Avatar Special Edition DVD to contain 16 minutes of new footage

by Liam Goodwin on August 25, 2010 · 4 comments

Avatar special editionAvatar Special Edition will be released later this week on Digital 3D and IMAX 3D with 8 minutes of never-before-seen footage, but in a perfect example of franchise milking 20th Century Fox has put 16 minutes of new footage on the Avatar Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray which will be released in November. I suppose there needed to be something substantial if they wanted people to buy Avatar twice.

Producer Jon Landau spoke to THR and revealed more details on what to expect:

“Avatar” producer Jon Landau said new scenes included in the now 171-minute theatrical special edition involve action sequences and narrative-deepening extensions of key scenes involving the blue-skinned Na’vi of Pandora and their human visitors.

“We tried to look at what people have responded to in the film and give them more of that,” Landau told THR on Monday. “There’s a whole new scene that takes place in the (Na’vi) school, there’s more night bioluminescence, there’s new creatures, and there is a new action scene. The scenes don’t just feel like added scenes — they are very organic to the story and embellish it.”

“About every 15 minutes you’ll get something new that you haven’t seen before, which is kind of cool,” Fox domestic distribution chief Bruce Snyder said. “People want to go back to Pandora on the big screen.”

I guess they will find another few minutes of footage for the inevitable 3D DVD and Blu-ray sometime next year.

Will you be buying Avatar Special Edition on DVD or Blu-ray?

  • Giomets154575

    Umm Yeah , Hell Yeah !! best 3 hoours i could ever spend in a theatre. Never has a movie thats so long fly by so quickly , its just so visually stimulating that the ride seems to not last 3 hours, ive been in one hour and ahalf movies that feel like 4 hours and i keep checking my watch and moving in my seat. Not With Avatar and now with new scenes its going to be fun recognizing the new stuff its like more details into this world that i feel so deeply in love with and wanted to spend more time in especially since ive seen it like 15 times and have it all memorized , i will def recognize the new stuff !

  • Notfallinforit

    nah, gonna wait for the double secret 3d ultimate criterion edition on the 10th anniversary with the 2 mins of lost never before seen footage of a Na’vi scratching her hind parts. Laughing at the fact that Cameron an Lucas are quickly becoming parallel in their marketing strategies.

  • Testboy

    I saw SE today… and it was even better than before.. Anyone that loved it before see this one and you’ll see an even more emotional experience… Bout all I can say without getting into specifics… just go see it and you’ll see. Like Gio said… it always flies by… I can’t stand the LOTR the pictures… It takes me 3 days to watch those because I fall asleep after about every hour of the flicks.. :)

  • Moni

    I am sorry but yes I will buy the special ed. dvd again!!