Synopsis:

In the original, Max is transformed from start to end into a blockbuster hero and saviour. Several issues and secondary plots weaken the cyberpunk aspect and the "fighting for your life" attitude. In this version, Max only wants to survive and save his life at all costs. He was the direct cause of all events and tries to fix them.

Intentions:

Elysium is one of my favorite films, it's full of wonderful cyberpunk production design, great acting, action packed sequences, great characters and memorable punch lines. But I wanted to make the movie address Max's point of view in a more brutal, fast, raw and direct way. In other words, a more cyberpunk style movie!

Change List:

Cut Max and Frey flashback romance - Cut Max promises to take Frey to Elysium - Cut Max in orphanage with a kindly nun - Cut med-bays scene - Cut Max laughing about his worker situation - Cut Max and Frey accidentally meet at the clinic - Cut Carlyle in factory - Cut illegal emigration operation - Move shuttles land off to end scene - Cut Elysium identification need - Cut Delacourt at Elysium party - Cut Delacourt overrides Executive Order 355 - Cut Kruger activation, use the dialog during attack sequence - Cut shoulder-fired ground to air missile launcher and launch rockets - Cut rockets chase down - Cut other shuttle makes it to Elysium and lands - Move rich folks in the area are all in a tizzy, as helicopters and robots give chase of the occupants of the shuttle to Raven crash - Cut mother and her daughter who were on the shuttle that landed rush into a house and find a Med-Bed - Cut deportation back to earth - Cut Matt's friend Julio tries to entice him to come back into the auto theft game - Cut flashback during the robot extraction - Cut Armadyne CEO John Carlyle goes down on the production floor to see what the emergency was - Cut President Patel summons Delacourt - Cut Kruger learns that he's not going to be utilized anymore - Cut Frey has a young daughter, Matilda was ordered to leave her daughter home, as the doctors weren't able to give her treatments. - Cut the deal, John Carlyle must be the high level target - Cut Delacourt, vowing to protect Elysium and her own power, bargains with Carlyle - Add some subtitle - Trim Carlyle works up a new computer protocol called "Sabre Cerebral Defense" - Cut Delacourt waiting - Insert establish shot of Elysium to locate Delacourt - Delacourt calls Kruger as soon as she's informed that Carlyle's shuttle - Kruger first apparition with "Activate Kruger" - Cut some Delacourt stress about conspiration - Cut Frey and Matilda - Insert hospital shot when Max goes to see Frey, as a friend and nurse she can help him - Cut and trim rearange sequence at Frey home to remove Matilda shots - Cut flashback - Cut Frey tells Max that Matilda has leukemia - Cut She asks Max to find a way to get Matilda to Elysium, so she can be cured. - Cut Matilda tells Max a story - Now Max leave because he's afraid for Frey and Matilda - Trim Kruger Frey - Trim and flip some Spider scenes - Cut Kruger, Frey and Matilda inside Raven - Cut Matilda and carries her into a mansion after crash - Insert Elysium security forces arriving from the cut illegal emigration operation - Cut Frey places Matilda in a healing bed and arrest - Cut Delacourt, talk with President Battelle - Trim lab scene - Cut all Delacourt and Kruger bloody sequence - Cut Kruger tosses Delacourt into the room with Frey and Matilda - Cut atilda starts treating Delacourt's wound - Insert Delacourt's death in the control room bombing - Now Max want Matilda go to a Med Bay to survive Raven crash - Cut Frey shot during armory gunfight - Cut Spider humour quote during Kruger hand to hand combat - Cut flashback - Cut promise dialog - Cut and rearrange Max dialog - Remove nun voice-over - Cut Matilda leukemia detection - Cut numerous Aid shuttles are sent to earth to help the new citizens - Create a new end with music continuity and shuttles land of from the cut illegal emigration operation. - Ending with an Elysium shot from the beginning (looping story ) - Added end credits.

Additional Notes:

- Childhood friendship with Frey, Nun and flashbacks was removed - Remove of the romance with Frey, although we perceive the relationship - Remove the population of the earth want desperately medical treatment in Elysium - The med box is not as powerful and magical, it is relegated as a technological artifact available only at Elysium - Matilda is a victim of events, leukemia is no longer mentioned. The med box remains necessary to save because of the Raven crash - No passer role for Spider and its organization - Remove the conspiracy plot from Delacourt and John Carlyle - Delacourt is now a powerful executive - John Carlyle is chosen and it's hazard that Max take over the main computer control program - Remove of sequences between Delacourt and president. The representative political system seems to be a problem in the context of Elysium - Also The president is completely outdated and behaves at the end as an operative (eventually it becomes in this edition) - Kruger is no longer psychopath and acts as a professional and opportunist thinking about gaining control of Elysium - The status of John Carlyle is rectified - he is not explicitly in the same factory Max. Its status within Elysium is not compatible with an office in such a place - he's no more occupies with problems at the factory production unit - he is no longer in personal conflict with Max - Finally Spider wants to gain control over Elysium just like Kruger ? - A different Spider-centric ending - Remix generic.

Other Sources:

Elysium Original Soundtrack.

Special Thanks:

Big kudo to TM2YC for review, feedbacks, technical support, advise and much more.