Star Wars Episode II DVD Release on Nov. 12

Nerftoe writes "The DVD and home video of hit movie "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" will land on retail shelves on Nov. 12, the movie's backers at Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox said on Thursday. Lucasfilm and Fox have put together a two-disc DVD set that features six hours of additional material including a documentary about the movie made by Lucas and the movie's other filmmakers and eight scenes that never made it into the movie."

Comments

Re:And he thought he could hold out on us

[Fluid Truth]

I thought it was just eps 4-6 that weren't going to be released for a while. The best reason I heard (not necessarily the most plausible, though ;-) was that he wanted to make the DVDs "special" and he didn't have the time to do them "right" for quite some time. So, instead of putting out one version now, then adding a few things on and putting out a special version, then putting everything in and calling it a Collector's Edition, he's waiting until the Collector's Edition is the only one.

If it's true, I see nothing wrong with it.

Re:Other films

[Kalak451]

I believe that i read on the coax section of aintitcool that the indy jones movies will be out on DVD by xmas 2003. Still a while, but at least they are being worked on.

Outtakes they probably won't show.

[sbaker]

I bet they don't include any of the hilarious out-takes that the Star Wars graphics team showed at SigGraph last week. Things like:

Aniken leaping on his speeder bike (live action) - then being swapped out for a 3D graphic 'stunt double'. When the graphic Aniken zooms off on the bike, a small error in the cloth simulation leaves him naked while his cloak flutters gently (and realistically) to the ground.

So they fixed that problem - but for some reason there is a sign error on the slipstream airflow over the clothing - so his robes flip forward over his head - and he's *still* naked on a speederbike.

Or the shot of Yoda where for some unaccountable reason his clothes appear to be attacking him while he's trying to look fierce for Duku's benefit...

Or the shot of JarJar when an slight oversight caused the cloth simulation on his robes not to be run at all - so his robes are puffed up like a balloon. It looks like he's wearing a crinolin hoop-skirt.

Or the half dozen outtakes of the shot where the big guy in the diner (with four arms) is simultaneously hugging ObiWan and pulling up his pants - but the cloth simulation isn't coping well with the contact forces from his hands or his butt - so his trousers fall down in take after take after take...

Or the animation done by one of the ILM team who is now working on the Incredible Hulk movie - she is doing *ripping* cloth (huh! I wonder why? :-) but since they can't show the 3D Hulk model in public yet, they re-used an existing model. Hence the shot of Yoda ripping his clothes off. Heck, he's green - what more do you want?

Or - well, you get the idea. I guess you had to be there. :-)

It's even better for the UK...

[Lardmonster]

According to Auntie Beeb, the UK gets it on November 11th. Strange - we usually get releases about a month after everywhere else! Woo!