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#185873
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Idea & Info: a Preservation of Alien Evolution doco?
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I looked through the Laserdisc Database and it seems that apart from the two special LDs that had all over their contents ported to the Quadrilogy set there are only the theatrical trailers for the first 3 films as extras on the other releases (it's those trailers or no extras at all).

However there is a German set and a Japanese set that might be of interest. The Japanese set seems to have 5.1 AC3 surround mixes. Both the German and the Japanese set feature "The Making of Alien Resurrection". The japanese has in-picture subtitles while the German LD appears to have only German audio (but no subtitles).

Finally there was an LD for Alien that supposedly has "sound remastered from the 6-track magnetic masters prepared for the original 70mm theatrical prints."

I know we probably don't need any of the above, but they are the only sets with notable features aside from the Alien and Aliens LDs that the Quadrilogy set took content from.
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#185851
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Idea: for an edit of Batman Begins
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185851/action/topic#185851
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Tim Burton's Batman from 1989 features the death of his parents and is kind of Batman's beginning as a crimefighter. The crooks at the start of the film talkm about him, at that point he is a rumor, and the comissioner sees him for the first time at the chemical factory. It is Jack Napier/the Joker that causes Batman to be seen by more of Gotham.

Having said all that, there is no way that Begins can be changed to a 'prequel' for the 80's/90's film series. It might be possible to make edits/cuts to give Begins more of a Burton-y feel - but there isn't much point. It would merely be a curiosity for fans.

This is the start of a new franchise. You're welcome to your opinion, this is just mine. Not meaning to offend or anything.
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#185674
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Info: A Nice Little Harrison Ford Interview
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185674/action/topic#185674
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On Rove Live this past Tuesday Harrison Ford was one of the guests interviewed. For those of you who’d like to see the interview, you can download the episode from Mininova. There are 2 small references to Star Wars during the interview, one of which is below:

Rove McManus: True or False, you wanted a different ending for Han Solo in Return of the Jedi?

Harrison Ford: I thought the son of a bitch should die.

I know it’s kind of off-topic for this forum but I decided it was the best place for it. I don’t think the interview could really be used for any Star Wars-based projects. However, Harrison Ford is a difficult guy to interview and he seems to be having fun here.

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#185656
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Request: can anyone make a 'Fairly Odd Parents' season set?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185656/action/topic#185656
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DarthCarr, I'm a fan of this show too. Here in Australia there are currently 6 DVDs featuring a total of something like 28 episodes. While not season sets, they do go from the start of the series and onwards (a few eps are out of order). I'd cap it from TV here except that I haven't had a capture card for a few years. So I too would be interested in a season-based preservation (it looks like there aren't going to be any more Australian DVDs any time soon, if at all).

Just out of curiosity, can you give me an idea of what the US DVDs are like? That is to say, how many eps per disc are there, are they just random episodes and how many DVDs have been released?
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#185614
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Idea & Info: a Preservation of Alien Evolution doco?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185614/action/topic#185614
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Originally posted by: Jonno
I don't want to push this thought too far (this project is getting big enough as it is!) but it's interesting that we've discussed alternate or unreleased versions of all of the first three films - Alien Redux, Aliens CBS, and the Alien 3 workprint. There's another set to be made right there...

Lol. We might end up with a set of 8 discs if you think like that (4 for an alternate cut of each film, 4 for all the extras).

Anyway, about the music...

Originally posted by: Jonno
klokwerk, I think the scores for the first two films are fairly easily available - Aliens has been released complete (I believe) on a 'deluxe edition' CD, and of course Alien already has two isolated scores on the original DVD release. Alien 3 only had the one CD release though - are your MP3s from some sort of extended version? I'd be very interested to hear about those if so - Elliot Goldenthal's music is perfectly suited to the film(s), and I'd have much preferred that he scored Resurrection too, rather than the quite generic music that John Frizzell composed. In my opinion


Alien: There are many different versions of Alien available. There are 2 official CDs and a multitude of bootlegs. While many of the bootlegs are ripped from the DVD, some are not and as a result might sound better quality-wise. The fact that all of my versions are MP3s kind of negates that possible quality increase.

Aliens: You are right about the Deluxe Edition release (there was a shorter CD available beforehand) but I think one of the bootlegs has additional music not found on the DX Edition. I'll have to check.

Alien 3: I have an extended soundtrack for this one. There are a few additional tracks to what is officially available and I believe it's the complete score.

Alien Resurrection: This is the longest soundtrack. I have the 2CD complete score for this film along with the short piece for the trailer (done by one of those "trailer music" companies).

There would be a lot of overlap with official material if we included them, so how about this: perhaps we could include only the tracks from each movie that are not commercially available?
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#185497
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Idea & Info: a Preservation of Alien Evolution doco?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/185497/action/topic#185497
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If anybody is well-known in the CD trading arenas (OT.com being more of a DVD-trading community) it might be cool to track down the complete scores for all 4 films. I have the complete scores for 1, 3 and 4 - but they're all MP3s. Still, I suppose they'd be better than nothing. If I were to ever get the complete scores in actual lossless format I'd probably create isolated score tracks for the movies.
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#184803
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X-Men: the animated series (1992-1997) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/184803/action/topic#184803
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Nice before and after. It's cleaned up fairly well after the filters. However, you may want to visit the Spleen boards and track down the guys who were working on the Clone Wars series - whatever filter chain they used was good. I mention this because there's still a little bit of ghosted lines around that guy's face in your 'after' shot. I just want to make sure you manage to get the best versions possible out of all your sources.
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#184364
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Help: looking for... 'R. Tam sessions' preservation (in high quality)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/184364/action/topic#184364
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I've never heard of these "sessions" but I am a Firefly/Serenity fan. I own the 2-disc Serenity DVD and I love it. However, the USA loves to do double-dips (much more than here in Australia), so rest assured, you'll probably get a 2-disc or 3-disc Serenity DVD in November/December this year with more stuff than the Australian one. Still, in the meantime you could compile your own disc of stuff not included on any of the official releases.