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Chance to let Warner know how much we want a SE Director's Cut DVD!!

posted 18 years ago by tnixon1641
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There is a chance to let various Warner Home Video executives know how much we want a remastered SE Director's Cut DVD of Frantic releasing!

The following link is for a Chat Room which commences on 26th Feb 2007 with Various Warner exec's, all details and times are listed in the link.

As I live in the UK the time may be inconvenient for me! Let us see if we can get something started on getting this long over due Film the DVD it deserves!

Link http://www.hometheaterforum.com/files/whvchat.html

[–] www.wedd 18 years ago

Why does it require a director's cut? There's no reason to think that it was edited against Polanski's wishes.

[–] Theo87 18 years ago

yes, there is:

"Due to studio pressure, 15 minutes were trimmed from the original running time and a new ending was shot." (from the trivia section)

[–] Supersouleater 18 years ago

Right. But if this director´s cut really exists and Polanski still wants it to be released, then they should digitalize it and bring it on the big screen first.

[–] david_hardy 18 years ago

They would probably be more prone to remaking it with teenagers for the big screen and releasing a dvd version with the "director's cut" stamp.

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[–] siwilson34 18 years ago

Id be okay with WB just finally releasing this film in a Anamorphic Widescreen release... that fullscreen DVD isnt worth the $4.00 bin that its sitting in. At this point Ive had no reason to update the VHS I bought of this back in 1989.

[–] www.wedd 18 years ago

The trivia section is hardly irrefutable proof that any re-editing went on. It's not something that seems to be common knowledge, as is usually the case with films taken away from their directors (see the career of Sam Peckinpah).