Eagle eyed Brendon at BleedingCool has spotted that Amazon US now have Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Extednded Edition trilogy on Blu-ray available to pre-order. The box set will set you back $83.99 (£51.44) and you can pre-order it here if you live in the good old US of A. Alas no details are on the UK website so no pre-ordering yet I’m afraid UK readers. There’s also no release date on the US Amazon as yet but we’ll keep our eyes peeled as to when we might be able to actually get hold of a copy but just seeing on the site is progress.
The website does however give us details of what we can expect on the extended edition Blu-ray set and it looks like if you’re a fan of all things, LOTR, then this is a boxset that you won’t want to be without.
Scroll down below the trailer for the full listing of what you might find on the discs. You might want to book a couple of weeks of work when this does arrive as I think that’s how long it might take you to get through it all!
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Over 30 minutes of footage incorporated into the theatrical release of the film
- Commentary by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary by the design team
- Commentary by the production/post-production team
- Commentary by 10 actors, including Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen
- Easter egg: MTV Movie Award Spoof (The Council of Elrod)
- Costa Botes Documentary: The Fellowship of the Ring: Behind the Scenes
- The Appendices, Part 1: From Book to Vision (on DVD)
- Peter Jackson introduction
- J.R.R. Tolkein: Creator of Middle Earth
- From Book to Script
- Visualizing the Story
- Designing and Building Middle Earth
- Middle Earth atlas interactive
- The Appendices, Part 2: From Vision to Reality (on DVD)
- Elijah Wood introduction
- Filming The Fellowship of the Ring
- Visual effects
- Post-production: Putting it all together
- Digital Grading
- Sound and music
- The Road Goes Ever On…
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Extended edition of the film, incorporating 43 minutes of footage incorporated into the film
- Commentary track by writer-director Peter Jackson and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary track by the design team
- Commentary track by the production/post-production team
- Commentary track by 16 cast members, including Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Bernard Hill, and Miranda Otto
- Easter Egg: MTV Movie Awards clip (Gollum accepting award)
- Costas Botes documentary: The Two Towers–Behind the Scenes
- The Appendices, Part 3: The Journey Continues
- Peter Jackson introduction
- J.R.R. Tolkein: Origin of Middle Earth
- From Book to Script: Finding a Story
- Designing and Building Middle-Earth
- Gollum
- Middle-Earth Atlas interactive
- New Zealand as Middle Earth (map with video location)
- The Appendices, Part 4: The Battle for Middle Earth
- Elijah Wood introduction
- Filming The Two Towers
- Visual effects
- Editorial: Refining the Story
- Music and Sound
- The Battle for Helm’s Deep is Over
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Extended edition of the film, with 50 extra minutes incorporated into the film
- Commentary track by writer-director Peter Jackson and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary track by the design team
- Commentary track by the production/post-production team
- Costas Botes documentary: The Return of the King: Behind the Scenes
- The Appendices, Part 5: The War of the Ring
- Peter Jackson Intro
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Legacy of Middle-earth
- From Book to Script
- Designing and Building Middle-earth
- Home of the Horse Lords
- Middle-earth Atlas: Tracing the Journeys of the Fellowship: interactive map
- New Zealand as Middle-earth: interactive map with on-location footage
- The Appendices, Part 6: The Passing of an Age
- Elijah Wood/Sean Astin/Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan intro
- Filming The Return of the King
- Visual Effects
- Post Production: Journey’s End
- The Passing of an Age
- Cameron Duncan
