{"id":2198,"date":"2006-06-21T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/lord-of-the-rings-makes-a-third-trip-to-dvd\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:59:00","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-makes-a-third-trip-to-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/06\/lord-of-the-rings-makes-a-third-trip-to-dvd.html","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Rings makes a third trip to DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ve already got both the two-disc set and the four-disc set for each of the Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/i> movies. Not only does each set come with a different version of the movie in question \u2014 the shorter<\/a> versions actually have bits of footage that aren\u2019t in the \u201cextended<\/a>\u201d versions, including one of my favorite shots, depicted here \u2014 but each set comes with a completely unique set of extras. So there isn\u2019t that<\/i> much overlap.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, I for one do not feel particularly gouged.<\/p>\n

Now, however, The Hollywood Reporter<\/i> reports (via Reuters<\/a>) that New Line is re-issuing the three films \u2014 and for apparently no better reason than to provide us with a new set of extras:<\/p>\n

Three \u201cThe Lord of the Rings Limited Edition\u201d sets, one for each movie, will roll out August 29. Each two-disc set will include the original theatrical and the extended versions of the film, along with Costa Botes<\/a>\u2018 feature-length documentary on each film\u2019s creation. . . .<\/p>\n

New to DVD are the documentaries, in which director Peter Jackson and his crew gave Botes full access to the set for hours of behind-the-scenes footage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something fans have been asking for,\u201d Lasorsa said. \u201cCosta was hired a year before principal photography began, and his job was to capture all the production, relate his personal experiences and provide his perspective for Peter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except for the first documentary\u2019s screening at the New Zealand Film Festival, none of the three video production diaries have been seen anywhere, Lasorsa said. <\/p>\n

\u201cNew Line has owned these documentaries and waited to make them available to the general public,\u201d Lasorsa said. \u201cThe style of these documentaries is quite different from the documentaries on the extended-edition DVDs. These are more organic, and had they come out sooner people might have been confused.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I dunno, I rather liked the documentaries on the four-disc sets, myself; but I guess new footage is always good. And how are they going to cram between eight and ten hours of film onto the two discs? (That\u2019s figuring three-plus hours for the \u201cshorter\u201d film, four-minus hours for the \u201cextended\u201d film, and an hour or two for the \u201cfeature-length documentary\u201d.) I assume they won\u2019t recycle any of the previous extras, including commentaries; and who knows, they might even make some discs double-sided.<\/p>\n

Does this remind anyone of the Star Wars<\/a><\/i> \u201climited editions\u201d?<\/p>\n

JUN 22 UPDATE: Cinematical<\/a> says the two versions of each movie will be squeezed onto a single disc with the help of \u201cseamless branching\u201d, while each brand-new documentary will have a disc unto itself. Given that each of the \u201cextended\u201d films was originally spread out over two discs, and given that the shorter films also have some unique footage, I wonder if they will have to be compressed even more to fit on single discs. That is, I wonder if the picture quality will be noticeably poorer on these discs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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