Posted on: October 21st, 2009 Basterds Hits Blu-Ray This December
You read that right, Tarantino’s latest opus, the hard-hitting, nazi-killing romp Inglourious Basterds, is indeed hitting DVD and Blu-Ray before year’s end.
Why so early you ask? Who the fuck cares, that’s awesome! But if you must know, the Weinstein company sent out plenty of screeners of the film to critics in order to fuel the Oscar buzz, so releasing the film to the market on home video will accommodate that and fuel the award-fire even more. I can get behind this, as I’m jonesin’ to watch this flick in glourious 1080p over and over and show it to all those chumps who missed out in the theater.
Inglourious Basterds will be available this December 15th on one-disc, two-disc and Blu-Ray versions with a bunch of extra content including:
- Alternate & extended scenes
- The complete film-within-the-film Nation’s Pride (directed by the Bear Jew himself, Eli Roth)
- Domestic & international trailers
The two-disc, extra-special, Blu-Ray will include all of the above plus:
- A roundtable conversation with Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and film historian Elvis Mitchell
- A making-of for Nation’s Pride
- The Original Bastards – A retrospective of the original film from 1978
- Gag Reel
- Film poster tour with Elvis Mitchell
- Digital Copy of the film
- and a bunch more…
No word on any future re-releases of Basterds, but it’s probably safe to assume that there won’t be a double-dip on this for quite some time. We’re still waiting on Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and the full theatrical cut of Grindhouse, so you’re gonna want to pick this up or you’ll no doubt be waiting indefinitely.
And I want my scalps.