If I wasn’t already envious enough of the folks getting to Comic Con in San Diego this weekend, it was announced that several new Universal DVD releases would be promo’ed at the com, including:
And last but certainly not least, Joss Whedon will be introducing the August 21st DVD release of the Serenity collector’s edition DVD. The event will include a screening of the disc’s bonus features and a Q&A.
Any SerenityStuff readers attending, I expect transcripts, pictures, video, and detailed descriptions of his scent.
The 2-disc Serenity Collectors Edition is now available for preorder from Amazon for $18.99! Or you can get it from TFAW.com or the Universal site. To be released August 21.
Serenity: Collector’s Edition (2-disc)
MSRP: $26.98
DVD-9
Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio: Dolby 5.1, DTS, Spanish 2.0, French 2.0
Bonus Material:
– Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Joss Whedon
– Extended Scenes
– Outtakes
– Take A Walk On Serenity
– The Green Clan
– Joss Whedon Intro
– We’ll Have A Fruity Oaty Good Time!
– Feature Commentary with Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau and Ron Glass
– Feature Commentary with Joss Whedon
– A Filmmaker’s Journey
– Future History: The Story Of Earth That Was
– Re-lighting The Firefly
– What’s In A Firefly?
– Session 416
– Sci-Fi Inside: Serenity
I’m trying to figure out what my DVD doesn’t have in this list. The “deleted” scenes included on my region 2 PAL could be classified as extended, because they often had some extra footage. Not sure how to classify some of these.
Big bonus with the extra commentary track, though!
The “Sci-Fi Inside” is not previously on any disc. Nor is Session 416. Other than that and the new commentary, I think the US and Australian versions, one way or the other, between the two of them have the rest.
I should add that I am kind of hoping Joss shows Session 416. I want to see it on the big screen.
The European one has this, so far as I can remember:
– Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Joss Whedon
– Outtakes
– Joss Whedon Intro
– We’ll Have A Fruity Oaty Good Time!
– Feature Commentary with Joss Whedon
– A Filmmaker’s Journey
– Future History: The Story Of Earth That Was
– Re-lighting The Firefly
– What’s In A Firefly?
So I guess by elimination I’m left with this:
– Feature Commentary with Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau and Ron Glass
– Session 416
– Sci-Fi Inside : Serenity
– The Green Clan
– Extended Scenes?
– Take A Walk On Serenity?
Assuming that there IS a region 2 for this release…
The Green Clan, Take a Walk on Serenity and I -think- Extended Scenes are on the original Australian R4 release, I believe.
It’s weird those aren’t on the R2 release.
Thee R4 release also had a Joss Q&A from an appearance in Australia.
The R2, if I’m not mistaken, came out after the R1 and R2 were released, so they had some extra stuff on it. I’m guessing the Q and A won’t appear on the new one, at least not in other regions. Hard to say.
The jokey post on Whedonesque that first announced this special version of the DVD was a bit unclear as to bonuses. I guess this was to help create buzz, or was just because the details had yet to have been worked out.
CORRECTION: I meant R4 at first.
The Joss Q&A from the 2-disc Australian release is still only available on that release.
Mike