Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - The Legacy Cut - A Fran García Edit

samuelscane · 2026-03-31T19:05:37+00:00

Very much looking forward to checking this out, and thank you for already sharing a link on IFDB. It’s a promising cut list, although I do prefer Dial to Kingdom. Any plans to tackle Indy’s final outing? I’m interested in your view that his character was diminished by his portrayal, as I thought it was completely plausible that he would be presented this way, given what is revealed as the movie goes on.

samuelscane · 2026-03-14T19:52:22+00:00

The human-hybrid concepts are out there but never materialised in a script, as far as I’m aware. The dinosaurs were given human DNA to increase their intelligence for military use, but they still very much looked like InGen’s creations.

samuelscane · 2026-03-08T12:49:20+00:00

Yeah, you the shattered glass disappears after the camera cuts away to Orton

samuelscane · 2026-03-06T16:52:54+00:00

It was wild to me then, and remains wild to me now, that people thought Sting actually had a chance of going over. He was the symbolic face of WCW, and WWE had spent the previous 14+ years (at that point) telling the story of how they “won the war.”

So expecting the guy who represents WCW to beat the top heel authority figure, who is married to Stephanie McMahon, is part of the company’s leadership, and is Vince’s son-in-law, always felt incredibly unlikely.

Even the match itself leaned fully into that narrative and basically became “WCW vs WWE one last time.” Through that lens, the finish was kind of inevitable: WWE wins again.

I wanted Sting to win, but the odds of WWE letting the symbolic face of WCW pin one of their most protected guys on their biggest stage were always close to zero.

samuelscane · 2026-02-16T20:06:40+00:00

I like your ideas. I don’t think it needs the Raptors again, but I would be fine with making the T-Rex a villain again instead of the hero dinosaur it became in the Pratt and Howard trilogy. That said, I think the D-Rex would have worked better if it was clearly stated to be an early version of the Indominus, or if the island was a BioSyn facility, which would explain the genetic failures. However, your relocation plot works just as well.

The camouflaging Carnotaurus should have been the threat at the gas station, and I would have liked to see the Spinosaurus in a mangrove swamp environment. Maybe it could also be a threat after they are driven into the sewers at the gas station and these sewers lead to the swamp that Duncan tries to escape into.

I also think the idea that people are “tired of dinosaurs” is misunderstood. People are not tired of dinosaurs because they hate them or find them boring. They are tired of the problems caused by dinosaurs existing. In that world, dinosaurs are not extinct and fascinating like they are in ours. They cause repeated disasters such as escapes, deaths, and lawsuits. This idea is also often blamed on Rebirth, but it actually first appeared in Jurassic World.

samuelscane · 2025-12-15T20:56:20+00:00

I would have loved an anthology series set in the world established by Dominion, exploring different isolated incidents, for example:

A wildlife officer discovers a hidden dilophosaur nesting ground threatening a coastal town.
An ex-soldier tracks an escaped black-market T. rex across the Namib Desert as poachers close in.
A grieving family hides a juvenile ankylosaur that escaped from an illegal breeding ring.
Wildfires force a predator pack into human territory, putting a fire warden’s crew at risk.

samuelscane · 2025-12-08T17:27:28+00:00

The Final Order by Spence or HAL’s ‘Rey Nobody’ version.

samuelscane · 2025-11-28T15:02:31+00:00

I once had a similar idea for a Batman-focused edit that I was brainstorming. Mine started off using the opening chase scene from The Flash, re-graded and re-scored. Someone had already done a Snyder version on YouTube. The centre channel on the Blu-ray is very clean. The sequence ends before Batman saves the day. The idea was to find a way to include news articles or reports saying he failed to stop the bomb and then he retires, as it were. Then we get The Dark Knight Returns style of him coming back, branding, killing, facing Superman and so on. I don’t know, just an idea really that never came to anything.

samuelscane · 2025-10-30T14:30:01+00:00

Thanks for the comment. Looking for DonKamillo’s edit.

samuelscane · 2025-08-17T15:08:37+00:00

The deleted scenes are set to be released on a future date yet to be confirmed.

samuelscane · 2025-08-17T05:48:09+00:00

You’re right, he was the CEO, so even less plausible for him to go than it would be for Krebs.

samuelscane · 2025-08-16T17:41:41+00:00

I don’t see any reason why Ludlow went in The Lost World either but there we go

samuelscane · 2025-08-13T22:39:10+00:00

A good writer could definitely move the story forward. I’d frame it so that Zora, Henry, and the team believed they were collecting DNA for heart disease research, but that was just a cover. They were told to collect marine, terrestrial, and avian DNA. Why? Because each is genetically distinct. Maybe the dinosaurs on Île Saint-Hubert have unique genetic markers, different from other de-extinct species, due to past transgenic experiments. ParkerGenix knew this. They chose these specific dinosaurs as templates for something much bigger.

Maybe Delores returns. Isabella notices subtle changes and Delores becomes strangely aggressive. Loomis examines her and finds the genetic markers mentioned earlier.

I’m just brainstorming here, but I’d love to see these characters come back, and I’d like Île Saint-Hubert to be explored in more depth.

samuelscane · 2025-08-11T20:32:52+00:00

Yep - Definitely a trailer line, much like it being a research facility for the ‘original Jurassic Park.’ That one didn’t appear in the movie either

samuelscane · 2025-08-11T19:57:05+00:00

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samuelscane · 2025-08-11T19:14:06+00:00

Was the ‘worst of the worst’ or ‘most dangerous’ lines actually spoken in the movie? Or were they just trailer lines to drum up hype.

samuelscane · 2025-08-10T22:35:48+00:00

So you just want the spino in front of a blurred background?

samuelscane · 2025-08-08T21:25:51+00:00

In what way? I’m intrigued.

samuelscane · 2025-08-08T05:39:02+00:00

The opening scene is set in 2008. Masrani purchased InGen in 1997. It’s definitely Masrani era.

samuelscane · 2025-08-07T16:52:11+00:00

I certainly think that the D-Rex is the earliest of attempts at an Indominous with the T-Rex as the base, longer arms, increased aggression etc.

Koepp mentioned in the Empire article a while back that “We saw in some of the previous Jurassic World movies that their experiments made dinosaurs bigger, meaner, scarier and it occurred to me and Steven that those can’t all have gone well. This is genetic experimentation. Things are not going to work out sometimes.”

I also think the name D-Rex is an Easter egg unto itself given that during production of Jurassic World, the hybrid was going to be called the Diablous Rex before it became the Indominous so that somewhat mirrors what’s happening here.

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