Just in case you"ve been under a rock for the past few months, today is the release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace on DVD. Woo Hoo!!!
This is the first Lucas/Star Wars DVD to become available and comes wizz bang packed with lots of goodies and 7 new scenes.
I"m hopefully gonna pick my copy up tonight after work, but if anyone has gotten their grubby mits on a copy before I do, why not post a review of it here for the rest of our readers to drewl over...
Here are the details of this two disc DVD that is sure to be an essential part of just about anybody"s DVD collection.
- 133 minutes, THX, Widescreen anamorphic 2.35:1
- Commentary by George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren and Scott Squires
- Exclusive Deleted Scenes Documentary features seven new sequences completed just for this DVD release
- All-new hour-long documentary film culled from over 600 hours of footage, "The Beginning," including an insider"s look at Lucasfilm and ILM during the production
- Multi-angle storyboard to animatic to film segment featuring the Submarine and Podrace Lap 1 sequences
- Five featurettes explore the storyline, design, costumes, visual effects and fight sequences
- Award-winning twelve-part web documentary series that chronicles the production
- "Duel of the Fates" music video featuring John Williams
- Never-before-seen Production Photo Gallery with special caption feature
- Theatrical teaser and launch trailers, and seven TV spots, posters and print campaign from around the world
- "Star Wars: Starfighter-The Making of a Game" featurette from LucasArts