Feature film editor. Associate editor on Spider-Verse movies. SAG VO Actor. All views/opinions are my own and don’t reflect those of my past/present employers
Mar 15, 2019 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Why can’t animation studios easily release old versions of the story reel cuts? A long ass thread!
1) You often hear about how animated films once had other versions that contain drastically different stories, characters, scenes, etc. Sometimes you get a small taste, but...
2) why not the entire film? There’s A LOT of legwork involved to get around the legal hurdles in order to do that and, of course, that costs a lot of money. The absolute biggest hurdle is usually the audio. The following is a breakdown of some of the biggest hurdles...
1) This seemingly simple sequence changed constantly throughout production. It kept getting turned over to animation and then put on hold for major re-cuts and re-writes. It was so tough to nail down because...
2) It followed the sequence, 1750 - TMU - Teaming Up, where Peter and Miles exposit a lot of information about the situation while walking around the rooftops (and walls... <— SpiderPeople). That sequence also went through MANY major re-writes and cuts. As TMU changed...
1) To cut the post credit scene our assistants downloaded the 1960’s Spider-Man episode “Double Identity” off of YouTube. @philiplord, @rodneyrothman, and I were writing the scene on the fly and scratching dialogue to keep trying out different things...
2) The problem was we only had a few weeks until release and one animator left on the show (Joshua Beveridge?). We had one chance. We quickly workshopped and I cut the picture from the youtube video to match the dialogue we were trying, ignoring the pointing action at first...
