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Wasn't "Threads" like the only episode they "officially" let run long? (With commercials, it ran an hour and a half.)
I would love to see more episodes extended for DVD. I am assuming the raw footage exists. It may be a matter of redubbing some stuff and tweaking the special effects.
I would buy something like this in a heartbeat.
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Originally posted by JThunder101 View PostWasn't "Threads" like the only episode they "officially" let run long? (With commercials, it ran an hour and a half.)
I would love to see more episodes extended for DVD. I am assuming the raw footage exists. It may be a matter of redubbing some stuff and tweaking the special effects.
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this is what lucas has been doing for years. re-releasing the same basic movie with tweaks and added scenes.
it's KINDA what they did with LOTR. The big difference was, you knew up front 'ok in may we'll release the theatrical version, then in june we'll release the extended version' (although, iirc, they were months and months apart, like may for the 'short' version and november for the extended ones)
but you knew up front that you could choose to wait. and, also, the first version was cheaper, like 15 dollars or so, so it wasn't very painful to get both.
a lot of the expense will depends on how those deleted scenes are. were they already mastered with music and effects? or were they cut before they were scored? will they need to pay to get music in, in addition to re-editing? or, are they like threads, the long version exists, and then the broadcast version - cut down to 44 minutes - exists, so it's just a matter of swapping out master files.
David and I were fortunate enough to tour Rainmaker a few years ago, and they had racks and racks and racks of camera footage. Literally thousands of hours of video. they knew those tapes had bloopers on them, but they literally lacked the time to wade through all the tapes to find them.
and the same could apply to deleted scenes. If the scenes were cut from a rough cut, unmusic'd, un touched up, etc, it could cost thousands and thousands to reedit the shows.
and will the sales be worth it?
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