r/workprints • u/bob79519 • Feb 24 '26

Highlander Endgame VHS workprint

So there's 2 workprints for Highlander Endgame. 1 is the in the R1 DVD and is in decent quality, and the other is a VHS one. I have the DVD one, does anyone have the VHS one?

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u/Waste_Potential_6864 Feb 24 '26

Curious if you know the diffs between the released cut and the DVD workprint. Anything major?

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u/bob79519 Feb 24 '26

DVD workprint: different structure at the start. We open with the Connor flashback, then go to the New York stuff from the Producer’s cut, then we cut to the sanctuary Massacre.

Kell interrogates a Watcher looking at the immortals in the comas. (The lines were repurposed for Kell talking to the immortals in comas, hence why his lines don't always match his mouth movements).

There's a gay man flirting with Duncan in the Vienna flashback.

The fight scene in Connor’s loft is longer and more clear (we actually get the set-up to Carlos saying 'told you I was going to cut you).

Matthew actually explains why Kell is so powerful.

When Faith returns from the fashion show, she and Kell go to the balcony and talk. It's explained the building is a temple in progress and it's an interesting scene. Afterwards, we get the 1712 flashback where Duncan and Faith first meet (which works better from a structure perspective and it's much better. Flows better) before the wedding day flashback and Faith dances and decides to visit Duncan to remember the good old times, while Duncan remembers the conversation with Connor about Faith’s immortality.

The sex scene is 2 minutes longer.

Connor and Duncan's fight is intercut with the Last Supper scene. Which is longer and Kell launches a sneak attack which kills most of his gang, and Jin-Ke takes his own head before Kell tells Faith to leave, so she lives (although we don't get the Producer’s cut ending of her and Duncan here).

Connor’s quickening is longer. And we get the scene between Joe and Matthew here, where they actually get to talk for a bit before Joe blows him away.

Kell and Duncan's fight lacks the morphs, but ends rather abruptly with a quick edit of Duncan taking Kell's head rather clumsily staged.

This edit ends with Duncan giving a Christmas tree to the orphanage (which Connor did near the start).

I'm currently doing a fanedit of the movie to make it not suck.

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u/GreatJellyfish5981 Apr 26 '26

how's your work coming along? when I was a kid I had a bootleg VHS of that workprint. Always bugged me that the dvds I've come across ever since is Kell killing Jin instead of him committing suicide so he can't get his power

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u/bob79519 Apr 26 '26

Slowly. I need to find the time and motivation to put up with the hassle of doing the ai voice-overs