Date: January 25, 2006

Source: IESB
Narnia To Be Released on DVD
Author: Robert Sanchez

"I don't make movies for children, I make movies for the child in all of us," is something Walt Disney held true and a philosophy that director Andrew Adamson follows as well. A compelling diary of Adamson and his personal journey making Narnia is told in Chronicle of a Director on the 2 disc DVD set coming this spring!

Buena Vista Home Entertainment will put out two versions of The Chronicles of Narnia-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on DVD.

The one disc set will feature the theatrical release plus a few extras including:

  • 2 commentaries - one with Andrew and the filmmakers and one with Andrew and the children.
  • Also a pop up play mode. For those of you that remember Pop Up video it works the same way with interesting tidbits of information popping up on the screen as the movie plays.
  • The menu also turns into a screensaver

The two disc special edition set has extra bonus features, film stills, and a booklet showing the making of the film. The set opens up to show a wardrobe inside. The set will feature the same disc as the one disc set along with a second disc that will contain the following:

  • Bloopers of Narnia
  • Fun Facts of Narnia
  • The Children's Magic Journey - making of the film with the film's young stars
  • Anatomy of a Scene: The Melting River
  • Chronicles of a Director - Andrew Adamson's personal film diary
  • Cinematic Storytellers - Personal film diaries from key production members
  • Creating Creatures - learn how many of the film's amamzing creatures came to life
  • Creatures of the World - more on Narnia's fantastic creature creations
  • From One Man's Mind - A look at author C.S. Lewis
  • Explore Narnia - A 3-dimensional journey throughout the lands
  • Legends In Time - A timeline of Narnia

The behind the scenes on location shooting that was done on the North and South Island in New Zealand, Prague and Czech Republic was done by Ludovico Technique, owned and operated by Robert Meyer Burnett. It looks absolutely amazing.

Burnett is no stranger to the DVD community. Having worked on Lord of the Rings: Two Towers as interview producer and also an editor and also his company, Ludovico, producing the DVDs for Usual Suspects, X-Men 1.5, X-2 and most recently Free Enterprise: Extended Edition. Robert is still working on the highly anticipated Superman Returns.

Their was a long rumored documentary entitled The World of Narnia: The Essential Guide. The Essential Guide was to have new, never before seen video interviews with some of the biggest Fantasy writers of our time. Early reports had this disc preceding the theatrical release of Narnia.

We called Robert Burnett in his Los Angeles office to see if he knew anything about this. When asked about Narnia he simply stated " No Comment." What happened we don't know but if we get the word out perhaps we will see it soon!

Robert did remind us to pick up his Free Enterprise: Extended Edition which has the same release date as Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire on March 7 th . He also gave us a tidbit on Superman Returns. "Superman Returns DVD is the best we have ever done", stated Burnett.

Although Amazon has Narnia listed as April 4th, there is no set release date yet. But we do know that both sets will be released simultaneously so no need to wait for the special edition! Keep your eyes out come spring.

Stay tuned to the IESB for further updates!

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