Poor Paul W. S. Anderson, he gets slated a lot these days, mainly for his video game adaptations. AvP…well, let’s move on swiftly, Resident Evil wasn’t that dire, it was fun, same with Mortal Kombat. However, there are two movies of his I enjoyed, and one really enjoyed.
Soldier with Kurt Russell was an enjoyable movie for me, I liked Russell’s character and the way he portrayed him, and I enjoyed the tale. Still, the film that makes me wonder where Anderson has gone these days is Event Horizon. That was an excellent horror and really managed to push you to the edge of your seat and leave you there with complete unease for the movie. It was dark, creepy and filled with vile and dread. Plus it had Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne and Sean Pertwee.
Well the news from Now Playing Magazine is that a Special Edition DVD is on the way with deleted footage that Anderson wishes was in there, as well as a second time round audio commmentary:
“I just did a commentary for Event Horizon, because we’re releasing a Special Edition of that next year with a lot of deleted scenes,” Anderson told Now Playing Magazine in an exclusive interview. “And I went in and did a truly awful commentary for it that I’m going to redo! Because it had been so long since I’d seen the movie, I just started watching the film and enjoying it, and didn;t remember to say anything. And after like an hour and a half I;d said about 10 minutes of stuff.”
“Paramount has sold so many DVDs of it that they’ve offered to do the fully-fledged ‘You can reintegrate the scenes and we’ll pay for it to be remixed and everything’ version. The problem has been actually finding all of the materials because it’s been quite a long time, so we’re still at the point where we’re trying to decide if it makes sense to do a director’s cut or whether [we should just include] a lot of deleted material with a separate commentary explaining why it was taken out and where the scenes would have gone. Or we may do a branching version of the DVD so you can see where those scenes may have sat.”
I do hope we either get a Directors Cut or a branching version, whichever way it will be superb to see deleted scenes which he wished he had put in first time around.
For me this is one of the winning parts of DVD, understanding the Film making process and hearing the thoughts and visions of the people behind the movie. I love the audio commentaries and deleted scenes can reveal a different light on sections of, or even the entire movie.
