"New Line has confirmed that the four-disc extended edition of Return of the King will arrive on the 14th December. The set will include around fifty-minutes of additional footage, including the highly anticipated confrontation with Saruman. Stacks of extra material will also be featured, including cast and crew audio commentaries and multiple behind the scenes documentaries and featurettes. The SRP will be around $39.99. Also arriving on the 14th will be a collector's giftset which includes the aforementioned four-disc extended edition, along with a Sideshow/Weta statue of Minas Tirith and a Howard Shore Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony DVD. The retail price for this will be set at around $79.92. We will bring you further details shortly, but for now, here's another look at the artwork. Our thanks to Kami for the shots."


(Taken off DVDanswers.com)






Do you have previous sets of the LOTR extended editions DVDs? Are you going to buy this, or wait until 2007 when the VERY MUCH RUMOURED AS OF NOW "huge super deluxe gigantor cut of the film will be released as a whole, with blooper reel and new documentaries and such."

(Rumour taken off LJ community: wee_tolkien)




I definitely can't wait for the deleted scenes of Saruman because Christopher Lee did a great job but there was no particular ending for Saruman and Wormtongue in the third movie, which was a pity.


I might get it if it is released by then, but I don't think I'll pass up the chance to own the EE itself, though not in the special gift pack you see in the attached picture. It's the quality and the amount of work put into each DVD release (theatrical and extended)


The below picture is the special gift set: