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Shane Reid (born 1983, Bay Area, California)1 is an American film editor and director based in Los Angeles. He is best known for editing Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), and is a partner at the Santa Monica post-production house Exile Edit. In November 2025 he was hired to direct his first feature film, a remake of Thunderbolt and Lightfoot for Amazon MGM Studios.2
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Reid grew up in the Bay Area and taught himself to edit as a teenager. He moved to Los Angeles at around age 25 to pursue stand-up and sketch comedy, continuing to cut footage as a practical skill for filming and sharing his friends' performances. He made ends meet through editing work while developing his comedy career, eventually pivoting fully into editorial.1
Reid began his professional editing career at Lost Planet, where he assisted editor Hank Corwin. He subsequently moved to Whitehouse Post, assisting editors Rick Lawley and Russell Icke before making the transition to cutting in his own right. In 2015, shortly after its founding, he joined the Santa Monica-based commercial and music-video shop Exile Edit. He later became a partner there alongside editor Kirk Baxter.1
Reid quickly built a reputation as a leading short-form editor. Among his most recognized commercial work is the Duracell spot "Trust Your Power," about deaf NFL player Derrick Coleman, and a series of prominent Apple campaigns including "The Stunt Double," "This Watch Tells Time," "It Already Does That," and "Storytellers," the last of which launched Apple TV.1 He has worked for major brands including Adidas, BMW, Hennessy, Audi, and the Olympics.3 He was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Cannes Lion in the commercial category.1
In music video work he has collaborated with Paul McCartney, Florence + The Machine, Kamasi Washington, and Taylor Swift, whose short film "I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor's Version)" he cut in 2021.4
Reid's first feature credit came with Andrew Dominik's documentary One More Time With Feeling (2016), which followed Nick Cave during the recording of his album Skeleton Tree.1 He is a member of the American Cinema Editors organization.
In 2024 he stepped into back-to-back major studio releases. He edited Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire alongside Nathan Orloff,5 then moved almost directly into Deadpool & Wolverine alongside Dean Zimmerman,6 which was directed by Shawn Levy and became the highest-grossing R-rated film in history, earning over $1.33 billion worldwide.7 Also in 2024 he edited Jason Reitman's Saturday Night, a dramatization of the first live broadcast of Saturday Night Live. In 2025 he edited the documentary John Candy: I Like Me.4
Reid and Zimmerman won the Saturn Award for Best Editing for Deadpool & Wolverine (2023/24 awards cycle).8
In November 2025, Reid was hired by Amazon MGM Studios to direct a remake of the 1974 crime-road film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, with Ryan Reynolds set to star and produce through his Maximum Effort banner. The project marks Reid's feature directorial debut.2
Reid's connection to the Ghostbusters franchise grew out of a personal relationship forged with the Reitman family. Approximately two years before Frozen Empire began production, he edited an Apple commercial that Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman directed together. During post-production on the ad, Reid communicated primarily with Ivan while Jason was occupied with press duties for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.9
After Ivan Reitman's death in February 2022, Reid wrote Jason a personal email recounting his memories of Ivan's character and generosity. Jason responded warmly, and Reid subsequently helped produce a fifteen-minute documentary shown at Ivan's memorial service. That collaboration deepened their working relationship and led directly to Reid's hiring on Frozen Empire.9
Reid and Nathan Orloff were both attached to the film from early in production. Rather than dividing the film territorially, the two editors established a collaborative workflow: they continuously exchanged rough cuts, offered candid notes, and sometimes cut competing assemblies of the same scene, then selected the stronger version together.9 Production filming spanned three months with both editors working simultaneously in Winnersh, England, and in London during the shoot. After principal photography, Orloff completed a director's cut phase lasting roughly three months; the team then relocated to Los Angeles for revisions, pickup planning, and final sound mixing, which began in January.5
The production involved approximately 600 visual effects shots. Reid and Orloff typically maintained multiple VFX versions per shot in their Avid timelines, ranging from on-set scanned plates to pipeline builds to current VFX vendor iterations.5
Reid handled a number of key sequences and creative problems on the film. He noted that balancing escalating supernatural stakes with consistent humor required constant calibration: adding a joke could weaken the beats that followed, demanding careful sequencing. For comedic scenes featuring improvisers such as Kumail Nanjiani and Bill Murray, he focused on identifying humor rooted in character motivation rather than cutting for the biggest single joke. He experimented widely with temp music, drawing on horror scores including The Conjuring and period slasher material like Friday the 13th, which helped composer Dario Marianelli synthesize a tonal range for the final score.9 Reid expressed particular enthusiasm for the Mini Puft characters, which he found consistently produced the strongest audience reactions during test screenings.9
Reid also helped create a short documentary incorporated into the film that drew on licensed 1980s Ghostbusters toy commercial footage, an element he found particularly engaging given his background in commercial editing.9
As a minor production footnote, Reid was nearly retained in the film as a voice on a telephone.
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
postPerspective, "Exile Edit Names Shane Reid Partner" (May 11, 2021), https://postperspective.com/exile-edit-names-shane-reid-partner/. Confirmed by shots.net, "Editor Shane Reid becomes partner at Exile Edit" (May 12, 2021), https://shots.net/news/view/editor-shane-reid-becomes-partner-at-exile-edit. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
The Hollywood Reporter, "Ryan Reynolds Remaking 1970s Crime Movie 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' for Amazon MGM" (November 7, 2025), https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ryan-reynolds-thunderbolt-and-lightfoot-for-amazon-mgm-1236421095/. ↩ ↩2
Exile Edit, "Shane Reid" (accessed June 13, 2026), https://exileedit.com/editors/shane-reid/. ↩
IMDb, "Shane Reid" (accessed June 13, 2026), https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3647115/. ↩ ↩2
Boris FX / Art of the Cut, "Ghostbusters Frozen Empire" (2024), https://borisfx.com/blog/aotc/ghostbusters-frozen-empire/. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
Boris FX / Art of the Cut, "Art of the Cut: Deadpool and Wolverine" (2024), https://borisfx.com/blog/aotc/art-of-the-cut-deadpool-and-wolverine/. ↩
Variety, "Deadpool & Wolverine Overtakes Joker as Highest-Grossing R-Rated Film in History" (August 2024), https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/deadpool-wolverine-highest-grossing-r-rated-film-history-joker-1236103888/. ↩
Next Best Picture, "The 2024 Saturn Award Winners" (2025), https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2024-saturn-award-winners/. ↩
Frame.io Insider, "Who You Gonna Call? Editing Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" (April 11, 2024), https://blog.frame.io/2024/04/11/who-you-gonna-call-editing-ghostbusters-frozen-empire/. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
