Amazon US now have Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Extended Edition trilogy on Blu-ray available to pre-order. The box set will set you back $83.99 (£51.44) and you can pre-order it here.
Check out below the full listing of what you might find on the discs. You might want to book a couple of weeks of work when this does arrive as I think that’s how long it might take you to get through it all!
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Over 30 minutes of footage incorporated into the theatrical release of the film
- Commentary by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary by the design team
- Commentary by the production/post-production team
- Commentary by 10 actors, including Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen
- Easter egg: MTV Movie Award Spoof (The Council of Elrod)
- Costa Botes Documentary: The Fellowship of the Ring: Behind the Scenes
- The Appendices, Part 1: From Book to Vision (on DVD)
- Peter Jackson introduction
- J.R.R. Tolkein: Creator of Middle Earth
- From Book to Script
- Visualizing the Story
- Designing and Building Middle Earth
- Middle Earth atlas interactive
- The Appendices, Part 2: From Vision to Reality (on DVD)
- Elijah Wood introduction
- Filming The Fellowship of the Ring
- Visual effects
- Post-production: Putting it all together
- Digital Grading
- Sound and music
- The Road Goes Ever On…
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Extended edition of the film, incorporating 43 minutes of footage incorporated into the film
- Commentary track by writer-director Peter Jackson and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary track by the design team
- Commentary track by the production/post-production team
- Commentary track by 16 cast members, including Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Bernard Hill, and Miranda Otto
- Easter Egg: MTV Movie Awards clip (Gollum accepting award)
- Costas Botes documentary: The Two Towers–Behind the Scenes
- The Appendices, Part 3: The Journey Continues
- Peter Jackson introduction
- J.R.R. Tolkein: Origin of Middle Earth
- From Book to Script: Finding a Story
- Designing and Building Middle-Earth
- Gollum
- Middle-Earth Atlas interactive
- New Zealand as Middle Earth (map with video location)
- The Appendices, Part 4: The Battle for Middle Earth
- Elijah Wood introduction
- Filming The Two Towers
- Visual effects
- Editorial: Refining the Story
- Music and Sound
- The Battle for Helm’s Deep is Over
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Extended edition of the film, with 50 extra minutes incorporated into the film
- Commentary track by writer-director Peter Jackson and writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
- Commentary track by the design team
- Commentary track by the production/post-production team
- Costas Botes documentary: The Return of the King: Behind the Scenes
- The Appendices, Part 5: The War of the Ring
- Peter Jackson Intro
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Legacy of Middle-earth
- From Book to Script
- Designing and Building Middle-earth
- Home of the Horse Lords
- Middle-earth Atlas: Tracing the Journeys of the Fellowship: interactive map
- New Zealand as Middle-earth: interactive map with on-location footage
- The Appendices, Part 6: The Passing of an Age
- Elijah Wood/Sean Astin/Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan intro
- Filming The Return of the King
- Visual Effects
- Post Production: Journey’s End
- The Passing of an Age
- Cameron Duncan