Book Fanedits

[Chainsaw Hobbit]

I've been fascinated by the idea of movie fanedits ever since I heard of the concept. A fan takes a movie, and removes, adds, and rearranges footage in order to change the story or tone. They may do this to better represent the director's original vision, or simply to express their own take on the concept.

(I once made a fanedit of Conan the Destroyer with a friend that removed some of the more cringe-worthy lines, introduced a metal soundtrack, and turned down the colour saturation for a more stark tone.)

Do you know of any attempts to do the same to a book? A sort of rearrangement and editing of text, done to refine or alter the experience. A simple abridgment that does nothing but cut doesn't count. It would have to be more of a reworking.

Also, do you have any ideas for book fanedits? Any books that could could be improved with reworkings?

[Pokonic]

I am sure you could turn Eragon into a story of a sociopath who obtains a dragon who wishs to kill the emperor after he ordered the distruction of the evil order of Dragon riders.

[Grinner]

I want to think that it would be more difficult with a book.

With movies and television, what goes unsaid often says the most. A single hateful glare is more effective than all but the most vehement of speeches.

With a book, you don't have that option. Something has to be written, after all, unless you're also proposing that the editor be able to rewrite the text itself.

It's certainly an interesting concept. Let us know if you go through with it.

[Chainsaw Hobbit]

Let us know if you go through with it.

I'm currently working on a fanedit of The Terrible Old Man, a very short story by H. P. Lovecraft.

[Chainsaw Hobbit]

Here is my fanedit of The Terrible Old man. It took about half an hour to make, not including the time it took to read the story. Feedback would be most appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kf6cTak8Nnq1VuSG4wqETuFZIHP8agUThCOpfi0nKe8/edit#

[jedipilot24]

A lot of Harry Potter fans like to delete the epilogue. Seriously, it really is that bad.

Stars Wars has The Phantom Edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit).

[hamishspence]

While it's closer to a "fan novelization" than a "fan edit", Julius Sykes's The Test of Wills (fanfic prose version of the Dark Empire comic)

http://www.cse.usf.edu/~pnguyen7/

(it's the one labelled tow.pdf)

is pretty good, I thought- though it does overdo the Dune shout-outs a bit.

[CarpeGuitarrem]

Come to think of it, isn't this basically the principle behind Pride, Prejudice, & Zombies and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (the book)?