Full Blu-ray Chronicles Of Narnia release specs
 

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This is going to be a great disc!

Disney Unveils Full Specs, Box Art for 'Narnia' Blu-ray
Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 01:00 PM ET
Tags: High-Def Disc Packaging, Disney (all tags)

Disney has revealed new details for the highly-anticipated Blu-ray release of 'Chronicles of Narnia,' which will hit high-def this May as a two-disc set with hours of bonus features and exclusive content.

As we first reported last month, 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' will make its long-awaited Blu-ray debut on May 13 as one of the most eagerly-awaited next-gen releases of the year.

Full specs are now in, with Disney porting over all of the bonus features found on the previous two-disc DVD special edition of the film. Among the numerous extras are two audio commentaries (the first with the filmmakers, the second a cast track with the film's young stars), a seven-part "Creating Narnia" documentary ("Chronicles Of A Director," "The Children's Magical Journey," "Evolution Of An Epic," "From One Man's Mind," "Cinematic Storytellers," "Creating Creatures", "Anatomy of a Scene: The Melting River"), an additional three-part "Creatures, Lands & Legends" feature ("Legends In Time,""Creatures Of The World," the "Explore Narnia" Interactive 3-D Map), and a "Bloopers Of Narnia" gag reel.

Although the studio indicated in early press materials that 'Narnia' would include picture-in-picture content, no such feature has yet been announced for the Blu-ray. However, exclusive to the release will be the new "Battle For Narnia" interactive game, which will make full use of the format's BD-Java capabilities.

Disney has also confirmed that the Blu-ray will feature the 135-minute theatrical version of the film (not the 147-minute extended version made available as a separate DVD release), which will be presented on a BD-50 dual-layer disc in 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video and uncompressed PCM 5.1 Surround (48kHz/24-bit).

Finally, Disney has issued box art for 'Narnia':

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Damm! If they had just released the extended edition this would have been a sure double dip for me. Now, forget it.

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The extended added nothing to the film. I'm still down for this release.

Never saw the EE, so I don't know what I'd be missing anyway. I thought the theatrical was very true to the book as is. I'm in.

Hopefully they will have a $10 mail in rebate for owners of the standard versions.

EE was better then the Theatrical release... but i will still pick this up

I know, but there is so much non disc related material in there, that I put it with the "DVD's". Sorry, thanks' for moving it.

How so? Most everything added was just coverage shots between scenes. 5 seconds here, 10 seconds there. I don't recall any substantial scenes added at all. Nothing but padding.

Yeah the EE for CON didn't add anything to important at all. Now if this was the LOTR trilogy, I would have stayed away from the theatricals till the EEs came out.

:hscratch: So that means you decide what should go where?
:shrug:

Did they clean up any of the shoddy CGI?

there was some more violent end-battle scenes effects

Yes exactly, I was trying to be malicious about the whole thing. That is why I said "Sorry please move".