Digitalbits.com reports that David Lynch, who promised never to go near the movie Dune again, has reconsidered and will be working on a SE DVD set. The longer version that played on TV, with added length and narration and stuff to try to make the film sensible, was not Lynch’s, and carried the traditional Alan Smithee directorial credit. Now, however, it looks like this future DVD set will include the original theatrical cut of the film and, for the first time, an extended version that Lynch will call his own.
An extended cut (??) of Bruce Willis’ already forgotten war pic Tears of the Sun will come out on June 7th. Weird, the films that get this sort of treatment.
More pleasing to a presumably wider base of fans, Bill Murray’s Stripes is getting an extended cut with 18 (!) more minutes of material. No other extras have been announced, so that may be all the disc offers. Meanwhile, a 30th Anniversary, two-disc set of Jaws will hit shelves in June, although again no hints as to what it will offer have been provided, although I guess the full set comes with a book. Hopefully this means I will still get a call fro Universal about doing a commentary regarding the degradation of the series, as detailed in my world famous series of Jaws 1-4 reviews. Or maybe they’ll let me put a documentary on the subject together.
Hey, I can dream, right?
