Wing Commander Early Promo Reel (Cleaned Up Version)

Back in 1999 a trailer for the Wing Commander movie leaked and broke the internet... or at least wcnews.com! This 3 minute trailer featured not just a sneak peak at the highly anticipated video game based movie, but ended up also hiding alternate takes and snippets from deleted scenes that ultimately didn't make it into the final film. That video has only been available in very low quality and low framerate DivX video. You can find that video at • Wing Commander Early P...
Also, a recently recovered VHS contained an slightly earlier verson of this same trailer! While the actual edit on this tape is the same, keen observers will note that this is a slightly earlier version of the trailer than was leaked online as it also features some less-finished CG effects in a few places. I spent some time and effort to remove color noise left over from the VHS capture (over which I had no control or access to). While the capture was more or less properly reverse-telecined I also spent some time attempting to repair the various deinterlacing artifacts and noise. With that, enjoy! And if you're going to party like it's 1999, what better way than to put this on loop and try and spot all the differences between the trailer shots and finished film. This is the cleaned up version.

[@DMSProduktions]

It PROMISED a lot...

[@pawsnpistons]

Like Star Citizen.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@pawsnpistons YES! Indeed! (But consistently FAILS to deliver! ) LOL!

[@pawsnpistons]

@@DMSProduktions But the budget of SC is so much higher than the movie and it still fails to deliver.

[@DMSProduktions]

@@pawsnpistons I know! THAT is the irony!
The film delivered in terms of it being a space war epic, but it didn't deliver in terms of recognition as being 'Wing Commander'!

[@purefoldnz3070]

with the cast of She's All That for some reason???

[@robertlee1497]

2023-08-09
Saw it AGAIN this morning, so i recognize the differences...here's my question. When Lt Blair gets tracker beamed after running out of fuel in Sol sector, is that Chris Roberts doing a cameo when the ship's pilot says "Welcome to Sol sector, Lieutenant."? Because there isn't a credit for that character.

[@WingCommanderCIC]

Yes, that's a Chris Roberts cameo as that pilot! Fun fact: in the Peter Telep novelization of the movie, the character is named as Chris McCubbin, who is a longtime Origin vet responsible for a variety of documentation.

[@vindicator05]

Okay, let's be honest:
That's been cheesy right from the start 🤣

[@Mr_Tea_Rexx]

tbh majority of movies back then were

[@purefoldnz3070]

oh god the music is so cringe.