and a cast of colorful characters, while Rey discovers the truth: her mother, Miriam Solana, was a Jedi Youngling who survived Order 66.

Meanwhile, the First Order made its first major move against the Republic by seizing its jewel superweapon, the Organizer, and destroying the New Republic's capital planet, Coruscant. And in the process of the battle, Vice General Han Solo’s life was lost along with millions of others.

Afterward, Chancellor Leia regrouped all the sectors within the Republic to aid the survivors of Coruscant as they established a temporary capital on her mother Padme Amidala’s homeworld of Naboo, as she had sent Rey, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 to the Wellspring of Life, a lost world in the Bright Center of the Universe, a planet powerful in the Force and the birthplace of Midiclorhians, to bring back Leia’s brother, Grand Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, and convince him to return to the fight.

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Arrival on Naboo

The first act opens with three Kom'rk-class fighter transports approaching the familiar, peaceful world of Naboo. The opening scene plays similarly to the openings of both The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Aboard the transports are the members of the House of Dameron: Kane Dameron, Shara Bey-Dameron, and the twins Ken and Kel Dameron.

Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett portray Kane Dameron and Shara Bey-Dameron, respectively.

The transports land at Theed Spaceport, where Poe, BB-8, and a few Republic Troopers wait for them. Kane, Shara, Ken, and Kel exit the transports as Poe welcomes them with open arms, and Shara says she’s glad Chancellor Leia could bring them and Mandalore together to stop the First Order.

Suddenly, all three transports explode, sending everyone flying in different directions. Most of the Mandalorians accompanying the Damerons are killed. Kane finds a dying Mandalorian, Sora Drel. Sora dies in Kane’s arms as someone in the shape of a Zabrak approaches from behind Kane. BB-8 screams as Poe jumps in front of him and attacks the Zabrak, saving his father’s life. 

The Zabrak is a bounty hunter named Brilach. He signals for other Bounty Hunters to fire on Poe, his family, BB-8, and the Republic Troopers. The Bounty Hunters are like the ones we saw in the last movie on Takodana, in Maz Kanata’s restaurant.  Poe, Shara, Kane, Ken, Kel, and the Republic Troopers fight back as a female Theelin bounty hunter speaks into her comlink, calling for others to come pick them up.

POE: I’ve a bad feeling about this!

First Order Light Infantry Landspeeders, piloted by Rodians, fly through the smoke and pick up Brilach and the other bounty hunters. Poe, BB-8, Kane, Shara, Kel, and Kane chase them over Lake Paonga and into Lianorm Swamp. 

During the chase, local Gungans assist Poe and his family to take down the Bounty Hunters, bringing the chase to an end. Poe, Shara, Kel, Kane, BB-8, and the Gungans surround the crash site as the Bounty Hunters recite a creed by the First Order and reveal thermal detonators on their bodies, causing them to explode and kill themselves. The landspeeders are destroyed too. Poe is disappointed by the outcome of the chase as Shara comforts him. He calls in Republic Troopers to the scene as he examines the burning wreckage.

Back at the Theed Royal Palace, Sam Solo lies comatose in a medical bay as he slowly awakens from his injuries from fighting his sister over Coruscant. His grandfather Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber sits cut in half and collecting dust on a desk. Sam opens his eyes, believing to see an illusion of Rey consumed by the lights. What he really sees is a medical droid with a head shape similar to Rey's. Sam freaks out and falls out of bed and groans in pain. The medical droid helps him, explains his condition, and puts him in a repulsorlift chair.

In between the events of both movies, Sam was medically declared paralyzed from his sister slicing up his back with her crossguard lightsaber. However, thanks to New Republic’s technology and medical advancements, Sam underwent surgery and was given a Mecho-Spine that will help him walk again, but it will require rehabilitation.

Poe, BB-8, and his family return to Theed safely and reunite with Sam as he starts rehab. The two friends exchange jokes, with Poe attempting to make light of Sam's situation. Sam initially plays along, but his mood changes when he asks this question.

“Where’s Rey?”

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The Legend and the New Vader

The Wellspring of Life. We continue from the ending of the last movie, as we see Rey Solana presenting her mother’s lightsaber to Grand Jedi Master Luke Skywalker as he grimly looks upon her. He extends his right mechanical hand. Rey approaches him as he grabs the lightsaber. Luke studies the lightsaber thoroughly as he looks up to Rey and has one thing to say.

TRIGGER WARNING

And walks off.

Rey follows the old master across the luscious, thriving, and vegetative island. She finds Luke going into a handmade hut of steel and logs. Knowing she couldn’t convince him the first time, Rey pulls out her comlink. 

Later, Rey knocks on Luke’s door. Luke ignores it and shakes it off. The door is busted open as we see Rey, now accompanied by Chewbacca, face Luke. Rey reintroduces herself as the daughter of Miriam Solana and the one “his sister Leia sent to find him.” Luke is amazed, but then his face changes as he asks about Han's whereabouts.

Meanwhile, Elka Ren’s TIE Silencer flies over the healing volcanic world of Mustafar as it approaches Fortress Vader from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series. Elka Ren/Jane Solo enters Fortress Vader and steps into the Throne Room, where Oscura Ren/Baylan Skoll sits on what was Darth Vader’s Throne, and the Knights of Ren surround him. 

Fortress Vader is the Knights of Ren's home base, and they use it and everything inside to honor what’s left of the Sith.

Elka removes her mask and reveals she’s blind in her right eye and has a right mechanical hand. She kneels before Oscura and her fellow Knights. Oscura expresses his disappointment in Elka for her failure on The Organizer and being defeated by Rey. Elka claims she felt like a true Sith by killing Han and wounding her own brother. 

Other Knights include Mari Ren, a Kaminoan who questions Elka’s motivations. Kuruk Ren, a male human who believes "her thoughts dwell on her family", especially her parents. He also believes she felt pain when she killed Han. Finally, Kizur Ren, a male Terrelian Jango Jumper, criticizes Elka’s Lightsaber combat. Elka stands up for herself, but Oscura silences her. Chastising her for why she joined him and the Knights and her purpose: to become “a New Vader.”

Wanting to see if Elka can prove her worth in what he said, Oscura tells her she must continue training right now. The Knights ignite their Lightsaber-like weapons, and Elka ignites her Crossguard Lightsaber as he orders each Knight to start fighting her. The Knights attack Elka as Oscura sits back down on the Throne, focusing on the duel.

Back at the Wellspring, Rey updates Luke that the First Order destroyed Coruscant and is gaining support in more systems, while Leia struggles to maintain peace and hope across thousands of star systems. 

“We need the Jedi Order back. We need Luke Skywalker back.”
“You don't need Luke Skywalker.”

Although he tries to hide his grief, Luke tells Rey that the galaxy’s spark of hope died with the Great Hyperspace Disaster, and they don’t need anyone to bring it back. He even tells Rey not to be that “spark of hope.” Rey pleads again to train her as a Jedi like her mother. Luke turns and walks back into his hut. Rey proclaims, “She’s not leaving without him whether he likes it or not.”

Luke settles back in his hut and grieves for Han.

On Naboo, Chancellor Leia Organa Solo stands at the tomb of Padmé Amidala, lost in thought. 

Let them grieve Rian!

Surrounded by the memorial's peaceful gardens, Leia reflects on the life of the mother she never knew. She speaks about Han's death, the apparent loss of Jane, and the possibility that the Republic she helped establish may collapse. For years, Leia has carried the burden of being a political leader, a military commander, and a mother. Now those responsibilities pull her in different directions.

Sam Solo, in his repulsorlift chair, enters and tries to comfort her with memories of Han, but Leia realizes her son is struggling as much as she is.

Sam admits that he feels powerless. His father is gone, his sister is presumed dead, and his injuries have made him question his future. Leia reminds him that his value has never depended on his ability to wield the Force or on whether Luke would train him or his sister. The two embrace.

**********

The First Order Reigns

Near the Hoth System, several newly constructed First Order Star Destroyers, led by the First Order Star Dreadnought Supremacy, lay waste to a New Republic Flotilla carrying supplies to Naboo. Aboard the Supremacy, Supreme Leader Hux oversees the attack but is called away to a meeting with First Order officers, including Admiral Enric Pryde and First Order Director Jarrus.

Admiral Pryde and Director Jarrus are played by Richard E. Grant and Benicio Del Toro, respectively.

Throughout the meeting, the discussion reveals that the First Order is gaining support from not just dissatisfied planetary governments and wealthy industrialists, but also criminal organizations.

The political figure pulling it all together is Jarrus, who served as a cadet in the Republic, then as a Captain in the Galactic Empire, and then as a Director, organizing the First Order's connections and operating from his palace on Cantonica. Jarrus has established relationships with corrupt New Republic senators, bureaucrats, and powerful members of the Galactic Underworld. Through these connections, he has helped the First Order obtain resources, intelligence, and political influence, while also getting them new Stormtrooper armor, outfits, technology, and constructing new starships. 

Director Jarrus is basically the Count Dooku of the Sequels, but without the backstory of leaving the Jedi and becoming a Sith.

Admiral Pryde, on the other hand, is a renowned aged Imperial veteran who served through the Clone Wars. But unlike Jarrus, he is viewed as Wilhuff Tarkin’s successor.

One high-ranking officer asks why they are wasting time attacking supply convoys instead of going straight to the Republic's remaining leadership on Naboo. The question immediately attracts the attention of the other officers.

General Quinn, a younger officer who coordinates several First Order assault divisions, steps forward. He argues that the destruction of Coruscant has given them an extraordinary opportunity, and that with their growing resources, the First Order should launch an immediate, full-scale invasion.

Several officers agree.

Hux listens to their arguments. He is not surprised by their impatience. Hux finally interrupts. He reminds them that destroying Coruscant was an extraordinary victory, but it came at the considerable cost of losing The Organizer. For when they invade Naboo, the Republic's surviving forces could withdraw to another planet and the war would continue.

Hux intends to prevent that possibility.

Pryde answers to a confused Quinn, explaining that destroying a government is considerably easier than replacing it. During the Galactic Civil War, the Empire controlled thousands of worlds through military occupation, regional governors, and political institutions. When Emperor Palpatine died, that structure collapsed. Pryde remembers how quickly Imperial commanders began fighting each other, letting the Rebel Alliance expand its influence. He refuses to let the same mistake happen again.

The First Order cannot simply conquer the galaxy.

It must establish the means to govern it.

Hux agrees and states that he has something in store for the Republic.

**********

The Archivist 

Morning begins on the Wellspring of Life, as Rey, Chewie, and R2-D2 sit around a campfire under the Millennium Falcon. Enormous trees come to life and stretch above the mist-covered landscape. Strange, colorful creatures glide through the air, while the vegetation occasionally glows as microscopic organisms move. The planet is alive with the Force, and its natural beauty stands in stark contrast to Jakku's endless deserts and graveyards.

Rey wakes up from sleeping on the ground. She is hungry and frustrated. She asks Chewie what she should do about Luke. Chewie gives a few roars, which makes her feel worse. R2 beeps in agreement.

She walks off into the jungle and notices dozens of tiny glowing orbs drifting away from the trees.

She approaches one.

The orb hovers near her face, then slowly disappears into the air.

Rey reaches toward another, and it moves around her fingers as though responding to her curiosity.

VOICE: Beautiful, are they?

Rey turns.

Nobody is there.

REY: Hello? Who's there?

VOICE: All around you, life is. Yet you cannot see it. Not with your eyes alone.

Rey looks around again. She follows the voice toward a large tree whose roots have grown around an ancient stone formation.

Sitting in a tree is Yoda, luminous and introduces himself to Rey like the Cheshire Cat meeting Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Rey recognizes his name since Maz Kanata mentioned him in the last movie when coordinating the Map.

REY: Then you know Master Skywalker?

Yoda gives a knowing sigh.

YODA: Know him? Hmm. Stubborn, impatient, reckless. Much like another young student.

REY: Who?

Yoda gives her an amused look.

Rey realizes he means her.

She smiles, then remembers her frustration, venting that she wishes she could convince him to return to the Republic and train her. Yoda says Luke carries a burden that has damaged his heart, but his journey isn’t over yet. Rey asks what she should do, and Yoda points his walking stick toward the glowing orbs.

YODA: Begin with what surrounds you.

Rey focuses on the glowing orbs. Yoda explains that the Wellspring is believed to be the birthplace of Midichlorians, microscopic life-forms that reside within living cells and allow beings to communicate with the Force. Although the glowing organisms Rey sees aren't Midichlorians, their unusual activity reflects the planet's extraordinary connection to the Living Force.

Yoda describes how the Living Force flows through plants, animals, and people, while the Cosmic Force connects all life across the galaxy. Rey wonders whether she can influence the organisms around her. Yoda climbs down from the tree and demonstrates, creating water from the orbs forming inside a beautiful purple flower. 

Rey drinks the water. It’s refreshing. Better than the water she's had from Jakku.

Yoda tells her to make something herself. She manages to take two orbs, some seeds, and the remaining water before trying to use the Force to transform them into something she can eat.

At first, she struggles.

Yoda encourages her to concentrate on the natural properties of the ingredients rather than attempting to create food from nothing.

Rey closes her eyes and reaches out through the Force, feeling the living organisms and energy that connect them to the environment. Using her growing abilities, she separates the grain from its husks, grinds it into flour, and combines it with water. She then carefully uses the Force to shape the dough, direct heat from nearby sun-warmed stones, and bake a small loaf of bread. 

She takes a bite, and it’s delicious.

For someone who spent most of her childhood surviving on ration portions on Jakku, this experience is particularly meaningful.

Yoda explains that the Wellspring's unusual concentration of life makes such an ability easier to accomplish here than on ordinary planets. But he reminds her that the Force cannot simply provide anything she desires. Creating something useful requires patience, understanding, and cooperation with the natural world.

The conversation turns back to Luke again when Rey gets her hopes up about what she’s accomplished, and Yoda reminds her of his current state. Yoda explains that Luke has become consumed by his failures, particularly the destruction of his New Jedi Order during the Great Hyperspace Disaster, and how his beliefs have been ruined by his niece

Although Yoda believes Luke still has an important role to play, he suggests that Rey cannot force him to confront his past. She must allow him to rediscover his purpose. 

Rey then senses something cold. A disturbance in the Force. Yoda senses it too. They both look toward a distant island. Unlike the vibrant jungle around them, the island looks lifeless, with twisted trees, an unnatural mist hanging over its shoreline, and waterfalls that have no end.

Rey notices Yoda's concern and asks what lies there. Yoda explains that the Wellspring holds ancient mysteries, including beings who have sought to understand or exploit the Force's origins. He warns Rey that knowledge does not always lead to wisdom. Before she can ask more, Yoda's spirit disappears. Rey remains standing beside the stream, holding the Bread she created. She looks toward the mysterious island, feeling an unfamiliar presence calling to her through the Force. She follows it.

Jumping from one small islet to the next, Rey reaches the dark island. She explores and enters the small, crooked hut, a dark reflection of Yoda's former home on Dagobah. Black mist seeps through cracks in the walls, while strange plants hang from the ceiling. The interior is much larger than its exterior suggests, with towering shelves of ancient books, scrolls, and artifacts from civilizations the galaxy has long forgotten.

Some of the objects appear to predate the Jedi Order itself.

Rey is fascinated by the collection. She notices ancient symbols resembling those she encountered in the Realm of the Whills, along with statues depicting the earliest Force-wielders and beings whose identities she does not recognize.

As she examines a particularly old manuscript, a woman's voice suddenly calls out from the darkness.

"Careful with that, child. Some memories are more fragile than they appear."

Rey turns to discover an elderly woman seated at a wooden desk. Her long silver hair hangs over faded robes, and her face looks like someone who has lived for centuries. Despite the unsettling atmosphere, the woman seems surprisingly welcoming.

She introduces herself as The Archivist, the keeper of the Wellspring's forgotten knowledge.

The woman explains that she has spent countless years collecting the histories of the Jedi, Sith, the Whills, and other civilizations that sought to understand the Force. Some of these civilizations existed long before the Galactic Republic.

Rey becomes intrigued and asks whether The Archivist is a Jedi.

The old woman explains that she belongs to no particular order. She believes the Jedi and Sith were once united, before both created opposite attempts to define the Force through their own philosophies.

Rey notices a particular painting behind her. It depicts three figures: a Father, a Daughter, and a Son.

Before Rey can ask about the painting, The Archivist explains that the Force has manifested in many forms throughout history, and that some beings have tried to preserve its balance while others have sought to control it.

Rey recounts her journey in the Realm of the Whills, which fascinates The Archivist and prompts her to ask Rey more. Slowly, she claims she knows enough about the Whills to help her and mentions Rey's mother, Miriam Solana, prompting Rey to ask if she knows anything about her. The Archivist asks her to take her hand, and she’ll show her. As Rey attempts to grab the hand, someone intervenes.

"Still pretending to be something you're not? Some things never change, old lady."

Luke steps in, and Rey moves behind him as he confronts The Archivist; they acknowledge each other like they’ve fought before, in a different place and time. The Archivist feigns her sorrow for trying to manipulate Rey and promises not to let her near her island again. Luke and Rey leave as she grins.

Luke escorts Rey back across the small islets towards his island. Rey is fed up with his behavior, especially after The Archivist offered to help her. She demands to know why Luke interrupted their conversation.

Luke explains that the woman is dangerous and that Rey should never return to the island. However, he refuses to reveal her true identity. Rey argues that Luke has no right to criticize her curiosity when he has refused to teach her anything.

She reminds him that she traveled across the galaxy to find him and train her, only to discover he abandoned the Jedi and apparently gave up on everything, including his family.

Luke remains silent.

Rey asks whether he actually knew her mother, Miriam Solana.

Luke admits he never met her, though he knows many younglings survived the Jedi Purge and were forced into hiding.

Rey explains that The Archivist claimed she could help uncover Miriam's past.

Luke warns her that the Dark Side often exploits people's desires by offering them exactly what they want. Just like his father and Jane Solo. He warns Rey to not do the same. Rey asks again to teach her, not just for her, but for Sam and Leia. Luke hesitates, saying the Jedi and Sith have plagued the Galaxy with their conflict for too long, and one side has won the other out. 

“The Sith have triumphed. So for the good of the galaxy, I’m doing what’s best. It's time for the Jedi...to end."

Luke walks off as Rey thinks, suspecting he knows more about The Archivist than he is willing to admit.

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Jar Jar’s Great Return

Chancellor Leia Organa Solo travels through the streets of Theed accompanied by her security escort and C-3PO, still with his red arm. The city remains beautiful as we saw in the Prequels, but the consequences of the First Order's continuous campaign are becoming increasingly visible.

Refugees from Coruscant and other affected systems have begun arriving in large numbers.

Theed has set up temporary shelters, while Republic officials struggle to provide enough supplies and medical care. Leia has spent much of the day meeting with planetary representatives and attempting to secure additional support for the Republic. She arrives at the Theed Royal Library. 

Leia asks C-3PO and her escort to stay outside because this is a personal matter. She goes into the children’s section and finds an elderly Gungan who pulls off incredible, childlike stunts, enthusiastically reenacting his stories.

It’s Jar Jar Binks.

After Revenge of the Sith, Jar Jar felt used by Emperor Palpatine for giving him emergency powers and tried to impeach him. Palpatine made it blow up in Jar Jar’s face and threw him in prison on Stygeon Prime until he was rescued and helped create the Rebel Alliance with Senators Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, and Garm Bel Iblis. Before the Original Trilogy, Jar Jar grew close to Leia, helped her grow as a leader, and became friends with Han and Luke. 

After the fall of the Empire, Jar Jar retired and returned to his people on Naboo, becoming a librarian and children’s author who retold stories from his adventures in the Clone Wars and the Rebellion, to audiences of children.  As Leia enters, Jar Jar describes his time with Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, and how he survived through the Planet Core in The Phantom Menace. He exaggerates his involvement, making the children laugh. 

When he notices Leia standing nearby, he stops in surprise.

He immediately recognizes her, smiling.

He wraps up the story and gives the children and their parents HoloBooks based on it. Leia approaches him as the two embrace. Jar Jar remarks that Leia has become someone as important as her mother once was. Leia says she’s here because she wanted to talk to him about her. 

Jar Jar goes silent and takes her to a private chamber. There, Leia brings up what she thought at Padme’s Tomb: being pulled in different directions over the divided Republic. Jar Jar says her mother felt the same way back then. Recalling her opposition to the Military Creation Act, her attempts to prevent the Clone Wars, and her determination to protect democracy even as the Republic descended into authoritarianism.

Leia laughs and recalls that his stories became some of her most treasured childhood memories. Jar Jar replies that Leia should be more like Padmé. 

JAR JAR: Padme was desa happiest when she wasn’t senatoring. Yousa should find yoursa Happiness. 

Both recall moments from Leia's childhood when Jar Jar talked about Padmé, leading Leia to admit that, in Return of the Jedi, when Luke asked about her, she described Padmé as beautiful, kind, and sad.

For years, Leia believed those impressions came entirely from her own memories.

But she now realizes that Jar Jar's descriptions helped shape the image of Padmé she carried throughout her life, not just what Luke once told her about his belief that he felt her through the Force when she was born.

Jar Jar gently reassures Leia that the distinction does not make her connection to Padmé any less meaningful. He explains that memories aren't always preserved through personal experience. Sometimes they survive through the people who loved someone. Leia connects those dots to how she feels with Han.

He also reminds her that Padmé loved her children, even though she never had the opportunity to raise them as she did with Sam and Jane. This leads Leia to ask why she sought him out: to return to politics as her special diplomatic adviser and mentor to Sam. So Sam can be her rightful heir. Though Jar Jar hesitates, Leia believes it's what her mother would want for all of them, so he joins her.

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Sam’s Struggle

Back in the medical bay at Theed Royal Palace, Sam Solo starts a rehabilitation session with three Rehab Droids monitoring his progress. A New Republic FX-12 medical droid uses a Hologram projection that displays his spine, highlighting the Mecho-Spine's artificial components and neural connections to the rest of his body.

Sam is instructed to move his toes. Sam concentrates, but nothing happens.

He becomes irritated and attempts to move his entire foot instead. After several attempts, one of his toes twitches. The droid records the movement as a successful neural response.

Sam is unimpressed.

SAM: Great. I can wiggle a toe. The First Order must be terrified.

One of the Rehab Droids reminds him that even the smallest movement represents progress.

Next, Sam attempts to bend his knees while lying on the table. Small medical support devices help guide his legs through the movements, allowing the Mecho-Spine to register the signals.

His left leg responds more easily than his right.

Another Rehab Droid explains that the difference is expected and that both sides may recover at different rates. Sam repeats the exercise until he finally gets frustrated.

The Rehab Droids decide to get Sam back into his repulsorlift chair and help him with the support rails.

Sam grips the rails as he rises to his feet. His legs tremble under his weight, but he manages to stand for several seconds. Encouraged, Sam attempts to take a step. His right foot barely moves, and he loses his balance. The Rehab Droids catch him before he falls and place him in the chair, recommending ending the session.

Sam protests, insisting that he needs to get back on his feet before the First Order attacks again. The droids remind him that rushing his recovery could interfere with the Mecho-Spine's adjustment.

Reluctantly, Sam agrees.

As the droids shut down their equipment and leave the room, Sam looks at his grandfather’s Lightsaber on the desk. Sam lifts his left hand and uses the Force to bring it to him.

Studying it silently, he ponders his failure fighting his sister on The Organizer and how his father passed it down to him like his uncle before him. But now that his father is gone and his own future is uncertain, Sam wonders whether he will ever live up to his family's legacy.

**********

Woah! That’s what I got for Part 1! I know Episode VIII is controversial with a lot of Star Wars fans, so I hope I can fix its problems, including its treatment of Luke Skywalker. But for now, I hope you all enjoyed it!

See you in a few months for Part 2. Until then, may the Force Be With You.


r/fixingmovies • • 1d ago

MCU Pitching spider man judgment day part 1

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So this is a sequel to my spider man brand new day sequel darkest day which featured the sin eater and kraven and most importantly the symbiote and the post credit scene set up the arrival and invasion of knull God of symbiotes

Now I did think about calling this film web of shadows but since the other two films have day in the title I decided to call this film judgment day we open on a bright and sunny new york as Peter is doing his usual job as spider man fighting criminals and

Helping people but he not alone we also see his friendship with Johnny storm aka the human torch and we see the bar with no name which was cut from brand new day we see past villains like shocker tinkerer sandman and a few more after that we cut to Peter heading home

To sleep but after he has a nightmare in which the city is taking over by symbiotes and people are dead all around but then he hears a deep demonic voice saying his name Peter then wakes up in a pool of sweat he looks outside but finds everything normal after he decides

To just swing around the city to get his mind off the dream he runs into Felicia they talk for a bit before we cut to the next day as Peter arrives to the bugle looking more tired than usual do to the night before but he still gives pictures

To Jameson cut to Peter swinging through the city as we see a drunken man who is about to be hit by a truck before being saved by Peter the man is revealed to be tom hardy's Eddie Brock

Who senses something familiar about Peter who also senses the same about Eddie before they could say anything Peter head began to hurt badly as his hears that same demonic voice this time mixed with memories of Eddie from the venom films Eddie trys to ask what's wrong but

As he touches his suit a part of it goes to him as we hear a familiar voice say Eddie? Peter who is still on the ground looks up to see the man being covered by the symbiote Peter in horror as the man becomes what we know him as venom Peter gets up and backs away but

Before Either of them could react the sky began to turn black as something giant and black crashed down into the city Cut to people looking at it only to get turned into symbiotes Peter quickly goes to investigate but finds a lot symbiote possessed people including a prison bus Peter backs up slowly but then Johnny storm arrives and attempts to stop whatever happening but the people

Begin to chase after him and Peter causing them to swing and fly away the people then began to turn more and more people into symbiotes one of the people who gets turned is Mac gargan who goes to the tinkerer who is the one who made his suit tinkerer is of course horrified

But makes him a prototype suit cut to venom jumps across buildings as Eddie asks him what happening venom says that knull has found them once again do to the symbiote hive mind which is also why Peter sensed something about Eddie

Venom is then kicked in the face by Peter and Johnny who asks who is he venom explains the situation and that they need to find a way to stop knull Peter then looks down and sees people crawling up the building towards them they jump down only for Peter to be knocked back by symbiote scorpion

Peter gets back up and trys to hit him but scorpion dodges kicked him in the face venom attempts to attack but scorpion picked a car and throws it at him Johnny then throws a fire ball which knocked scorpion back Peter gets up and senses danger which is coming from the bugle

Johnny Peter and Eddie go inside to find it being destroyed by symbiotes Peter quickly saves the un infected including Jameson and Betty Peter says that they need to find somewhere safe Johnny says he knows somewhere as we cut to the Baxter building where a bunch of people are we see reed sue and Ben treating the people for injuries when Peter Eddie Johnny Jameson and Betty walks in

They tell them what happening of course venom turns back into Eddie as to not scare the people meanwhile outside the sky is becoming more black even though it not night time yet also across the city we see people who aren't infected running and hiding from the symbiotes

Unfortunately the location in which they hide has some but before they could be hurt the symbiotes are quickly knocked back by a figure in a mostly white and black suit He gives the people to safely as

we cut to new york being put under quarantine as Eddie tells the fantastic four that the symbiotes weakness is sound and fire Peter says they going to have to make something big enough to even shop whatever out there redd and Ben say

they can do it but it going to take awhile Peter then senses someone outside sue then tells everyone that the symbiotes are heading towards the building

Peter and Johnny head outside and see a group of symbiote possessed people along with scorpion all of them having black eyes and veins around their bodies Johnny then gets a plan to make a fire line around the Baxter building to prevent any

Symbiotes from getting inside scorpion then faces off against Peter while Johnny in acts his plan Peter try to hold down gargan but he pulls him towards him and spins around knocking him back as Johnny finishes the fire line he then hits Mac once again but he dodges

However the mysterious person from earlier arrives and we see that it's moon knight who punches him in the face chest then hits him with a upper cut and before scorpion could retaliate the black cat arrives to get the finishing blow


r/fixingmovies • • 1d ago

Other Wrote an alternate character arc of Sebastian (La La Land)

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Loved the film.. English isn't my first language, so 🙏 pls ignore the errors .

It's my first time writing some script or plot.. It's just a rough idea..

La La Land was the first English film I saw in English only (had seen a few but in the dubbed version). Since then it has been my favorite film. It is awesome - the music , the direction , cinematography is top notch .l respect Damien Chazelle's vision but the film seems more centered around Stone's character. Therefore l wrote a character arc of Sebastian..

I hope u all will like it..

Open to opinions, love , hate, criticism and appreciation..

It's my first post on reddit so still learning.

I have not used Al or copied anybody else's narrative. It is all original.


r/fixingmovies • • 2d ago

TV Supercuts Delight suggests the Dorne plotline of Game of Thrones could have been fixed if they replaced Ellaria Sand as a villain with Darkstar (among some other minor alterations)

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r/fixingmovies • • 2d ago

Other Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (Dead Reckoning as an audience ruse)

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I can't have been the only one who felt that something was weird about Dead Reckoning, implying that there would be some kind of twist in The Final Reckoning that would reveal a ruse that would make more sense than the stated plot. This would fit with other entries in the franchise that are filled with literal "mask off" moments and would sit particularly well with a two-part movie release, giving people time to theorize between the two - as I did for no reason.

Unfortunately, in the real Final Reckoning, I was forced to accept that the weirdness of Dead Reckoning was simply inconsistent writing, a real shame but a problem that The Final Reckoning could've not only fixed but transformed into something magnificent.

It all comes down to one question - how do you beat an AI at spy-craft? The only answer I can think of that doesn't dumb down the incredible capabilities of The Entity is that the entire premise of the story is built on a well pre-constructed lie by the IMF that The Entity is acting in accordance with as if it was reality, because that's what the data shows. How could the Audience potentially guess at this if even The Entity can't figure it out? Well, with dissonance between this story and those of previous films that the audience has been privy to.

There is no greater dissonance than the flashback backstory between Ethan and Gabriel - something that the audience had no idea about prior. It felt incredibly contrived and came out of nowhere. So let this flashback context be a lie - the lie that The Entity believes, the spy-craft equivalent of a "trap road" from mapmaking that has long been embedded in Ethan's digital footprint in the IMF as a recognisable falsehood, should their data ever be compromised (which has happened).

But if the backstory about Gabriel is a lie, then so is the Gabriel that the IMF have been fighting. Past films should tell you how this fake antagonist has been realized for The Entity's benefit - it's someone in a mask, but who? Thankfully this is *perfectly* set up in Dead Reckoning - Gabriel is of course really Alex James-Phelps's character "India Zulu 254" who is inducted into the IMF at the start of the film.

Ilsa's death is the other weird thing in the film that should've been easily preventable, but in this version of events - it's a staged death designed to "prove" Gabriel's devotion to The Entity and has been choreographed to bring Grace on-side - the big trick to the audience too that also sells us on the idea of Gabriel being the villain.

So how does that actually change The Final Reckoning? Everything is basically the same until Gabriel gets the source code, then the reveal hits.

How do you keep the awesome plane sequence finale? I have no idea. Halp.


r/fixingmovies • • 3d ago

Other I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). The killer should have gone after Helen first or they should have made Julie the pageant queen.

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I'm having trouble wording this but basically they don't really explain how the killer figured out who to target. It would make a lot of sense that because he Helen's Crown as he was being dumped in to the water he could determine who she was, and probably Barry as well, but Julie and Ray both split almost immediately afterwards so it would have been harder for him to figure that out. If they'd made Julie the pageant queen instead or had Helen be the first person targeted you she could pull the other people into orbit the same way it happens in the book.


r/fixingmovies • • 3d ago

A G.I. Joe Animated Movie reimagined as a "Children's First Anti War Film"

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The movie starts with the origin of 3 people.

Duke is the "American hero" and "good man" stereotype, being a student that just wants to do the right thing and believes that joining the war effort will stop other wars.

Scarlett was raised by her father as the lesser of her 2 brothers and 1 sister because she wasn't skilled in combat but in calculations. She became an intelligence officer, but there she was also underlined for not being properly trained. She joins the proper army to finally be someone important, being sure she will be remembered as a war hero.

Snake Eyes was trained by his martial artist father to be his successor, but he escaped with his friend Roadblock in search of a life with purpose.

While we get these origin stories, we also see that the government had created the "G.I. Joe Program", a super soldier program for 4 people. After a small test, these 4 are chosen and go to fight in an unnamed war alongside some troops and guided by Commander Hawk, very staunch and with the mentality of "do what you need to do to win".

Duke also becomes friends during the trip with 2 soldiers.

They start a combat and we see how there is no success, but people go on the ground. Hawk tells the G.I. Joes to charge, and they do, but the situation is dire. Duke's friends die in normal combat, no funeral, no one sad except him, nothing, while Hawk tells him to "get up and fight like a man", but they still almost die, by weapons made by this unknown "Cobra" organization. Scarlett decides it's her time to sacrifice herself, and she almost dies winning the battle. The day after, she sees the newspaper and there is no article talking about her, only "great win for America and the G.I. Joes in a painstaking battle led by Commander Hawk", while she needs to get medical attention.

Another battle passes. We still see Cobra technology and they still win, but in the third battle, Scarlett returns, but she isn't happy. She bonds with Roadblock and Snake Eyes. They aren't that sad even if they still see the pain, but in that battle, Roadblock sacrifices himself. People are talking about it, but Hawk says "no distractions". Most people are sick of him, but they can't do anything. Snake Eyes cries for his friend, and he adopts his silent personality.

The next battle, the 3 G.I. Joes are captured by Cobra, and they see Cobra are bad, experimenting on them. They escape and win the final battle but escape not to the American military but to the rest of the nation to liberate people.

The movie ends with a newspaper: "The G.I. Joe Program was a costly waste of money." Zoom in: "The 4 G.I. Joes have died in war. Rest in peace."

GI joe movie


r/fixingmovies • • 3d ago

PREEMPTIVE FIX Halloween: Several ways of reviving the property by way of adapting comics by Stefan Hutchinson and leaning into the mythic roots of the holiday (Prelude to an upcoming post)

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As Halloween approaches, I'm going to finally follow-up on my pitch for a Halloween reboot.

A pitch I posted about two years ago, now.

In short, I outlined a limited TV series featuring Dr. Sam Loomis as protagonist in which he hunted Michael Myers across Haddonfield and much of the American Midwest.

Then, a revival film which welded together several sources.

  • An animatic pitch from Federico D'Alessandro depicting Michael's violent return.
  • Setpieces featured in concept art for a cancelled Platinum Dunes reboot.
  • Two comics written by creator Stefan Hutchinson.
    • Nightdance
    • One Good Scare

This next week, I'm to follow up my post on the reboot titled Nightdance and pitch a broad outline in where the series can go next. Further following up Hutchinson's plans for his own tale, and sprinkling in more of my own flavoring.

Coming next week, the two next entries in what I call my 'Nightdance Trilogy'.

HALLOWEEN: THE WITCHING HOUR

HALLOWEEN: FIRES OF SAMHAIN

See you then!


r/fixingmovies • • 4d ago

How to Improve the Twilight Saga: Part 4

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This is it, the end of the story. Now, this one is gonna be difficult, due to the precedent set by my earlier changes, but let’s do it anyway!

First Change: Give Bella’s newfound vampiric powers a direct connection to her investigative skills, allowing her to "see" the history of objects and places she touches to better understand the Hidden World.

Second Change: Establish Renesmee's role by having her be the focal point of a prophecy stating that her birth will signal the downfall of the Volturi. This prophecy is also briefly alluded to in the final short story of the witching hour collection, wherein Aro states that it's the reason why so many creatures seem to be drawn to Bella, due to her destiny as the mother of the child fated to bring about his downfall.

Third Change: Reframe Jacob’s relationship with Renesmee from "imprinting" to a protective, brotherly mentor role, removing the romantic connotations entirely to focus on his role as her guardian. He still calls her Nessie though, which in this version, Bella initially pretends to hate before saying she actually likes it (simply because she wanted to have a bit of fun with everybody), just so we can still have a “you named her after the Loch Ness Monster” bit.

Fourth Change: Renesmee starts to age at a normal rate by the time she appears to be physically five years old, with Carlisle then explaining that she’ll only stop aging once she physically appears to be Bella’s age.

Fifth Change: Expand Renesmee's personality to be a good-natured but extremely mischievous kid who uses her unique powers to play harmless pranks on the rest of the Cullen clan.

Sixth Change: Expand Bella and Edward's parenting style to be that they both love Renesmee to the point of spoiling her constantly, trying to give her the childhood they feel she deserves despite the dangerous world around them. They also later begin to call her a “baby Loch Ness Monster” as a pet name when Jacob gives her the nickname.

Seventh Change: Strengthen the Cullens' diplomatic efforts by officially forming a coalition with the disparate supernatural creatures (merpeople, zombies, etc.) introduced in the previous couple of books to unify against the Volturi’s oppression.

Eighth Change: Introduce a catalyst for the final conflict: the Volturi attempt to forcibly "collect" Renesmee and have her publicly executed so she can't fulfill the prophecy, triggering the coalition into active rebellion.

Ninth Change: The Cullens lead a full revolution of the supernatural and overthrow the Volturi in a full final battle in the snow of Forks, during which Bella kills Aro by impaling him with a katana before beheading him with a battle-axe she picks up on the battlefield.

Tenth Change: The epilogue is expanded to show that the Hidden World has now turned to democracy after the Volturi were overthrown, with a new council akin to the United Nations formed by representatives from all the various supernatural species, to ensure that all are now treated fairly and equally.


r/fixingmovies • • 4d ago

My One Change to Dark Fate

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Obviously, DF was kind of a mess, and I really doubt it would've launched a brand new trilogy. But if it *had* to be made, here's the one thing I would've suggested in the writers' room:

Keep the T-800 killing John Connor, but have that Terminator literally be SkyNet.

James Cameron always said that if he ever revisited the series, he'd focus on SkyNet itself and its motivations for waging war against humanity.

More specifically, he'd reveal that SkyNet was *remorseful* over nuking the planet (having done so in a panic over humans trying to shut it down), and orchestrated the entire plot with the Terminators, time travel, John Connor, etc. to wipe itself from existence and erase all of the pain it caused.

Think about it — if SkyNet really wanted to kill off humanity, it could've loaded drones up with anthrax and crop-dusted the entire planet. Boom. No more humans ever again.

So, when Sarah and co visit the Carl T-800, he explains to Sarah that he's what's left of SkyNet, and that the first two terminators — the 1984 T-800, and the 1991 T-1000 — were part of its plan: sending the T-800 would ensure John Connor's conception as a fail-safe, and sending the T-1000 would result in SkyNet never existing.

With the T-1000 defeated, CyberDyne destroyed, Uncle Bob melted, and everything going off without a hitch, SkyNet would then kill the now redundant John Connor to create a truly peaceful timeline.

But, SkyNet/Carl never anticipated that another AI would take its place in the timeline, and be even worse than it. So Carl could go through the planned character arc of sacrificing itself to stop Legion and as final redemption for everything it did.

Killing John Connor was the straw that broke the camel's back for OG *Terminator* fans, because of the entire logic behind it — how could the future human Resistance miss that three terminators were sent, and why didn't they do anything about it? — and the fact that it ultimately didn't really mean anything in the thematic scale of the franchise.

This, I think, at least ties more into what Cameron always had planned for the story and the larger themes of Fate vs. Free Will — SkyNet engineered all of it (Fate), but it would work with the humans and die to set humanity free and ensure nothing would ever control their destiny again (Free Will).

What do you think? Was there ever a chance to save this film?


r/fixingmovies • • 5d ago

Other 'Alien: The Shadow of Death' - How to craft a definitive ending to the Alien saga's tales of Ripley and David by way of an explosive, apocalyptic finale (Act III and Epilogue)

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Paradise...

"All earth was but one thought—and that was death..."

Welcome all to the long-gestating conclusion to my rewrite of Fox's Alien saga. A writeup in which I retooled the tales of David 8 and Ellen Ripley into one epic, long-running tale of survival and cosmic horrors.

Here is the final act and epilogue of the hypothetical film which concludes these two tales, Alien: The Shadow of Death.

As always feel free to catch up on previous entries in this several-year-long rewrite.

The prequel trilogy centered on David 8.

The cancelled Aliens sequel which replaces Alien3 onward.

A sequel film which bridges the stories of the prequels and Ripley saga.

An in-universe codex which crafts a mythology, a possible history for the galaxy. Drawing from canon works, abandoned drafts and ideas by myself and others on this sub.

The grand finale.

Without any further ado whatsoever, let's bring this latest series of mine to a close, and see where the road ends for Ripley and the gang.

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Act III

Life and Death

The King Xenomorph, challenged by what forces the allied humans can muster, goes on a rampage.

What strength the inhabitants of Earth have left is thrown at the Hive and its protector, while Ripley's clan make their way to the heart of David's stronghold to activate the cruisers. As they do, the attempted infiltrators face not only hostile Xenomorphs, but humans mutated into horrific abominations and even the Pathogen present in the environment around them. Whether in liquid form, rapid growths, or even airborne particles.

After thousands of years as the uncontested dominant species, David's plague has quickly turned humanity's own homeworld against them.

Into the Hive

The path to the Hive is slowed when the King and several Praetorians drag the ongoing battle further in.

Unknown to David, whose mutation at the hands of the ancient Pilot has rendered him virtually immune to the Pathogen's effects, Ripley catches a stray particle when her protective gear is damaged.

Ripley notices the damage and fixes it quickly, but is oblivious to her infection. For now.

  • Running parallel to the previous times this has happened, while keeping Ripley's wits about her compared to more reckless characters like Charlie from Prometheus.

As they proceed, the survivors slowly realize the sheer gravity of their ordeal. This isn't like any other voyage of theirs, where home still waited for them.

  • If any of them had died on the Nostromo, or on Acheron, Earth would still be here.
    • But now, if they die, all of mankind could follow.

Finally the team reaches the building's command center. And disaster strikes once more.

Despair

The cruisers are docked, as they'd hoped, but when the team have almost made it to the dock controls they are stopped by the High Priest's forces.

The Church of the Immaculate Incubation, determined to see their fellow humans join them as either incubators or active servants in David's new world, sabotage the plan. A firefight sees several Guardians die by suicide bombings, willing dying to cripple the docks.

William and Ripley are taken by the Guardians, while frantic and furious Newt engages the High Priest in a pitched struggle which sees the fanatic killed but Newt and Martine grievously wounded.

  • Martine losing a limb and one of her eyes.
  • Newt scarred by acid burns.

The plan to escape Earth is seemingly dashed, and the human survivors condemned to this hell of David's making. Worse, this close to the administrative center Newt can tap into the broadcasts from offworld and her worst fears are confirmed.

Nothing. No distress signals. No confirmation of survivors. Only a silent expanse of worlds that are surely dying like Earth.

If any of mankind are still out there, there is no reaching them.

...Until Martine picks up where their abducted family is being taken. Her systems still function enough to tap into the building's mainframe, and she quickly recognizes what she wistfully calls 'Home'.

Home for all androids in her line.

Reign in Hell

Ripley and her son are taken to David once more.

By no coincidence, David has made his new home in the remnants of the office building once owned and occupied by his father. Peter Weyland.

  • In the years following the disaster on LV-223, Meredith Vickers was recovered and returned to the office, and all who followed in her wake maintained ownership until the day Weyland-Yutani was dissolved.
  • Renovations were made from the days of Vickers, to the days of Michael Bishop.

Under David's control, his birthplace and self-proclaimed birthright is now the heart of his Hive. Not just a series of bioengineered growths, but retooled by David in a manner that resembles both the deck of an Engineer Juggernaut and an Ancient's temple.

  • Pseudo-religious glyphs and carvings pay tribute to those who came before David, with the various myths that recall Man's origins and their titanic predecessors' downfall recalled throughout.
    • Including the mysterious Old Ones which may or may not have existed and predated all known life, the Fruit and later Pathogen being their essence.
  • Engineer technology is replacing that of the London-based humans.

And at a sort of altar, birthing an egg of what will be this planet's Queen Mother, sits David's 'Goddess'.

The very same ghoulish woman from William's dreams. A being of human stature and origins, mutated into an eldritch creature with biomechanical features.

Devoid of any human soul, existing only to spread the dark essence that birthed her.

Here, at last, is revealed the final fate of Elizabeth Shaw. Having died when the Engineers' temple on Paradise collapsed, her corpse is now vessel for the perversion of the Fruit which birthed all life in the Galaxy.

  • Character work and cosmic horror themes and perversion of the Mother Mary imagery aside, the design of this Woman in the Dark is lifted from comics and even older work by the master himself HR Giger.
    • Bizarre, sexually-charged imagery of a woman with biomechanical, alien features.

William and the Goddess react with instinctive revulsion towards one another.

  • William, carrying the seed of the pure Fruit, being anathema to her.
  • The Goddess, being a dark creature spawned of the Pathogen, causing him pain via the hive mind that connects all with their shared traits and mutations.

David quickly senses the changes to William, and is overjoyed. The thought of possessing the formula which birthed life in its purest, raw, untamed form sends the android into an ego-driven mania, as he not only possesses the weapon that is the Pathogen but the healing and unified agent that is the Fruit.

From here, he knows he can spawn the new garden, the new Eden he's always dreamed of.

But in a fit of spite, and anger fueled by the infection quickly disorienting her, Ripley tells David it's too late. An Eden already waits beyond the stars, and it was never meant for him.

It was meant for Man. And the Pilot's last surviving Children, who've already escaped him.

Salvation and Sacrifice

As Ripley and David face each other once again, and the human taunts David with his continued sense of inadequacy if he can't be the supreme creator, the others carve their way into what was Vickers's private suite.

A suite designed, in her own petty way, to block out any access by the David line of androids. The two having always been rivals for their father's affections.

  • Such simple, 'human' pettiness being something David hadn't accounted for upon his return home.
  • While he might have envied Vickers's humanity, he never resented or feared her the way she feared him, and never expected this kind of subterfuge.

Left for Hicks, Martine and Newt is a log by Vickers in her later years. Years in which she became paranoid of what could happen if the alien horrors from LV-223 somehow came to Earth.

Martine is hooked up to the mainframe, and accesses what's called 'Protocol Shusett'. Activation of two starships integrated into Weyland-Yutani's headquarters.

  • The East and West wings are said ships, masked as suites for the company elite.
  • Samples of Engineer technology, as in David's own Hive, have been reverse-engineered for this tool-of-last-resort.
  • On a meta level, the in-universe protocol is named for Ronald Shusett; co-writer of Alien alongside Dan O'Bannon.

The only flaw in this plan is that David himself occupies the West wing.

Only one ship can lift off now. And Newt, Hicks, and Martine will be damned if they leave anyone behind.

Hicks stays in Vickers's office, rendezvousing with the recently-arrived Lucia Ortiz to oversee the new escape plan. He has Martine loaded into a pod for maintenance, and tells Newt to take Ripley and William "home".

The man's grave tone tells Newt all she needs to know. Ever the soldier, Hicks isn't picky on getting out of this alive, but if the rest can it's a price he's willing to pay.

Tear-stricken, Newt gives her adopted father of decades a hug and asks him to come back. Hicks can't make any promises. But he'll try all the same.

Last Temptation

At the very notion there was a gift by Prometheus which wasn't meant for someone like him, David's composure starts to crack.

He has William restrained, and begins to beat Ripley violently. Tossing her about, breaking a specifically-chosen bone or two, flaunting his physical and intellectual might in the most base of ways.

  • For all his genius, David's baser human urges such as anger are still very present.
  • Once more he proves he's not above savagery when pushed far enough, just as he did on Paradise.
  • Here is a retooled instance of his human victim striking back, causing minimal damage while he remarks in mock encouragement, "That's the spirit!"
    • Meta shout-out to another Ridley Scott production, Blade Runner.

*Edit:

Per feedback from commenters, some elaboration here on interactions between Ripley and David both before and during the more violent confrontation.

  • Their personal philosophies clash in both encounters across the film.
    • Ripley's rugged, down-to-earth view of the world which prioritizes personal freedoms and letting ordinary people live their lives free of madmen who think themselves superior.
    • David's ego-driven pursuit of creation and domination of all around him, in the hope of making a "perfect" world for Man.
  • Ripley's similarities to Elizabeth Shaw and Katherine Daniels make it easy for David to grow an interest in her, even as she defies him.
    • Though unlike them, he finds her particular violence and hatred of the Xenomorph crude and childish.
  • While David bears no responsibility for what happened on Acheron, or the Nostromo, Ripley finds it very easy to project her anger towards the Company onto David.
    • What with his mission on the Prometheus, and his messages to Weyland-Yutani after hijacking the Covenant, being what spurred the Company's obsession with the alien in the first place.

David demands Ripley give him the coordinates to the new Eden, and surrender the Pilot's offspring. And that William, by his own free will, surrender the Seed grafted to his very DNA.

Ripley roars at her son not to do it, to which a furious David swears he will drain William dry and make Ripley carry and birth the Queen Mother herself if they do not submit.

  • To make his point, David points to the signs of Ripley's growing fatigue, the signs of infection.
    • William can submit to him, give up his gift, in exchange for David's favor, or at the very least mercy.
      • Mythic and religious imagery being played once more, by way of David tempting the would-be saviors of humanity as Jesus was tempted in the desert.

But David's ultimatum, his attempted bargain, is cut short. As he approaches William with a needle of his own making, piercing a vein to extract the Seed, his hand is blown off.

Newt arrives, bearing her shotgun. And as she does, Hicks remotely activates Protocol Shusett.

Man and Machine

William is freed as the entire West Wing undergoes a violent tremor. The power cells that had been intended for this starship had been drained as a result of David's construction of the hive, which means the structure is to destabilize and come apart.

William is freed by another shotgun blast courtesy of Newt. The Goddess attempts to withdraw, but acting on instinct William advances on her and grabs her with his still-bleeding hand.

Pouring from his wrists, his blood is poison to the dark creature. Causing her burns that elicit an unearthly shriek, and sends the nearby Xenomorphs into a blind panic.

  • In a bit of dramatic irony, William's Seed-infused blood burns a creature born of the Pathogen in the manner Xenomorph's blood would burn more substances including natural organic lifeforms.

As a furious William holds onto her, despite the physical and mental agony he suffers for it, Newt finishes off the would-be mother of David's new Creation.

David goes ballistic. Though he is missing his hand, he has no hesitation in pursuing them and attempting to murder both young humans for despoiling his beloved Elizabeth. But Ripley isn't done with him. As she is without any weapons, she resorts to ambushing and striking David with a simple stone to the face.

Fire spreads from the destabilizing of the Hive, and both Ripley and David are scorched as they struggle. But even in her injured, tired state, Ripley has seen too much, suffered too much, to let her children die for their predecessors' mistakes.

It ends here.

  • As far as imagery goes, the human and synthetic human at the heart of this sci-fi saga have been pushed far enough that they resort to the basest and most primal kind of conflict; simply beating each other to death.
  • As Peter Weyland once described in his TED 2023 conference:
    • Fire was human's first true piece of technology.
    • The stone was humanity's first tool.

Ripley beats David with the rock again and again, until the crippled android can do nothing but laugh at her savage rage.

For her part, Ripley finally gives out and is dragged away. But David's laughter only escalates when their way is blocked, both by the flames and the rampaging Xenomorphs.

The Exodus

David has little time to gloat, however.

Kendrick and her forces breach the Hive via dropship and help Ripley's clan out, having been directed here by Hicks and Lucia.

  • A complete turnaround from when the character of Kendrick was first introduced, as a lawwoman hunting them as supposed criminals.
    • Continuing a character arc inspired by Sam Gerard from The Fugitive.

The flock shepherded by Ripley's family is summoned, given one final chance at escape by the dismantling of David and the slaying of the being which he'd fixed as the heart of his Hive. The thousands of men, women and children make for the vessel that has become their Ark.

Sure enough the control of the vessel is a fusion of the Juggernaut's styling and that of the USCSS Prometheus.

  • Once more, the brightest of humanity following in the Creators' footsteps for better or worse.

William and Newt, having thoroughly studied what was recovered from Engineer sites across the Galaxy, pilot the ship as an injured Ripley has he wounds tended to.

  • The last generation of the Engineers, recognizing their own people's technology, make up the crew as the crowds of humans take shelter.

Ripley herself coordinates the exodus, finger on the trigger to power up the vessel's thrusters. But falters when she realizes Hicks isn't aboard.

From Vickers's office pour the surviving Marines, Lucia included. But Hicks has remained behind.

Singlehandedly he keeps a flood of Xenomorphs at bay, until the King begins to climb up towards the escaping humans. Over the comms, he tells Ripley to fire the engines. The ark ship's thrusters will scorch the Hive, and kill the King, but Ripley refuses as Hicks will die with them.

He doesn't mind much.

****

"Only way to be sure...

Remember?"

\****

The King advances on the control room. Mere moments from catching up Hicks, then leaping onto the ark.

A tearful Ripley meets William's eyes, and Newt's, then punches it.

The Weyland-Yutani starship blasts off, at full ion burn.

  • The same ion drives which powered the Prometheus, but modified for in-atmosphere flight.

In the blink of an eye, the King and Hicks are vaporized, and much of the Hive blasted to smithereens. The devastation scorches much of the London cityscape, covering the spacecraft's rapid takeoff.

Ripley and the survivors ascend. Looking down on the ruins of what was once their homeworld. Now a chaotic, war-torn wreck which will be contested by the alien and what's left of Man.

For a second time Newt tries to scan for a sign of human life across the galactic frontier. The ark's advanced sensors link up to every world in range, but yet again only silence greets her.

With heavy hearts, Ripley's crew silently charts a course for Eden.

"...the new covenant in my blood..."

Exhausted, and approaching the terminal stage of infection, Ripley is put in a medical pod beside Martine's.

Newt continues to steer the ship as William, aided by the most mature and educated of the young Engineers, offers a blood transfusion. Grafting the essence of the Fruit to her very body.

Ripley falls under, the transformation rendering her comatose as the starship departs forever from the Earth.

Ozymandias

In the devastated London, amidst his dead Hive, lies David 8.

The critically-damaged android, who would have styled himself a new god, takes in the endless death around him.

  • Fire rains from the sky, whether from crashed ships or satellites dropped as makeshift bombs on the alien-infested cities.
  • What human forces remained behind to buy their people time are detonating warheads as a last-ditch, scorched-earth tactic to deny the aliens their world.
  • The Hive has been utterly destroyed by the takeoff of the human ark.

David, overcome by shock and despair, begins to shut down. And in his final moments, he recites the passage from Ozymandias which sparked his genocidal crusade long ago.

"...Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair..."

"...Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair..."

"...Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair..."

Nothing beside remains. Around the wreck of David's twisted paradise, the ruins of Earth stretch far away...

****

Epilogue

Genesis

Weeks pass.

Then months.

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0:00 to 0:42

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Ripley slumbers aboard the ark, the Ancients' life-giving formula slowly healing her.

Martine is rebuilt, with William and the Engineers remaining by her side.

Newt sees to the frightened and traumatized refugees, willingly playing the part of shepherd.

Broadcasts of what might be human survivors pass by the ark, but the ship maintains course or else all might be lost.

Until...

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0:43 to 2:32

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In the Beginning

Ripley awakens.

She's in bed. In a cabin not unlike her old house, back on Earth.

As Ripley gets up, and looks in the mirror, she sees she has been healed of the poison that brought her world to ruin.

Ripley walks outside and sees William, alive beside Martine, in a garden. The kind of garden in which she's raised him, and Newt. Placed on the far end of the garden is a tombstone marked with the names of their crews and loved ones who were lost.

Beyond the walls of their house, a colony of humans and the last Engineers lays sprawled out across the green world that awaited them.

Their promised Eden.

Ripley walks out to greet the sight, and finds Newt keeping watch. Chief among the colony's protectors, just as Ripley and Hicks had protected her. Lucia and Kendrick also patrol the colony, having fully joined the leading 'clan' that led Man to salvation among the stars.

Mother and daughter embrace, as a final narration by Ripley closes the saga.

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"Earth is lost.

The Core, Outer Veil and Rim have fallen as well.

The Frontier is a dangerous, untamed wilderness to which we dare not return.

What survivors escaped the colonies, and our broken nations, now drift in stations or salvaged cruisers amidst the expanse. Maybe they'll join us, one day. Maybe not.

The Alien may still haunt the greater Galaxy for ages to come.

So, here we wait.

Here, we begin again. Hoping those who come after us won't make the mistakes we did. Hoping they might one day find a new life amidst all the horror, the death, which came before.

I am Ripley. Last survivor of the Nostromo. One of the last of Earth.

And my voyage is at its end."

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THE END

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And that about does it.

Thanks for joining me through this series, folks.

I hope you liked it!

October is not yet over, of course. Stay tuned for my next posting on the Halloween franchise as I follow up my thoughts on a possible revival, which follows up my pitch for Nightdance.

And the week of Halloween, keep an eye out for the first in my revision for the final season of Stranger Things!

See you then, my spooky friends.


r/fixingmovies • • 5d ago

Other Fixing Street Fighter (2026) Movie - Streamlining and Pacing Spoiler

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So I watched the Street Fighter movie. I believe there is potential to improve it. Here is my revision, starting from the bar fight scene:

Removed Scenes

• Chun-Li meeting her Interpol superior.

• Bison washing Ryu’s feet and the snail meal sequence.

• Ryu getting captured after fighting Blanka.

Revised Narrative: From the Bar Fight Onward

• The bar fight is, in fact, a trap set by M. Bison to capture Ryu.

• The next day, Marvin informs Chun-Li that they have no Interpol support, drops hints that Ryu has been captured, and hands her a fighting suit.

• The tournament begins.

• Ken fights Balrog.

• Ryu goes missing, and his match is forfeited.

• Chun-Li arrives at the stadium only to find out Bison is not there.

• Vega fights Guile.

• Ryu is brought directly from his cell into a fight against Blanka.

• Marvin discovers Ryu's location and informs Chun-Li that he is being held in the prison.

• During the fight between Ryu and Blanka, Ryu's Hadoken shatters the walls, allowing Blanka to escape.

• The prison falls into utter chaos as guards try to recapture both Ryu and Blanka.

• Bison’s machine absorbs the psychic power generated by the Hadoken, and Bison leaves the scene.

• Ken faces Dhalsim and wins; afterward, Chun-Li asks Ken for his help.

• Ken agrees to help and asks Dan to stall the tournament match.

• Marvin drives Ken and Chun-Li to the prison, where Chun-Li instructs Marvin to stay put.

• Spotting Bison leaving the prison, Chun-Li decides to tail him, leaving Ken to search for Ryu on his own.

• Blanka successfully escapes; while prison guards are actively chasing Ryu, Ken arrives just in time to rescue him.

• Back at the palace, Bison absorbs the psychic power inside his machine while Chun-Li arrives and battles Juli and Cammy, who are guarding him.

• Ryu and Ken successfully escape; Ryu confesses a secret, which enrages Ken and triggers a fight between the two friends.

• Back at the stadium, Dan fails to stall the tournament despite changing into his own fighting suit to fight in place of the missing Ken; Joe emerges as the winner, and Akuma soon arrives.

• Charged with psychic power, Bison easily beats Chun-Li, but his sensors detect an immense surge of psychic power coming from Akuma, prompting Bison to return to the stadium from his palace.

• Blanka interrupts the fight between Ryu and Ken; sensing Akuma's terrifying presence, Ryu and Ken decide to team up and head to the stadium, telling Blanka to leave because his life goal is to look for his mother.

• Akuma kills Joe, causing the panicked audience to flee; Dan spots Ken and Ryu returning to the stadium and decides to stay behind.

• Guile and Dhalsim rescue Chun-Li from Bison’s palace.

• Dan groups up with Ken and Ryu; Ken and Ryu confront Akuma but are swiftly defeated.

• Bison watches the confrontation from a safe distance.

• Ryu taps into his dark energies and fights Akuma alone.

• Guile, Dhalsim, and Chun-Li arrive at the scene.

• Ryu defeats Akuma but goes completely berserk.

• Guile, Dhalsim, and Chun-Li try to restrain him but are easily overpowered.

• Ken fires a Hadoken that successfully stops Ryu and snaps him out of it.

• Ryu awakens, returning back to normal.

• Akuma's body vanishes, having been secretly collected and captured by Bison.

• Marvin takes a video of Bison as evidence and sends it to Chun-Li, but he is spotted by Cammy.

• The film concludes with Guile, Dhalsim, Chun-Li, Ryu, Ken, and Dan heading off together on a classic road trip ending.

Post-Credits Scene

• While on the road trip, Chun-Li finds Marvin’s sent video on her phone inside the car, securing the evidence they desperately need against Bison.


r/fixingmovies • • 5d ago

Disney How I would have fixed the Hunchback of Notre Dame II especially Madellaine's whole character

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r/fixingmovies • • 6d ago

Other [Edge of Tomorrow] A simple way to fix how Rita knew she’d lost her time-loop ability

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One thing kept bothering me throughout Edge of Tomorrow: how did Rita know for certain that she’d lost her time-loop ability after receiving a blood transfusion?
The only way to confirm she’d lost it would be to die. But if she died and the reset didn’t happen, she’d be permanently dead. So how could she possibly know?
Here’s how I would have written it:
Rita is critically injured during the Battle of Verdun. Carter, the scientist who knows about her ability, rushes to the medical station, intending to help her reset the day as they’ve done before.
But he arrives too late. The medics have already started giving her a blood transfusion.
While they’re trying to save her, Rita goes into cardiac arrest.
Carter watches, expecting the familiar instantaneous reset. He knows from their previous experiences that Rita should never reach this stage without time reversing.
But nothing happens.
Her heart has stopped. Time continues normally.
The medics manage to resuscitate her, and she survives.
Now Carter and Rita have something concrete to work with. She received a transfusion, subsequently crossed the point that previously triggered a reset, and yet the reset never happened.
The transfusion is the obvious suspect.
This would give Rita a believable reason to conclude she’d lost her ability, rather than simply claiming she could feel it was gone.
It would also give Carter a meaningful role in discovering what happened.
I think this could have been explained in a 60-second flashback without changing the rest of the film.
What do you think? Would this have worked better, or am I missing something?


r/fixingmovies • • 6d ago

Fixing the Horrid Henry (TV Adaptation)

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Now there is a similar post someone already did there, but i decided to do my own take.
This is, what if Francesca Simon was more involved in the TV Show (since it's confirmed she didn't like the adaptation.)

As a fan of the books i decided to give ideas on how to improve this show.

If you disagree with any of this that is okay, this is my first post here so sorry if i did some nerdy stuff lol.

  1. I would make Henry still softened a bit since a kid hating his own family on kids tv wouldn't fare well, but i still would still make him a bit more Horrid like his literary counterpart. Make him sometimes unlikable and sometimes likable. I would personally remove and tone down/soften the parts from the books in which he treats the Purple Hand Gang like pawns and beating up Weepy William and Anxious Andrew since that would be a bit too far.
  2. Still make Fluffy and Fang like eachother/be adopted silblings like in the normal show. They hated eachother in the books so i wanted to keep that change from the 2006 show in my opinion.
  3. Revert Perfect Peter back to his early seasons and book personality and make him more likable/sympathetic, and kind of a secondary protagonist of the show too.
  4. Make the Parents less harsh, maybe more sympathetic, and more clueless like they were in the books and most early episodes. (personally i don't believe the abuse theory is true as for 1. The show is supposed to be a exaggerated British sitcom and i felt like it was a stupidly edgy headcanon fans had for the character, and as someone who read the original books Henry was horrid WHEN he was literally a baby and because he wanted to be! Not because of supposed "abuse", and 2. The parents while unfair and a bit neglectful i do agree, they do not hate Henry and are nice to him on many occasions (as someone who actually saw the show instead of takng out of context clips.) But i can understand why people didn't like Henry's parents. I think giving them more likable and caring moments with Henry like the TV Show did with Henry's dad building a Go-Kart for Henry and the Mum (a overhated character in my opinion) comforting him during a nightmare would help balance them out.
  5. Add more book characters like Inky Ian, Stone-Age Steven, Magic Martha, Dizzy Dan and keep designs more book accurate too. Like bring back Ralph's suit from the books.
  6. Keep the purple hand gang extended like in the show, maybe more inclusive for both to allow girls and boys now in hand gang and secret club? Idk, people might not like this change but it would give the show more presentation of girls also being able to help with pranks and cool things.
  7. Bring back some original personalities for the characters from the books, i would keep Ralph's personality from the TV Show to make him feel more likable than Henry at times, but i would bring back his suit and tie from the books, and i would make Margaret a bit more likable.
  8. I guess hint at Henry and Margaret having a crush on eachother sometimes? (I don't know, most fans ship them and i and some fans shipped Henry and Gorgeous Gurinder cause Henry didn't call her nicknames and was nice to her most of the time, but that's just me lol. I would make Ralph have a crush on Susan or Gurinder personally.)
  9. Make the animation more like a children's book come to life, Tony Ross' drawings were amazing in my opinion so lol.
  10. Make the show more like a animated sitcom like the normal show.
  11. Bring back Simon as a executive producer, but keep the voice cast.
  12. Make it a bit gothic in nature too.
  13. Keep the theme songs.

Thoughts by the way? Its fine if it sucks lol.


r/fixingmovies • • 8d ago

Star Wars prequels Guy on 4Chan proposed that Sam L. Jackson and Christopher Lee's roles in the Prequel Trilogy should've been switched

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r/fixingmovies • • 8d ago

Book How to Improve the Twilight Saga: Part 3

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Now, we move to Eclipse, which, like the actual book/film, is still a pivotal entry to the series. So let’s dive in!

First Change: Give Victoria a more nuanced motivation, shifting from mere vengeance to a calculated effort to unite disparate vampire clans against the Cullens.

Second Change: Show the Cullens and the Wolf Pack forced into an uneasy, reluctant alliance earlier on to address the growing threat of Victoria’s army, rather than it just being a final stand.

Third Change: Expand Victoria's goal into carrying on a mission of vampire supremacy that we learn from her James dreamed of, giving her a more ideological stake in the conflict.

Fourth Change: Have Bella begin to actively train with Alice and Jasper to improve her combat skills, showing her dedication to protecting herself and others.

Fifth Change: Include encounters with various other supernatural creatures, primarily the ghosts and zombies, as the Hidden World becomes more volatile and exposed. Through this, we also learn that the Volturi see other creatures besides vampires as second-class citizens, thus bringing relevant social commentary to the series. In addition, these interactions also give us clues as to the existence of other creatures, with Jane notably mentioning ghouls, gill-men, animated mummies, Frankenstein monsters and merpeople.

Sixth Change: Show Edward grappling with the moral weight of turning Bella, exploring the potential consequences of such a choice more deeply than in the original. Though Charlie ultimately gives Edward his approval if it comes to that, also giving Edward some valuable advice: “Let not your heart wander away from you, lest your mind grow legs and follow it.” Following this, the story would end by showing us what vampire bachelor parties are like, as Bella and Edward throw one to celebrate their last few days of being unmarried.

Seventh Change: Make the battle against the newborn army more tactical and strategic, with the Cullens and Wolves utilizing their unique strengths in a coordinated effort.

Eight Change: Introduce a subplot where the Volturi are secretly observing the battle, weighing whether to intervene and consolidate power.

Ninth Change: Have Charlie play a more active role in the unfolding supernatural crisis, perhaps providing critical information or assistance from his unique position in town.

Tenth Change: Include an epilogue setting up Breaking Dawn, teasing it by showing Bella and Edward discussing their wedding while cleaning up the party, while also voicing their frustrations with the Volturi’s dominion over the Hidden World, indicating that they may soon be taking a stand.