Fox Home Entertainment has confirmed our earlier report by announcing the original The Day The Earth Stood Still is coming to Blu-ray Disc on December 12 in a lavish special edition package timed perfectly to land just before the Keanu Reeves-starring remake.
The Day The Earth Stood Still will be presented in full screen 1.33:1 1080p video and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio with with English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and French subtitle options.
The majority of supplemental features Fox has crammed onto a single 25-GB Blu-ray Disc are new as identified in the full list below.
- New & Exclusive To BD: Interactive Thermin: Create Your Own Score
- New & Exclusive To BD: Gort Command: Interactive Game
- Commentary by Robert Wise and Nicolas Meyer
- New: Commentary by Film & Music Historians John Morgan, Steven Smith, William Stromberg and Nick Redman
- New: Isolated Score Track
- New: The Mysterious, Melodious Theremin
- New: The Day The Earth Stood Still Main Title Live Performance By Peter Pringle
- New: The Making of The Day the Earth Stood Still
- New: Decoding Klaatu, Barada, Nikto: Science Fiction as Metaphor Featurette
- New: A Brief History of Flying Saucers Featurette
- New: The Astounding Harry Bates Featurette
- New: Edmund North: The Man Who Made the Earth Stand Still Featurette
- New To Disc: Race To Oblivion: A Documentary Short Written And Produced By Edmund North
- New To Disc: Farewell To The Master: A Reading By Jamieson K. Price Of The Original Harry Bates Short Story
- New: Interactive Pressbook
- Fox Movietonews from 1951
- Theatrical Trailer
- Advertising Gallery
- Behind-The Scenes Gallery
- Portrait Gallery
- Production Gallery
- Spaceship Construction Blueprints
- Shooting Script
The Day the Earth Stood Still: Special Edition on Blu-ray will carry an SRP of $34.99. Check back regularly for high resolution cover art.
Click here to pre-order The Day the Earth Stood Still: Special Edition on Blu-ray for $25.95 from Amazon.com.
