Somebody should do a fan edit of this book.
In the internet age, "fan edits" have become more common.
THANKS to digital technology, a delightful new art form emerged this year: the fan edit.
Fan fiction and fan edits are thriving, as are karaoke contests, video games like Guitar Hero, and YouTube mash-ups of music and movie, television and visual images.
Could he not have employed Mike J Nichols, creator of the unofficial "fan edit" of Phantom Menace, The Phantom Edit, to inject a new lease of life into the movie?
Even so, the film wouldn't be much more than a catalog of carping without the clips, a delightful panoply of "Star Wars" fan films, fan edits, parodies and other related material.
He likens the impulse to the one that governs the Emmy-winning fan edit Star Wars Uncut, or Sena Jeter Naslund's speculative Moby Dick "sequel" Ahab's Wife.
Earlier this year, Brian De Palma took the unprecedented step of endorsing an online fan edit of his poorly received 1992 film Raising Cain as his preferred director's cut, even convincing distributor Scream Factory to include it on the official Blu-ray.
The Leave campaign, meanwhile, complain about "Project Fear" and say all this is "scaremongering", while jabbering on about terrorists and criminals flooding into the country from a Europe that is somehow both banana-obsessed and post-apocalyptically anarchic, like a greengrocer's fan edit of Mad Max.
Reception of the Special Edition was mixed, prompting petitions and fan edits to produce restored copies of the original trilogy.
