Posted on 10/07/2002 11:39:26 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
To kick things off today, we've got a more comprehensive spec list for New Line's 4-disc The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Special Extended DVD Edition (11/12 - SRP $39.99). Here goes...
Discs One and Two - The Extended Version of the Film
208 minutes (split over both discs), anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) and Dolby Digital 5.1 EX and DTS 6.1 ES, isolated 5.1 sound effects mix, isolated 5.1 music track, Commentary Track One with the director and writers (Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens), Commentary Track Two with members of the design team (Grant Major, Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor, Alan Lee, John Howe, Dan Hennah, Chris Hennah and Tania Rodger), Commentary Track Three with members of the production and post-production team (Barrie Osborne, Mark Ordesky, Andrew Lesnie, John Gilbert, Rick Porras, Howard Shore, Jim Rygiel, Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins, Randy Cook, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hull, Alex Funke), Commentary Track Four with members of the cast (Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee and Sean Bean).
Note: Discs Two and Three can be viewed in "explore" mode with traditional menus or "tour" mode via a Play All feature.
Disc Three - The Appendices Part I: From Book to Vision
2 and 1/2 hours of documentary content, including J.R.R. Tolkien-Creator of Middle-earth featurette, From Book to Script featurette, Visualizing the Story section featuring Storyboards and Pre-viz featurette, Designing and Building Middle-earth section featuring Designing Middle-earth featurette, Costume Design featurette and Weta Workshop featurette, design galleries including The Enemy, The Last Alliance, Isengard, The Fellowship, Rivendell and Lothlorien, interactive Middle-earth Atlas with timeline, New Zealand as Middle-earth intertactive map with video, disc introduction with director Peter Jackson.
Disc Four - The Appendices Part II: From Vision to Reality
3 and 1/2 hours of documentary content, including Filming section featuring a production photo gallery and the The Fellowship of the Cast featurette, A Day in the Life of a Hobbit featurette, Cameras in Middle-earth featuette, Visual Effects section and featuette, Post-Production section featuring Editorial featuette and a multi-angle presentation, Digital Grading featuette, Sound and Music featuette and Sound Design Demo, The Soundscapes of Middle-earth featurette, Music for Middle-earth featurette, The Road Goes Ever On featuette, disc introduction with director Peter Jackson.
All told, the 4-disc set is expected to include over 30 hours of unique content created just for this release (including the film and the commentaries). The discs will also feature additional DVD-ROM content and over 2,000 photos and conceptual sketches. And let me tell you... we've seen a few of those featuettes. These aren't 5-minute EPK pieces. They're much more substantial - 20 to 30+ minutes in many cases. Good stuff.
Now then... in a feature in today's print issue of Video Store magazine, Warner reveals that they're gearing up to release an 18-title Charlie Chaplin Collection on DVD, starting in June 2003. Each title will be digitally remastered and cleaned, and will be released as a 2-disc set with numerous extras, including documentaries, outtakes, photo galleries, alternate versions re-edited by Chaplin himself and other material. They'll be available in 2-disc digipack (SRP $26.99) and collector's box ($34.99 - also containing a booklet and film frame) versions. All this is being done in association with MK2 and the Chaplin family. The first three films tentatively due next June are The Great Dictator, City Lights and The Circus. More information will be available at CharlieChaplin.com in the weeks ahead.
Stay tuned...
I watched the DVD this weekend and found this movie to be so boring that I was happy that it just finally ended. I guess I don't understand the attraction.
Dude, you're giving me a bad name. I'm a Tolkien scholar from waaaaaay back.
I think it's a 'mind exercise' thingee.
Aaargh. "Bless me, what do they teach them in these schools?"
You forgot the key point. The legend of Nibelungs, sagas and Germanic or Finnish myths were NOT invented by Wagner or Nazis. They existed MUCH earlier and Tolkien had the same right to use them. He started to create his secondary world LONG BEFORE Nazis took power in Germany.
Actually, my feeling is that it will be just as interesting. I'll report back to you sometime if I get a chance to do this. Hey, it's only 1600 pages. ;-)
But nowadays going to the theater will cost you half the price of the DVD; and if you've got a date you break even.
Tolkien's sub-creation still shines as brightly as the Evening Star.
Actually, this is backwards. Tolkien had been a strong Catholic since quite early in life (raised by a priest after being orphaned). Lewis came to Christ somewhat late in life. He never became a Catholic, but was a powerful apologist for the Christian faith for many years. Tolkien deserved some (but not all) credit for helping Lewis come to Christ. And you are correct that the power and truth inherent in myths were part of what helped Lewis finally understand the greater Truth which is Christ.
What's this? First I've heard of it. Are they doing a film or a series? I am so out of the loop. But I do watch Stargate SG-1 and The Twilight Zone on SciFi, so you'd think I would have heard about it. Of course, Hubby zips thorugh the commercials so.... If you think of it, ping me or something when Dune is gonna be on--otherwise I'll miss it. :(
No, I haven't seen any polls targeted specifically at Hobbit weirdos. Maybe you'd like to share your own numbers supporting your claim that "most, if not all" of the Hobbit weirdo/Fantasy Game/Renaissance Fair types here at Free Republic support the war on Iraq.
"It's also obvious that you are a jerk. And that is truly sad."
Now,now. Don't get yourself worked up there. Take another hit of Prozac and relax. It's just a stupid fantasy movie- not a new religion!
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