• Fanedit Title: Superman II Baliscon Cut

• Original Movie Title: Superman II

• Original Release Date: June 19, 1981

• Original Runtime: 2 hours and 8 minutes

• Fanedit Release Date: February 17, 2026

• Fanedit Runtime: 2 hours, and 38 minutes

• Time Cut: N/A

• Time Added: N/A

• Synopsis: Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

• Intentions: This movie had a torrid development, directed partially by Richard Donner during the shoot of the first film before the production delayed filming and replaced Donner with Richard Lester.  The tone leans more towards camp, which would be on full display in Lester's next Superman film.  Richard Donner did get the opportunity to reedit and release his cut of the sequel, but numerous scenes had to be sourced from casting videos that are distractingly different, visually, from the rest of the film.  Also, while Lester's ending is often mocked, Donner's is less sensical and impactful, undoing the events of the entire film by having Superman reverse time.  So, my hope is that this edit offers the strongest elements from each of the official cuts, while making the overall tone more serious like the previous edit. 

Change List:

• Started with the Lester cut's opening, showing the crime that Zod and his gang perpetrate

• Spliced in the sequence with Jor El judging Zod and his followers from the Donner Cut and Superman I

• After Zod's trial and imprisonment, replaced/cut most cgi Phantom Zone effects, added a title card reading "30 Years Later," and immediately cut to Superman flying after the two missiles, removing the flashback of Clark landing as a child, along with Luthor poisoning Superman with kryptonite.

• Followed with the opening credits from the Donner Cut

• Continued with the Lester cut's first Daily Planet scene, with Clark and Lois meeting on the street before their conversation about vitamin C at the Planet

• Continued with Lex's scene in prison from the Lester Cut

• Cut in the opening Daily Planet scene from the Donner Cut where Lois starts suspecting that Clark's Superman

• Used the Lester version of Zod and his crew's invasion of the Moon

• Removed the "curl" joke from the Lester cut

• Continued with the Lester cut of Luthor's escape, splicing in the Donner cut's sequence with Lex and Teschmacher discussing their plan to go north.

• Continued with Lester Cut version for the next few scenes, starting with Lois and Clark's arrival at Niagara Falls, removing Lex and Teschmacher in the balloon from this version

• Continued with the Niagara Falls rescue, but removed Lois shrugging off her suspicion after seeing Clark without his glasses.

• Continued with Lex in Superman's Fortress, learning about the Kryptonian criminals from the hologram of Superman's mother

• Cut the start of the next scene with Lois's attempt to prove that Clark's Superman at Niagara Falls, removing where she says she's only now starting to suspect he's Superman.

• Followed with Zod and his crew arriving on Earth, before Superman accidentally reveals his identity back at the hotel

• Added the Donner Cut of Zod and his crew confronting the Houston officers

• Spliced in the rest of this scene from the Lester cut, where Non retrieves the shotgun and offers Zod the police cruiser's red light.

• Continued with the Lester cut of Superman and Lois flying to his fortress, then Zod and his crew's attack on East Houston, cutting right after Zod throws a man through a wall (removing him making another man float telepathically), and concluding with Superman explaining the fortress to Lois before flying off to get her dinner.

• Continued with the Donner cut of Zod's attack on East Houston once the media arrives

• Cut in the dinner between Superman and Lois from the Lester cut before the rest of the Donner cut's sequence of Zod's attack on East Houston

• Added in the Lester cut of Clark speaking to the hologram of his mother before becoming de-powered, Zod's crew defacing Mt. Rushmore, and Lois and Clark spending the night together

• Added the Donner cut of the white house attack, followed by Clark getting beaten up by the trucker

• Used a combo of the Lester and Donner sequences when Clark returns to the fortress, including the first dialogue bit from the Lester cut, combined with the rest of the sequence from Donner's once Clark rediscovers the fortress's green crystal and becomes repowered by his father

• Added the Donner cut of Luthor meeting Zod at the White House

• Used the start of Lester's version of the criminals attacking the Daily Planet, cut to Donner's once Zod begins interrogating the staff, included Luthor's joke when he enters the scene from the Lester version, and ended the scene with Superman asking Zod to step outside from the Lester version

• Cut to Donner's version of the battles in Metropolis and at the Fortress of Solitude

• Included a bit from a deleted scene where the Arctic Police take Zod and Luthor away so that it doesn't seem like Superman and Lois killed them

• Cut to Clark and Lois talking about their relationship outside the Fortress and once they fly back to Metropolis

• Concluded with the Lester ending