Trailer re-edits are a perennial guilty pleasure of mine — a creative pastime born in the early YouTube era. I first fell for the form with Chocolate Cake City’s irreverent Brokeback to the Future and Robert Ryang’s notorious “family-friendly” splice of The Shining. As accessible editing tools like Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and even iMovie became commonplace, the number of inventive genre-swaps multiplied. When they’re done well, those edits can feel revelatory — and this one certainly does.
Porgis Edits specializes in reimagined trailers and uploads intermittently, but when he posts, it’s usually worth watching. His newest cut pitches Andor through the sensibility of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, pairing the show’s simmering tension with Jonny Greenwood’s taut, unsettling score. The result doesn’t erase Tony Gilroy’s original mood so much as refract it — a reminder that both Andor and OBAA possess formidable tonal heft.
The Andor edit sent me down the Porgis rabbit hole. He’s stitched together an eclectic roster of experiments: Revenge of the Sith re-scored and paced like Dune, Better Call Saul reworked into the frenzied tone of Uncut Gems, and a version of The Boys edited with the corporate cadence of Succession. But the standout for me was the seamless mashup that blends James Gunn’s blockbuster Superman with the kinetic, video-game-inflected rhythm of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
Gunn’s Superman thrives on buoyant romance and buoyancy, but Porgis’s Scott Pilgrim treatment imagines it with punchy, arcade-style inserts and a stop‑motion sense of timing that accentuates the film’s comic-book energy. David Corenswet’s Clark Kent already flirts with a shy, off-kilter charm not unlike Michael Cera’s Scott — and this edit makes a convincing argument that that awkwardness could be amplified into something delightfully strange.
Despite its craft, the Superman/Scott Pilgrim edit has only amassed roughly 40,000 views — to my mind, far fewer than it deserves. If you’re into clever trailer work, give it a watch and show some support for the art of the re-edit. Share any favorites you have; I’ll absolutely check them out.
Source: Polygon
