Blu-ray.com has been digging deep, scouring the Euro-web for every whiff of a hint of information regarding the impending Alien Anthology Blu-ray boxed set from Fox. And thanks to mega-sites Planete HD and DVD Duell they’ve come up with the gold – a long, long list of potential bonus features, packaging ideas and a possible French release date. BAM! Well done, guys. Details below:
Those pics up there are concepts for the possible Alien: Ultra Collector’s Limited Edition boxed set that is said to feature 6-Blu-ray discs and 4-DVDs! Now, who can say for sure, at this point, if this will come to pass, but Blu-ray.com is reporting that the set above, as well as the regular, plain vanilla Collector’s Boxed Set (containing only the 6 BDs in boxed-set packaging we previewed a few months back) will be on French shelves on October 6th, listing for €129.99 and €59.98 respectively.
The lengthy list of special features they’ve compiled is, no doubt incomplete but provides an early look at what we might expect to see in a few months time. I’m personally hoping that most of the items listed below are chapter headers for a longer-form documentary, instead of a ton of tiny shorts. I hate clicking through those trivial tiny things, bit by bit, over and over again, just to get behind-the-scenes goodies that would have been better off in a doc. You hear me, Disney?!
Ahem…
Keep in mind, the packaging, details and dates are all still unofficial but we’ll let you know if any confirmation crops up from the studio.
Special Features:
Alien
- Director’s audio commentary, plus cast and technical crew
- Display Graphics (5’36″)
- Display Graphics (4’05″)
- Isolated score (composer’s original)
- Isolated score (final theatrical)
- Multi-angle sequence: Chestburster (with optional commentary by Ridley Scott)
- Shock & Awe: The Return of Alien with Danny Boyle (25’01″)
- Sigourney Weaver Screen Test: Cockpit Scene, Take 1 (2’48″)
- Sigourney Weaver Screen Test: Planning Scene, Take 2 (1’50″)
- Spaceballs Clip (1’45″)
Aliens
- Becoming Vasquez (1’07″)
- Building Hadley’s Hope (3’28″)
- Cameron’s Cutting Edge (1’32″)
- Cameron’s Design Philosophy (2’15″)
- Cameron’s Military Interests (1’26″)
- Colonial Marines Helmet-Cams (5’08″)
- Dailies: James Remar as Hicks (3’46″)
- Deleted Scenes (4’05″)
- Family Guy Clip (0’27″)
- Fighting the Facehugger (1’17″)
- Finding an Unused Power Plant (2’08″)
- The First Casting of Hicks (4’44″)
- From Producer to Stunt Double (2’03″)
- I Can’t Breazhe (0’38″)
- The Importance of Being Bishop (1’27″)
- Isolated score
- Main Title Explorations (2’59″)
- More Tales from Tea Time (6’44″)
- On Set: Infiltrating the Colony (3’14″)
- Origins of Ascheron (2’05″)
- Paul Reiser on Carter Burke (1’01″)
- The Paxton/Cameron Connection (2’17″)
- POD Credits (0’25″)
- Praising Stan Winston (1’40″)
- Previsualizations: multi-angle videomatics (with optional commentary by Pat McClung)
- Props: Personal Light Unit (0’36″)
- Re-Enlisting with Cameron (1’23″)
- Ride at the Speed of Fright (Sim. Ride Video/Pre-Show Video) (10’20″
- Ripley’s Heartbreak (3’49″)
- Sigourney Weaver’s Triumph (1’38″)
- Simon Atherton talks Weapons (2’00″)
- Stan Winston’s Challenge (1’46″)
- Stan Winston’s Legacy (2’35″)
- Test Footage: Chestburster (1’19″)
- Test Footage: Facehugger (7’27″)
- Test Footage: Queen Alien (4’47″)
- Weyland -Yutani Inquest: Nostromo Dossiers (3’45″)
- Without Sigourney Weaver (1’29″)
- Working with Sigourney Weaver (5’25″)
Alien 3
- The Art of Storyboarding (2’32″)
- Bald Cap Blues (2’40″)
- Bragging Rights (1’01″)
- Costuming the Character (1’37″)
- Creating Alien Sounds from the Scratch (2’23″)
- Dangerous Location Recording (1’47″)
- Detailing the EEV Miniature (1’27″)
- Explaining the Wooden Plant (2’44″)
- Ezra Swerdlow’s Concerns (1’08″)
- Fincher’s Alienation (3’40″)
- Head Casting with Charles Dutton (2’51″)
- Hick’s Alternate Future (1’54″)
- How to make Alien Acid Saliva (1’10″)
- Intimidating Baldies (1’58″)
- Lance Henriksen returns in Style (1’19″)
- Matte Painting Memories (8’01″)
- Mixed Reactions (3’50″)
- On Set: Filming the Alien’s POV (2’24″)
- On Set: Filming the Oxburster (3’10″)
- Painful Low End Frequencies (0’45″)
- POD Credits (0’25″)
- The Power of Silence (3’13″)
- Renny Harlin quits (1’51″)
- Ripley’s Evolution (2’12″)
- Roaming the Fury 161 Set (3’59″)
- Sausage-motivated Alien Whippet (2’01″)
- Stealing Sigourney’s Top (0’55″)
- Sucking up to Fincher (6’30″)
- The Sulaco’s Cameo (1’05″)
- Theatrical isolated score
- The Weaver Wagger (2’26″)
Alien Resurrection
- Abandoning the Bug Opening (4’08″)
- Alien Resurrection POD Credits (0’25″)
- Animating Underwater Aliens (3’12″)
- The Art of Slime (2’30″)
- Becoming a Film Composer (1’34″)
- Breaking the Language Barrier (4’39″)
- The Burden of Temp Music (1’55″)
- The Cloning Process (4’44″)
- Considering Giger’s Legacy (3’03″)
- Costuming the Betty Crew (1’23″)
- Creating Ripley’s New Look (3’18″)
- Designing the Newborn (1’35″)
- Downsizing the Design (1’58″)
- Dueling Design Sensibilities (1’54″)
- Ending after Ending after Ending (5’26″)
- The Evolution of the Alien (4’10″)
- Future Franchise Directions (6’33″)
- HBO First Look: The Making of Alien Resurrection
- Intentially Uncomfortable Costumes (1’47″)
- Newborn Dick Removal (1’43″)
- Preparing for Action (2’49″)
- Remembering the Premiere (1’57″)
- The Storyboard Bible (1’20″)
- Surviving the Shoot (4’13″)
- Swimming with Aliens (2’25″)
- Theatrical isolated score
- VFX: Knifing Ripley’s Hand (2’11″)
- VFX: Shooting Miniatures (1’21″)
- Winona Ryder answers the Call (2’10″)
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no fair! we have to wait till December?! and they get it for halloween!