Posted on 05/06/2003 12:35:59 PM PDT by BaghdadBarney
The man in the hat is back - and on DVD for the first time.
Looking to tide folks over until the eventual release of the fourth Indiana Jones feature, Paramount Home Entertainment announced Tuesday that it finally plans on releasing the first three Indy films on November 4, 2003 as part of a four-disc DVD set.
Dubbed The Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Complete DVD Movie Collection, the set will not only feature all three Indy flicks -1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - but will also include a disc devoted to bonus material, including brand new interviews with director Steven Spielberg, producer-writer George Lucas and star Harrison Ford.
"When we began, we kind of went on our own Indiana Jones archaeological dig in the Lucasfilm archives to see what we had and kind of hit a treasure trove of materials," says Jim Ward, vice president of marketing for Lucasfilm (which is producing the set with Paramount) and an executive producer of the DVD. "What we're trying to do right now is figure out what will go on that final disc...we have a lot of great never-before-seen things."
In the name of fortune and glory, the filmmakers didn't hesitate to raid the vaults. Among the goodies unearthed for the bonus disc: interviews with cast and crew members, new behind-the-scenes documentaries, featurettes on visual effects and music and hithtero unreleased footage cut from the original films.
One highlight is a deleted fight between Indy and a Cairo swordsman that Spielberg spent days choreographing only to have Ford--under the weather because of a stomach virus--improvise and just shoot the baddie, which wound up in the finished Raiders and was one of the best-remembered moments. The full scene has been resurrected for the DVD.
The Indy DVD set is expected to retail for approximately $50.
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I've got a son on the way and we are going to name him Indiana. I think "Captain Indiana Giles" would look really cool on the side of a Joint Strike Fighter during GW IV !
Someone must have SCI-FI Network or MTV on today then...
Because they were bootleg versions probably made from Laser Disks.
Find a chatroom.
While filming the whipping scene, the crew played a practical joke on Harrison Ford. Chained to a large stone, Barbra Streisand appeared, dressed in a leather dominatrix outfit. She proceeded to whip him, saying "That's for Hanover Street, the worst movie I ever saw." She continued whipping him for Star Wars, and making all of that money. Carrie Fisher then threw herself in front of Ford to protect him, and Irvin Kershner chided director Steven Spielberg. "Is this how you run your movies?" This entire sequence was filmed.
What this description omits is the detail that Ms. BS is using a limp wrist with the whip so as not to actually hurt Mr. Ford. She is then heard to remark something of the nature, "I feel like such a faggot doing it this way." As I say, I've seen the blooper reel. Hollywood protects their own.
Actually many of them were released to laserdisc in the 1990s. Jerry Beck (who wrote the index to every WB cartoon short) compiled up a series of 5 boxed sets (10 hours each, approx 400 shorts) for MGM-Turner. Warner Brothers released many of the shorts that they owned (films that began production in the 1950s) to a series of discs (bundled by theme or character). There were only 1000 shorts total.
The Private Snafu shorts are all on one DVD (I ordered my copy from DeepDiscountDVD and it took them awhile to track down a new copy but they got me with within a few months).
Some of the shorts are now turning up on DVD in Japan (bundled by character). The laserdiscs even included several sides of just politically incorrect shorts. I doubt that WB would ever even acknowledge those films today.
Sheesh!
Never happen. Spielberg just returned from an eight hour seance with Hitler and announced it was the most important event in his life. Adolph is a great man and should be listened to. ;^)
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