limited editions<\/a> that came out earlier this year included brand-new documentaries by Costa Botes. And now comes word that there may be a fourth<\/i> set of extras, for the inevitable HD release.<\/span><\/p>\nFrom IGN.com\u2019s interview with Michael Pellerin, producer of the various Lord of the Rings<\/i> DVDs:<\/p>\n\u201cOne of the things that Peter has always planned, since the beginning of Rings<\/i> \u2014 this is nothing new \u2014 he always planned to someday sit down and do a feature documentary on the making of The Lord of the Rings<\/i> from his point of view,\u201d says Pellerin. \u201cA director\u2019s journey, made by Peter Jackson, \u2018Hey, here\u2019s my story. Here\u2019s what I did. Here\u2019s what happened.\u2019 Really the kind of tell-all, sort of blood and guts story going through the entire thing, from how the project got initiated straight through production, but all from Peter\u2019s point of view, which I think would be fascinating. I\u2019ve done tons of making-of work and Costa [Botes] did his fly on the wall documentaries, but to have something directly from Peter\u2026 I\u2019ve heard some of his stories that have never seen the light of day, and some of them are just [amazing]. I know that he\u2019ll want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
For naysayers who see such a release as yet another double-dip, Pellerin says that the makers of the original DVD sets couldn\u2019t have fit more material on those releases even if they had tried. There was, he says, quite simply not enough room on those sets, and it would have taken something like a six-disc package per movie to fit the bulk of the worthy extras onto just one release. So Pellerin and Jackson both share one mantra when it comes to multiple releases of the same movie: Don\u2019t repeat anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people here about another Lord of the Rings<\/i> set, they go, \u2018Oh God, haven\u2019t they done it all?'\u201d says the DVD producer. \u201cAnd then when you start to do the math, you go, \u2018Did you ever see one deleted scene? Or one gag reel, or anything funny or interesting that\u2019s kind of off the beaten path like that? You haven\u2019t.\u2019 And the reason is we\u2019re saving it all. You\u2019ve never seen the deleted scenes, which are legion. You\u2019ve never seen the gag reels, which are huge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, whatever. We shall see. Of course, given the current spat<\/a> between Jackson and New Line Cinema over money and The Hobbit<\/i>, etc., it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess when this might happen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) DVDs came with TV specials, music videos, and web featurettes. The extended editions came with extensive documentaries on the making of each film, each one lasting six hours, give or take. The limited editions that came out earlier this year included brand-new documentaries by Costa Botes. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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