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Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

Friday 9 December 2005, by isa

One of the best sci-fi films of the year, Serenity, is coming to DVD on February 27 - and the UK is to get some bonus material not included on the US release because we’re Joss’ favourites.

As well as his introduction (which screening audiences will already have seen) and his commentary, there are also nine deleted scenes (finally, Inara gets some screen time) and outtakes. Featurettes cover the history of the 500 years between now and Serenity, the visual effects and the journey of the crew from cancelled TV show to feature film. But the real news is that we in the UK are going to get A Filmmaker’s Journey, following Joss from script to screen, in a 20-minute documentary that won’t appear on the US disc.


6 Forum messages

  • > Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

    9 December 2005 14:44, by jamie_marsters
    All of these features (plus more) are also on the Australian version of the Serenity DVD.

    See online : http://dontkillspike.tk

  • > Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

    9 December 2005 16:19, by Anonymous
    that’s actually in the US version...

  • > Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

    9 December 2005 19:27, by Anonymous
    And a better cover than the US! Although I havent seen it anything will be better than the Region 1 version!

  • > Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

    9 December 2005 23:29, by The Truth Is Out There
    To the anonymous posters who blames Joss Whedon for the different versions of the DVD across the regions, I take it you do know that the format and contents of the releases are not his decision. The product is owned by Universal and the various international divisions of that organisation intend to maximum revenue, as happens with every other DVD release. It’s just business. The "Joss’ favourites" comment is not a quote from Whedon, but just something put into the announcement to make it sound more enticing to the people it was intended for (people buying the R2 version).

  • > Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

    10 December 2005 16:11, by Nathan
    Don’t blame Joss, people. He has already stated that the DVD is "yet another thing" he has "no control over." Joss Whedon DVD commentaries are the BEST—we as fans know this. Joss obviously loves the DVD home market with regard to his shows and would more than know what he was doing if he would be responsible for producing a disc’s contents.

  • > Serenity DVD News ! UK to get new unseen footage

    11 December 2005 21:06, by Anonymous

    So what’s a reaonable (rantlessly as possible) reasons why the difference? I remember the Buffy big S6 Featurette "TV with a Bite" that was never seen in US until the DVD.

    So many bogus things in US "HD" progress. Cable Systems thinking the made and produced the things they show. ("I am the DJ, I am what I play"). They reformat things already in HD to standard, plot ads on top, overright sound, and brutely cut originals so that they are almost unrecognizable. (Don’t know really, but HD —> US standard reformatting is just so they can then offer "HD" as a service, where they re-re-format or whatever. An attempt to requie a message "this show reformatting such and such by whomver" was voted down in committee a few weeks ago.) Am I starting to rant? Didn’t mean to.