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It's a DVD fit for a King
Frodo fanatics' who couldn't get enough of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers extra long special editions can now kill even more time in front of the television.
New Line Cinema has announced Dec. 14 as the release date for Peter Jackson's extended DVD cut of his Oscar-sweeping The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, featuring over 50 minutes of brand new footage.
The Rings master excised the scenes from his trilogy-capping epic's theatrical release to keep the running time down, but he always intended to restore the segments for the home video version as he did with the first two installment.
Among the restored scenes: The scouring of the Shire, where we learn the fate of Saruman, the evil white wizard played by Christopher Lee, who was MIA from King after being deposed at the conclusion of The Two Towers; a subplot on the emerging romance between Faramir and Eowyn; Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen confronting the Mouth of Sauron at the Black Gates; and a cameo by Jackson as a pirate who is felled by one of Legolas' stray arrows.
"With even more added footage than the special extended editions of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, this new version of The Return of the King is truly a landmark cinematic experience," says Stephen Einhorn, New Line Home Entertainment president and chief operating officer.
For those Hobbit heads who couldn't get enough of Middle-Earth in the theatrical release, which ran a hefty three hours and 20 minutes, the extended edition clocks in at four hours and 10 minutes.
The four-disc DVD set will retail for approximately $40, with a double-cassette VHS version going for $25.
It will include more than 300 new special-effects shot created by WETA Digital, as well as an all-new score by composer Howard Shore. The new set will feature four audio commentaries supplied by Jackson, actors Elijah Wood, Sean Astin and Orlando Bloom and members of the production crew, including Academy Award winners Richard Taylor (makeup), Randy Cook (visual effects) and Shore.
The first two discs will contain the 250-minute movie. Discs three and four have the extras--behind-the-scenes documentaries, design and photo galleries, interactive maps and access to exclusive online content via DVD-ROM.
A limited edition collector's version of King set also includes a fifth disc containing a 52-minute featurette titled Howard Shore: Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony--A Composer's Journey Through Middle-Earth as well as excerpts of live concert footage of The Lord of the Rings symphony recorded with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Jackson and Taylor also threw in a hand-painted sculpture of Minas Tirith--the seven-tiered City of Kings--designed by Sideshow WETA Collectibles workshop that will go inside the limited edition collector's DVD gift set, which will be priced at $80.
The special extended edition follows May's successful video launch of the theatrical cut, which has sold a combined 10 million copies on VHS and DVD.
The Return of the King has become only the second film to break the billion-dollar-mark at the worldwide box office, following in the wake of Titanic. King and Titanic also jointly hold the record for most Oscar wins, with 11 apiece.
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