The Two Towers DVD Release Dates

FortKnox writes "Mark these dates on your Calendar: 8/26/03 & 11/18/03. These are the (US) DVD release dates for The Two Towers. Like Fellowship, the first date is the release of the DVD, and the November date is the release of the special edition (with rumored extra 48 minutes of footage). Another one ring.net page has more details on the actual footage."

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Release date mix-up

[dzym]

The actual release date for the DVD with the theatrical version of the movie is august 26th, 8/26, not June 28th, 6/28.

Hope that helps.

Why yes...

[GarfBond]

If by 6/28/2003 you mean 8/26/2003 (bit of an odd typo...), then yes, that is the expected release date for TTT :)

Here's the Official Site if you don't believe someone's scanner for this info.

some news on the extended edition

[TerraFrost]

While we're talking about the Two Towers, the extended edition will have 43 extra minutes (compared to the 32 extra in FotR), and have more than 150 cgi scenes (compared to the 35 extra in FotR).

Sources:
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/10503906 13
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14590

Re:some news on the extended edition

[cybermox]

According to the official site, LordoftheRings.Net, the extended edition will have "35 minutes of new and extended scenes."

Source:
http://www.lordoftherings.net/index_400 _hv_presell .html (Click on the "Click Here" link to pop up the SE info.)

Re:Why?

[fidget42]

The official reason is the extra production time it takes to edit the extended release. I'm not sure what an extra three months would really buy them, but that's the official line.

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Re:Why?

[Overly Critical Guy]

They're still doing the effects shots and putting it together.

Plus they're kind of busy with another movie due out in December at the moment. Slows them down.

The Two Towers - Purist Edit

[tangent3]

For those who are interested, there is a "Purist Edit" of The Two Towers floating around the Edonkey network. The quality isn't that great, being a rip of a rip squeezing 2 hours and 15 mins into 1 CD.

The purpose of the edit is to make the movie follow more closely to the original books. It's amazing the work the editor has done by selectively removing scenes and rearranging them - without messing up the sound synchronisation. Now there are no longer any elves in Helm's Deep, Faramir is a good guy again, and the ents aren't idiots anymore.

Here's the ed2k link:
ed2k://|file|Lord_of_the_Rings-The_Two_Towe rs-The_ Purist_Edit.avi|729462784|ec0671172619e490d7b0ea6b 5278468c|/

More information in the sharereactor forums.

Re:The Two Towers - Purist Edit

[rizzo]

That must be some edit if he can also put Eomer in Helm's Deep the whole time (Eomer was never "banished") and have Erkenbrand come to the rescue at the end. And let us not forget the sweet, sweet Huorns. *drool*

Not deleted scenes

[barnaclebarnes]

Just a note that the extra footage in LOTR is not deleted scenes. They were never meant for the theater release but are made specifically for the DVD release. Peter Jackson has been very upfront about the fact that he thinks DVD's can add an extra dimension to the film and has incorporated this concept from the beginning. /b

Air Headed Actors?

[tid242]

but if you want interviews with air-headed actors, just watch the late shows.

Not all actors are airheads, i saw THIS interview on the Charlie Rose show (PBS) on December 3rd with Viggo wearing a shirt stating "No Blood For Oil"

Charlie Rose: You're obviously making a political statement with your T-shirt.

Viggo Mortensen: I wouldn't normally, but it's sort of a reaction to... I've heard a lot of people say to me and I've read in a lot of places about the first movie, and increasingly about the second one... I've seen where people try to relate it to current situation--specifically the United States and their role in the world right now. And I -- if you're going to compare them, then you should get it right--I don't like hearing... I mean I play the character who's defending Helms Deep and I don't think that The Two Towers or Tolkien's writing or Peter's work or our work has anything to do with the United States' foreign ventures at this time. And it upsets me to hear that in a way. And it upsets me even more that questioning what's going on right now, what the United States is doing, is considered treasonous really: "How dare you say that? How un-American of you." And really, this country is founded on the principle that if the government isn't serving the people you at least have the right to say, "Wait a minute. What's going on?" And there're no questions really being asked, at large, about what we're doing. Whereas in The Two Towers you have different races, nations, cultures coming together and examining their conscience and unifying against a very real and terrifying enemy. What the United States has been doing for the past year is bombing innocent civilians without having come anywhere close to catching Osama bin Laden or any presumed enemy, and, as a distraction, we're now--apparently it's a given--we're hell bent on increasing the bombing that's been going on for the past eleven years in Iraq. And I don't think that the civilians on the ground in those countries look at us in the way that maybe Europeans did at the end of World War II, waving flags in the streets, I think that they see the US government as Saruman.

Elijah Wood: As a threat.

VM: Yeah, as a threat. And they're terrified--and have been for a long time--and we are not the good guys, unfortunately, in this case, and ...

CR: Even though right after 9/11 there was an extraordinary amount of public support for the United States to do something.

VM: I'm supportive of the United States. I'm an American. And I have nothing against patriotism. But if one is going to compare then the comparison is quite the opposite of what is being made.

CR: Let me just make sure of the comparison. Because I asked you about the T-shirt at the beginning and you said you made it yourself.

VM: Yeah.

CR: The idea... you object to the comparison of this film with respect to American involvement with Iraq or--

VM: United States government

CR: --with the Afghanistan war or the war against terrorism--in comparison with the film because of your opposition to American policy.

VM: And the idea is--in that comparison--is that the United States is like the good guys in our movie against the bad guys in our movie and I think the opposite is true unfortunately.

CR: We're the bad guys because we responded to--

VM: You know, the people who are terrified at Helms Deep, who are outnumbered in this incredible violence and desire to control--to destroy--the people of Rohan and the rest of the free peoples of Middle-earth, and to control their wills, to control their infrastructure--or destroy it--that's what we're doing in these countries. That's really what we're doing unfortunately. I'm not saying to anyone, to you, or to you, or to you: "This is what you should believe." I'm just saying, why not ask the question: "Why are we doing this?"

EW: Sure.

VM: And I