"The Lord of the Rings" current and future Blu-ray releases

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Todd Gilchrist writes: Yesterday in conjunction with the release of Warner Brothers™ new Blu-rays, Hollywood News published an exclusive interview with Richard Taylor, one of the good folks at effects house Weta who was responsible for helping bring the Lord of the Rings film to the screen. While Taylor provided as much information as he could, he confessed outright that he actually had nothing to do with the high-definition upgrade, and further, hadn't even seen the discs yet. Subsequently, however, we spoke with one of the DVD/BD project's actual participants, longtime Peter Jackson collaborator Michael Pellerin, who provided some real insights into the process of bringing the films to Blu-ray for the first time.

In addition to his work with Jackson on documenting The Lord of the Rings films, the producer and director has worked on countless featurettes and bonus materials for other films as well, including Tron and Fantasia for Disney. But Pellerin offered some surprising revelations about the new Blu-rays, including some specific and unexpected improvements that most audiences wouldn't even know needed to be made. Additionally, he hinted at the reservoir of content that has yet to be released, but seems destined to appear on some sort of massive Lord of the Rings boxed set hopefully in the not-too-distant future, although much like the fate of The Hobbit, those specifics have yet to be fully ironed out. More...
 
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i hope there will be new extras on the EE blu ray box! just a fool's hope...cause it seems that noone like PJ or richard taylor seems to be involved in creating the next box as well.
 
They will probably add those deleted scenes not used in either version of the film for separate viewing, like the goblin attack on Lothlorien, and Faramir have a vision of Frodo like Gollum, (which I really want to see after seeing them pictures). I hope they do add them, because a lot of them, if not all, sound AMAZING.
 
- blooper reels
- PJ's pitch video to New Line
- the deleted scenes
- the Cannes footage
- a new documentary about the legacy of the LOTR movies...
 
- blooper reels
- PJ's pitch video to New Line
- the deleted scenes
- the Cannes footage
- a new documentary about the legacy of the LOTR movies...
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I'd love to see this as well on the future DVD releases. Especially those scenes Peter Jackson said he'd probably never release until he was old man and the films were celebrating their 50th anniversary or something.
 
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