Good Stuff…

Two bits of kick-ass news today – First off, have you seen the Serenity trailer at apple.com yet? Fantastic…I was really looking forward to this as it was, but now having seen the trailer this rockets up my list of faves for the year. Looks to rate as good as Sin City, but in a totally different way. Based on the trailers, it even blows past Batman Begins on my list… Second bit of news is some talk about the Sin City DVD. Apparently, the rumors were right and they did shoot the entire stories, but trimmed them down to fit a theatrical release. The story now about the DVD is that Robert Rodriguez wants to put out a 2 disc set with the theatrical release on one disc and the separate full stories on the other disc. Each would run roughly 45 minutes. He also wants to put in some pretty cool behind the scenes extras. The cool thing about this is that maybe I’ll get to see those two favorite pages of mine of Marv’s story from the book. :-) Here’s an excerpt from the article at Home Media: “We shot the full stories of the books,” Rodriguez said. “You can just watch ‘The Big Fat Kill’ from beginning to end — the full cut. Then switch over and watch ‘The Yellow Bastard,’ and that’s 45 minutes. It’ll have all the material back in, so it’ll be like the experience of picking up the book, where you pick up one story and you read it from beginning to end. You can shuffle your own version of the movie and just watch them all separately.” Rodriguez teased some of the deleted scenes that could be restored into the short story versions of the film. “Mickey Rourke doesn’t go visit his mom [in the theatrical film], like he did in the book, and get his gun and things like that, but we shot all that,” he said. “It’s all great stuff. It just wasn’t necessary for the feature.” Can’t wait for the DVD. Here’s hoping all this stuff will be on the first release, and not held back for the usual money-soaking ritual of the Super-Duper-Extended-Unrated-Directors-Ultimate-Platinum Edition…