'Dark Knight' Blu-ray Details Emerge
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Still waiting on an official release date
Last I heard December 16 was the rumored release date for The Dark Knight on DVD and Blu-ray and with this weekend being the film's potentially final weekend in the box-office top ten I expect we will see official details emerge soon, but for now Blu-ray.com has scored word on the details for the superhero's debut on Blu-ray high definition.
The site says we should expect a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack on a two-disc edition with the following list of features:
- "Gotham Discovered: The Creation of a Scene" – Christopher Nolan and his collaborators unveil details on the planning of the movie, including stunt double work, how was filming in IMAX done, and information about the new Bat-suit, Bat-pod, etc.
- "Batman Technology: Gadgets and Tools" (in HD)
- "Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight" (in HD)
- "The World of Batman Seen Through Real Life Psychotherapy" (in HD)
- 6 clips from the Gotham Cable Premier's newscast: "Tonight in Gotham"
- Galleries
- The Joker's letters
- Conceptual Art
- Posters
- Production Stills
- Trailers and TV spots
Stay tuned as I hope we will have official information soon.
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YAY !!! cant wait till it comes out ! :)
Ugh…all I want is a comprehensive documentary on the film from pre production through post production. They had to know this movie was highly anticipated to own since before filming…I wish they would've kept a crew filming for the entirety of the shoot.
It'd be really nice to see a bunch of Heath Ledger on the disc rather than the inevitable 5 minute featurette "in memorium" but it looks like that probably won't happen.
Still hoping for an ultra special edition bluray with everything we've ever wanted…we'll see.
I realize that most of The Dark Knight was shot in (or framed for) a normal 2.4 'scope format, but several scenes were filmed in IMAX, and if you saw it in IMAX, you saw the image expand vertically for the IMAX footage. I believe IMAX's native aspect ratio is about 1.4, but most of the extra height was not essential, since obviously most people did not see the IMAX version.
So will the DVD/Blu-ray remain 2.4 throughout, expand vertically to 1.78 (HD's native 16:9) for the IMAX scenes, or the least likely, pillar-box the image to Imax 1.4 for those scenes? And will the difference (grain, etc.)between IMAX footage and 35mm footage be visible on Blu-ray?
Nerd rant over, you may resume…whatever.
I have a "get together" with WHV next week where all will be confirmed, but I know that your release date is not correct as they asked me to pull my story on it about 30-minutes after I posted it.
I'm not allowed to tell you the exact date, but you're too far into December.
Yeah, appears it is December 9