Idea & Info: 'The Keep' - has anyone attempted a preservation or extended cut?

There is (as far as I can detect) no DVD release of this major Michael Mann film (I was unfortunately stung when I purchased what turned out to be a very obvious bootleg of the laserdisc transfered to DVD).

I have heard (from second hand sources) that there has been at least one HDTV broadcast and that deleted material was on the laserdisc release (please correct me if I’m wrong here).

I would really like to purchase the film on DVD and one day Blu-Ray, I have several VHS copies which are wearing down through repeated viewing.

Isn’t this film crying out for a preservation/extended cut until whoever now owns the film gets their finger out?

Here is a website dedicated to getting an official release of the film (with lots of nice bits and pieces to look at and try to read):

http://www.the-keep.ath.cx/default_en.htm

Thanks for the confirmation that a fan-edit was made Moth3r (I did do a search but I was digging in the wrong place).

Hopefully an official release will surface but until then it might be worth someone having another look at this film (if better quality source material does exist) which while having a cult following doesn't seem to be getting the sort of attention that even the Exorcist prequels which are both rather similar in story structure though lacking in almost every other department have managed to get.

It was a LD transfer I got of Ebay in error (I assumed the film had been released on DVD I only twigged it wasn't an official DVD when the menu screen was clearly generated by some generic software...looked like Roxio).

I'm not saying that it's that particular preservation project being sold but sadly that sort of thing isn't unheard of.

It is nuts the number of totally unremarkable films that get multiple releases when films like this one doesn't even get a basic release (prominent director, cult following, well known stars).