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LoTR RoTK Extended Edition Specs Released
It's pre-pre-Christmas season, and ThePrinceofWands writes "OMG! It's official, 25% more unbelievable greatness in this version." The linked description (on the official LotR site) starts "DISCS 1-2: The Feature
FEATURE (approx. 250 minutes) - A new version of the final installment in the epic trilogy! The Academy-Award winning film now has 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film for this highly-anticipated video release." The extended version can be ordered starting on Oct 1st.
...despite the fact that the standard/extended edition cycles were announced like year before Fellowship of the Ring's (first film!) DVD release.
And even if you missed that, by now you should know how it will go..pattern recognition, anyone?
Yes, there will be a boxed set with all the extended editions bundled into one nice compilation, but nothing beyond that. And if the Hobbit ever comes, they might also release a new box set with the Hobbit included. And they will release Bluray/HD-DVD versions when the formats become available.
However, the actual *content* will not change. There's the extended cut and the theatrical cut. No need to bash Peter Jackson about squeezing money out of gazillion different editions..So there will not be a "hook" to upgrade to the later box set releases (HDTV resolution on the next format might be enough, of course...but then you probably are not going to feel ripped off).
To be pragmatic, take a view of the "best version you will like". I've held off buying some DVDs because I heard a rumour of a decent special edition with cleaned up picture/sound, directors cuts etc (like I'll get the next editions of Kill Bill, not the current ones).
But for me, that is that. I don't care enough to get that extra 1% of value which is "new cast commentary".
Unless a DVD comes straight out as an excellent set, I hold off, rent the basic version and then buy the decent version.
I've held off buying the 2 disc editions of LOTR and not yet even seen ROTK, because I wanted to see the extended version.
>Is it worth hoping for?
Since they were never filmed, I'd have to say "no".
I mean its Blue - not brown.
That is going to look really good beside the two brown previous boxsets. Admittedly the two previous shades of brown were slightly different, but this is a very blue shade of brown.
I can answer myself in part, there are four:
Audio Commentary 1: The Director and Writers
Peter Jackson (Director/Co-Writer/Producer)
Fran Walsh (Writer/Co-Producer)
Philippa Boyens (Co-Write)
Audio Commentary 2: The Design Team
Richard Taylor (WETA Workshop Creative Supervisor)
Tania Rodger (WETA Workshop Manager)
Grant Major (Production Designer)
Ngila Dickson (Costume Designer)
Alan Lee (Conceptual Designer)
John Howe (Conceptual Designer)
Dan Hennah (Supervising Art Director/Set Decorator)
Chris Hennah (Art Department Manager)
Audio Commentary 3: The Production/Post-Production Team
Barrie Osborne (Producer)
Mark Ordesky (Executive Producer)
Andrew Lesnie (Director of Photography)
Mike Horton and Jabez Olssen (Editors)
Rick Porras (Co-Producer)
Howard Shore (Composer)
Jim Rygiel (Visual Effects Supervisor)
Joe Letteri (WETA Digital Effects Supervisor)
Ethan Van der Ryn (Supervising Sound Editor/Co-Designer)
Mike Hopkins (Supervising Sound Editor)
Randy Cook (WETA Animation Designer & Supervisor)
Christian Rivers (WETA VFX Art Director)
Brian Van't Hull (WETA VFX Cinematographer)
Alex Funke (Miniatures Director of Photography)
Audio Commentary 4: The Cast
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Sean Astin (Sam)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Billy Boyd (Pippin)
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Bernard Hill (Théoden)
Miranda Otto (Éowyn)
David Wenham (Faramir)
Brad Dourif (Grima)
Karl Urban (Éomer)
John Noble (Denethor)
Here is a preview that talks about exactly what scenes have been added (huge spoilers, of course.)
Meh. If you want to read the rest: LOTR Diary Joke
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Yes, blue. First one: Green. Second one: Red. Last one: Blue.
:)
If you had trouble seeing the colours, then I suggest (as I suggested to another person who thought the first two boxes were various shades of brown) that you get your eyes tested for red-green colourblindness or a form of it.
Up to 5% of all males have some form of colour deficiency apparently, and red-green is the most common form...
There are online tests you can take to check. Have fun
Didn't film it. Not going to happen unfortunately. No I think most notibly what is put back in is confronting Saruman at Isengard but there will be no Scouring.
Today is a gift. Save the receipt.
The good ol' Pervy Hobbit Fancier's Diary.
If you want to read the originals, direct from the original author, pleased to be visiting http://www.livejournal.com/users/cassieclaire/.
Thanking you.
I know tons of LOTR fans already know the release date, but I hadn't bothered to look yet since I was waiting on announcements about this specific edition. So for those not in the know, the Extended Edition of Return of the King will be available December 14.
Well that's what the collectors editions are really, with the first set you got a nice pair of bookends to complement the book-like packaging and with the final instalment you have a beautiful trilogy box set.
I was conned by an old man in a cloak. It turns out those *were* the droids I was looking for.
When I first heard it on the trailer for the two towers I almost wet myself, thats almost, took a while but the full mix is out there. Two Towers - Lux Aeterna Orchesta Remix.mp3
TheOneRing.net reports on confirmed and presumed new scenes in the extended edition.
The Hobbit is an excellent children's story, but it is a children's story. Compared to LoTR, the characters are thin, the plot episodic, and the background underdeveloped. It doesn't have the wealth of historical detail, the layers of meaning and significance, the depth of character, the grand themes of loss of innocence, betrayal, loyalty, corruption, redemption, evil, fate, epic struggle, and so on.
I don't doubt that they could make a very entertaining film (though I suspect that many of the episodes would need to be shortened or cut, and it would probably need further closure added in the form of foreshadowings and other references). Had LoTR not been filmed, it would probably have been reasonably successful, too. But LoTR is such a grander work that people will inevitably have false expectations of a prequel, and so it'd be bound to disappoint many.
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