Fan Editing

A fan-edit is an unofficial edit of a film that aims to fix, extend, combine or reinterpret films.

Notable fan-edits

 * Star Wars is the most fan-edited franchise in movie history.
 * One of the earliest fan-edits was The Phantom Edit, released in 2000, which aimed to fix the problems with The Phantom Menace. It was the first fan-edit to gain prominence outside the fan-editing scene.
 * In the 2010s, Czech English teacher Petr "Harmy" Harmáček released Harmy's Despecialized Editions, which restored the Original Trilogy to its pre-Special Edition state in HD using various sources, from the 2006 limited edition DVDs of the original trilogy to 35mm scans. He also did a "Respecialized" version of A New Hope, which restored the film to its 1997 Special Edition state. The success of these fan edits has earned Harmy a job as a rotoscoping artist, working on Blade Runner 2049 and Wonder Woman
 * Star Wars Revisited is a project by Adywan to create "what the Special Editions should have been", fixing continuity errors, removing controversial changes and enhancing various scenes. As of 2019, A New Hope: Revisited and The Empire Strikes Back: Revisited have been finished, with Adywan working on Return of the Jedi: Revisited and an HD edition of A New Hope.
 * He also planned "Revisited" editions of the prequel trilogy, in which he would redub lines and reshoot scenes to "make the prequels unrecognizable", but the project was cancelled in 2017 due to the fact that it would have required a humongous budget for a fan project.
 * YouTuber Ivan Ortega made a re-edit of The Last Jedi, in which he fixed the much-hated characterization of Luke Skywalker, trimmed the humor and a majority of the casino subplot, and even had Admiral Ackbar replace Holdo in the hyperspace kamikaze.
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was edited in The Purist Edit to bring it closer to the original Tolkien book. Unfortunately, the source was a leaked DVD screener, and thus it is not on Fanedit.org due to using pirated sources.
 * In 2002, DJ Hubb created The Kubrick Edit, an edit of A.I. Artificial Intelligence that brought the film closer to Stanley Kubrick's vision.
 * Even professional filmmakers can do fanedits. Steven Soderbergh has several:
 * He edited Heaven's Gate into "an immoral and illegal" edit titled The Butcher's Cut, which cut the runtime in half and moved the prologue to the end.
 * Psychos combines both the 1960 and 1998 versions of the film and removes the color from the 1998 version.
 * Justice League: The Elite Edition removes awkward jokes and dialogue and adds deleted scenes to the film. It also adds flashbacks from Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to tighten continuity.
 * The Marvel Cinematic Universe also has plenty of fan edits:
 * Marvel Cinematic Universe: A Chronology is a huge multi-part project that combines all MCU films, 5 one-shots and several deleted scenes to tell the story of the MCU in chronological order, from the creation of the universe in Guardians of the Galaxy to the epic battle against Past Thanos in Avengers: Endgame.
 * From the same creator, there is also Fury's Big Week, which tells of the several events that happened in the week between Iron Man 2, Thor, The Incredible Hulk and the final chapter of Captain America: The First Avenger.
 * MCUTV has the same purpose as A Chronology, except edited into a TV series format, with each phase being its own season.

Legal issues
The legality of fan-edits is unclear. However, the creators of those edits say you must have an official copy of the film at equal or greater resolution than the edit (e.g. you can't own just a VHS to download a 1080p fan-edit), as it can be seen as a backup.

Fan-edits are shared mostly on torrents and Usenet. The editors demand that you do not buy copies of the fan edits via sites like eBay, as they are intended to be non-profit and demand you get a refund if you do buy one.

Fan-edits with their own pages

 * The Thief and the Cobbler - The Recobbled Cut