Oh I know there is the super DVD cut. In my post a couple pages back I mentioned this person you're referring to. The guy holding everything up is Jerry Perincho. He was brought into the project back in 1980-81 to infuse it with some cash. Then the guy became a dick even firing Ridley from the film, who refused to budge and continued working.
The entire details and ins and outs of the fight your describing adam is transcribed in the book
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul Sammon.
In the book you learn that after the work print was discovered and Warner Brother's decided they wanted to release it after it was doing so well in a few limited showings in LA and SF. Ridley wanted to go back and tinker with a few things as it was the workprint, but WB was impatient and wanted to make money NOW and not wait for Ridley to finish post-production on
Thelma and Louise so they went ahead and had this supervising editor whip the thing into shape.
As talk of the DVD started growing Ridley has been openingly decribing what he wanted to see on the Special Edition. Below is a transcript of sorts from an interview Ridley did on Sweedish TV. I have the actual quicktime file somewhere and will try and and find and post it somewhere.
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On Swedish TV4 movie review programme "[COLOR=#ccffff]Bionytt[/COLOR]" (16 FEB 2002), they showed part of an interview with Ridley Scott. This clip can now be seen on-line. The section included the following:- Some grainy, evidently old footage from the film: a spinner passing by a video billboard with a geisha. The scene can be found in both the OV and DC.
- Harrison Ford, dressed up as Deckard, is chatting with Ridley Scott. They are standing in front of a kiosk, news stand or similar; Ridleyville? The footage is grainy, evidently old.
- An extract from an interview with Ridley Scott. Scott says the following:
"We're looking at a view to...a possibility of three discs, which is basically showing a rough cut version with temp track from the original... *Ehm* Then '82 version, '92 version, then a clipped down version where we are now. Plus a lot of interviews, artwork."
Could we really be getting Workprint, OV, DC and SE versions? Certainly seems to imply that the art section from the laserdisc may either be reproduced or recreated for the DVD - cool. Thanks to Niclas for passing on the information and for putting the clip on-line.
SO what a box set that would be if it sees the light of day. I'd always imagine it would modeled after Criterion's box for the film
Brazil. The only thing to contemplate regarding Ridley's new cut is his view of Deckard as a replicant. Would he start trimming scenes that lent ambiguity to the debate of whether or not Deckard is a replicant?
Also, adam, have you seen the documentary by Mark Kermode and the BBC called
On the Edge of Blade Runner? It was produced 2000 and I don't believe it ever aired in the states. However, it's readily available via bit torrent site.
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Originally Posted by adam
No, there's another one. That's the why the only DVD release of the movie has no special features. They made a super-DVD of it, but the guy who controls it won't allow it to be released. And my understanding is that it has a third cut of the movie.
Basically, when they were making the movie, they went way over budget so the movie became property of their bondsman (or something like that). Apparently he hates the movie, or WB, or Ridley Scott because of conflicts they had when the movie was going over budget, so he's making it really difficult for them to release this super-DVD. I imagine he wants more points on it.
I can't recall the story of why Ridley Scott wanted to do another cut of it, but it's out there if you're curious. Anyway, this cut has never been screened for the public, nor been commercially available.
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