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** ''Extended Cut'': Identical to the Director's Cut, except not necessarily by the director, and not necessarily the director's original vision. Example: [[Peter Jackson]] considers the theatrical ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' movies to be his director's cuts, but the Extended Editions were created (by him) to restore deleted scenes to the movie and develop [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s world more on screen.
* ''TV Cut'': An edited version of the film. Basically, every movie shown on TV has been changed slightly (every time there's an ad break, the film fades to black) but often there are more significant changes. For instance, violence is often cut, swear words are covered up, and nudity may be removed. (See any ''[[Die Hard]]'' movie.) As well, they may be edited for time.
* ''In-Flight Cut'': A version of the film edited for viewing during an airline flight. Similar to the ''TV Cut'', but ''far'' more stringent. In addition to cuts and dubs for language, violence and/or sexuality, all manner of other content may be removed, depending on the airline showing the film -- for example, removing anything to do with pork products from films sold to airlines from Muslim nations. And for some strange reason, any scene which depicts ''anything'' at all, however minor, which negatively impacts an airplane -- even one on the ground -- will disappear from the film.
Beyond that, things can get very confusing. The inclusion of one or more Recuts is often one of the selling points of a [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' is a rare case of a recut of an entire televised series (in this case, ''[[Dragonball Z]]''), cutting away the filler, remastering the show in HD and rerecording the dialogue with as many of the original voice actors as possible.
== [[
* When [[Marvel Comics]] reprinted the original series of ''[[Elf Quest]]'' new pages had to be added by Wendy Pini to fit the total page count. Some of these were new episode titles and recaps, while others were new or expanded story pages. Most of the latter were included in subsequent reprints; due to [[Art Evolution]] it's usually not too hard to tell which. A few of the new episode titles were also included, causing some disruption to the original chaptering. Controversially, the series was also re-lettered with bigger
** Another reformatting took place when [[DC Comics]] reprinted the series in [[Manga]]-style volumes, requiring Pini to expand, contract or extend existing comic panels to fit the new page size. This version also included most of the additional art drawn for the Marvel version.
*
== [[Film]] ==
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* There was a special showing of ''[[The Godfather]]'' trilogy on TV some years ago. Called ''The Godfather Saga'', it clocked in at ''over twelve hours'' and showed the events in all three films ''in chronological order'', adding scenes that were cut from the original theatrical releases. Whether this works or not [[Your Mileage May Vary|is entirely up to you]]. The added stuff was released on DVD in the [[Deleted Scene]] section.
* The horror film ''[[Needful Things]]'' was shown on TBS some years back with a sizeable chunk of added footage, most adding depth to the characters. This version has yet to be released in any format.
* The ''[[Dune]]'' movie. The 1984 theatrical version was not director [[David Lynch]]'s Director's Cut—the producers not only made him cut a lot of material from his script, they also cut a lot of scenes that had been shot out as well—but it's the only one he's very happy with. Then in 1988, an Extended Cut was made to be shown on TV, referred to as "The [[Alan Smithee]] Cut". It used deleted scenes, but reused more footage than ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Universal also did this for the Kevin Costner sci fi ''[[Waterworld]]''. The Extended Cut originally appeared on ABC television in two parts that clocked in at two hours each (with commercials). It trimmed out the opening pee shot, the excess violence, and replaced most cusswords with "Slime!". It also reshuffled some of the order of events and added a ''ton'' of development of both world and characters, mostly for the Deacon and the atollers.
* While we're on Kevin Costner, this also happened to ''[[Dances with Wolves]]''. An Extended Cut was shown in Europe that adds practically ''an hour'' to the running time. While the focus on John Dunbar is lost, all the characters get a ''buttload'' of development. Also, the precise reason why the Army camp was deserted was explained. This has been released on DVD, and is the only way to get a widescreen version of the film without eBay.
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** The movie that launched the series also had this done. Some scenes added to the Extended cut of the film show remains of some Anubis guards buried near the gate when it's dug up in the beginning.
* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' films had many TV Cuts made:
** During the filming of the sequel, John Carpenter shot more scenes for the ABC broadcast of the original to help it pad out the
** The sequel itself has a few new things for the TV Cut. These include some alternate cuts of scenes, some scene and dialogue extensions, and a scene added to the end that takes place in the ambulance.
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** ''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers'' has the most stunning example of this. Apparently, the film ran over time and budget, so [[Executive Meddling|the suits decided to take it over to see how they could screw it up]]. Their version is the Theatrical Cut. When the film was shown on TV, someone got a hold of the now infamous Producer's Cut. While the violence and cursing were trimmed, an ''assload'' of alternate takes and different opening narration were shown, and the entire last 20 minutes of the film is RADICALLY different from the Theatrical Cut. The main change is that the explanation for Michael's killing ways is altered: The Theatrical version offered a scientific reason, but the Producer's Cut says the reason is supernatural (which also explains why Michael is also growing bigger in each previous film. It's because his power is growing). It also shows a final scene with Dr. Loomis realizing that he has been cursed by Thorn. This was likely altered when Donald Pleasance died. An early trailer showed that the film was originally going to called "Halloween 666: The Curse of Michael Myers." This version is only available through bootleg video releases.
** ''[[Halloween H 20]]'' has a TV Cut that does the violence and cussword trim, but also has some alternate scenes fun. One added scene gives the
** The Rob Zombie remake has an Unrated Director's Cut on DVD.
* Another victim of [[Executive Meddling]] was ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]''. When it ran over time and budget, [[Executive Meddling|the suits]] just couldn't ''wait'' to screw ''this'' pooch. The main difference between the Theatrical Cut and the Renegade Cut is that the immortals are NOT from freakin' space, but from the ancient past and predate humanity. The planet Zeist plotline was so clumsily added that it created one massive logic hole concerning MacLeod's reactivation of his immortal nature. This was handled in the Theatrical Cut with what had to be the ''worst'' explanation scene ever. Both have since been released on DVD.
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** ''[[Pocahontas]]'' also had a special edition, although it was not released theatrically. It added "If I Never Knew You", a [[Cut Song]] that did poorly in test screenings but better-establishes the lovers' relationship as the film's climax approaches.
*** That was a [[Cut Song]]? This Latin-American troper's old VHS copy (bought when the movie was first released) ''does'' have it.
* The broadcast
** The removal of this scene causes a slight plot hole in the released version. With the scene intact, we see that Eddie returns to his office to shower off the pigs head, which is when Jessica arrives. When he exits the bathroom, he has very clearly just been taking a shower (he's soaking wet). But because [[Viewers are Morons]], the producers apparently decided no one would be able to tell he had been showering, and added in the sound of a toilet flushing. Perhaps we are supposed to assume he was giving himself a swirlie?
* Terry Jones was never happy with the original version of ''[[Erik the Viking]]''. Some years later he supervised a re-edit that was carried out by his son, referred to as the "Director's Son's Cut". However, the quality of the recut is up for debate among fans, many of whom consider the recut to mangle the film and remove most of the funny non
* The films ''Planet Terror'' and ''Death Proof'' were filmed with the specific purpose of cutting large chunks out of them, and were in their theatrical release bundled as the [[Affectionate Parody|faux]] [[B-Movie]] feature ''[[Grindhouse]]''. The DVD releases restore (most) of the scenes cut for the theatrical version. ''Death Proof'' in particular actually suffers from this, because the theatrical release takes a good 40 minutes before anything interesting happens. In the extended cut, it's a ''full hour'' before it picks up. And the lap dance doesn't count. It was [[Take Our Word for It|much more interesting when you didn't see it]]. Plus, the original theatrical cut of ''Grindhouse'' [[No Export for You|wasn't released overseas, and is only on DVD in Japan]] (it was released on Blu-Ray in America, though); the intermission's trailer spoofs (save ''Machete'') were dropped in the process. However, in the U.S. the pay-cable Encore movie networks have shown this cut.
* ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' is especially odd in that there are several cuts depending on whether it's the theatrical release, domestic television broadcast, overseas market release or the Director's Cut. Some include the original ending (which was the one preferred by director [[Sam Raimi]], but [[Executive Meddling|was changed at the request of the studio]], which considered it "too depressing"), some include the theatrical ending, some include the extended windmill scene (strangely enough, the television broadcast has it, but the theatrical version didn't), some change the dialogue between Ash and Bad Ash, and some include other minor differences. Fans could have a field day just editing in their favorite versions of each scene, though the theatrical ending, where Ash {{spoiler|confronts a Deadite in S-Mart}} usually ranks as just one more [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for fans of the series.
* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' gets both a Director's Cut and an Extended Cut. Oddly, the Extended Cut was given a home-release months after the Theatrical and Director's Cuts. Both new cuts are pretty substantial. The Director's Cut adds pretty much everything that was shot, minus the Tales of the Black Freighter tie-ins on the street corner. It bumps up the running time to three hours, a full half-hour. It's definitely a better movie for it, featuring more character development and more scenes that were in the comic. The Extended Cut adds another half-hour (bringing it to three and a half hours), featuring the entire Black Freighter animated feature woven into the movie and the accompanying street-corner bits. Your Mileage Will Vary on that one, since the animated features are more heavy handed and feel dropped in (unlike the careful weaving present in [[Watchmen (comics)|the comic]]), while the new live-action segments show how normal citizens react to the events around them.
* [[James Cameron]]'s 1989 sci-fi epic ''[[The Abyss]]'' was cut down by Cameron himself from from around 2 hours, 51 minutes to about 2 hours, 26 minutes for its theatrical release, with short bits removed from many scenes throughout the film, and a massive cut near the end of the film that focused on the {{spoiler|aliens threatening mankind with extinction because of their worries over humans destroying the planet in a nuclear holocaust}}. Cameron said he did this because certain scenes that read well as screenplay didn't translate to film with the effectiveness he wanted. In a bit of Averted [[Executive Meddling]], he revealed that the 20th Century Fox higher-ups were actually, to quote Cameron, "horrified" when he told them he was cutting the end sequence differently. After the success of 1991's ''[[Terminator]] 2'', however, Cameron used some money from a new contract to go back and finalize ''The Abyss'' into its initial 2 hour, 51 minute form, and this was later released as the "Special Edition."
* The Director's Cut of ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'' has additional scenes and a ''much'' darker ending: {{spoiler|'''pre-natal suicide'''}}.
* Vincent Gallo's infamous film ''The Brown Bunny''
** To understand how much of a difference: the Cannes-cut apparently was ''Padding: [[The Movie]]'' with long sequences of the main character driving with bugs clashing against the windshield and when he did something like changing his shirt, critics started cheering.
* ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' and ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]]'' have Director's Cuts scenes on DVD: In ''[http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=5879626 LW1]'', there's the sniper shootout scene, a scene with Murtagh
* Sam Peckinpah's [[Cult Classic]] film ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' was a particularly infamous case of [[Executive Meddling]], culminating in MGM actually taking the film away from Peckinpah and releasing a considerably shorter version that nearly the entire cast panned and refused to be associated with. A director's cut version was shown once, but didn't make it to the general public until 15 years after the film's initial release. And just to make things more confusing, the DVD has 3 different versions.
* The R-Rated director's cut of 2003's ''[[Daredevil]]'' totally combined this with [[Better on DVD]], restoring 30 minutes cut from the theatrical version, which included a completely removed subplot where Matt Murdock must prove the innocence of a man played by Coolio ([[Better Than It Sounds]]; honest), extra helpings of blood, and a couple more nods to the source material. It also altered the rainy-rooftop/screams-for-help scene between Matt and Elektra, making Matt more heroic by leaving Elektra to save a life instead of bedding her as the screams die off. Although it does retain some of the more divisive aspects of the theatrical cut such as the playground fight and the nu-metal soundtrack, general consensus is that the director's cut is a legitimately good movie (compared to the lukewarm response of the TC).
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* William Friedkin re-worked ''[[The French Connection]]'' for its Blu Ray release by putting the film through a digital intermediate and tinting the colors to blue to create a more neo-noir look. Fans of the film were not pleased.
* ''[[Metropolis]]'' was only shown in its original form for a few months in Germany. American studios balked at showing such a long film, so Lang cut the running length nearly in half. And then the cut footage was lost. There were later attempts to reconstruct the original cut, based on existing footage and guesswork. In 1984, Giorgio Moroder made a colorized version with an 80's pop soundtrack. Finally, in 2007, nearly all of the cut footage was rediscovered in a museum in Argentina. The version based on this, called ''The Complete Metropolis'', is probably the closest we'll ever get to a definitive version.
* There
* ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]: 30th Anniversary Edition'', which is often regarded as inferior to the original due to an obnoxious soundtrack and badly spliced in new scenes.
* Despite the reputation directors' cuts have for being self-indulgent and bloated, Stanley Kubrick considered the UK cut of ''[[The Shining]]'' to be the definitive one (as opposed to the US cut, which is twenty minutes longer).
* The original release of ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'' had a scene where [[Big Bad|Walter Donovan]] bribes the ruler of Iskenderun with "Precious valuables...[[Blatant Lies|donated by some of the finest Jewish families in Germany.]]". The word "Jewish" would be removed in all subsequent releases. In light of ''[[Schindler's List]]'', it's possible that [[Steven Spielberg]] saw the original line as an [[Old Shame]]. It's meant as a horrifying line and a sign Donovan is a [[Complete Monster]] aware of the beginning of the Holocaust. Which is probably why they toned it down.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture|Star Trek the Motion Picture]]'' has gone through a few editions. Director [[Robert Wise]] considered the original theatrical release a "rough cut", due to it being rushed to meet Paramount's
* The Blu-Ray releases of the first two ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films include both the theatrical cut and an extended cut. The extended cuts basically just re-incorporate the same [[Deleted Scene]]s which were extras on the original DVD releases. The Blu-Rays of the third movie onward only include the theatrical cut.
* ''[[Justice League (2017 film)|Justice League]]'' had an R-rated extended director's cut called ''[[Zack Snyder's Justice League]]'', with all of the footage shot by Snyder reinstated.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|The original ''
** [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The new series]] also has a slew of "Extended Unrated Versions" of many episodes and telemovies. These versions are available on DVD.
** And editing scenes to fit with current-day Sunday-morning Japanese broadcast censors.
* ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' and ''[[QI]]'' have extended versions of their shows, broadcast the following night: ''Have I Got A Bit More News For You'' and ''QI XL'' respectively. However, some of these were not shown on [[The BBC]] for various reasons (The next night having sport on instead, and sometimes due to sensitivity of the material.) These episodes tend to get their first airing on ''Dave''.
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* Likewise, reruns of [[Transformers Generation 1|the original Transformers cartoon]] were rebranded ''Transformers Generation Two'', with the addition of a "Cybernet Space Cube" that provided new [[Idiosyncratic Wipes]].
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Nickelodeon aired a special extended version of ''iSaved Your Life'' a week after the original airing, that included seven minutes of previously cut footage. The pilot episode also has an extended version, as does the special ''iCarly Saves TV''.
** Similarly, when it
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'': The first season (1993) was eight episodes long, and succeeded by five "special" half-hours made over the span of three years (1991-1993). These were used to fill out the first season, and therefore had the opening credits sequence edited in. Mike Marrona, Big Pete's actor, had gone through puberty in between the first special and first season, meaning that the theme song depicted him as much taller and more-mature looking than he was in the actual episode. Vey jarring.
** Before the specials, there were eighteen shorts, a handful of which were included on the DVD. In order to replace the old [[Vanity Plate]] from the 1990s with Nick's current one for the release, the last few seconds of each episode become only voiceover running over the vanity plate.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''
* David Morgan-Mar edited and resubmitted one of the ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' podcasts to add some missing sound effects and commented that he had "done a [[George Lucas]]".▼
** He's also gone back and edited an earlier strip (Strip #1639), which featured an appearance by [[The Pope]], because someone sent him a customized Lego Pope figure and he wanted to include it in place of his own version.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Gargoyles]] had this indignity foisted on it with its [[Pilot Movie]]. According to [[Word of God]], it was originally aired as a five-parter, this was trimmed into ''much'' shorter version to be shown in conjunction with a Disneyland ''Gargoyles'' ride. When the House of Mouse decided to release it on videocassette, they chose the shorter version because it had already been cleaned up. The longer, [[Your Mileage May Vary|better]] has since been released on DVD.
* The [[Disney]] Cinemagic airings of ''[[Recess]]'' usually have the theme song play slightly faster.
▲== [[Other]] ==
▲* David Morgan-Mar edited and resubmitted one of the ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' podcasts to add some missing sound effects and commented that he had "done a [[George Lucas]]".
▲** He's also gone back and edited an earlier strip (Strip #1639), which featured an appearance by [[The Pope]], because someone sent him a customized Lego Pope figure and he wanted to include it in place of his own version.
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