Don't know if anyone has mentioned this:

www.dvdanswers.com

they have a list of the features that have passed certification from
the BBFC. Look in the Region 2 column.

Ok, so does anyone know for sure whether or not the original cut of Alien will also be in this box?

Ummm... sure you can. The 'Alien mythos'?!? It's just a movie.

You can't comprehend how someone can love a movie, but hate the sequels? Sequels which came YEARS later and did not have the participation of the creators of the first film? Seems like a pretty simple concept to me.

I think there are more people out there who dismiss the last two films in the series than there are people who don't...

Yes, it's the mail-away documentary. Although, if it's true that Alien is getting a 3-hour documentary (!), I'm not sure why they couldn't have included all/most of the interviews and other material in that.

The AMC TV documentary is "The Alien Saga" -- which covers all 4 films. That is being released on DVD separately by Image Entertainment on 10/14.

From the sound of the featuers on the new discs, it'll include all of the info that was on the Legacy disc and then some.

According to the Digital Bits on September 9, 2003 the ALIEN LEGACY mail-away bonus disc will NOT BE INCLUDED in the upcoming set due to space limitations. I don't know what the limitations would be with 9 discs, but that is what has been reported, and the Digital Bits has gotten a behind the scenes look at the new Alien set.

I recommend all fellow dvd talk members and collectors think twice (or at least consider the pros and cons) before selling or getting rid of that rare, hard to find documentary disc. I am definitely keeping mine for the time being.

So is it for sure that 'Alien Saga' will NOt be included in the Quadrilogy then? I need confirm as I just ordered it.

($11.99 shipped from Outpost.com after $5.00 new customer coupon BTW...)

I was hopeing the ALIEN LEGACY mail-away bonus disc would be part of the set. You would think that a 9 disk set would include this hard to find dvd as a feature also. Not that i'm complaining but it would be nice if it was a part of the set, or at least another mail-away bonus if we buy this great new set.

1) Alien.. first disc was awesome... do I really need to see the deleted scenes that Ridley Scott himself said destroyed the pacing of the film incorporated?
2) Aliens. Theatrical cut... great
3) Alien3.. As far as I can tell this is NOT a director's cut, but an expanded version of the movie.. TV studios have done this in the past (halloween, godfather, etc.) where they pad the film with deleted scenes to fit a specific time slot. has the potential to make a not-great film even worse
4) Alien 4. ok, so I am in the minority that this is the one I enjoy the most (don't ask).. however, the infamous missing 20 minute scene near the end of the film will NOT be include.. instead NEW beginning and ending footage will be added.....eh

as far as the 2nd discs of each movie - seem like a lot of fluff and filler to me...

Obviously if I didn't have the first pressing I wouldn't hesitate to get these... but is it worth upgrading???

not sure

Exactly. This re-release of Alien is just a money grab pure and simple. From previous posts, Ridley is going in and deleting "original theaterical material" to make room for some of the deleted scenes.

I don't understand the point. especially in Scott's commentary from Alien that he views the original theaterical cut as the definitive edition. The deleted stuff was interesting, but doesn't add that much.

The whole appeal of this set was the includion of Alien Legacy and Saga. Now it seems like both will be missing from the set, and a new documentary is taking its place. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing, but the set is less appealing to me at this point.

Alien 3 and 4, I don't likey too much.

Those features are proposed extras and are incomplete at best. Read the long thread at HTF about the 9 Disc Alien set.

The BBFC have passed some more entries for the December release of the 9-disc Alien Quadrilogy box set. This time we see six new additions for the Alien³ discs, including confimation of an extended version and its running time:

Special Edition Feature (138m 51s)

Music, Editing & Sound Featurette (14m 50s)

Adi's Workshop Production Featurettes (23m 26s)

Optical Fury Visual Effects Featurette (23m 18s)

Post Mortem Reaction To The Film Featurette (5m 46s)

Multi-Angle Segment E.E.V. Bioscan With Commentary (12m 1s)

You can find the full listing of all the extras passed so far, with the
proposed Region 2 cover art here.

complete movie box sets are lame. Marketing should understand they would make more money selling the movies individually as well as the box set.

I guess i'll never own alien and aliens, cause I won't buy this expensive set of filler just to get two movies.

You could still pick up yje plder disc's. Its not like they're terrible dvd's or anything and you should be able to get them pretty cheap too.

unnoffifcal specs!!!

Alien
Ridley Scott Introduction To the 2003 Director's Cut (55s)
Bob Burns Alien Collection (16m 52s)
Ridley Scott Q&A (15m 38s)
Interviews With Ridley Scott (8m 18s)
Alien Evolution Documentary (64m 31s)
Deleted Scenes (15m 42s)
Future Tense: Music & Editing Documentary (16m 28s)
Sigourney Weaver's Screen Test with Commentary (4m 26s)
Sigourney Weaver's Screen Test without Commentary (4m 26s)
Alien Theatrical Trailer A (1m 07s)
The Director's Cut Film Trailer
Fear Of The Unknown Shepperton Studios 1978 Documentary (24m 3s)
The Darkest Reaches Nostromo & Alien Planet Featurette (17m 27s)
A Nightmare Fulfilled: Reaction to the Film Featurette (19m 19s)
Multi-Angle Chestbuster without Commentary
Star Beast: Developing the Story Featurette (18m 9s)
The Eighth Passenger - Creature Design Documentary (31m 33s)
Outward Bound: Visual Effects Featurette (18m 51s)
The Visualists Direction & Design (16m 41s)
Production and Outtake Footage (20m 59s)
Truckers in Space: Casting Featurette (15m 46s)
Experience In Terror: Promo Featurette '79 (7m 8s)
Alien TV Spots (37s)

Aliens
Building Better Worlds: From Concept To Construction Featurette (13m 28s)
The Final Countdown: Music, Editing And Sound Featurette (15m 30s)
Aliens Unleashed: Reaction To The Film Featurette (11m 38s)
Beauty And The Bitch: Power Loader VS Queen Alien Featurette (22m 25s)
This Time It's War: Pinewood Studios (1985 Featurette) (19m 39s)
The Power Of Real Tech: Visual Effects Featurette (27m 49s)
Bug Hunt: Creature Design (16m 23s)
The Risk Always Lives: Weapons And Action Featurette (15m 12s)
Preparing For Battle: Casting and Characterization Featurette (16m 59s)
57 Years Later: Continuing the Story Featurette (10m 59s)
Two Orphans: Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn Featurette (13m 47s)
Multi-Angle Pre-Vis Animatics With Commentary (3m 12s)
Multi-Angle Pre-Vis Animatics Without Commentary (3m 14s)
Interview With James Cameron (9m 29s)
James Cameron Interview/Film Footage (3m 13s)
James Cameron Intro to Extended Version (31s)
Production Footage (8m 9s)
Aliens International Trailer (29s)
Aliens Domestic Trailer (32s)
Aliens TV Spots (29s)
Easteregg: The Boy And His Power Loader (9m 35s)

Alien 3
Alien 3 Advance Featurette (2m 47)
The Making Of Alien 3 (22m 25s)
Furnace Construction: Time Lapse Sequence Featurette (4m 33s)
Tales Of The Wooden Planet: Vincent Ward's Vision Featurette (13m 9s)
Multi-Angle Segment E.E.V. Bioscan with Commentary (12m 1s)
Optical Fury: Visual Effects Featurette (23m 18s)
Music, Editing & Sound Featurette (14m 50s)
Post Mortem: Reaction to the Film Featurette (5m 46s)
Xeno-Erotic: H.R. Giger's Redesign Featurette (10m 17s)
Production Part One Featurette (18m 0s)
Pre-Production Part Three Featurette (1m 39s)
Development: Concluding the Story Featurette (16m 54s)
Adaptive Organism: Creature Design Featurette (20m 31s)
Alien 3 Trailer A (1m 00s)
Alien 3 Trailer B (1m 07s)
Alien 3 Trailer C (1m 01s)
Alien 3 Trailer D (31s)
Alien 3 Trailer E (1m 06s)
Alien 3 TV Spots (2m 41s)

Alien Resurrection
Director's Audio Commentary
Introduction To Extended Version (44s)
A Matter Of Scale: Minature Photography Featurette (22m 48s)
Death From Below: Underwater Photography Featurette (31m 35s)
In The Zone: The Basketball Scene Featurette
French Twist: Direction and Design Featurette (26m 07s)
Under The Skin: Casting and Characterization Featurette (12m 44s)
Virtual Aliens: Computer Generated Imagery Featurette (9m 51s)
Multi-Angle Segments Without Commentary (8m 34s)
Test Footage Creatures and Costume Segments (14m 27s)
Critical Juncture: Reaction to the Film Featurette (14m 26s)
From The Ashes: Reviving The Story Featurette (10m 3s)
Genetic Composition Music Featurette (13m 8s)
Unnatural Mutation: Creature Design Featurette (26m 21s)
The Making Of Alien Resurrection (25m 42s)
Theatrical Trailer (2m 19s)
TV Spots (1m 41s)

Bonus Disc
Alien Evolution BBC Documentary (75m)
Alien Quadrilogy Trailer (1m 05s)
Alien Legacy Trailer (1m 05s)

and also according to dvdanwsers.com
each movie WILL contain both the original and extended versions

Rypro

Looks like the emptied the vaults and threw everything on the disks.

I'm dissapointed there's No Cameron commentary it seems but looks like an amazing set non the less

Hi shanester,

As I understand it there WILL be a James Cameron commentary track included on "Aliens". The following quote is an extract from the article about the Quadrilogy box set in the UK's Total Film magazine. (October 2003 cover date)

"while Aliens includes both commercially released versions of the film and, for the first time, Cameron chips in with a commentary."

Best Regards,
KBDVD.

Wonder when we'll see it up for pre-order at amazon...

So what is this documentary?

This sounds like a lot of stuff. So what exactly is in the Alien Saga disk and Alien Legacy Bonus disks that are not in the list above?

Thanks for the info!..If true I'm drooling already. I really liked his commentary for Termintator EE..

Yeah we all know he's a got a big ego but they guy IS very intelligent and articulate.

PS So just like the Indy set there's only going to be one release for every region??

oh cool. I was bidding on the Legacy series on Ebay..and i kept losing my bids at 65 dollars. I rather wait and get the newer series.

And...the release is on my bday A perfect release date hehehe.

So does this upcoming release have all the same features of the Legacy box set and the bonus disk?

No one *knows* yet. True, some items have been passed by the BBFC for possible inclusion, but no official features list is available. We do know that it will NOT include the Alien Legacy documentary, as on the bonus disc of the first release. Aside from that, NOTHING ELSE is known.

We'll all just have to wait and see.

i read elsewhere about a rumor that the R2 release of Alien Quadrilogy will be a LIMITED EDITION release numbering only 130,000 units. Can anyone verify this rumor and if so, will the same be done with the R1 release? If the R1 release is a limited release, how will online DVD retailers (amazon, dvdplanet, etc.) handle the possible demand on pre-orders? Just worried about getting my copy.

Guys, just an FYI:
Tonight in the DIgital Bits/IGN Chat

- Box set will have 2 versions of each movie
- Commentary on each
- 3 hours of extras for each movie, plus more on the bonus disc
- DTS on ALIEN and ALIEN RESURRECTION...

Alien 3 will be 155 minutes.
Alien Resurrection will be 119 minutes.

Cameron commentary for Aliens??