SUBMITTED BY Neville Longbottom
March 27, 2002 — The specs for the DVD release of Lord of the Rings: FOTR was released yesterday. The DVD will be released August 6th with a MSRP of $29.99. Here's a few of the features:
Three behind-the-scenes featurettes:
-"Welcome to Middle-earth" (an in-store special shown by Houghton Mifflin).
-"The Quest for the Ring" (30-minute special originally shown on the FOX Network).
-"A Passage to Middle-earth" (60-minute special originally shown on the SCI-FI Channel).
15 featurettes originally created for lordoftherings.net. These take you deep inside Middle Earth and include interviews with cast members Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler as well as members of the crew. Each one originally was shown as a streaming video or a quicktime file, so now you have them in the form of high-quality video.
Exclusive 10-minute behind-the-scenes preview of the next The Lord of the Rings theatrical release, The Two Towers.
In addition, on November 12, a 4 disc Special Extended Edition will be released which will include 30 minutes of footage not seen in theaters. The extended edition will likey recieve an "R" rating for extra violence in the Battle of Amon Hen.
To see a list of all of the features, click on the link below. |
