I have multiple versions of all three Rene Laloux animation movies.
La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
Maitres du Temps (Time Masters)
Gandahar
All three are now available on Blu-ray and Gandahar is available in 4K as well.
Two out of three do not include an English soundtrack.
My goal was to create the best version of each movie with an English soundtrack.
The Criterion release of Fantastic Planet was the only Blu-ray available with an English dub
but the coloring was terrible and the English audio was Dolby Digital at 192 kbps.
I used the video from the German release from Camera Obscura and synced the lossless
English audio from a PAL DVD. It now has French and English Audio plus English subtitles.
For Time Masters I used the video from the Japanese Blu-ray from TC Entertainment.
The only English dub of this movie was from a BBC broadcast that luckily was recorded
by someone years ago and shared. I synced this audio with the Japanese release.
It now has French and English audio plus English subtitles.
Gandahar was the toughest of the bunch. It has never been released with a proper English dub.
There is an English version of Gandahar called Light Years that was re-edited for US release
so I used the audio from my laserdisc release of Light Years.
For the video I used the new release from Le Chat Qui Fume.
Light Years is a different edit than Gandahar so the dialogue needed
to be synced in pieces. There was also a small amount of missing dialogue.
I ended up using AI text to speech software to recreate the missing dialogue.
I did the best I could and it turned out better than I expected.
I should also point out that the Light Years score is different than Gandahar.
Gandahar is now available in 4K and HD with a French and English soundtrack
plus French, English and Spanish subtitles.
For the US fans I also created a 4K and HD version of Light Years
using the opening and closing credits from my laserdisc plus the audio from
my laserdisc and edited the new video to match the Light Years edits.
The MKV files are large because I did not compress the video. I prefer quality over smaller
file sizes. You can always download them and compress the video yourselves.
If you are interested in any or all of these versions you acknowledge that you already have
the releases I used and that the downloads are for personal use only.
I will only be offering these for a limited time and then it will be up to other people to share them.
