Cinephiles (i.e., big movie nerds) like myself have put up with the half-ass remastered DVD for years, but now, from Digital Bits, here’s the scoop from Warner Home Video on the long-gestating (to put it mildly) Blade Runner DVD extravanganztacular.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut will be included in three stunning DVD editions: a Two-Disc Special Edition (at $20.97 SRP), a Four-Disc Collector’s Edition ($34.99 SRP) and the Five-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition ($78.92 SRP) in Collectible “Deckard Briefcase” packaging.

Simultaneous HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc versions (each $TBD) of the “Deckard Briefcase” will also be released in numbered, limited quantities. HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc 5-Disc Digi Packs with collectible slipcase (each $TBD) will include all of the UCE content. Order due date for all editions is November 13.

Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days - a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version.

Additionally, two of the collections (4- & 5-Disc) will include an entire disc with hours of enhanced content containing featurettes and galleries devoted to over 45 minutes of deleted and alternate scenes recently discovered in deep storage and approved by Ridley Scott, visual effects as well as background on author Philip K. Dick, script development, abandoned sequences, conceptual design, overall impact of the film and how it lead to the birth of cyberpunk. Trailers, TV spots and promotional featurettes will also be included.

Another cut of the movie, eh? Interesting. At least you know Scott isn’t going to Lucas Special Edition it up. Hey, I have to take my pot shots when/where I can. Anyway, it’ll be nice to see the film — which genuinely is, as the press release states, “one of the most important science-fiction movies of the 20th Century” — in all its moody and atmostpheric glory.

If anyone lives anywhere near NYC or LA and missed the Director’s Cut when it made the rounds 15 years ago, I urge you to head out and see this modern masterpiece in the theater.

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