Original Star Wars to be released on DVD

[negative1]

Originally Posted by big screen satellite

nah i want it on DVD...thanks anyway

they did release it a while back, on a cheapo disc, but now its nigh on impossible to track down...i'm kinda hoping they re-relase it on a CE / SE disc set or something in the very near future...

i'll find it (any version) but its not that easy, as far as i can see...

ok, i'm taking it that you looked on ebay (us and uk)..
i see a lot of copies there, even for 'reasonable' prices..

is there something about these versions that isn't
right? there's even a boxed set out...(which i hadn't
seen before)

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...&so=Show+Items

later
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[myrrh]

I got that cheap director's cut version of Blade Runner on DVD about 8 years ago at a Wal-Mart. I kinda think that I still see copies of it there.

I didn't know that this was so hard to find. I assumed everyone had a copy.

[grady]

I think the Director's Cut is still readily available anywhere. It's one of those standard Warner Brother's titles. That was also the first DVD I ever purchased in the December of 1997.

[b.miller]

...he's a replicant!!!!!!!




heh heh

[grady]

He is?! BAH!?! This is all starting to make sense.


SPOILERS AHEAD













This is all making sense now. Deckard is a replicant. Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father. Bruce Willis is really dead. And Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are the same person. And Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze.

Does HAL 9000 actually exist too?

[adam]

Originally Posted by grady

I think the Director's Cut is still readily available anywhere. It's one of those standard Warner Brother's titles. That was also the first DVD I ever purchased in the December of 1997.

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.

[b.miller]

Originally Posted by adam

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.

this actually makes some sense. Didn't Scott do a DVD cut of Alien for that quadrology? maybe he just went DVD cut crazy around that time...

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by grady

I think the Director's Cut is still readily available anywhere. It's one of those standard Warner Brother's titles. That was also the first DVD I ever purchased in the December of 1997.

well maybe on region one in the good ole US of... but here in the UK on region two...

i'll look on tinternet now to see what i can find

[big screen satellite]

new - expensive ones on amazon - but not from amazon, but their sellers here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...738160-8011018

i'm not paying £34 for a new copy and not paying £17 for a used copy!!!

at play

http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?sear...arch&pa=search

and on ebay the cheapest directors cut copy is £15...

one is selling for £25+

its just a hard to find DVD, that i might have to fork out a little bit for...and i do want a new copy on Region 2

[grady]

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.

link

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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.