I can't wait forall three to be out I will take that 11 hour challenge!

Can't wait, I'm sure lot's of good stuff will be put in.

I'll buy both versions as I loved the trailers from The Two Towers and I'm certain they will be excluded from the EE as they were for FOTR.

I can't wait for the entended version. I'm sure the extra 43 minutes will improve the overall movie. In addition, the transfer will surely be better than the theatrical version once again.

I like owning both. So I'll be picking up both the theatrical and the EE. With the rebate, I ended up getting FOTR EE for under $20 anyway so it's not a huge expense. $35 for both the theatrical and the EE is more than reasonable to me.

Hey, me too. Actually, I like the packaging of the Japanese DVD of the theatrical cut better compared to the R1 version.

Let's hope New Line puts the movie on one disc this time instead of 2, I mean only a fool needs a break during a movie, no matter how long.




Great news indeed, I'll be picking up both versions, the 2 Disc version if for nothign more than the extras not on the EE.

I dont' believe it was put on two discs because people would need a break. There's quite a few different commentaries, and probably couldn't fit everything on one disc.

4 Commentaries, DTS, DD, Excellent video quality, Over 3 hours of film. . .2 Discs were necessary.

I know, I was being sarcastic

They can drop the DTS track for all I care.

I hope the infamous "Would you like cabbage on your elbow sandwich?" line by Gimli is put back in.

Hell No. If you feel they can drop it, then you must not have a DTS reciever, or a HT at all. If you did, there is no way you would say that. DTS for some people was the biggest selling point. I know LOTS of people that would only have purchased that for the DTS, and could care less about the rest of the stuff and commentaries. Personally, I love the DTS, but it wasnt its biggest selling point for me. But I would never cut it out

I think he was being being sarcastic....at least I hope so.

[offtopic]DTS isn't a big deal to me. It really doesn't sound much better than DD to me on my system. That said, I do always listen to the DTS track over DD when it's available, but it's far from a selling point to me.[/offtopic]

Cool! Maybe they'll add the plot and characterization back in!!

But probably will be more digital orcs and elves railing away at each other...

whooo whoooo!

I felt all the stuff with Faramir/Frodo/Sam was rushed - so 43 more minutes probably will allow time to fill that in too.

November is a while, but ok!

...You might as well block off a whole day to watch the Extended Editions of all three Lord of the Rings movies.

I've heard the theatrical cut of The Return of the King will be 3.5 hours long; I can imagine the Extended Edition of RoTK released in November 2004 as being at least 4 hours 15 minutes long!

At least with these releases we KNOW ahead of time that there are going to be 2 releases. So you have the option of waiting. Too bad the EE isn't released first, but you know that would never happen. Talk about a loss in sales on the second release.

I'll definatly buy both versions of this movie.

The extras on the first release are totally different then the ones on the second release.. that in itself is good enough for me.
and who the hell wants to wait 3 more months then they have to to watch the movie again.

I read in either Total DVD or DVD Review (two UK dvd mags) that the Expanded Edition of Two Towers will have more footage reinstated for the Helm's Deep Battle (again possibly pushing the film closer to an R-rating). The article also stated more scenes of Treebeard and Gollum (the Smeagol/Deagol seen in the 'making of' book - its still debateable that Jackson might move this to 'Return of the King')

According to IMDB.com:

"Rumors in early 2003 have it that the first cut is six hours long because of the amount of material from Tolkien's original story that remains to be covered."

http://us.imdb.com/Trivia?0167260

If this is true, comparing the rough cut estimates to the actual runtimes of the EE of the first two films, I'd say we should expect something closer to 5+ hours for the ROTK EE.

A 5+ hour version sounds good to me, as long as it's relevent stuff and doesn't feel like it's dragging on.

Again, I'll repeat my question.

What are the expected release dates for "The Two Towers?"

For both editions, please.